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I don’t remember much from the hit 2009 movie Avatar, but I do remember that the main reason they even bothered to create big blue boy suits to explore the moon of Pandora was to collect a rare mineral known as unobtanium. And you bet unobtanium is making a comeback for the new game set in the Avatar universe, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but not entirely in the way you might expect.

I’m sure there’s plenty of references to unobtanium in the Avatar game’s story, but this super rare mineral key to Earth’s continued existence (I’m googling the story as I go) also shows up in the game’s settings menu. It’s the nickname given to the graphics quality mode that is so demanding to run on current hardware you probably shouldn’t even bother trying, or so say Ubisoft studio Massive Enterta…

The manufacturer of the OneXFly has announced a new crowdfunding project to produce a new add-on for its handheld gaming PC. It’s going to be an external GPU but one with an extra feature: one M.2 slot for a SSD.

External graphics cards (eGPUs) for handhelds aren’t a completely new thing, as the Asus ROG Ally supports the company’s latest ROG XG Mobile. That houses a 150W GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop chip and also acts as an I/O expansion unit, with four USB Gen 3.2 ports, an SD card slot, and an ethernet socket.

One-Netbook, the maker of the original OneXPlayer, is aiming to do the same for its OneXFly handheld. At the moment, the group is crowdfunding the project but if it’s successful, then the OneXGPU will serve a similar function as the XG Mobile, though with a few significa…

The next Doom game will be titled Doom: The Dark Ages and revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, according to a new report.

The report, which is from Insider Gaming and is unconfirmed, claims this new Doom game has been in development for four years, and will be set in a “medieval-inspired doom world”.

Rumours of a follow-up to Doom Eternal have been swirling for some time. Earlier this month, it emerged that Bethesda had trademarked the name of the classic Doom cheat ‘IDKFA’, giving rise to speculation that this might be related to a new entry in the series. This followed last year’s leak of an internal Microsoft release schedule, which included on the list a game titled ‘Doom: Year Zero’. This, Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson claims, was the placeholder title for the …

I keep Caves of Qud and Dwarf Fortress in the same mental filing cabinet. Both consist of a very thin layer of graphics (though thicker now in Dwarf Fortress’ case) spread atop a fathomless clockwork of interlocking gameplay systems and strange simulations. They are, if you ask me, two of the best and most impressive games ever made, and now Qud has gotten even wider, deeper, and weirder.

Qud’s Creatures of the 7th Plague update has hit, bringing with it a new leg of the main quest, a UI rework, new creatures, new effects, and native gamepad and Steam Deck support. Developer Freehold describes it as a “year-long patch,” and it’s set to be the game’s “last major update” before the makers switch gears to focus entirely on the game’s long-awaited 1.0 release set for 2024.

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Season of Discovery phase 2 has been chugging along, bringing players to a level cap of 40—also leading to a harsher demand when it comes to Classic’s old XP and gold grinds. In case you missed the boat entirely, SoD is a version of WoW Classic with a smaller team that’s all about mixing things up: Smaller, phase-by-phase level caps, new abilities, low-level raids, taking rogues and healing mages, and so on.

In a recent developer update, the SoD team unveiled a few plans for the future, both immediate and distant. First up—XP Santa is here ahead of schedule. Discoverer’s Delight is a catch-up mechanism for returning players, which lets them get to season-current content just that bit faster. Previously, this was a 50% boost that stopped at level 24—the past seaso…

A new documentary from German games sites Game Two and GameStar has shed some more light on the disastrous development of The Day Before, and boy howdy, it’s worse than you thought. Game Two says it spoke to 16 former Fntastic employees, one of its former “volunteers,” and seven staff from The Day Before’s publisher Mytona. The picture they paint is, well, staggering.

Speaking anonymously, Game Two’s sources allege that working at Fntastic—The Day Before’s now-defunct development studio—was pure, megalomaniacal chaos. As they tell it, the game’s development was constantly buffeted by the changing whims of the Gotovtsev brothers, the studio’s founders, and the scope and style of the game would change whenever one of them got their hands on whatever the big game of the m…

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