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Catch the scalpers who get rich flipping Pokémon TCG cards in this very vindictive shop management game
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Catch the scalpers who get rich flipping Pokémon TCG cards in this very vindictive shop management game

You're A Scalper, Aren't You? is a collectible card shop management sim dedicated to punishing the terrible, awful, no-good people who buy up popular or hard-to-find cards, and sell them on at massively inflated prices. Certainly, it's one of the more vengeful job sims I've encountered lately. Think Papers, Please, but instead of weaselling out subversives, you're putting the squeeze on folks who are trying to make a killing from Pokémon's Prismatic Evolution packs. Read more

"They have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet": How the unlikely EVE Online x Google DeepMind AI partnership landed with players
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"They have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet": How the unlikely EVE Online x Google DeepMind AI partnership landed with players

The impact of generative AI upon PC gaming has proven controversial, which is my balanced journalist way of saying it’s been horrible. Players are widely repulsed by genAI material, developers and even some publishers are increasingly wary of its temptations, and in a rush to build the requisite infrastructure, component shortages have ravaged the hardware market. Nonetheless, EVE Online devs Fenris Creations – formerly CCP Games – have become dead keen on robot brains, and wh

007 First Light's launch bugs and fixes prove disappointingly short on material for James Bond quips
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007 First Light's launch bugs and fixes prove disappointingly short on material for James Bond quips

I fired up the launch patch notes for Io Interactive's 007 First Light hoping to find some rich material for James Bond quips. You know, like when James Bond beheads a villain with a skillet, then says something like "I always suspected you were… small fry." Or when James Bond murders somebody during an egg-and-spoon race, then says "You're cracking me up, my dear sir." Alas, developers Io Interactive have let me down. The game's first hotfix is a bunch of routine but important-sounding

"Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody
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"Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody

Helldivers 2 has a new update that aims to improve the extraction shooter's performance, a source of some woe lately among Super Earth's democracy-managers. It introduces support for upscalers – specifically, FSR 3.1.5 (with FSR 4.0.3 for certain GPUs), DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3.0 - together with variable rate shading and dynamic resolution scaling. Read more

Sci-fi RTS ZeroSpace combines StarCraft with Mass Effect RPG choices and look, they've got a Homeworld guy doing the mechs
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Sci-fi RTS ZeroSpace combines StarCraft with Mass Effect RPG choices and look, they've got a Homeworld guy doing the mechs

If you have been hankering for a new scifi singleplayer real-time strategy game - specifically, one in which the charm of your human protagonist is inversely proportional to the quality of the mechs - spare a few moments for ZeroSpace. A collaboration between Starlance Studios and Ironward, it puts you in charge of a galactic "Protectorate" army made up of units from various species or factions, and invites you to splattergun swarms of grumpy arachnids, while navigating "through political turmo