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Ireland cut short news conference as mood darkens further before Isra…

Ireland cut short news conference as mood darkens further before Israel game

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The Republic of Ireland’s press conference on the eve of their second Nations League match against Israel in Serbia was cut short as the head coach, Heimir Hallgrimsson, fielded questions from Israeli journalists. truewildgame.online

Ireland beat Israel 3-0 in Hungary in their first match on Tuesday following a turbulent buildup in which the Irish squad voted to fulfil the fixture despite unease among the team over the war in Gaza.

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Lewis Hamilton zufrieden: Ferrari nur auf den Geraden langsamer als Red Bull

Ferrari-Pilot Lewis Hamilton war eine der Überraschungen im Qualifying zum Großen Preis von Bahrain in Malaysia: Der siebenmalige Weltmeister stellte seinen SF-26 in der Hitze von Sepang auf den zweiten Startplatz, knapp drei Zehntelsekunden hinter Polesetter Max Verstappen.

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The Witcher 3's remaster just brought it to a new all-time concurrent player count peak

It's hard to believe it's been over a decade since The Witcher 3 first released, and even harder to believe they found a way to make Geralt's tub transformation even shinier. The seminal open world RPG's hotly anticipated remaster has finally arrived, and it's pulling people back into the Continent all these years later (now more than ever on Steam, according to SteamDB).

The new screaming high is a whopping 123,359, which it just reached an hour ago as I write this. It's settling down now, but still pretty impressive given that its peak in August was just over 30,000. The game might be getting on in years, but it's still one of the best in its genre.

When PC Gamer's Shaun Prescott first reviewed it in 2015, he scored the game a mighty 92% and called it "a big, beautiful, sprawling action RPG full of rich stories, and suffused with an oppressive darkness."

It may not have been a huge stride forward for the style, instead feeling like innumerable tiny steps: a bar-setting journey through Andrzej Sapkowski's setting with all the graceful execution of an Olympic gold medalist's platform dive. "The Witcher 3 doesn’t bring much that’s bracingly new to the modern RPG. It’s a series of refinements," he wrote.

It probably helps that the remaster is free if you already own the base game, which has been a Steam sale mainstay since it released to all that universal acclaim. Even with all the new bells and whistles, it's half-off as we speak for Steam's autumn sale. If you want to dive in for the first time or start a new playthrough you'll definitely finish, check out all the mods which have gotten compatibility upgrades or read our guide on how to improve Geralt's fashion sense.

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11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos

After putting together a list of some of the big, well-known games currently on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale, I asked the PC Gamer team for some deeper cuts—games they're real sickos for, but that haven't gotten enough love. Here's what they brought to the table.

The ones where you have to read

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To Be or Not To Be screenshot

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Schrödinger's Call screenshot

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Shadows of New York screenshot

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Underappreciated shooters

A masked ganger with a scope on her rifle

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Assaulting a fort

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Chillout corner

Beacon Pines - Luka stands in Grandmas garden with her

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A fantasy tavern

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For the tacticians

The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily screenshot

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Mordheim: City of the Damned

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Endless Legend 2 image

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In brief

Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY And now it looks better than ever.

Brazil case tests betting firms’ public-health liability Brazil betting lawsuit seeks BRL2.6 billion for alleged SUS costs and moral damages, adding civil-liability pressure to a crackdown.

Qatar and Abu Dhabi grands prix to go ahead despite Middle East conflict, says F1 chief Domenicali confirms schedule for final racesBahrain and Saudi Arabia races were scrappedThe final races of the Formula One season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi will go ahead as planned despite the conflict in the Middle East, the sport’s chief executive, Stefano Domenicali, said on Saturday.“Based on the information we have,…

"Fable's original combat has a legacy of being quite approachable," so the RPG's devs don't want to change that with the new game "That's something we kept in mind while developing our combat system"