Amiga strategy classic Defender of the Crown is back with both old and fresh graphics, and an all new roguelite mode RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 11m ago

Amiga strategy classic Defender of the Crown is back with both old and fresh graphics, and an all new roguelite mode

What's old is new (and also old) again! It's been 40 years since the release of the classic Amiga strategy game Defender of the Crown, and t...

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‘Persona 5’ Is Coming to ‘Fortnite' Polygon ⚡ 20m ago

‘Persona 5’ Is Coming to ‘Fortnite'

Atlus has announced its popular RPG, Persona 5, will be one of many games appearing in Chapter 7 Season 4 of Fortnite...

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Gitaroo Man Was A Weirder, Better Guitar Hero Kotaku ⚡ 21m ago

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Years before Guitar Hero, there was a real guitar hero, and his name was U-1...

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Steam’s Greatest New Roguelite Is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Meets Beyblade Polygon ⚡ 21m ago

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Slayblade stormed to the top of the Steam Next Fest demos list and it's out next week....

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37 Years Later, the Best 'Calvin and Hobbes' Dad Quote Is Still in a League of Its Own Polygon ⚡ 21m ago

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Calvin's the star of the show in Calvin and Hobbes, but don't discount his parents....

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New 'Game of Thrones' Release Promises to Stun With Its Epic Scale Polygon ⚡ 27m ago

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Fans who have finished House of the Dragon S3 will want to tune in to the first gameplay reveal for the grand PC game...

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Halo Co-Creator Says The Remake’s New Ring Is ‘Damn Ugly’ Kotaku ⚡ 33m ago

Halo Co-Creator Says The Remake’s New Ring Is ‘Damn Ugly’

However, Marcus Lehto is a fan of how the Flood look in the recently released Halo: Combat Evolved remake...

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Tomb Raider: Catalyst Gets New Release Window Polygon ⚡ 43m ago

Tomb Raider: Catalyst Gets New Release Window

Embracer has revealed plans for Lara Croft's next action-puzzle adventure to be released in early 2028...

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Sandustry, the factory game where every single pixel is a resource you can build with, is out in early access RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 49m ago

Sandustry, the factory game where every single pixel is a resource you can build with, is out in early access

It's quite the month for sand-related games! Sandcastle, a literal sandbox game, received a demo earlier this month, and now here we are tod...

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This Terrific Long-Running Adventure Game Series’ Latest Entry Is Also Its First Disappointment Kotaku ⚡ 49m ago

This Terrific Long-Running Adventure Game Series’ Latest Entry Is Also Its First Disappointment

The Rusty Lake series perhaps gets a little tangled in its own roots in Servant of the Lake...

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Grand Theft Auto 6 Rival Has The Same Release Date On PC Polygon ⚡ 51m ago

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Halo Campaign Evolved: All Skulls and Terminal locations VGC ⚡ 56m ago

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All Skulls and Terminal locations in Halo: Campaign Evolved in order...

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'Marvel Tokon' Datamine Teases Fantastic Four and Daredevil As DLC Characters Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

'Marvel Tokon' Datamine Teases Fantastic Four and Daredevil As DLC Characters

Dataminers found Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and more in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' game files, meaning they could be coming as future DLC...

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A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo

My faceplate's made from wood, from the same forest as trees....

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Ken Russell's The Devils Gets 4K, NC-17 Release from Warner Bros. Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Ken Russell's The Devils Gets 4K, NC-17 Release from Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is releasing Ken Russell's 1971 psychological horror drama The Devils in theaters this October, in restored 4K and uncensored....

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Where to find Hokuryu Sunflower Farm in Forza Horizon 6 PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

Where to find Hokuryu Sunflower Farm in Forza Horizon 6

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Marvel’s Wolverine Has You Hunting For Resources, Drinking Whiskey, And Beating Up Nightmares GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

Marvel’s Wolverine Has You Hunting For Resources, Drinking Whiskey, And Beating Up Nightmares

Unlike its work on the Spider-Man games, Insomniac won't be throwing players into an open-world environment with Marvel's Wolverine. It's an...

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There Is No Reason Not To Play South Of Midnight Anymore Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

There Is No Reason Not To Play South Of Midnight Anymore

With Compulsion Games now newly independent, their BAFTA-winning game is now free from Xbox and anything else that might have kept you from ...

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10 Years Later, Anne Hathaway's 110-Minute Sci-Fi Monster Movie Is Aging Like Fine Wine Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

10 Years Later, Anne Hathaway's 110-Minute Sci-Fi Monster Movie Is Aging Like Fine Wine

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GTA 6 Preorders Alone Could Pay For Production Budget – Expert GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

GTA 6 Preorders Alone Could Pay For Production Budget – Expert

GTA 6 preorders began in late June, and, as expected, there was enormous demand for the game. Take-Two said GTA 6 had unprecedented preorder...

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How To Get All The Pokémon You Forgot About Out Of Pokémon Bank Before The Service Shuts Down Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

How To Get All The Pokémon You Forgot About Out Of Pokémon Bank Before The Service Shuts Down

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New Krispy Kreme Pokemon Doughnuts Announced, And You’re Gonna Wanna Eat ‘Em All GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

New Krispy Kreme Pokemon Doughnuts Announced, And You’re Gonna Wanna Eat ‘Em All

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Precognition Is A New Live-Action Sci-Fi Horror Game By Immortality Developer And Filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg GameInformer ⚡ 1h ago

Precognition Is A New Live-Action Sci-Fi Horror Game By Immortality Developer And Filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg

Half-Mermaid, the studio led by Sam Barlow, the mind behind games such as Immortality, Her Story, and Telling Lies, has announced its next p...

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How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™ PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

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Summer Shimanoyama region treasure hunt location in Forza Horizon 6 Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Summer Shimanoyama region treasure hunt location in Forza Horizon 6

The summer treasure hunt is located in the Shimanoyama region of Forza Horizon 6. Here's its exact location and how to reach it....

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Where to find the Shimanoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6 PCGamer ⚡ 1h ago

Where to find the Shimanoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

Locate this treasure chest near a race track....

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Darksiders 4 and a new Kingdom Come are planned by the end of March 2028, Embracer says VGC ⚡ 2h ago

Darksiders 4 and a new Kingdom Come are planned by the end of March 2028, Embracer says

A trademark registration for Kingdom Come Salvation was spotted last month...

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Wolverine directors explain why Insomniac’s latest game has the Weapon X-factor VGC ⚡ 2h ago

Wolverine directors explain why Insomniac’s latest game has the Weapon X-factor

VGC goes hands-on with Wolverine then sits down with its game director and creative director...

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Marvel's Wolverine Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

Marvel's Wolverine "fully playable" on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be

Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th Se...

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Everything New We Learned About Marvel's Wolverine From Our Big Interview With Insomniac IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Everything New We Learned About Marvel's Wolverine From Our Big Interview With Insomniac

Everything new we learned about Marvel's Wolverine from our big interview with Insomniac....

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Insomniac Confirms Marvel's Wolverine Performance Mode Details IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Insomniac Confirms Marvel's Wolverine Performance Mode Details

Insomniac has revealed an impressive performance mode for Marvel’s Wolverine on the base PlayStation 5....

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Insomniac Explains Why Wolverine's Suit Heals Itself IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Insomniac Explains Why Wolverine's Suit Heals Itself

Insomniac tells IGN why Wolverine's suit heals itself....

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Insomniac Says There's Plenty in Marvel's Wolverine to Keep People Playing After the Credits Roll, Including New Game Plus Day-One IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Insomniac Says There's Plenty in Marvel's Wolverine to Keep People Playing After the Credits Roll, Including New Game Plus Day-One

Insomniac has confirmed the various features in Marvel's Wolverine designed to keep people playing after the credits roll....

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Marvel's Wolverine: The Final Preview IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Marvel's Wolverine: The Final Preview

If Insomniac has proved anything over the last eight years, it’s that they know how to make a hell of a superhero game. Marvel's Spider-Man ...

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New Call of Duty Zombies Art Book Tops Amazon Charts and Gets Launch Discount IGN ⚡ 2h ago

New Call of Duty Zombies Art Book Tops Amazon Charts and Gets Launch Discount

Treyarch’s new Call of Duty Zombies art book takes fans through its rich history, including behind-the-scenes developer interviews and "neve...

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Sabretooth Will Actually Steal Wolverine's Kills When They Team Up in Gameplay IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Sabretooth Will Actually Steal Wolverine's Kills When They Team Up in Gameplay

Sabretooth sounds like a real jerk in Marvel's Wolverine....

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Why the X-Men Don't Exist in Marvel's Wolverine IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Why the X-Men Don't Exist in Marvel's Wolverine

Insomniac explains why it didn't want the X-Men in Marvel's Wolverine....

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Jurassic Park Meets Alien In This Childhood Dream Turned Horror Game GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

Jurassic Park Meets Alien In This Childhood Dream Turned Horror Game

Revealed during PlayStation's State of Play earlier this year, The Lost Wild is a first-person horror game that combines the awe of walking ...

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You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pokémon from Pokémon Bank to Pokémon Home, or they're gone forever Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pokémon from Pokémon Bank to Pokémon Home, or they're gone forever

Today, The Pokémon Company announced that it's shutting down Pokémon Bank, the Pokémon storage app was that was originally released for the ...

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis

A legally distinct Game Boy-like chassis, of course....

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Total War: Warhammer 3 Just Confirmed the Release Date for Its Biggest Piece of DLC in the Series 10-Year History IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Total War: Warhammer 3 Just Confirmed the Release Date for Its Biggest Piece of DLC in the Series 10-Year History

Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer 3 will soon get the biggest piece of DLC in the series’ 10-year history, with Lords of the End Time...

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Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all' PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

Sony-only....

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Magic's Marvel Super Heroes Sealed Collector Boosters Are Back In Stock at Amazon IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Magic's Marvel Super Heroes Sealed Collector Boosters Are Back In Stock at Amazon

Amazon has restocked Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes Collector Boosters. They're not cheap, but a box of these is your best chance ...

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Marked the End of the ‘Sh*tty Licensed Game’ Era IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Batman: Arkham Asylum Marked the End of the ‘Sh*tty Licensed Game’ Era

We're looking back at milestone games in the run up to Xbox's 25th anniversary. Today, how Batman: Arkham Asylum redefined both licensed vid...

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Pokémon Is Finally Burning The Bridge Between Old And New Generations Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

Pokémon Is Finally Burning The Bridge Between Old And New Generations

After a decade of support, the series is cutting off the means to bring monsters from old games to new ones...

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Nintendo Is Pulling The Plug On One Of The Best Ways To Get Rare Pokemon GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

Nintendo Is Pulling The Plug On One Of The Best Ways To Get Rare Pokemon

One of the best systems for getting your hands on rare Pokemon is set to close down in a few months, as Pokemon Bank will stop working next ...

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Elder Scrolls Fans Think They’ve Worked Out The Subtitle For Elder Scrolls 6 GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

Elder Scrolls Fans Think They’ve Worked Out The Subtitle For Elder Scrolls 6

Recently, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma saw a demo of The Elder Scrolls 6 and cryptically suggested the game's full name will have an eight-character...

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Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the Next Kingdom Come Game From Warhorse, and Darksiders 4 All Due Out by April 2028 IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the Next Kingdom Come Game From Warhorse, and Darksiders 4 All Due Out by April 2028

Embracer group has offered updates on a number of its upcoming video games, narrowing some release windows for big titles....

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Troubled Witcher multiplayer spinoff Project Sirius struck with new round of layoffs RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 2h ago

Troubled Witcher multiplayer spinoff Project Sirius struck with new round of layoffs

Project Sirius, CD Projekt Red’s unsettled attempt at a multiplayer Witcher spinoff, is facing further difficulties. Following a Kotaku repo...

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Update Coming This October, as Ruby and Sapphire Speculation Swirls IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Update Coming This October, as Ruby and Sapphire Speculation Swirls

Nintendo Switch versions of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen will be updated with Pokémon Home support this fall, as speculation mounts that Ru...

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Nautus: Echoes from Below Announced for PC IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Nautus: Echoes from Below Announced for PC

Magic Design Studios, the developer behind 2022's excellent Have a Nice Death, has revealed its newest project, called Nautus: Echoes from B...

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Kinetic Publishing 2026 Showcase Roundup IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Kinetic Publishing 2026 Showcase Roundup

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Pokémon Bank will shut down in February 2027, with players advised to transfer data to Pokémon Home VGC ⚡ 3h ago

Pokémon Bank will shut down in February 2027, with players advised to transfer data to Pokémon Home

The 3DS app was delisted in 2023 but has continued to run as a free service...

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Rob Zombie’s Firefly Horror Movie Trilogy Gets an Ultimate 4K Collection IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Rob Zombie’s Firefly Horror Movie Trilogy Gets an Ultimate 4K Collection

Rob Zombie's horror movie trilogy including House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and 3 From Hell, is getting a new 4K collection with...

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Marvel Tōkon Datamine Both Delights And Underwhelms With Potential DLC Characters Kotaku ⚡ 3h ago

Marvel Tōkon Datamine Both Delights And Underwhelms With Potential DLC Characters

When you’re pulling from something as big as Marvel, you probably can’t please everyone...

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Uncharted designer says he doesn’t want a remake or remaster because ‘it doesn’t make any sense’ VGC ⚡ 3h ago

Uncharted designer says he doesn’t want a remake or remaster because ‘it doesn’t make any sense’

The former Naughty Dog developer wants to see a new game set during Drake's past...

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DC Has a Whole Bunch of Hardcover Comics on Sale at Amazon Today IGN ⚡ 3h ago

DC Has a Whole Bunch of Hardcover Comics on Sale at Amazon Today

Amazon has dropped prices on top DC hardcover comics, including Absolute Batman Vol. 1 & 2, Absolute Wonder Woman, All-Star Superman, and mo...

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Players Are Absolutely Destroying Edward Kenway’s Back GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Players Are Absolutely Destroying Edward Kenway’s Back

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has been a welcome hit for Ubisoft, and several weeks after the game launched for PC and console, new s...

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Thanks to the New Vault Breaker Co-Op Mode, I Can Finally Appreciate Marathon’s Most Intriguing Map IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Thanks to the New Vault Breaker Co-Op Mode, I Can Finally Appreciate Marathon’s Most Intriguing Map

Marathon's limited-time experimental PvE mode ends on August 18, and it's worth trying out before it disappears to truly appreciate the intr...

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Twitch Is Now Using Channels To Train Generative AI, And The Company Knows It’s Unpopular GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Twitch Is Now Using Channels To Train Generative AI, And The Company Knows It’s Unpopular

The Amazon-owned streaming site Twitch is now using channels to train generative AI systems, and the company's top product boss knows it's a...

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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave might be the biggest game in the series VGC ⚡ 4h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave might be the biggest game in the series

Hands-on: Intelligent Systems' latest packs dozens of hours of activities into just the first part of its story...

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An American Werewolf in London's 45th Anniversary Steelbook Edition is Up for Preorder IGN ⚡ 4h ago

An American Werewolf in London's 45th Anniversary Steelbook Edition is Up for Preorder

Preorders for the 45th Anniversary 4K UHD Steelbook of An American Werewolf in London are live on Amazon for $34.99 ahead of its October rel...

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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – The Final Preview IGN ⚡ 4h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – The Final Preview

There are plenty of ways that Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is building out the features that defined Three Houses. I remain very interested ...

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After this week's Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they've figured out its full name - and it was hidden in Starfield all along Eurogamer ⚡ 4h ago

After this week's Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they've figured out its full name - and it was hidden in Starfield all along

Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it's been discovered the game's f...

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Fans Are Convinced They’ve Guessed The Name Of The Next Elder Scrolls Game Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

Fans Are Convinced They’ve Guessed The Name Of The Next Elder Scrolls Game

Some are going so far as to suggest it isn't The Elder Scrolls VI: Hammerfell, which it obviously is...

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Hello Games boss says Light No Fire is ‘crazy’ and ‘ambitious’, but he’s too happy working on it to show it off yet VGC ⚡ 5h ago

Hello Games boss says Light No Fire is ‘crazy’ and ‘ambitious’, but he’s too happy working on it to show it off yet

Sean Murray's messaging is the opposite of how he handled No Man's Sky...

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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls: The Kotaku Review Kotaku ⚡ 5h ago

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls: The Kotaku Review

Arc System Works’ latest anime fighter is accessible for the Marvel diehards, but deep enough for fighting game veterans...

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OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming

Shipments are up nearly 100% since last year....

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RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 5h ago

"We're not really sure what Big Walk's future looks like," say the waddling co-op puzzler's devs, though it probably doesn’t involve DLC

I’ve spent something like seven hours in funny-thinky cooperative puzzler Big Walk, and the concept of more Big Walk is something that confo...

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eFootball’s latest season launches today, including a new mini-game made by PlatinumGames VGC ⚡ 6h ago

eFootball’s latest season launches today, including a new mini-game made by PlatinumGames

The Bayonetta and Nier Automata studio has created a new Daily Super Play mode...

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Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark

Looks suspiciously similar to controller leaked back in May....

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Bethesda finally Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

Bethesda finally "looking into" patching Oblivion Remastered on PC, PS5 and Xbox amid praise for Switch 2 release

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered arrived on Switch 2 earlier this week, immediately drawing praise for its well-optimised state. Thi...

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'I would frankly have been happy to replace her with AI' - extraordinary public spat between Saber CEO and writer Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

'I would frankly have been happy to replace her with AI' - extraordinary public spat between Saber CEO and writer "replaced with ChatGPT" intensifies

A public spat between Saber Interactive - creator of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the upcoming Suntman: Hollywood game and many others ...

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Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability' PCGamer ⚡ 6h ago

Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability'

Looks like the law is finally catching up....

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Super Mario Sunshine has now been added to Switch Online’s GameCube library VGC ⚡ 6h ago

Super Mario Sunshine has now been added to Switch Online’s GameCube library

The total number of GameCube games playable on Switch 2 is now 10...

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Twitch are scraping streams for AI training by default, and even their own execs don’t know what user data may have been swept up RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

Twitch are scraping streams for AI training by default, and even their own execs don’t know what user data may have been swept up

Livestreaming giants Twitch have admitted using streamed content to train the generative AI models of parent company Amazon. While it’s not ...

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Crimson Desert studio allocates more staff to DokeV, the open-world creature collecting game announced in 2019 VGC ⚡ 7h ago

Crimson Desert studio allocates more staff to DokeV, the open-world creature collecting game announced in 2019

The colourful adventure game is now set for the end of 2028...

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with a huge A1 poster and Top 100 games mini-mag PCGamer ⚡ 8h ago

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with a huge A1 poster and Top 100 games mini-mag

Plus, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Wardogs, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, graphics cards tested, and ...

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Eurogamer ⚡ 8h ago

"The most offensive thing we see every time we boot up the game" Halo co-creator takes shots at Campaign Evolved art direction

It's been an interesting launch period for Halo: Campaign Evolved. Despite reviewing well, the game has failed to sell particularly well on ...

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Twitch is training AI on livestreams, says it's an opt out feature as Eurogamer ⚡ 8h ago

Twitch is training AI on livestreams, says it's an opt out feature as "nobody would opt in"

Twitch - the popular gaming and IRL streaming platform - has announced it'll start training generative AI models on those livestreaming on t...

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Stop Killing Games backs Dutch consumer rights lawsuit against Sony's PlayStation digital store Eurogamer ⚡ 8h ago

Stop Killing Games backs Dutch consumer rights lawsuit against Sony's PlayStation digital store "monopoly"

Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative...

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Saber CEO Denies Replacing Rideshare Writer With ChatGPT But Says ‘I Would Frankly In Retrospect Have Been Happy To Replace Her With AI’ Kotaku ⚡ 12h ago

Saber CEO Denies Replacing Rideshare Writer With ChatGPT But Says ‘I Would Frankly In Retrospect Have Been Happy To Replace Her With AI’

Matt Karch said a missing Steam disclosure will be added eventually...

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Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement PCGamer ⚡ 15h ago

Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement

The comments are "remarkably pathetic," the writer said in response....

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Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop' PCGamer ⚡ 16h ago

Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'

The open world was based on a real world national park....

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Big Walk review PCGamer ⚡ 17h ago

Big Walk review

Explore an island full of puzzles with a few of your friends....

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Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before' PCGamer ⚡ 18h ago

Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'

The publisher says it isn't sure how to interpret GTA 6's 'astonishing' preorder sales....

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Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in' PCGamer ⚡ 19h ago

Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'

Streams, VODs, comments, and pretty much everything else will go into the gen AI training machine, unless streamers choose to opt out....

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Helldivers 2 borrows from Dead Space and Silent Hill for its horrific new aliens PCGamer ⚡ 19h ago

Helldivers 2 borrows from Dead Space and Silent Hill for its horrific new aliens

Attack the void!...

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Wes Fenlon's recommendations PCGamer ⚡ 20h ago

Wes Fenlon's recommendations

What has Senior Editor Wes Fenlon been into lately?...

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Things I Said Out Loud, To No One, While Suffering Through FromSoft’s Grueling Dark Souls Predecessor For Kotaku’s Warp Week Kotaku ⚡ 20h ago

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This is just like Dark Souls...

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Pokopia’s New DLC Is Its Most Melancholy Yet Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

Pokopia’s New DLC Is Its Most Melancholy Yet

Back to my home, I dare not go...

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New Sci-Fi Thriller From Immortality Studio Originated As An Idea For An FMV Metroid Game Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

New Sci-Fi Thriller From Immortality Studio Originated As An Idea For An FMV Metroid Game

It's called Precognition, it's out in 2028, but there's no Samus Aran anywhere...

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Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out

"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in," admitted the streaming site's chief product officer during a livestream...

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Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A 'sci-fi horror' collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg PCGamer ⚡ 21h ago

Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A 'sci-fi horror' collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg

Precognition promises to "follow in the footsteps of Immorality" with a tale of visions of the future, and why they're not always great....

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Immortality creator Sam Barlow's new video-scouring game is sci-fi horror Precognition, a collab with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, in which you see and change the future Eurogamer ⚡ 21h ago

Immortality creator Sam Barlow's new video-scouring game is sci-fi horror Precognition, a collab with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, in which you see and change the future

The new game from Her Story and Immortality maker Sam Barlow - and his studio Half Mermaid - has a name: it's called Precognition. It's a sc...

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Immortality developer Sam Barlow reveals Precognition, a sci-fi horror collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg about RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 21h ago

Immortality developer Sam Barlow reveals Precognition, a sci-fi horror collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg about "really terrible things that are just around the corner"

Immortality and Her Story developer Sam Barlow has announced Precognition, a new sci-fi horror game in development at Half Mermaid Productio...

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The Rumored New James Bond Could Be An Actor From Battlefield 1 GameSpot ⚡ 21h ago

The Rumored New James Bond Could Be An Actor From Battlefield 1

Rumors continue to swirl about who may play the British super-spy James Bond in the next movie. The latest name in the mix is Jack Lowden, t...

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New Bully-Like Agefield High Isn’t Having The Best First Day Of School GameSpot ⚡ 21h ago

New Bully-Like Agefield High Isn’t Having The Best First Day Of School

After a story trailer got Bully fans excited for the spiritual successor Agefield High: Rock The School last year, the game has officially r...

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Phantom Blade Zero Pre-Orders Are Entirely Digital, Prompting Concern That It’s Not Getting A Physical Release Kotaku ⚡ 22h ago

Phantom Blade Zero Pre-Orders Are Entirely Digital, Prompting Concern That It’s Not Getting A Physical Release

Pre-orders for S-Games Phantom Blade Zero went live last night, but a physical version of the pre-order is nowhere to be found...

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CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team 'to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development' PCGamer ⚡ 22h ago

CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team 'to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development'

18 people have been taken off the still-unrevealed Witcher spinoff Project Sirius, which isn't a huge number but does represent a significan...

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Helldivers 2 NPCs Will Hug You Back Now, Even When No One Else Will GameSpot ⚡ 22h ago

Helldivers 2 NPCs Will Hug You Back Now, Even When No One Else Will

Helldivers 2's massive 7.0 update, Devoid of Liberty, is live now, and it brings some huge changes to the game's loveable SEAF soldiers. The...

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: The Kotaku Review Kotaku ⚡ 22h ago

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: The Kotaku Review

The boys over at Rockstar Games have made another massive masterpiece...

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Someone Just Maxed Out Their Fishing In Old School RuneScape Using Only The Starter Net: ‘Nothing Matters’ Kotaku ⚡ 22h ago

Someone Just Maxed Out Their Fishing In Old School RuneScape Using Only The Starter Net: ‘Nothing Matters’

'I will miss catching those lil water bugs'...

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Ryan Hurst Posts A Much Better Picture Of Himself As Kratos And Damn, Amazon Should Have Let Him Cook Kotaku ⚡ 22h ago

Ryan Hurst Posts A Much Better Picture Of Himself As Kratos And Damn, Amazon Should Have Let Him Cook

The photo posted to his Instagram story is a far better version of the actor as Kratos than what Amazon posted earlier this year...

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I Need Every Overwatch Player To Change This Setting Immediately Kotaku ⚡ 23h ago

I Need Every Overwatch Player To Change This Setting Immediately

We’ve been doing just fine for three years, there’s no need for you stop trusting Lifeweaver mains now...

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Amazon Will Soon Be Out Of The MMO Business Entirely GameSpot ⚡ 23h ago

Amazon Will Soon Be Out Of The MMO Business Entirely

Amazon Game Studios looks to be getting out of the MMO business entirely, handing Western operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark back...

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Here’s What The Genma Are Up To This Time In Onimusha: Way Of The Sword GameInformer ⚡ 23h ago

Here’s What The Genma Are Up To This Time In Onimusha: Way Of The Sword

After a 20-year hiatus, Capcom’s samurai action series Onimusha is back. Well, almost – the next installment, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, la...

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Subnautica 2 now has a beta update branch, letting players try out patches before they're finished, but beware, your saves won't carry over RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 23h ago

Subnautica 2 now has a beta update branch, letting players try out patches before they're finished, but beware, your saves won't carry over

Ocean survival sim Subnautica 2 now has an experimental beta branch on Steam, allowing the intrepid PC owner to test out updates before they...

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God Of War’s Christopher Judge Is Tired Of Video Game TV Adaptations Ignoring Game Creators GameSpot ⚡ 1d ago

God Of War’s Christopher Judge Is Tired Of Video Game TV Adaptations Ignoring Game Creators

The live-action adaptation of God of War is on the way, but the voice of the iconic god-killer Kratos, Christopher Judge, has a bone to pick...

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Damn, The PS Plus Game Catalog Is Having One Of Its Best Months In A Long Time Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Damn, The PS Plus Game Catalog Is Having One Of Its Best Months In A Long Time

Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come, Metro Exodus, Onimusha and more are coming to Sony's subscription service in August...

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New Phantom Blade Zero Trailer Reveals Donnie Yen And An Upcoming State of Play GameInformer ⚡ 1d ago

New Phantom Blade Zero Trailer Reveals Donnie Yen And An Upcoming State of Play

Yesterday, Phantom Blade Zero developer S-Game released a new look at its upcoming high-speed action game. At 11 minutes long, it's packed t...

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It looks like Windows updates might actually be speeding up the OS now PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

It looks like Windows updates might actually be speeding up the OS now

Less AI, more performance improvements: I'm here for it....

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One Of This Year’s Biggest Games Is Coming To Switch 2 Next Year GameSpot ⚡ 1d ago

One Of This Year’s Biggest Games Is Coming To Switch 2 Next Year

Pearl Abyss has announced that Crimson Desert is planned to come out on Switch 2 in 2027. In fact, the developer behind the huge hit--which ...

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Dawn of War 4 gets a release date delay to Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

Dawn of War 4 gets a release date delay to "further refine the experience ahead of launch"

Dawn of War 4 has been delayed to the tail-end of this year, so the developers at King Art games can "further refine the experience ahead of...

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Mysterious Witcher Game Project Sirius Undergoes More Changes – Report GameSpot ⚡ 1d ago

Mysterious Witcher Game Project Sirius Undergoes More Changes – Report

Project Sirius, the upcoming The Witcher project rumored to be a multiplayer game, is undergoing its latest chapter of upheaval. According ...

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Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty

Both MMOs will continue to operate, but new publishers are taking over in the West....

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Dawn of War 4 has been delayed: 'We saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've always envisioned' PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Dawn of War 4 has been delayed: 'We saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've always envisioned'

The war has been put on hold until December....

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Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won't all be smooth for players RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 1d ago

Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won't all be smooth for players

Smilegate, the developer of South Korean MMO Lost Ark will be taking control of the Western servers that were previously run by Amazon Game ...

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The Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

The "untranslatable" book that inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been translated, and you can buy it later this year

The first ever English translation of Alain Damasio’s Horde of the Counterwind (or, to give the book its original name La Horde du Contreven...

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Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic

Big GPU, little machine....

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