Almost 10,000 people have played Baldur's Gate 3 in a portrait aspect ratio, so join me in figuring out why they'd commit such sacrilege RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 4m ago

Almost 10,000 people have played Baldur's Gate 3 in a portrait aspect ratio, so join me in figuring out why they'd commit such sacrilege

The amount of time I spend thinking about aspect ratios would potentially be a cause for concern if it wasn't, admittedly, an unquestionably...

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EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete Polygon ⚡ 6m ago

EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete

Saudi Arabia's PIF, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake have officially acquired EA in a $55 billion deal to go private....

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Electronic Arts Officially Belongs To Saudi Arabia, Private Equity, And Jared Kushner Now Kotaku ⚡ 16m ago

Electronic Arts Officially Belongs To Saudi Arabia, Private Equity, And Jared Kushner Now

With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history...

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New Baldur’s Gate 3 Player Stats Prove You’re All Knife-Happy Bard Murderers Kotaku ⚡ 19m ago

New Baldur’s Gate 3 Player Stats Prove You’re All Knife-Happy Bard Murderers

I want everyone involved brought up on charges...

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Steam meme game made in days almost turns teen into a millionaire Polygon ⚡ 25m ago

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Even after refunds, a surprising number of people kept the expensive game on Valve's platform...

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Riftbound Directors Says Game Used To Be A Lot Like Magic: The Gathering–Until Players Rejected It GameSpot ⚡ 38m ago

Riftbound Directors Says Game Used To Be A Lot Like Magic: The Gathering–Until Players Rejected It

In recent years, the trading card game (TCG) environment has seen a boom of new games entering the market. There are still genre mainstays, ...

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Motorola Razr Fold Review IGN ⚡ 44m ago

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Motorola packs it all in for this foldable, providing great screens, cameras, performance and features, even if it does end up a bit expensi...

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I (18F) Have A Giant Wolf (???M) Following Me Around And Scaring Me For Fun Kotaku ⚡ 49m ago

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Beast of Reincarnation’s Koo is just trying to be included and then he smoke-bombs your ass...

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Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s PCGamer ⚡ 53m ago

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s

It may not look like much now, but the CH Products FlightStick was a champion in its day....

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The Travel-Friendly Orico Power Strip With AC Outlets and 65W USB Ports Drops Below $20 IGN ⚡ 1h ago

The Travel-Friendly Orico Power Strip With AC Outlets and 65W USB Ports Drops Below $20

Packs down to the size of a smartphone, cord included....

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Loses Place in the Top 10 MCU Movies on Rotten Tomatoes Following Record-Breaking Opening IGN ⚡ 1h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Loses Place in the Top 10 MCU Movies on Rotten Tomatoes Following Record-Breaking Opening

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is no longer among the top 10 highest-rated MCU films on Rotten Tomatoes....

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How To Cancel PlayStation Plus GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

How To Cancel PlayStation Plus

Life is expensive these days. If you're looking to cut back on spending and want to do away with your PlayStation Plus membership, it's very...

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'Grand Theft Auto 6' Is to Blame for 'Danganronpa 2x2's Delay, but Not for the Reason You Think Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

'Grand Theft Auto 6' Is to Blame for 'Danganronpa 2x2's Delay, but Not for the Reason You Think

A developer on Spike Chunsoft's remake of the cult mystery visual novel says the game was delayed so he could play the next Grand Theft Auto...

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Turns Out, The Team Behind Riftbound Is Shockingly Small GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

Turns Out, The Team Behind Riftbound Is Shockingly Small

During last week's Gen Con, Riftbound, the League of Legends trading card game (TCG), boasted a massive presence. Fans were able to enter tw...

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Minecraft Adds Concrete Stairs After Making Fans Wait Nearly A Decade And People Are Excited Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

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Riftbound Director Says TCG Will Eventually Include All League Of Legends Champions GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

Riftbound Director Says TCG Will Eventually Include All League Of Legends Champions

After launching in English late last year, Riftbound, Riot Games' League of Legends trading card game (TCG), has quickly grown into one of t...

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Ice Cream Man uses generative AI, director Eli Roth confirms Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Ice Cream Man uses generative AI, director Eli Roth confirms

After speaking with Polygon, Eli Roth clarified that generative AI appears in a small portion of a few scenes in Ice Cream Man....

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One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis

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Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong

The 2024 Borderlands movie had a cast full of big names, including multiple Oscar winners, and was based on a popular franchise with countle...

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What time does the Gears of War E-Day early access multiplayer beta start in your time zone? Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

What time does the Gears of War E-Day early access multiplayer beta start in your time zone?

The Gears of War: E-Day early access multiplayer beta starts on Thursday, Aug. 6. Here's what time it starts and when it ends....

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Koei Tecmo is putting out an “AI chat RPG” based on the Atelier Ryza series, and it sounds bleak Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Koei Tecmo is putting out an “AI chat RPG” based on the Atelier Ryza series, and it sounds bleak

Koei Tecmo has partnered with a generative AI startup to create an AI chat RPG that lets you talk with Ryza from the Atelier Ryza series....

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Star Wars Eclipse Maker Accused Of Dragging Out Layoff Negotiations: ‘Quantic Dream Wants To Destroy Jobs, It Must Pay’ Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

Star Wars Eclipse Maker Accused Of Dragging Out Layoff Negotiations: ‘Quantic Dream Wants To Destroy Jobs, It Must Pay’

As layoff negotiations drag on, some workers are calling for a new strike...

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Amazon Has a Well-Reviewed 12V 4,000A Cordless Car Jump Starter for Just $25.64 After Coupon IGN ⚡ 1h ago

Amazon Has a Well-Reviewed 12V 4,000A Cordless Car Jump Starter for Just $25.64 After Coupon

Powerful enough to jump start most consumer cars and trucks in the United States (many times over)....

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March romance walkthrough: All the best gifts for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

March romance walkthrough: All the best gifts for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria

Here's how to beat March's competitive side and finally get onto his good side....

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Sega's '90s-era Fire Emblem Competitor Was Years Ahead of Its Time Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Sega's '90s-era Fire Emblem Competitor Was Years Ahead of Its Time

Tactical RPGs have gotten way more popular since Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and it's time other developers took note...

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Capcom Is Making a Life-Sized Leon Kennedy Statue for Resident Evil’s 30th Anniversary, and of Course the Internet Is Being Totally Normal About It IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Capcom Is Making a Life-Sized Leon Kennedy Statue for Resident Evil’s 30th Anniversary, and of Course the Internet Is Being Totally Normal About It

Capcom is preparing for Resident Evil’s 30th anniversary exhibition in Shibuya, and to celebrate, it’s commissioning a life-sized statue of ...

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Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway 2 gets new trailer, streaming release date Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway 2 gets new trailer, streaming release date

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe is coming out on Netflix later in August....

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Physical Media Fans Are Sick Of Expensive Vinyl Albums With Unfinished Tracks Or Missing Songs: ‘A Bait-and-Switch Isn’t Cool’ Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

Physical Media Fans Are Sick Of Expensive Vinyl Albums With Unfinished Tracks Or Missing Songs: ‘A Bait-and-Switch Isn’t Cool’

Artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Raye are catching flak from collectors and fans for selling incomplete records...

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Statistically, your PC probably doesn't come close to the recommended RAM requirement for this third-person shooter's upcoming playtest PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

Statistically, your PC probably doesn't come close to the recommended RAM requirement for this third-person shooter's upcoming playtest

The 64GB RAM recommendation turned out be a mistake, but the overall system requirements are still pretty messy....

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Spider-Man Brand New Day cameo could be the MCU's next spider hero Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Spider-Man Brand New Day cameo could be the MCU's next spider hero

Tom Holland has spoken about wanting to pass the Spider-Man torch, and Brand New Day may have given us a clue as to who the MCU's next spide...

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The demo for 500 FINGER FILLET taught me that none of you should let me anywhere near a kitchen knife, also can someone call a doctor RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 2h ago

The demo for 500 FINGER FILLET taught me that none of you should let me anywhere near a kitchen knife, also can someone call a doctor

I have learned something about myself today: I shouldn't be allowed near kitchen utensils. This is a problem because I am the cook of the ho...

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Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft Crossover Is Up for Preorder IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft Crossover Is Up for Preorder

World of Warcraft is making its way into Dungeons & Dragons this November, and preorders are live....

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Today’s Top Deals: Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, LEGO Mineral Collection, Zelda Art Book IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Today’s Top Deals: Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, LEGO Mineral Collection, Zelda Art Book

Plus, grab a $9 GameSir controller and save on PS5 and PC games....

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A Nun With A Gun Is Everyone’s Favorite Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Character Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

A Nun With A Gun Is Everyone’s Favorite Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Character

'So anyway, I started blasting.' — Anatoila, probably....

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All Phantom Targets Player Project challenges and rewards in Arc Raiders Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

All Phantom Targets Player Project challenges and rewards in Arc Raiders

The Phantom Targets Player Project in Arc Raiders brings along new challenges and rewards. Here's the best way to complete them....

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Marvel Rivals’ New Hero Looks Like He Walked Straight Out Of Chainsaw Man GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

Marvel Rivals’ New Hero Looks Like He Walked Straight Out Of Chainsaw Man

Marvel Rivals has consistently expanded its roster ever since it went live, and for Season 9.5: The Mystery of Thebes, a sinister underworld...

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Xbox Will Reportedly Continue to Support Physical Discs Following PS6 Backlash IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Xbox Will Reportedly Continue to Support Physical Discs Following PS6 Backlash

Digital Foundry's John Linneman says sources have told him that Microsoft is planning to continue support for physical game discs with the a...

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The Hedge Knight Graphic Novel Is At Its Lowest Price In Nearly a Decade IGN ⚡ 2h ago

The Hedge Knight Graphic Novel Is At Its Lowest Price In Nearly a Decade

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Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was

I'll give you a hint: It rhymes with three pee yay....

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Marvel Rivals adds MCU villain The Hood in season 9.5 update Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Marvel Rivals adds MCU villain The Hood in season 9.5 update

NetEase Games will add the Ironheart villain The Hood in Marvel Rivals season 9.5, which launches on Aug. 7....

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Dropout Officially Snags an Adult Animation Cult Classic for Streaming Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

Dropout Officially Snags an Adult Animation Cult Classic for Streaming

Don Hertzfeldt's films, including Rejected, World of Tomorrow and his new movie Paper Trail, are now free to watch on Dropout...

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Hey, What Do You Call This Item? Kotaku ⚡ 3h ago

Hey, What Do You Call This Item?

I just wanna know...

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This Game Costs 200 Dollars is a game that really does cost $200, doesn't look very good, and almost made its dev $1.3 million RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 3h ago

This Game Costs 200 Dollars is a game that really does cost $200, doesn't look very good, and almost made its dev $1.3 million

I do not have $200 to spare on one single video game right now. In this economy, spending such an obscene amount of dough on one game would ...

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Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Director Motohide Eshiro On Onimusha: Way Of The Sword’s Resurrection Of The Series GameInformer ⚡ 3h ago

Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Director Motohide Eshiro On Onimusha: Way Of The Sword’s Resurrection Of The Series

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer. As part of my cover story trip to Capcom’s Osaka HQ, wher...

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Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor will change its open world Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor will change its open world

Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor will add more to the game's Free Ride mode, making its Sicily more like Rockstar Games' open worlds...

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Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors PCGamer ⚡ 3h ago

Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors

Excuse me, I feel sick....

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The RAM Crisis Seems to Be Expanding to Motherboards Now IGN ⚡ 3h ago

The RAM Crisis Seems to Be Expanding to Motherboards Now

According to a post on Board Channels, Motherboards will be going up in price during Q3 2026, making for yet another PC component to go up i...

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Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

"This Is Absurd': Game-Changing Skyrim Graphics Mod Is Already Causing a Commotion

Skyrim users on low-end rigs can now run the game as if it were released in 2026, without suffering performance issues...

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Valkyrae Opens Up About The Spider-Man Spoiler Heard Around The World: ‘I Felt Really Bad For The Real Fans’ Kotaku ⚡ 3h ago

Valkyrae Opens Up About The Spider-Man Spoiler Heard Around The World: ‘I Felt Really Bad For The Real Fans’

The streamer was interviewing R&B artist Steve Lacy about the movie and got a ‘gigaviral’ moment spoiling one of the big twists...

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Crimson Moon gets September release date Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

Crimson Moon gets September release date

Crimson Moon brings gothic action RPG combat this September with co-op gameplay, replayable missions, and an original metal soundtrack....

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Action RPG Crimson Moon Joins Busy September Release Calendar GameInformer ⚡ 3h ago

Action RPG Crimson Moon Joins Busy September Release Calendar

The September release calendar already looks overwhelming, but if you're a fan of action RPGs, there's now one more to consider. Crimson Moo...

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34 Years Later, the Wildest Crime Thriller of All Time Is Officially Back to Complete the Trilogy Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

34 Years Later, the Wildest Crime Thriller of All Time Is Officially Back to Complete the Trilogy

While the Bad Lieutenant movies aren't a normal film 'franchise,' they're not completely disconnected either...

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'Obviously It's Hugely Disappointing': Doctor Who Ex-Showrunner Says That Solving The Show's 'Knotty Problems' Will Take 'Time' IGN ⚡ 3h ago

'Obviously It's Hugely Disappointing': Doctor Who Ex-Showrunner Says That Solving The Show's 'Knotty Problems' Will Take 'Time'

Solving the "problems" currently plaguing Doctor Who will take time, the series' former showrunner Chris Chibnall has cautioned, explaining ...

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9 Very Specific Questions With the Director of ‘One Night Only,’ aka the Purge but for Sex Movie Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

9 Very Specific Questions With the Director of ‘One Night Only,’ aka the Purge but for Sex Movie

One Night Only writer-director Will Gluck answers our biggest questions about his sex-ban rom-com....

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day And All 37 Other Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, Ranked From Worst To Best Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day And All 37 Other Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, Ranked From Worst To Best

As we approach Avengers: Doomsday, we look back at 18 years of Marvel...

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The FlashForge AD5X Multi-Color 3D Printer Drops to Just $210 Shipped at AliExpress IGN ⚡ 4h ago

The FlashForge AD5X Multi-Color 3D Printer Drops to Just $210 Shipped at AliExpress

The same printer is $350 on Amazon....

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Sci-fi MMO Cinder City is getting a pre-alpha playtest later this month so you can put its RAM hogging requirements to the test RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 4h ago

Sci-fi MMO Cinder City is getting a pre-alpha playtest later this month so you can put its RAM hogging requirements to the test

I haven't the foggiest idea whether Cinder City will be any good or not. Visually, if you showed it to me without a logo or any form of iden...

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7 Things We Just Learned During The Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

7 Things We Just Learned During The Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct

Lol, they finally put guns in Fire Emblem...

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Armor locations in Beast of Reincarnation Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

Armor locations in Beast of Reincarnation

Here's where to find every body armor location in Beast of Reincarnation...

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EA explains The Grounds, FC 27’s new open-world mode: Monetisation, new game modes and the future of Clubs VGC ⚡ 4h ago

EA explains The Grounds, FC 27’s new open-world mode: Monetisation, new game modes and the future of Clubs

EA Sports chats to VGC about the biggest series departure since Ultimate Team...

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Magic reveals its full Hatsune Miku Commander decklist (including 1 popular $60 card) Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

Magic reveals its full Hatsune Miku Commander decklist (including 1 popular $60 card)

Magic's first Universes Beyond Secret Lair Commander deck features Hatsune Miku, and it brings back print-to-demand for a limited time....

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Helldivers 2 CEO Says EA’s Saudi Acquisition Would Be A ‘Real Waste’ If It Just Produces Safe Sequels Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Helldivers 2 CEO Says EA’s Saudi Acquisition Would Be A ‘Real Waste’ If It Just Produces Safe Sequels

'This deal is consolidation, no question — and I wonder whether new ownership optimizes for the safe bet, more sequels, more mega-franchises...

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FC 27’s The Grounds Looks Like PlayStation Home For Football Fans IGN ⚡ 4h ago

FC 27’s The Grounds Looks Like PlayStation Home For Football Fans

‘One of our biggest reinventions in recent history’ – all of the biggest details on FC 27’s open world The Grounds mode....

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Magic's Next Secret Lair Commander Deck Is The Long-Rumored Hatsune Miku Collab IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Magic's Next Secret Lair Commander Deck Is The Long-Rumored Hatsune Miku Collab

Wizards of the Coast has announced the MTG Secret Lair Commander Deck: Hatsune Miku, featuring 100 cards, unique artwork, and a 24-hour preo...

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave introduces time travel in Nintendo Direct Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave introduces time travel in Nintendo Direct

The next Fire Emblem tacitcal RPG is getting a twisting story and one of Three Houses' most requested features...

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Steam’s Cyberpunk Sale Features Some Massive Classics At Their Lowest Ever Prices Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Steam’s Cyberpunk Sale Features Some Massive Classics At Their Lowest Ever Prices

Cyberpunk 2077 and RoboCop: Rogue City will barely trouble your wallet...

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'It Would Be a Real Shame for That Culture to Disappear': Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Says Physical Game Releases Must Continue IGN ⚡ 4h ago

'It Would Be a Real Shame for That Culture to Disappear': Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Says Physical Game Releases Must Continue

Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi has said that the end of physical games risked part of our culture disappearing, in ...

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The UrLife E20 1,000W 48V Adult Electric Bike With 28mph Top Speed and 80 Mile Range Drops to $282 IGN ⚡ 4h ago

The UrLife E20 1,000W 48V Adult Electric Bike With 28mph Top Speed and 80 Mile Range Drops to $282

Zip to places faster and easier when you go back to school....

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Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem

No, this time for real....

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The Popular Budget-Friendly Flashforge Adventurer 5M 3D Printer Drops to a Mere $135 Shipped IGN ⚡ 4h ago

The Popular Budget-Friendly Flashforge Adventurer 5M 3D Printer Drops to a Mere $135 Shipped

This may be the best price I've seen for a solid entry-level 3D printer....

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Save 30% Off the Petite DJI Neo 4K Quadcopter Drone Camera, Including Bundles, Starting at Just $139 IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Save 30% Off the Petite DJI Neo 4K Quadcopter Drone Camera, Including Bundles, Starting at Just $139

These drones are legal to purchase and use and are FAA registration exempt....

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The Alienware RTX 5090 Gaming PC Drops to $4,780, Nearly the Same Price as Buying the GPU By Itself IGN ⚡ 4h ago

The Alienware RTX 5090 Gaming PC Drops to $4,780, Nearly the Same Price as Buying the GPU By Itself

An RTX 5090 graphics card nowadays goes for at least $4,500 new and $4,000 used....

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The Asus ROG Flow Z13 Gaming Laptop is More Powerful Than the Xbox Ally X and Only a Pound Heavier IGN ⚡ 4h ago

The Asus ROG Flow Z13 Gaming Laptop is More Powerful Than the Xbox Ally X and Only a Pound Heavier

Best Buy is taking $900 off the most highly recommended configuration for this week only,...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day crosses $1 billion at global box office Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day crosses $1 billion at global box office

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has reached the $1 billion milestone at the global box office, becoming the latest Marvel film to cross the line....

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I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen

I am the foremost practitioner of sword dialectics....

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Ending Has Split Fans On What It Means Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Ending Has Split Fans On What It Means

‘I don’t think even the director and writers know’...

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Prime Video's upcoming action thriller with a Justice League star gets a disappointing update Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Prime Video's upcoming action thriller with a Justice League star gets a disappointing update

Producer Kelly McCormick offers an update on The Pirate, an action movie similar to The Raid, but set on a pirate ship....

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Pokémon Go 'Summer Marathon Arctic Embers' event guide Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Pokémon Go 'Summer Marathon Arctic Embers' event guide

Pokémon Go's fire- and ice-type "Summer Marathon: Arctic Embers" event runs from Aug. 4-10. We list the perks and bonuses in our guide....

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Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta Leads Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Lineup IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta Leads Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Lineup

The first half of August will see a long list of games join Xbox Game Pass, as well as the Gears of War: E-Day open beta for Game Pass Ultim...

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Sick of rage quitters? This indie dev has created a very funny answer to those inclined to tilt (and turn) Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

Sick of rage quitters? This indie dev has created a very funny answer to those inclined to tilt (and turn)

It's no secret that rage quitting is one of the most frustrating aspects of online gaming. Thankfully, one indie game developer is currently...

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Beast of Reincarnation: All Strongbox codes and rewards VGC ⚡ 5h ago

Beast of Reincarnation: All Strongbox codes and rewards

All Strongbox codes you need to collect the best rewards in Beast of Reincarnation...

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Endless Legend 2 is escaping early access in September and adding new major, minor and rogue factions PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

Endless Legend 2 is escaping early access in September and adding new major, minor and rogue factions

Mark September 17 in your calendar, and not just because it's my dog's birthday....

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Massive 4K UHD Blu-Ray Sale Will Let You Quickly Expand Your Physical Movie Collection Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Massive 4K UHD Blu-Ray Sale Will Let You Quickly Expand Your Physical Movie Collection

Three 4K UHD movies for just $39 is a heck of deal...

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NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix

I struggle to think of news less deserving of that sick guitar riff....

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Fortnite confirms Bleach wave 2 skins Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Fortnite confirms Bleach wave 2 skins

Bleach returns to Fortnite soon, and players will be able to add Yoruichi and Kisuke to their in-game lockers....

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct Reveals True Protagonist And Plot, Details Gameplay Systems GameInformer ⚡ 5h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct Reveals True Protagonist And Plot, Details Gameplay Systems

This morning’s Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Nintendo Direct featured a 20-minute gameplay deep dive into the upcoming strategy RPG. The pres...

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PS5 Drops to $30 in Best Buy’s Back to School Sale IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PS5 Drops to $30 in Best Buy’s Back to School Sale

Grab Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PS5 for just $30 at Best Buy, saving $40 during the Back to School sale—and unlock the Spider-Man: Brand New D...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Ads Take Over Car Dashboards Despite BMW Promising It Would Never Do That Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Ads Take Over Car Dashboards Despite BMW Promising It Would Never Do That

The new Spidey ads follow a previous comment from BMW's SVP, who stated that ads would never appear in its cars as they're 'a private space'...

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Violent Night 2 director reveals a disturbing scene inspired by horror master Sam Raimi Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Violent Night 2 director reveals a disturbing scene inspired by horror master Sam Raimi

Director Tommy Wirkola and proucer Kelly McCormick discuss the upcoming sequel Violent Night 2, where David Harbour reprises his role as a S...

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FFXIV Yo-kai Watch event guide Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

FFXIV Yo-kai Watch event guide

The Yo-kai Watch event is back in Final Fantasy 14 for a few months. Here’s how to get all the minions, mounts, weapons, and the framer’s ki...

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SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"

Now if you could just cool it on the AI, that would be good....

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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Has Guns Now, Nintendo Just Won’t Admit It GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Has Guns Now, Nintendo Just Won’t Admit It

Ahead of its launch in September, Nintendo broadcast a new deep dive on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave today. So far, it looks like tried-and-...

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave adds surprise new weapon: guns! Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave adds surprise new weapon: guns!

Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave will let players equip a gun as their weapon for the first time...

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A Bunch Of Terrific Games Are Coming To The Cheaper Version Of Game Pass In August 2026 Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

A Bunch Of Terrific Games Are Coming To The Cheaper Version Of Game Pass In August 2026

Also, Beast of Reincarnation hits Ultimate today...

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Final Fantasy 14 launches on Switch 2 and it's surprising fans Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

Final Fantasy 14 launches on Switch 2 and it's surprising fans

Square Enix's critically acclaimed MMORPG FF14 runs like a dream on Nintendo Switch 2 so far, but there's a catch....

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Love And Deepspace Isn’t Printing Money Like It Used To After Cancelling Werewolf Lover Kotaku ⚡ 6h ago

Love And Deepspace Isn’t Printing Money Like It Used To After Cancelling Werewolf Lover

But there's more than one reason why the game about sexy boys has seen revenue fall off a cliff...

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Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it

Let them cook....

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Xbox Game Pass Loses This Perfect Organism And Three More Games In August GameSpot ⚡ 6h ago

Xbox Game Pass Loses This Perfect Organism And Three More Games In August

Xbox Game Pass giveth, and it taketh away in August. Fortunately, not too many games are going to be exiting the subscription service in the...

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25 Years Ago, Golden Sun Showed Me What A Video Game Adventure Could Be Kotaku ⚡ 6h ago

25 Years Ago, Golden Sun Showed Me What A Video Game Adventure Could Be

Camelot's gorgeous GBA adventure has a special place in my heart forever...

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The official X-Files Lego set has been 12 years in the making: 'It was deemed too mature' Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

The official X-Files Lego set has been 12 years in the making: 'It was deemed too mature'

Lego has released an X-Files set. Designer Brent Waller takes us behind the scenes of the making of the set...

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13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori becomes a battle against supernatural RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 6h ago

13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori becomes a battle against supernatural "poison of the earth spirit" with its Corruption Update

Up to this point, The Legend of Khiimori is a game I've primarily known as that pretty chill-looking Mongolian mail delivery game heavy on h...

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Mr Trippy, an IGN ⚡ 6h ago

Mr Trippy, an "Ice Cream" (Read: Illegal Drugs) Truck Management Sim, Announced for PC

Developer Silver Bullet has announced Mr Trippy, a new management sim where, at first glance, it seems like you're running an ice cream truc...

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Xbox Game Pass new games for August 2026 Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

Xbox Game Pass new games for August 2026

Xbox has revealed the lineup of new titles hitting Xbox Game Pass in the first half of August, which includes the Pokémon studio's new game....

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Everything Announced in The Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Nintendo Direct IGN ⚡ 6h ago

Everything Announced in The Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Nintendo Direct

Here's everything announced during today's Nintendo Direct broadcast focused on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave....

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You can try the newly-launched Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 14 for free, right now, if you have a spare 117GB Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

You can try the newly-launched Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 14 for free, right now, if you have a spare 117GB

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? Well, today the oft-memed Final Fantasy online title has arrived on Swit...

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Xbox lists its next 11 Game Pass titles, including the Gears of War E-Day beta VGC ⚡ 6h ago

Xbox lists its next 11 Game Pass titles, including the Gears of War E-Day beta

Date Everything and Cricket 26 are among the other Game Pass titles coming...

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Shift Up CEO Tries To Defend Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Slop Video From Fan Backlash And Continues To Get Roasted: ‘Insane Cope’ Kotaku ⚡ 7h ago

Shift Up CEO Tries To Defend Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Slop Video From Fan Backlash And Continues To Get Roasted: ‘Insane Cope’

Kim Hyung Tae is at odds with some of the sequel's biggest boosters...

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The developer behind Fifa World Cup - which launched less than two months ago - has laid off 85% of its staff Eurogamer ⚡ 7h ago

The developer behind Fifa World Cup - which launched less than two months ago - has laid off 85% of its staff

A vast number of developers at Refractor Games, the development team responsible for Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition, have been laid off. In ...

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This Game Was Labeled A Success. Its Developer Laid Off 85% Of Staff 2 Months After Release. GameSpot ⚡ 7h ago

This Game Was Labeled A Success. Its Developer Laid Off 85% Of Staff 2 Months After Release.

In June, Netflix released an officially licensed FIFA World Cup game, and while it was not a critical success, Netflix management later sing...

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Xbox Game Pass Reveals First Wave Of August 2026 Games GameSpot ⚡ 7h ago

Xbox Game Pass Reveals First Wave Of August 2026 Games

August has just begun, and like clockwork, the first batch of games headed this month to Xbox Game Pass has been revealed. Here's a closer l...

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced patch makes the very important change of letting you hide Edward's blowpipe Eurogamer ⚡ 7h ago

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced patch makes the very important change of letting you hide Edward's blowpipe

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is getting a new patch with a sizeable list of changes. Update 1.0.6 arrives later today across PC, PS5...

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OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post

Apple has yet to respond....

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Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now PCGamer ⚡ 7h ago

Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now

Fashion assassin....

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day's 'Small Potatoes' Stakes Might Just Be the Solution to Superhero Fatigue IGN ⚡ 7h ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's 'Small Potatoes' Stakes Might Just Be the Solution to Superhero Fatigue

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's sorts of local, intra-character problems are the most relatable, which is perhaps why all four Spider-Man films ...

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This Free Roguelite Demo Is Good Enough To Take On Slay The Spire Kotaku ⚡ 7h ago

This Free Roguelite Demo Is Good Enough To Take On Slay The Spire

Guildrun is a stunning combination of genres and an incredibly satisfying time...

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Hooded Horse's watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

Hooded Horse's watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers

The early access phase of oceanic, asymmetric faction war strategy sequel Endless Legend 2 is coming to an... end? That can’t be right. But ...

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GTA meets Crazy Taxi in the weirdest new game of 2026 Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

GTA meets Crazy Taxi in the weirdest new game of 2026

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! from developer Strange Scaffold merges a wild premise with intuitive, pick-up-and-play arcad...

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Battle in the Flower Gardens Is a Video Game-Infused Coming-of-Age Story IGN ⚡ 7h ago

Battle in the Flower Gardens Is a Video Game-Infused Coming-of-Age Story

Check out our exclusive first look at Battle in the Flower Gardens, a new coming-of-age graphic novel with a heavy dose of video game nostal...

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Beast of Reincarnation best console Graphics Mode: Quality vs Performance vs Pro Enhanced VGC ⚡ 7h ago

Beast of Reincarnation best console Graphics Mode: Quality vs Performance vs Pro Enhanced

Best graphics mode to use on each console in Beast of Reincarnation...

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