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Now that avid fans have uncovered every nook and cranny in Half-Life: Alyx’s virtual world, Valve is ready to hand its community the keys to its latest creation. Today, the developer released new tools for the latest Half-Life game in the Steam Workshop. Although Half-Life: Alyx modders have already started making new content, they now have Valve’s approval. When Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx, it promised to release the same mod support tools that it had in the past....

In the Halo series, few characters are as enigmatic as 343 Guilty Spark. One of the last relics of the age of the Forerunners, 343 Guilty Spark plays a unique role in the story of John-117 and his initial battle against both the Covenant and the Flood. Fans will know him as an ally/enemy throughout the first three Halo games who was later destroyed by John-117. But Guilty Spark has existed for many millennia, so such a life must have many mysteries....

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has shared some of the unreleased prototype weaponry once considered for Halo: Combat Evolved. In a post on Twitter earlier today, Lehto uploaded a short video of an old PC build of Halo: Combat Evolved, showing off some of the weird and wonderful weapons that were cut from the final version. These weapons include a concussion gun, excavator, particle beam rifle, and even a microwave gun....

The success of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection bundle on PC has been impressive, but also a long time coming. Both Halo Reach and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary have launched relatively smoothly so far. But it seems that 343 Industries is getting ready for the next phase, with Halo 2 PC testing starting tomorrow. 343 community representative Tyler Davis, also known as Postums, provided an update to Halo fans today on Twitter....

With an announcement trailer being released just over a month ago, a new gameplay trailer has now been released online for developer Jam City’s upcoming role-playing game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. The mobile title was announced just a few months ago near the end of 2017 and is set to be published by Portkey Games for Android and iOS devices later this year. The new trailer for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery offers fans a first glimpse at the actual gameplay which they can expect to see in the upcoming mobile RPG....

Players all over the world had mixed feelings on Wednesday when Insomniac Games announced that the PS5 remaster of Marvel’s Spider-Man will feature a brand new face for Peter Parker. While many might have assumed the decision was made to better match the on-screen look of Tom Holland, Insomniac Games community director James Stevenson explained that there’s a much more logical reason behind the move. “We loved working with John Bubniak on the original game,” Stevenson said....

Hideo Kojima, the man widely considered to be a genius video game developer, offers a rare look into his design philosophy by using a quote from HBO’s Westworld. Now that the gaming world can collectively breathe a sigh of relief thanks to Kojima Productions’ continued existence, fans have begun to speculate intensely on what the studio’s first game, Death Stranding, will look like. All gamers know so far is that Norman Reedus will be heavily involved in the project, that Kojima plans to make Death Stranding an open world title, and that the game looks like classic Kojima weirdness....

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Sony releases a new unboxing video that unveils the contents of the $120 Horizon Zero Dawn collector’s edition, which includes a statue, plenty of digital content, and more. In collaboration with developer Guerrilla Games, Sony has posted an unboxing video that goes over what fans can expect should they invest in the Horizon Zero Dawn collector’s edition. In the video, Guerilla Games managing director Hermen Hulst and art director Jan-Bart van Beek carefully uncrate the various items included in the collection, while discussing the inspiration and direction behind each piece....

Video games running at 4K resolution with 60 frames per second or higher is a mainstream feature for current and next-gen gaming platforms. However, a recent video shows the popular Horizon Zero Dawn running at the higher 8K resolution. While 8K resolution isn’t exactly mainstream, some gaming systems such as the Xbox Series X will support it. The video displays Horizon Zero Dawn running at 8K resolution compared to the current 4K resolution most games tend to support....

When you’re a games writer, you have to breathe, eat, and shit the medium every single day of your life. Something that doesn’t get addressed often is just how exhausting this career can be, mentally. What used to be a hobby is now a job, and when your job is stressful, the last thing you want is to do it off the clock. By consequence, gaming isn’t something I do for fun as much now....

Just about every great comic book story has a darkest hour moment: a point in the tale where all seems lost. The heroes are on their knees, the city’s a smoldering ruin and the villains are closing in for the kill. For Marvel, its darkest hour came in the winter of 1996. A company that had grown in stature throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s thanks to the often stunning art and storytelling in such comics as Fantastic Four and The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel’s financial success had reached a peak by the early ’90s....

When you think of Marvel fighting games, your mind probably goes to Capcom’s library (everything from their initial X-Men game to the latest Marvel vs. Capcom crossover battle). Or maybe you think about the X-Men: Mutant Academy games Activision used to make. Perhaps the weird one-off that is Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (Johnny Ohm, we hardly knew ye). I highly doubt the first thing you think about is Avengers in Galactic Storm: a one-on-one fighter from Data East with CGI sprites based on a 1990s Avengers storyline that nobody ever talks about....

You won’t spend a ton of time in White Orchard in The Witcher 3. This small, quaint area is only the setting of the game’s beginning, before Geralt moves on to Velen. But do swing by the notice board at the White Orchard Inn while you’re there. Here, you can find a contract and help out a local man who is in desperate need of assistance to save his daughter. This contract is called ‘The Devil by the Well’, and it’s actually the only Witcher Contract in the region....

Gang Beasts is one of the goofiest games you can play with friends. Imagine the puzzles of Human Fall Flat combined with the insanity of Fall Guys, and you have a pretty good idea of what to expect here. Except this is all about PVP - you versus other players, knocking them down in the most hilarious ways possible. This is the perfect game to play with friends, and quite frankly, playing by yourself or with online strangers just doesn’t offer the same kind of experience....

Risk of Rain 2 has self-imposed cheats and challenges that are called Artifacts. With Artifacts, you can customize the way you play the game, making it harder or easier depending on which you choose. While the method for unlocking Artifacts is quite different from the first game, it’s not as hard if you know what to do. Let’s take a look at all the Artifacts, what they do, and how to unlock them....

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As any competitive player of Call of Duty or Battlefield will tell you: it’s all about the stability of your internet connection. While most consoles these day support Wi-Fi, if you can’t get the maximum number of green bars going you are at a serious disadvantage. It’s the same reason that developers push for dedicated servers, and it’s a main detractor for those who want to play a match from beginning to end with no hassle....

I need to say right off the bat that I understand that in asking for this, I am completely missing the point of the Jurassic Park stories. I know that they’re about mankind’s hubris, about our doomed desire to control creatures far beyond our power, about the flaws of playing god, and about how life, uh, finds a way. But wouldn’t it be fun if, just for once, they weren’t?...

There are several quality game releases this July, some already out, and some not out soon enough. One release to keep an eye on is Rocket Arena. A bit off the radar compared to something like Ghost of Tsushima, it’s worth a look for anyone interested in arena shooters. Rocket Arena is the latest product from EA Originals, EA’s indie production project. Coming out in two days (July 14), it features 3v3 matches where every fighter uses a different rocket launcher variant....