GTA 6 devs tried Eurogamer ⚡ 1h ago

GTA 6 devs tried "not to jump on the bandwagon" of passing trends and instead created their "own slanted, overblown versions"

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Sicario 3 Officially Moves Forward, Replacing Taylor Sheridan Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Sicario 3 Officially Moves Forward, Replacing Taylor Sheridan

Sicario 3 will reunite Josh Brolin, Emily Blunt, and Benicio del Toro, with a new director and writer — not Taylor Sheridan — at the helm....

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Multi-Stage Boss Fights Are the Worst Video Game Mechanic of All Time Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Multi-Stage Boss Fights Are the Worst Video Game Mechanic of All Time

Boss fights with second stages and replenished health bars is the worst video game mechanic of all time. Here's why....

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While You Wait For The Ocarina Of Time Remake, Consider…Soccerina Of Time Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

While You Wait For The Ocarina Of Time Remake, Consider…Soccerina Of Time

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Despite calling Grand Theft Auto 'a videogame franchise built around criminal activity,' Miami-Dade sheriff isn't mad about the NBA's 'Vice City' transformation PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

Despite calling Grand Theft Auto 'a videogame franchise built around criminal activity,' Miami-Dade sheriff isn't mad about the NBA's 'Vice City' transformation

Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz says her strong stance against the GTA 6 promotional collaboration was only about "publicly owned facilities and...

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Gears Of War: E-Day’s New Ballsack Enemy Keeps Kicking My Ass Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

Gears Of War: E-Day’s New Ballsack Enemy Keeps Kicking My Ass

Please, leave me alone you weird, ugly flesh balloons...

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Overwatch Season 5 skins and Mythics Revealed by Blizzard Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Overwatch Season 5 skins and Mythics Revealed by Blizzard

Season 5 of Overwatch includes new hero Doctrine, new map Grimsvotn, and a ton of skins and cosmetics for Halloween and Solo Leveling fans....

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Save $200 Off the 2026 MacBook Air With New Apple M5 Chip During the Amazon October Prime Day Sale IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Save $200 Off the 2026 MacBook Air With New Apple M5 Chip During the Amazon October Prime Day Sale

First major drop since the price hike earlier this year....

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The Latest Dungeon Crawler Carl Books Are Included in Amazon's '3 for 2' Sale IGN ⚡ 2h ago

The Latest Dungeon Crawler Carl Books Are Included in Amazon's '3 for 2' Sale

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4K UHD and Blu-ray Movies Are on Sale Ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days IGN ⚡ 2h ago

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You can already save a bunch of cash on 4K UHD movies, ahead of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale....

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Hot Springs Scenes Reveal New Bathing Suit Skins for the Party IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Hot Springs Scenes Reveal New Bathing Suit Skins for the Party

New Final Fantasy 7 Revelation footage has revealed a hot springs feature that boosts the party's health and gives them a set of new bathing...

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Amid Uncharted 5 Rumors, Nathan Drake Actor Says He Would Come Back, But With One Catch GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

Amid Uncharted 5 Rumors, Nathan Drake Actor Says He Would Come Back, But With One Catch

One of actor Nolan North's most famous roles is that of Nathan Drake in Naughty Dog's Uncharted franchise, but he wrapped things up with 201...

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Magic: The Gathering Is Adding God Packs And Removing What My Editor Calls ‘Junk’ Foils From Boosters Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

Magic: The Gathering Is Adding God Packs And Removing What My Editor Calls ‘Junk’ Foils From Boosters

And no more foil commons and uncommons in booster packs :(...

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GTA's Wanted Level Is One of Video Games’ Perfect Ideas Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

GTA's Wanted Level Is One of Video Games’ Perfect Ideas

Grand Theft Auto's notorious Wanted system is one of those quietly brilliant systems that deserves some flowers....

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Halo Studios says Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

Halo Studios says "it is absolutely our intent" to release new Halo book, despite layoffs and a rumored lore reboot from Activision

Halo Studios can't promise that the previously-announced Halo novel will land on shop shelves, but the company is "determined" to see the pr...

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Stephen King’s 2007 Psychological Horror Box Office Hit Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube Polygon ⚡ 2h ago

Stephen King’s 2007 Psychological Horror Box Office Hit Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in 1408, a Stephen King horror adaptation that's currently free to watch on YouTube....

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Physint Update: Hideo Kojima Shares New Info on His Upcoming Metal Gear Spiritual Successor IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Physint Update: Hideo Kojima Shares New Info on His Upcoming Metal Gear Spiritual Successor

Renowned game director Hideo Kojima revived his Koji10 podcast after a year and shared casting, story, and development updates on Physint, h...

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Overwatch’s Latest China Exclusive Has Fans Ready To Crash Out: ‘I Still Don’t Know How People Defend Blizzard For This’ Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

Overwatch’s Latest China Exclusive Has Fans Ready To Crash Out: ‘I Still Don’t Know How People Defend Blizzard For This’

Shion, Kiriko, Reaper, and more are the latest heroes to reap the benefits of Blizzard and NetEase’s partnership, but only in China...

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Save 50% Off One of the Best Budget Gaming Chairs During the Amazon Prime Day Sale IGN ⚡ 2h ago

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New Gears Of War: E-Day Patch Addresses Giant Vomiting Frog Error Codes GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

New Gears Of War: E-Day Patch Addresses Giant Vomiting Frog Error Codes

Gears of War: E-Day rolls out worldwide starting October 6, and thanks to early access players, The Coalition has identified several issues ...

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Walmart Has the First GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prebuilt Gaming PC Under $1,000 That I've Seen in Months IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Walmart Has the First GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prebuilt Gaming PC Under $1,000 That I've Seen in Months

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The Batman Part 2 Filming Paused as Director Matt Reeves Steps Away Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

The Batman Part 2 Filming Paused as Director Matt Reeves Steps Away

The Batman Part 2 has paused filming as director Matt Reeves steps away to focus on a "family matter," DC Studios says....

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Why GTA Studio Co-Founder Is Avoiding GTA 6–And All Open-World Games GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Why GTA Studio Co-Founder Is Avoiding GTA 6–And All Open-World Games

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the company in 2020 and now runs a new outfit called Absurd Ventures. Houser will be forever connected t...

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Halloween: The Game Adding Michael’s Worst Mask As $10 DLC Kotaku ⚡ 3h ago

Halloween: The Game Adding Michael’s Worst Mask As $10 DLC

If you want a better-looking version of the famous killer, you'll also need to fork over another $10...

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BG3 Console Update Officially Brings 300-Option Cheat Menu Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

BG3 Console Update Officially Brings 300-Option Cheat Menu

A new mod adds a spell to Baldur's Gate 3 on PS5 and Xbox that opens 300-plus cheats, from God Mode to free respecs...

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The Legend of Zelda Edition Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Drops to $69.99 for Today Only IGN ⚡ 3h ago

The Legend of Zelda Edition Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Drops to $69.99 for Today Only

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'Lanterns' Season 2 Confirmed? Potential Release Date, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

'Lanterns' Season 2 Confirmed? Potential Release Date, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know

Here's what you can expect from the continuation of the DC drama...

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'Arc Raiders' and 'The Finals' Are Officially Getting Movie and TV Adaptations Polygon ⚡ 3h ago

'Arc Raiders' and 'The Finals' Are Officially Getting Movie and TV Adaptations

Arc Raiders and The Finals are getting movie and TV adaptations from Chernin Entertainment....

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Dev Calls Out RPGs 'for Teenagers' That Just Focus on 'Power Fantasy' IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Dev Calls Out RPGs 'for Teenagers' That Just Focus on 'Power Fantasy'

Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder Martin Klima is "bored and tired" of RPGs that are just "power fantasy" trips "for teenagers."...

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Someone At Marvel Thinks We’re All Stupid Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Someone At Marvel Thinks We’re All Stupid

Avengers: Endgame’s re-release wants you to believe this was always the plan...

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Gears of War: E-Day Runs Smoothly on Xbox Series S By Using SSD as RAM IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Gears of War: E-Day Runs Smoothly on Xbox Series S By Using SSD as RAM

The Coalition was able to work some magic on the Xbox Series S by tapping into the SSD to increase performance....

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The Batman Part 2 Halts Production as Matt Reeves Steps Away for Personal Reasons IGN ⚡ 4h ago

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Production on The Batman Part 2 has come to an unexpected halt as director Matt Reeves steps away for personal reasons....

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New Pokémon Winds and Waves Leak Teases a Legendary Monster Twist Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Officially Sets Crunchyroll as Streaming Home Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Officially Sets Crunchyroll as Streaming Home

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will premiere on Crunchyroll before the new anime airs on Netflix a few days later....

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CD Projekt Promises 'The Witcher 3' Remaster Fixes as Some Players Struggle Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

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CD Projekt promises to address 'The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt - Remastered' performance issues in an upcoming patch....

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Arc Raiders and The Finals are getting film and TV adaptations in collaboration with the Backrooms production company Eurogamer ⚡ 4h ago

Arc Raiders and The Finals are getting film and TV adaptations in collaboration with the Backrooms production company

Film and TV show adaptations of Arc Raiders and The Finals are in the works - and developer Embark Studios is collaborating with Chernin Ent...

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Hideo Kojima Has ‘Mixed’ Feelings On DLSS 5 Because AI Can’t Understand Creators’ Intentions: ‘I Don’t Much Like That Idea’ Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Hideo Kojima Has ‘Mixed’ Feelings On DLSS 5 Because AI Can’t Understand Creators’ Intentions: ‘I Don’t Much Like That Idea’

Kojima said he 'wouldn’t like' someone using AI to tamper with his own work after being sent images of DLSS 5 being used on Death Stranding ...

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How many acts are in Gears of War E-Day? Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

How many acts are in Gears of War E-Day?

This guide explains how long it takes to beat the Gears of War: E-Day campaign, along with a list of all acts and missions....

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I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5 PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5

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Halloween: The Game's DLC Is Only For the True Michael Myers Sickos Polygon ⚡ 4h ago

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Illfonic brings additional Michael Myers masks to Halloween: The Game for a whopping $10, which is scheduled to release alongside a free map...

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Aion 2: Splendent Ruby location, Upgrade Essence Extraction Speciality quest guide VGC ⚡ 4h ago

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The final showdown: Motion blur vs chromatic aberration PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

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Only one can be crowned the worst graphical effect in games. You decide....

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Hideo Kojima Is Keeping OD A Mystery To Make Its Horror Hit Harder GameSpot ⚡ 4h ago

Hideo Kojima Is Keeping OD A Mystery To Make Its Horror Hit Harder

Games developed by Hideo Kojima typically have an air of mystery, but for his upcoming horror project OD, the veteran game director wants to...

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Legendary Japanese Solid Snake Actor Wants 'New Metal Gear Game,' But 'Won't Do One Without Kojima' IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Legendary Japanese Solid Snake Actor Wants 'New Metal Gear Game,' But 'Won't Do One Without Kojima'

Solid Snake's legendary Japanese actor is keen to return for a new game, though feels conflicted about any fresh entry without the involveme...

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Sicario 3 Will Reunite Emily Blunt With Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Sicario 3 Will Reunite Emily Blunt With Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin

Sicario 3 is reportedly moving forward with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio del Toro signed on to return....

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Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail

Maybe a little *too* bad, LaDS?...

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Noematica is a lucid dreamer's RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 4h ago

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Over the course of my illustrious tenure as RPS news mangler, I have seen many Simslikes. Tragically cancelled Simslikes from publishers bet...

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God Packs are Officially Coming to Magic: The Gathering IGN ⚡ 4h ago

God Packs are Officially Coming to Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering booster packs have gone through a lot of changes in the last decade, some of which have been awful. But Wizards of the ...

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How Is A Game Like GTA 6 Actually Made? Here’s How Rockstar Gets It Done GameSpot ⚡ 4h ago

How Is A Game Like GTA 6 Actually Made? Here’s How Rockstar Gets It Done

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the most highly anticipated game releases this year, or ever. The franchise is known for its massive...

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RuneScape Developer Jagex Takes Down Trailer To ‘Investigate Urgently’ After Generative AI Accusations Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

RuneScape Developer Jagex Takes Down Trailer To ‘Investigate Urgently’ After Generative AI Accusations

'We don’t use GenAI to create our games, artwork or creative assets, and will not knowingly allow it to be used on our behalf'...

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The Meta Quest 3 512GB VR Headset Is 30% Off at eBay, Beats Any Amazon Prime Day Deal IGN ⚡ 5h ago

The Meta Quest 3 512GB VR Headset Is 30% Off at eBay, Beats Any Amazon Prime Day Deal

With this deal, it's considerably cheaper than the Quest 3's msrp even before the price hike....

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How Bill Skarsgard Became The Face Of Hideo Kojima’s Physint GameSpot ⚡ 5h ago

How Bill Skarsgard Became The Face Of Hideo Kojima’s Physint

Hideo Kojima's spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, Physint, doesn't just have a new home at Xbox; it also has a famous face attached to...

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The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does

So many of the questions in a press briefing for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book revolved around whether the 52-year...

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Classic Board Games Are Dropping to All-Time Low Prices Ahead of Amazon's Prime Day Sale IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Classic Board Games Are Dropping to All-Time Low Prices Ahead of Amazon's Prime Day Sale

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Lanterns Cast and Crew on the New Green Lantern Oath and Season 1's Emotional Finale IGN ⚡ 5h ago

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Get the full scoop on Lantern's emotionally charged Season 1 finale and the origin of the DCU's new Green Lantern oath....

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Arc Raiders and The Finals Are Getting Adapted Into Films and TV Shows IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Arc Raiders and The Finals Are Getting Adapted Into Films and TV Shows

Hollywood is mining Arc Raiders and The Finals for its next big video game adaptations, as the two franchises will be turned into films and ...

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RuneScape dev apologises after RuneFest debut of an AI-generated six-fingered character: 'That's pretty hard to explain away' PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

RuneScape dev apologises after RuneFest debut of an AI-generated six-fingered character: 'That's pretty hard to explain away'

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Aion 2: 5 things I wish I knew before playing Aion 2 VGC ⚡ 5h ago

Aion 2: 5 things I wish I knew before playing Aion 2

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Arc Raiders is looking for 'more ways to integrate real human performances' starting with Celeste's visual overhaul for Frozen Trail PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

Arc Raiders is looking for 'more ways to integrate real human performances' starting with Celeste's visual overhaul for Frozen Trail

Celeste's voice actor will now also be the face of the unofficial leader of Speranza....

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Sam Altman’s PR Team Desperately Tries To Shut Down Questions Over ChatGPT Encouraging Suicide Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

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Dungeons & Dragons Rewrites the Game’s Rules for the New World of Warcraft Book Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Dungeons & Dragons Rewrites the Game’s Rules for the New World of Warcraft Book

The book is experimenting with complex boss fights and transformative subclasses...

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Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is already a slam dunk, but it's how it captures the spirit of the MMO that makes it stand out PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

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Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft – Everything You Need to Know IGN ⚡ 5h ago

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Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft was announced way back in July, as the first Universes Beyond release for the storied tabletop RPG. ...

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The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Wireless Noise Canceling Earbuds Drops to $179 for Amazon Prime Day IGN ⚡ 5h ago

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Wireless Noise Canceling Earbuds Drops to $179 for Amazon Prime Day

Lowest price in months....

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Why Fizz Is a Great Option for Phone Service Across Canada IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Why Fizz Is a Great Option for Phone Service Across Canada

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Avengers: Secret Wars Filming Update Fuels Potential Delay Rumors Polygon ⚡ 5h ago

Avengers: Secret Wars Filming Update Fuels Potential Delay Rumors

Production on Avengers: Secret Wars is rumored to have been delayed, and now one MCU star has said he won't finish filming until at least Ju...

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Aion 2 Essence Extraction guide: Upgrading Essence Extraction and success rates VGC ⚡ 5h ago

Aion 2 Essence Extraction guide: Upgrading Essence Extraction and success rates

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The Coalition used the SSD on Xbox Series S as makeshift RAM to help Gears of War E-Day run smoothly on it VGC ⚡ 5h ago

The Coalition used the SSD on Xbox Series S as makeshift RAM to help Gears of War E-Day run smoothly on it

Other game teams are reportedly already interested in learning the method, it says...

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NBA 2K25 Is Getting Delisted After Just 2 Years, and Single Player Story Mode Will Become Unplayable IGN ⚡ 5h ago

NBA 2K25 Is Getting Delisted After Just 2 Years, and Single Player Story Mode Will Become Unplayable

NBA 2K25 is being delisted after just two years, and players will soon no longer be able to play the game's single player story mode....

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Fortnite Has Updated In-Game Art After Fans Discovered a Google Gemini AI Image Watermark IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Fortnite Has Updated In-Game Art After Fans Discovered a Google Gemini AI Image Watermark

Fortnite has quietly replaced a piece of in-game artwork after fans spotted its original version contained a Google Gemini AI watermark....

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Get 2 Months of the Paramount+ Premium (Ad-Free) Subscription for Just $1 Per Month IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Get 2 Months of the Paramount+ Premium (Ad-Free) Subscription for Just $1 Per Month

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The Amazon October Prime Day Audible Deal Is Now Live: Pay $0.99 Per Month and Get $20 in Audible Credit IGN ⚡ 5h ago

The Amazon October Prime Day Audible Deal Is Now Live: Pay $0.99 Per Month and Get $20 in Audible Credit

This time it appears to be for both Amazon Prime and non-Prime members....

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Lanterns Season 2 in Early Development Ahead of Official Green Light at HBO, Co-Creator Says IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Lanterns Season 2 in Early Development Ahead of Official Green Light at HBO, Co-Creator Says

Lanterns Season 2 is in early development while it awaits an official green light at HBO, co-creator Damon Lindelof has confirmed....

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Marvel Unlimited Shutting Down, Will Be Replaced by 'Marvel Comics Powered by Webtoon' IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Marvel Unlimited Shutting Down, Will Be Replaced by 'Marvel Comics Powered by Webtoon'

Marvel Unlimited, the company's subscription app for comics, will be shuttering on December 17, 2026, after about 19 years of service....

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Rockstar Explains How It Actually Makes A Game Like GTA 6 Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Rockstar Explains How It Actually Makes A Game Like GTA 6

Working on one chunk at a time, for years and years and years, apparently...

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How the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 has been optimised for large-screen entertainment, multitasking and all-day battery life IGN ⚡ 5h ago

How the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 has been optimised for large-screen entertainment, multitasking and all-day battery life

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Lego Officially Reveals Three New Batman Sets for Early 2027 Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

Lego Officially Reveals Three New Batman Sets for Early 2027

Three new Lego Batman sets are coming in January 2027, including two Batmobiles and a piece of Joker-themed wall art....

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Bayonetta’s Return Sounds Imminent as Platinum Reveals Desire to ‘Further Develop the Character’ Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

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Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 6h ago

Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or missing the point, says Banjo Kazooie: Recompiled developer

The software developer behind an unofficial PC version of N64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie has posted an impassioned screed about the usage of g...

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New 'Pokémon' 30th Anniversary TCG Deal Almost Sounds Too Good To Be True Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

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The cheapest way to buy a Pokémon 30th Anniversary ETB comes from an unexpected retailer running two major discounts that can stack...

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Here’s What Capcom Said About Using Generative AI In The RE Engine: ‘AI Is Not A Replacement For Humans’ Kotaku ⚡ 6h ago

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Capcom want to evolve RE Engine into an engine for the AI generation, but not turn it into an engine powered by generative AI over humans...

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Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

"It has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face" - Rockstar explains why GTA 6 doesn't satirise real-world events

In a new interview, Rockstar has discussed its revered approach to crafting the satire the Grand Theft Auto series is famous for - particula...

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Magic Is Officially Bringing Back God Packs and Making Major Changes to Booster Packs Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

Magic Is Officially Bringing Back God Packs and Making Major Changes to Booster Packs

Polygon has exclusive details about Magic: The Gathering's new God Packs, along with some of the changes coming to Booster Packs....

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Aion 2 FAQ: Everything you need to know about Aion 2 VGC ⚡ 6h ago

Aion 2 FAQ: Everything you need to know about Aion 2

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Ninja Theory developers announce they are facing redundancy, as the studio starts laying off staff following widespread Xbox cuts Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

Ninja Theory developers announce they are facing redundancy, as the studio starts laying off staff following widespread Xbox cuts

More bad news for Ninja Theory today, as the studio's consultation process with Xbox - following a second wave of cuts last week - seems to ...

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Steam's Secretly Biggest Driving Game Ever is Coming to PS5 in 2 Weeks Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

Steam's Secretly Biggest Driving Game Ever is Coming to PS5 in 2 Weeks

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Senua Studio Ninja Theory Begins Letting People Go After Two Deals To Save The Studio Fell Through Kotaku ⚡ 6h ago

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'It’s incredibly sad knowing that we won’t get to finish what we were working on'...

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RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

"Even if I knew how it would end, I would do it again": Hellblade developers Ninja Theory appear to have kicked off the redundancy process

Following Microsoft's recent reveal that Hellblade makers Ninja Theory would be facing closure, with two deals to buy them after their split...

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Disney Makes WandaVision Episodes Free Ahead of Marvel's Next Big Show Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

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VisionQuest premieres next week on Disney Plus. Ahead of it, Marvel has uploaded episodes of WandaVision to YouTube for free....

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Pokémon Go 'World Space Week 2026' event guide Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

Pokémon Go 'World Space Week 2026' event guide

Here's how to find an astronaut Pikachu in Pokémon Go, as well as what you get for finishing the "World Space Week 2026" research....

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Secret Marvel Game Leaks Online With First Trailer Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

Secret Marvel Game Leaks Online With First Trailer

A trailer for a new Marvel gacha game for mobile, Project Comet, has seemingly leaked online....

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Zelda and Banjo Recompiled Devs Go To War With AI Vibe-Coded ‘Slopcomps’ Kotaku ⚡ 7h ago

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AI-assisted projects provoking stark criticism...

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NBA 2K25 Is Getting Delisted Soon, Single-Player Modes Also Closing Down GameSpot ⚡ 7h ago

NBA 2K25 Is Getting Delisted Soon, Single-Player Modes Also Closing Down

2K Sports has announced that NBA 2K25 will be discontinued soon, and that includes delisting the product and server shutdowns that will make...

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Aion 2 Factions: Best Faction to choose, Elyos or Asmodians VGC ⚡ 7h ago

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James Gunn Officially Confirms He’s Working on His Man of Tomorrow Follow-up Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

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DC film boss James Gunn reveals he's begun work on his next movie ahead of next year's Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow...

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10 New Things We Just Learned About GTA 6 GameSpot ⚡ 7h ago

10 New Things We Just Learned About GTA 6

New information about Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to be revealed. Game Informer's most recent issue included a number of new details, and w...

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'Wild at Heart' quest walkthrough in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Polygon ⚡ 7h ago

'Wild at Heart' quest walkthrough in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

Here's how to reach every 'Wild at Heart' quest outcome in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt...

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Let’s Play Through Kingdom Hearts Together (No, Seriously) Kotaku ⚡ 8h ago

Let’s Play Through Kingdom Hearts Together (No, Seriously)

Kingdom Hearts IV is around a year away, so what if we all played through the series again?...

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GTA 6 writer says the series has never had RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 8h ago

GTA 6 writer says the series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's war on terror, and the latest entry won't get "too specific"

Details about and dev chatter concerning GTA 6 continue to drip out as part of the marketing push towards its console launch in November. Th...

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Hellblade studio Ninja Theory has started laying off staff, following Xbox’s announcement that it faces closure VGC ⚡ 8h ago

Hellblade studio Ninja Theory has started laying off staff, following Xbox’s announcement that it faces closure

Two separate agreements with the studio "fell through", Microsoft said...

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Resident Evil Studio That’s Making Nintendo’s Zelda Movie Now Gunning For Battlefield As Well GameSpot ⚡ 8h ago

Resident Evil Studio That’s Making Nintendo’s Zelda Movie Now Gunning For Battlefield As Well

Video games are the new battlefield for movie ideas, and after a reported bidding war, it appears Sony Pictures is the frontrunner to secure...

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Love And Deepspace Devs Have One Simple Request: Please Don’t Drink The Poison GameSpot ⚡ 8h ago

Love And Deepspace Devs Have One Simple Request: Please Don’t Drink The Poison

It hasn't been an easy year for the Love and Deepspace community after the Valko controversy left the fandom divided, but it looks like deve...

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Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6 PCGamer ⚡ 8h ago

Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6

Some things are better left alone, although I'm happy to be proven wrong....

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Polygon ⚡ 8h ago

"Reality Is About to Get Really Confusing": Inside the Making of 2026's Wildest Thriller

Chris Marrs Piliero breaks down Appofeniacs, practical gore, and why our post-truth reality is about to get really confusing....

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Marvel’s Biggest Comics Change In Years Makes 35,000 Stories Easier To Read Polygon ⚡ 8h ago

Marvel’s Biggest Comics Change In Years Makes 35,000 Stories Easier To Read

Marvel has a new digital comics app, thanks to Webtoon, which is launching the overhauled Marvel Comics app in November 2026....

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Star Wars Zero Company Gets Its First Big Discount at Amazon Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days IGN ⚡ 8h ago

Star Wars Zero Company Gets Its First Big Discount at Amazon Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days

Star Wars Zero Company has dropped to a new low price at Amazon ahead of the retailer's Prime Big Deal Days sale event, with a 20% discount ...

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What time does Gears of War: E-Day release in your time zone? Polygon ⚡ 8h ago

What time does Gears of War: E-Day release in your time zone?

Our guide explains when Gears of War: E-Day will be released in your time zone and how to pre-load the game....

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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen devs explain why they’re not abandoning the ‘friction’ that makes it special VGC ⚡ 8h ago

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen devs explain why they’re not abandoning the ‘friction’ that makes it special

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's director and producer discuss design friction, player feedback, and Switch 2 optimization...

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Dead by Daylight studio is hiring for a triple-A Sci-Fi first-person shooter with Eurogamer ⚡ 8h ago

Dead by Daylight studio is hiring for a triple-A Sci-Fi first-person shooter with "a high realism bar"

Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian studio mostly known for asymmetrical multiplayer horror survival game Dead by Daylight, is hiring for a ...

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Lanterns Season 2 In Early Development And There Are Plenty Of Ways For Hal Jordan To Come Back Kotaku ⚡ 8h ago

Lanterns Season 2 In Early Development And There Are Plenty Of Ways For Hal Jordan To Come Back

Kyle Chandler's performance might be too good to leave in the past...

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'We Have a Strong Desire to Further Develop the Character of Bayonetta' — PlatinumGames Isn't Done With the Gun Witch IGN ⚡ 9h ago

'We Have a Strong Desire to Further Develop the Character of Bayonetta' — PlatinumGames Isn't Done With the Gun Witch

PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba said he isn’t done with Bayonetta, the studio’s character action series featuring a witch equipped with gun ...

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'I'm Still Here': Marvel Star Mark Ruffalo Says He's Still Playing The Hulk Despite Political Advocacy IGN ⚡ 9h ago

'I'm Still Here': Marvel Star Mark Ruffalo Says He's Still Playing The Hulk Despite Political Advocacy

Marvel star Mark Ruffalo has said he'll "Hulk out" over political attempts to disrupt voting in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections....

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Doctor Who Showrunner Finally Reveals What Killed the Show Polygon ⚡ 9h ago

Doctor Who Showrunner Finally Reveals What Killed the Show

Doctor Who was on its last legs even before Disney came along, but Russell T. Davies has now revealed what actually caused its downfall....

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer Is the Hades of Racing Games for One Ultimate Reason Polygon ⚡ 9h ago

Star Wars: Galactic Racer Is the Hades of Racing Games for One Ultimate Reason

Fuse Games wasn't just happy with coasting on Star Wars nostalgia - they wanted to change the arcade racer genre for good....

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RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 9h ago

"Coders will never forgive me for this level": Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 has a rotatable "fleshmetal" puzzle map that drove its own development team crazy

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is something far worse than war. There is: a level that is basically a huge, spinning lock ful...

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Doctor Who Ex-Showrunner Says He's Not Bothered About Walking Away With His Cliffhanger Ending Left Unresolved IGN ⚡ 9h ago

Doctor Who Ex-Showrunner Says He's Not Bothered About Walking Away With His Cliffhanger Ending Left Unresolved

Doctor Who ex-showrunner Russell T Davies has described his unresolved cliffhanger ending as "a piece of p***" for the series' next producti...

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Magic Is Planning Another Kpop Demon Hunters Collab After Secret Lair Drop Polygon ⚡ 9h ago

Magic Is Planning Another Kpop Demon Hunters Collab After Secret Lair Drop

Magic: The Gathering teases that more KPop Demon Hunters products are on the way after recent Secret Lair reveal....

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AI game mashup videos on social media spark debate and backlash among players and modders VGC ⚡ 10h ago

AI game mashup videos on social media spark debate and backlash among players and modders

The Claude-created videos overlay one game on top of another to make a rudimentary 'mashup'...

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Millions return to The Witcher 3 as the Remastered game records another Steam personal best and sales skyrocket Eurogamer ⚡ 10h ago

Millions return to The Witcher 3 as the Remastered game records another Steam personal best and sales skyrocket

Player numbers are still rising for The Witcher 3 following the release of the Remastered edition upgrade last week, as people not only retu...

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Best Buy’s Techtober Sale Challenges Prime Day with Major Video Game Deals and No Membership Fees IGN ⚡ 10h ago

Best Buy’s Techtober Sale Challenges Prime Day with Major Video Game Deals and No Membership Fees

Best Buy's Techtober sale is now live, rivalling Amazon Prime Day with savings on new PS5 game releases, Xbox hardware bundles, and plenty m...

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