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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 movie gets its first full trailer for Comic-Con, promising even more animatronic terror

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The first full trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is finally here and it looks like the next installment in the film series will be even scarier than the first, featuring new characters and more animatronics (including a couple of fan favorites). The trailer gives us our first look at the original Freddy Fazbear’s … Read more

Intel’s German megafab dream is over: CEO Lip-Bu Tan kills the project, beset with setbacks from EU funding to ancient neolithic remains, to save cash

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Intel has cancelled plans for a so-called megafab in Germany and a packaging plant in Poland. It also plans to shift assembly and test facilities in Costa Rica to its larger Malaysian and Vietnamese sites. The news comes from a letter to employees written by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who says the move will help Intel … Read more

A single guessed password has led to a cyberattack that put a fully insured 158-year-old company out of business despite security practices being up to code

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It may just be a recurring nightmare for me, but one employee’s weak password has led to the close of an entire company. According to the BBC, that’s all it took to take down the 158-year long running transportation firm in the United Kingdom when the password was merely guessed, granting criminals access to the … Read more

‘I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come’ says Intel’s new CEO, calling past investments ‘unwise and excessive’

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Well, nobody thought it was going to be pretty, but Intel’s Q2 earnings reports and related forecasts are even uglier than I anticipated. That’s primarily because the company is so keen on having demand before investing in production that it admits it might have to ditch its next-gen 14A fabrication node if it can’t get … Read more

These fanmade reload animations for Abiotic Factor are so good the game’s own art director praises them: ‘You absolutely nailed the vibe I was going for’

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Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascaded into a 1.0 launch earlier this week, earning itself an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ rating on Steam, and a whopping score of 92 in our Abiotic Factor review. Our intrepid brainiac Morgan Park called it “one of the greatest survival crafting games ever made, and by far my favourite,” praising its … Read more

Game music wouldn’t be what it is without rock and metal—here are the legendary tracks you should add to your playlists immediately

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Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering a little backstory and recommendations for tracks you should be adding to your playlist. July 22, 2025 saw metalheads everywhere … Read more

An ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ idle game about plastic ducks floating in a pool has a collectible card-game successor, and there’s a demo you can play now

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I am often in a state of delighted befuddlement at the games which prove popular on Steam, but few have simultaneously thrilled and baffled me as much as the success of Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. The game, which is really more of an interactive screensaver, involves guiding a rubber duck around a pool filled with … Read more

Crytek says the most important difference between Far Cry and Crysis had nothing to do with technology: ‘In Crysis, we mimicked nature as closely as possible’

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Sorry (not sorry) for rolling out this withered, ancient chestnut, but it truly is mind-blowing how good Crysis still looks today. What’s even more amazing is just how advanced it looked compared to Crytek’s previous game Far Cry, even though the two only released three years apart. I always figured the difference was due to … Read more

Stormgate is leaving early access before it’s technically finished: ‘We believe that our campaign and 1v1 are ready for a broader audience’

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Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios recently announced that its Warcraft-inspired RTS will receive its first proper single-player campaign in August, and that this juncture would mark the game’s official departure from Steam early access. However, this reveal led to some confusion, as Frost Giant numbered its launch version “0.6” instead, causing players to speculate that … Read more