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After a week of playing on nothing but Panther Lake laptops, it's safe to say that Intel has its gaming mojo back
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After a week of playing on nothing but Panther Lake laptops, it's safe to say that Intel has its gaming mojo back

Intel have had a bit of a wild ride as of late. In many ways, the past two years have been some of the roughest in the company's history: a massive, multi-billion dollar quarterly loss back in 2024 was enough to cost then-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger his job, and their flagship Core Ultra 200S desktop chips have fallen flat in games, ceding even more ground to archrival AMD. There are still some bright spots, however. After the relative success of Intel's Lunar Lake laptop processors in 2024, their

Ubisoft have found a surprisingly artful way to improve their classic 2D platformer Rayman Legends – if you look past the fact it's a showering toad
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Ubisoft have found a surprisingly artful way to improve their classic 2D platformer Rayman Legends – if you look past the fact it's a showering toad

In my memory, Rayman Legends is a timeless classic. Released in 2013, it arrived at a moment when Ubisoft were becoming best known for po-faced games like Assassin's Creed and innumerable Tom Clancy spinoffs, yet Rayman Legends was a gorgeous 2D platformer brimming over with silliness and slapstick that showed off the publisher's creative talents and uniquely French humour. So the news that Ubisoft is remaking it as Rayman Legends Retold, dropping its 2D art for 3D animation was not well receiv

Crimson Desert's forgettable story will undergo tweaks to "strengthen the narrative flow" in the coming months, as Pearl Abyss tease proper DLC
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Crimson Desert's forgettable story will undergo tweaks to "strengthen the narrative flow" in the coming months, as Pearl Abyss tease proper DLC

Crimson Desert developers Pearl Abyss have outlined the tweaks they plan to make to their very wide open world game between June and September, as part of continued and relentless efforts to morph it into a shape which can please everybody. Notably, they say they'll be acting on feedback about Red Pudding's rather forgettable story with some changes designed to "strengthen the narrative flow" and stop people falling asleep mid-cutscene. They've also teased some more substantial DLC coming furth

Former Forza Horizon devs reveal Clutch, an open-world racer that blends classic battles for first place with the gadget-infused spectacle of action movie car chases
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Former Forza Horizon devs reveal Clutch, an open-world racer that blends classic battles for first place with the gadget-infused spectacle of action movie car chases

Maverick Games, the studio helmed by Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown, have revealed the story-led open-world driving game they've had in the works for a few years now and that's no longer being published by Amazon. It's called Clutch, and blends traditional Horizon-style road and street racing with a story that works in some action movie-esque chases with the police. Read more