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Modders gave Skate an offline mode in days. EA's only red line is the shop
ReSkate let players run EA's online-only Skate offline, with custom maps and servers, and hit hundreds of thousands of downloads within days. Full Circle says it's fine with creativity - just not with mods that unlock paid cosmetics. Read that order of priorities carefully.
Silver Pines Review - A Twin Peaks Metroidvania That Mostly Works
Wych Elm's debut is a 2.5D survival-horror metroidvania soaked in Lynchian dread, with puzzles that trust you and a story worth chasing. Stiff combat and a few inconsistent rules keep it short of great. Score: 8/10.
Sonic Pico Park Is the Couch Co-op Game My Nephew and I Have Been Waiting For
SEGA's Sonic-flavoured take on Pico Park lands on Switch and Switch 2 on 12 November, and the new trailer adds Silver and Blaze to the crew. It's chaotic, family-friendly and very much my kind of thing.
Deadlock just out-peaked Team Fortress 2 - and it isn't even released yet
Valve's invite-only hero shooter hit 262,145 concurrent players on Steam, edging past TF2's 253,997 all-time record. The trigger: a chess wizard called Solomon. The real story: a game with no release date is already Valve's third-biggest thing.
Hellraiser: Revival Review: Pinhead Deserved a Steadier Hand
Saber Interactive's first-person Hellraiser is faithful, grotesque and occasionally brilliant, with Doug Bradley back as Pinhead and a story co-created by Clive Barker. But flaky combat, repetitive stealth and launch-day technical issues keep it from being the horror event it wants to be. Score: 6/10.
Console sales are tanking in the US - and we were paying those prices first
Circana's Mat Piscatella says Xbox hardware sales are down 33% and PlayStation 25% in the US after the price hikes, calling the market the shakiest since the early 80s. Here's why none of that will surprise anyone shopping for a console in our region.
Silent Hill isn't done: Konami is already planning a second and third wave
Producer Motoi Okamoto says the first batch of new Silent Hill games is out, well received, and Konami is now looking at a number of further projects. After a decade of fog, that's a sentence I didn't expect to read.
A 540 Hz OLED can fake a CRT now - and Windows is the part that's broken
Blur Busters' CRT beam simulator can make a 60 fps game on a 540 Hz OLED look as clear in motion as a '90s tube. The catch isn't the panel or the GPU: it's that Windows gives the shader no way to run on time.
Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered Review - Comfort Food With a New Coat of Paint
Koei Tecmo rebuilds the 2001 Musou classic in Unreal Engine 5 with Xtreme Legends and split-screen co-op included. Still a joy to mash through, still a 25-year-old game underneath. Score: 7/10.
Modern Warfare 4's DMZ lets you pay to spawn in a helicopter - and that's a problem for the rest of us
The new DMZ progression trailer shows paid infil options: jeeps, helicopters and more for players who can afford them, while everyone else walks in. Why that matters more than it sounds.
Switch 2 Game-Key Card spending is up 631% in the US - and I have mixed feelings
Circana data shared by analyst Mat Piscatella shows US spending on Switch 2 Game-Key Cards has jumped 631% this year - enough to lift total physical game spending by 5% even as every other physical format slipped. Great news for the shelf, with one big asterisk.
P.T. on PC is a real port, not an emulator - and it shames half the industry
A solo coder reverse-engineered the Fox Engine and shipped a native, open-source PC port of Kojima's delisted P.T. with DLSS, FSR, XeSS and ray tracing toggles. Rene on why a one-person hobby project beats a lot of paid ports.