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PREVIEW | STARSHIP SIMULATOR | ONE SHIP, AN ENTIRE GALAXY

Most space games sell the fantasy from the outside. A ship becomes a silhouette against a planet, a cockpit becomes a place from which the universe is observed, and the machinery between those two surfaces is largely left to imagination. Starship Simulator is being built from the opposite direction. Fleetyard Studios wants the cables behind the wall panels, the machinery beneath the deck, the power flowing through the ship and the work required to keep hundreds...

PUBLISHED | 21.O9.IIO26

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PREVIEW | WELL DWELLER | WHEN ART BECOMES ATMOSPHERE

A tiny black bird carrying a burning matchstick should not look like the natural answer to a kingdom ruled by a murderous queen, yet Well Dweller makes that image feel completely convincing within seconds. Kyle Thompson’s next game takes the approachable exploration structure seen in Islets and Crypt Custodian and pushes it into a much darker fairy-tale direction, where twisted creatures, decaying ruins and strangely lovable survivors occupy the same...

PUBLISHED | 1O.O9.IIO26

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REVIEW | NBA 2K27 | THE GAME WAY BETTER THAN THE PRODUCT

NBA 2K27 makes its strongest case the moment the ball hits the hardwood, and starts losing it almost everywhere beyond the court. Once the game is in motion, Visual Concepts still knows how to make a convincing basketball simulation.Movement is responsive enough, defense has more purpose, contact carries more weight, individual players retain recognizable styles, and there is enough tactical depth beneath the controls to make a simple match...

PUBLISHED | 1O.O9.IIO26

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ACER PREDATOR | XB253Q U1 | THE 1000HZ ERA STARTS HERE

The refresh-rate race has officially entered four-digit territory. Acer has unveiled the Predator XB253Q U1, a 24.5-inch Full HD gaming monitor capable of running at an extraordinary 1000 Hz, making it Acer’s first FHD display to reach that figure. This is not a gigantic ultrawide, an OLED showcase or a monitor designed to make Cyberpunk 2077 look prettier; it is an unapologetically esports-focused IPS display built around one priority getting as many frames in front...

PUBLISHED | 1O.O9.IIO26

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GLOOM GATE | AN RPG TOO INTERESTING TO IGNORE

A tiny monochrome dungeon running on a yellow handheld with a crank is not exactly where we expected one of the more interesting RPG concepts of the week to appear, but Gloom Gate managed to pull us in almost immediately. pcdoorz is, first and foremost, a PC-focused site, and that is not changing, but Beyond PC exists for exactly this kind of occasion when something outside our usual ecosystem is simply too interesting to ignore. Developed by Lucas...

PUBLISHED | 1O.O9.IIO26

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EA SPORTS FC27 | PREMIUM EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THE FOOTBALL

There are controversies that deserve an entire article and others that mainly expose a much larger problem. The latest one surrounding EA Sports FC 27 falls firmly into the second category. The published trophy and achievement list includes “All Aboard the Premium Track,” a requirement tied to completing the Premium Pass. In practical terms, players chasing full completion cannot simply ignore EA’s premium progression layer as something completely separate from...

PUBLISHED | O9.O9.IIO26

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PREVIEW | GODS, DEATH & REAPERS | WORTH THE EXTRA TIME ...

There are delays that immediately drain the excitement out of a project, and then there are delays that make considerably more sense once you look at what is actually being built. Gods, Death & Reapers increasingly feels like the latter. wolcen studio has confirmed that its unusual dark-fantasy ExtrAction RPG will no longer enter Early Access in 2026, with the launch now scheduled for February 2027. The studio says the additional time will be used for further...

PUBLISHED | O9.O9.IIO26

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KNIGHTS OF FRONTIER VALLEY | OLD-SCHOOL RPG ENTERS VERSION 0.5

Some RPGs wear the old-school label because they use pixel art, an isometric camera or a character sheet filled with numbers. Knights of Frontier Valley is interested in something considerably deeper than that. Adamant Studios is building its game around many of the principles that defined computer role-playing games of the 1980s and 1990s: limited hand-holding, permanent character decisions, dangerous exploration, tactical turn-based combat, survival systems...

PUBLISHED | O8.O9.IIO26

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MINI PC VS DESKTOP PC | COMPACT, CAPABLE, BUT NOT THE SAME

Mini PCs once occupied a very specific corner of the computer market, designed mainly for offices, reception desks, media centers and users who simply wanted Windows in the smallest possible box. The traditional desktop sat at the opposite end of the room, larger, louder, infinitely more configurable and usually far more powerful. That division is no longer nearly as clean. Modern mini PCs can carry processors with sixteen CPU cores, surprisingly capable...

PUBLISHED | O9.O9.IIO26

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REVIEW | THE BLOOD OF DAWNWALKER | CHOICE 1ST, FIGHT 2ND...NICE

The easiest way to misunderstand The Blood of Dawnwalker is to approach it expecting another combat-first action RPG wrapped in expensive dark fantasy production. Rebel Wolves certainly gives it swords, monsters, vampiric abilities, dodges, blocks and enough violence to satisfy that description on the surface, but the game becomes much more interesting once it becomes clear that combat is not the center around which everything else has been...

PUBLISHED | O8.O9.IIO26

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