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This Espresso Machine Can Run Doom

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

There is a long-running joke among PC enthusiasts that any device with a screen and a processor will eventually run Doom. Every so often, someone proves the joke right. This week the device in question is a coffee machine. The Fellow Espresso Series 1, an appliance built for brewing rather than gaming, can apparently operate 1993’s Doom on its small, round display. A Reddit user going by FullExtraction demonstrated the vintage first-person shooter running on the machine, and the control scheme is where the novelty really lands. The brew button starts the game, the steam button fires, and the scroll wheel moves Doomguy left and right. It is a silly thing, and it is also a neat piece of improvisation. Doom has been ported to an extraordinary range of hardware over the decades, from calculators to office equipment, largely because its engine is well understood and its requirements are tiny by modern standards. That...

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You Can Play WoW: Forever For Free Next Week (But There’s A Catch)

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

World of Warcraft: Forever is opening its beta to everyone next week, but only for a limited stretch of time. The free window is aimed at players who want to see the updated edition of Blizzard’s long-running MMORPG without paying the $60 that beta access has commanded until now. Paid beta access has become a familiar arrangement in the MMO space. Charging for early entry filters the audience, funds development and gives a studio a committed group of testers who are invested enough to report problems rather than simply look around. The trade-off is that a large portion of the curious audience stays outside the door until launch, which is exactly the group a free period is designed to reach. For anyone on the fence, the appeal is obvious. It is a chance to see how the new version plays, how it looks and whether it recaptures whatever pulled you into the game in...

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All The Records GTA 6 Will Break, We Think

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

Grand Theft Auto 6 is due on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the expectation around it has been building for years. Arguably no other game in development carries the same weight of anticipation, which makes the commercial side of its launch almost as interesting as the game itself. Predicting that it will make an extraordinary amount of money is close to the safest bet in the industry. The reasons are not complicated. A mainline entry in this series arrives rarely, it lands on two enormous install bases, and each previous entry has raised the bar for what a blockbuster release can earn. When supply is that limited and demand is that broad, the maths takes care of itself. What records might actually fall? Launch-day revenue is the obvious one, since the combination of digital sales and pre-orders can produce figures that rival major film openings. Fastest-selling entertainment product is another...

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FF7 Revelation’s Opening Invites Deeply Intriguing Questions About The Trilogy’s Conclusion – Preview

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

A recent hands-on demo of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation has left us with more questions than answers, which is an unusual place for a preview to end up. The third chapter of the remake trilogy is being positioned as a conclusion, and conclusions carry a different kind of pressure from middle chapters. Part of that pressure is structural. The trilogy has spent two games establishing a version of a familiar story that deliberately deviates from the original, and the final entry has to resolve threads it created while also landing the moments people have been waiting years to see. A demo can show tone, pacing and combat, but it cannot show whether those two obligations fit together. Openings are revealing in their own way. The first hour of a game sets the rules: how quickly it hands you control, how much it explains, whether it trusts you to remember what came before, and how...

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Over 1,100 Improvements Promised in The Blood of Dawnwalker Patch 1.1

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

The Blood of Dawnwalker is getting a substantial PS5 patch next week. Rebel Wolves has detailed version 1.1, which promises over 1,100 “enhancements and corrections”, and the studio has published an infographic highlighting the most significant of them. A number that large invites scepticism, so it helps to understand what it represents. Patch notes of this kind count everything: crash fixes, typo corrections, animation blends, audio levels, quest flags, collision issues, menu behaviour. A thousand small changes can add up to a noticeably smoother game without any single item being dramatic. The infographic exists precisely because a list of 1,100 entries is impossible to read, and the headline figure is best taken as a sign of effort rather than a score. This is the update the studio signalled last month, when it said a more accessible difficulty setting was on the way alongside adjustments to combat and controls. Those are the changes most players...

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‘1.0 Roughly Doubles the Size of the Game’: No Rest for the Wicked Confirms March 2027 Release on PS5

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

No Rest for the Wicked has a new release window. After being pushed back from its originally scheduled October launch on PS5, the game will now arrive in March 2027, and the studio has shown off version 1.0 gameplay to mark the news. Delays have become so common that it is easy to stop reading at the word. The context matters here, though. This is not a small slip for a finished game. It is the debut of version 1.0, the point at which an early access project is considered complete, and the difference between the current build and that release is being described as substantial. The headline claim is that 1.0 roughly doubles the size of the game. That is a meaningful statement for a title that has been playable in early access on other platforms. Doubling the size can mean more areas, more encounters, more systems, or simply a longer critical path,...

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The Shrek 2 Video Game Is Getting a Remaster, Leaks via Xbox Store

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

The Shrek 2 video game is getting a remaster, and the news arrived the way so many announcements do these days: through a store listing rather than a press release. A page on the Xbox Store appears to have revealed Shrek 2 Remastered ahead of any official word. For anyone who missed it, Shrek 2 arrived on PS2 during an era when almost every major film came with a tie-in game. Most of those adaptations were rushed, cheap and forgotten within a year. This one was remembered more fondly than most, imperfections and all, largely because it offered cooperative play at a time when that was a reliable way to get friends together. That co-op focus is the heart of its reputation. Sitting on a couch with a second player and working through a campaign together was a defining pleasure of the generation, and licensed games were often the easiest way to do it....

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

by Ralph on October 17, 2026 0

The weekend has arrived, the days are getting shorter, and the weather is turning colder, at least here in the UK. That combination has always been good for gaming. There are countless games to play, and this week the team has plenty on the go. One entry worth noting: Control: Resonant now has a physical edition. That is a welcome development for anyone who had been waiting to pick it up in a box rather than as a download, and it is exactly the sort of thing this feature tends to surface. Physical releases have become something of a niche pleasure, but they still matter to collectors, to people with slow connections, and to anyone who likes the idea of owning something they can put on a shelf. A disc also has a way of making a game feel finished in a way a download does not. The rest of the list is as...

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