The EU's new Nintendo Switch 2 model teardown confirms smaller battery, slightly heavier console Eurogamer ⚡ 20m ago

The EU's new Nintendo Switch 2 model teardown confirms smaller battery, slightly heavier console

The updated Nintendo Switch 2 model has started shipping, and players are taking it apart to see how it differs from the launch model. In ca...

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Xbox says Forza Horizon 6 is still coming to PS5 this year, as it prepares the game’s next major update VGC ⚡ 46m ago

Xbox says Forza Horizon 6 is still coming to PS5 this year, as it prepares the game’s next major update

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Child of Eden producer’s former PSVR exclusive Jupiter & Mars is coming to Nintendo Switch VGC ⚡ 51m ago

Child of Eden producer’s former PSVR exclusive Jupiter & Mars is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Street Fighter 6 gets a new gameplay trailer for Arjun, a new Indian brawler with a love for Bollywood Eurogamer ⚡ 56m ago

Street Fighter 6 gets a new gameplay trailer for Arjun, a new Indian brawler with a love for Bollywood

Capcom has released a gameplay trailer for its next DLC character: Arjun. An Indian fighter and framed policeman on the run, he'll be coming...

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Forza Horizon 6 has not been delayed on PS5, developer confirms - but still won't say when it's coming out Eurogamer ⚡ 1h ago

Forza Horizon 6 has not been delayed on PS5, developer confirms - but still won't say when it's coming out

Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games has shot down rumours the game's anticipated PlayStation 5 version had been delayed. The confirma...

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Tom Hiddleston's Return to Streaming Has Officially Been Confirmed Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

Tom Hiddleston's Return to Streaming Has Officially Been Confirmed

Loki star Tom Hiddleston's new movie, Tenzing, will arrive on Apple TV on October 16. It's about the first expedition to top Mt. Everest...

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How Grotesqqque Turns One Creator's Unfiltered Imagination Into an Anime Anthology Polygon ⚡ 6h ago

How Grotesqqque Turns One Creator's Unfiltered Imagination Into an Anime Anthology

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The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct: Start Time, How To Watch, And What To Expect GameSpot ⚡ 7h ago

The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct: Start Time, How To Watch, And What To Expect

Can you believe that The Legend of Zelda franchise turned 40 this year? It's true, and it's the main focus of today's new Nintendo Direct. T...

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Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Gets Early Australia Nintendo Store Listing Pointing To A Possible $60 Digital Price Kotaku ⚡ 7h ago

Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Gets Early Australia Nintendo Store Listing Pointing To A Possible $60 Digital Price

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Persona 1 and 2 remakes are something Atlus will 'probably eventually do', which is great, but the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games are sitting right there PCGamer ⚡ 8h ago

Persona 1 and 2 remakes are something Atlus will 'probably eventually do', which is great, but the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games are sitting right there

Prioritize what I in particular want first, please Atlus....

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10 Biggest Most Important Anime Releases of Fall 2026 Polygon ⚡ 8h ago

10 Biggest Most Important Anime Releases of Fall 2026

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Pokémon TCG Destined Rivals ETB in Stock at Amazon and Under Market Price IGN ⚡ 8h ago

Pokémon TCG Destined Rivals ETB in Stock at Amazon and Under Market Price

Amazon has restocked the rare Pokémon TCG Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box for under market price....

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Levelling Up with LG: How 5K is Changing the Gaming Monitor in 2026 IGN ⚡ 9h ago

Levelling Up with LG: How 5K is Changing the Gaming Monitor in 2026

Levelling Up with LG: How 5K is Changing the Gaming Monitor in 2026...

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Next Hunger Games Movie 'Sunrise' Confirms Switching Genres in 'Return to Form' Polygon ⚡ 10h ago

Next Hunger Games Movie 'Sunrise' Confirms Switching Genres in 'Return to Form'

Director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson explain how the new sequel throws back to Catching Fire...

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Fortnite Officially Bringing Mega Man to the Island with Tournament and Skins Polygon ⚡ 10h ago

Fortnite Officially Bringing Mega Man to the Island with Tournament and Skins

Fortnite has announced the Mega Man Cup that allows players to unlock free cosmetics, and in doing so, it has revealed the collab's upcoming...

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The Legend of Zelda's Best Amiibo Finally Arrives This Month Polygon ⚡ 10h ago

The Legend of Zelda's Best Amiibo Finally Arrives This Month

Nintendo's new amiibo for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom based on Mineru's Construct arrives on Sept. 18, 3 years after TOTK's re...

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NHL 27 Is Using AI-Generated Voiceover for In-Game Commentators, John Buccigross Says IGN ⚡ 11h ago

NHL 27 Is Using AI-Generated Voiceover for In-Game Commentators, John Buccigross Says

EA Sports is using generative AI to create voiceover for its in-game commentators in NHL 27, according to veteran sports commentator John Bu...

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Final Fantasy Resonance Mod Brings Back Classic FF Character Ariana Grande IGN ⚡ 11h ago

Final Fantasy Resonance Mod Brings Back Classic FF Character Ariana Grande

If you were upset to hear that pop star Ariana Grande wouldn't return in Final Fantasy Resonance, a new mod is here to save the day....

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Radical Dreamers Is A Short But Fun Reunion With Chrono Characters Kotaku ⚡ 11h ago

Radical Dreamers Is A Short But Fun Reunion With Chrono Characters

The visual novel offered satisfying connective tissue between two beloved games...

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Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions Super-Premium Collection Restocked at Amazon IGN ⚡ 11h ago

Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions Super-Premium Collection Restocked at Amazon

Amazon has restocked the rare Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions Super-Premium Collection featuring 15 booster packs and promo cards....

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Sebastian Stan Half-Jokingly Pitched a 'Sicario-esque' Bucky Barnes Movie to MCU Boss Kevin Feige IGN ⚡ 12h ago

Sebastian Stan Half-Jokingly Pitched a 'Sicario-esque' Bucky Barnes Movie to MCU Boss Kevin Feige

The Winter Soldier himself, Sebastian Stan, recently pitched a "Sicario-esque" Bucky Barnes movie to Marvel Studios leadership....

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How Ys VIII’s Unique Take On The Apocalypse Made It So Compelling Kotaku ⚡ 12h ago

How Ys VIII’s Unique Take On The Apocalypse Made It So Compelling

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Where to Play Every Grand Theft Auto Game in 2026 Polygon ⚡ 12h ago

Where to Play Every Grand Theft Auto Game in 2026

Rockstar Games GTA might be the most popular game franchise of all time, but a lot of it is hard to play. Here's a guide on how to play ever...

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The New LEGO Shrek Minifigures Are Already on Sale at Amazon for Labor Day IGN ⚡ 12h ago

The New LEGO Shrek Minifigures Are Already on Sale at Amazon for Labor Day

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Magic: The Gathering's Hobbit Gift Bundles Are Back In Stock at Amazon IGN ⚡ 13h ago

Magic: The Gathering's Hobbit Gift Bundles Are Back In Stock at Amazon

Save almost 20% and get a Collector Booster included with 9 Play Boosters, too....

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World End Syndrome Has A Fascinating Story If You Can Get Past Its Frustrating Game Mechanics Kotaku ⚡ 13h ago

World End Syndrome Has A Fascinating Story If You Can Get Past Its Frustrating Game Mechanics

A powerful narrative marred by some odd game mechanics....

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Cemetery Boys Sequel Reveals a Critical Role Connection New Reveal Polygon ⚡ 13h ago

Cemetery Boys Sequel Reveals a Critical Role Connection New Reveal

Aiden Thomas's supernatural romance is here. Celebrate by listening to an audiobook excerpt from Critical Role's Vico Ortiz....

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Forza Horizon 6's PS5 Version Still on Track for 2026 Release, Playground Says IGN ⚡ 14h ago

Forza Horizon 6's PS5 Version Still on Track for 2026 Release, Playground Says

Forza Horizon 6 is still planned to launch on PS5 this year, despite not having a firm release date yet....

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GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF PCGamer ⚡ 14h ago

GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF

There are reportedly four main states, Professional, Aggressive, Violent, and Psycho, plus a hard-to-reach state you can't come back from....

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Is GTA 6 Too Realistic for Its Own Good? Refueling Cars and Gun Restrictions Spark Debate IGN ⚡ 14h ago

Is GTA 6 Too Realistic for Its Own Good? Refueling Cars and Gun Restrictions Spark Debate

Early Grand Theft Auto 6 details have sparked debate about whether Rockstar Games' latest is too realistic for its own good....

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Persona 1 and 2 remakes are Eurogamer ⚡ 14h ago

Persona 1 and 2 remakes are "something we'll probably eventually do," series producer says

With Persona 3 Reload out the door and Persona 4 Revival next in line, series producer Kazuhisa Wada has said remakes of the first two games...

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The History of Ultima VII, One Of The Greatest RPGs Ever Made Kotaku ⚡ 14h ago

The History of Ultima VII, One Of The Greatest RPGs Ever Made

Exploring the history and legacy of Ultima VII: The Black Gate....

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Lovecraft Horror Meets Snowpiercer in One of 2026’s Biggest Hidden Gems Polygon ⚡ 14h ago

Lovecraft Horror Meets Snowpiercer in One of 2026’s Biggest Hidden Gems

Dreadline Express is a psychological horror adventure game about unravelling the mysteries of the last human train....

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Final Fantasy Resonance modders have already reinstated the original mobile game's biggest icon, Ariana Grande Eurogamer ⚡ 15h ago

Final Fantasy Resonance modders have already reinstated the original mobile game's biggest icon, Ariana Grande

Final Fantasy Resonance doesn't launch in full until next month, but modders are already using its new demo to reinstate the series' most ic...

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Playing Wind Waker With My Daughter Helped Me To See The Game In A Whole New Light Kotaku ⚡ 15h ago

Playing Wind Waker With My Daughter Helped Me To See The Game In A Whole New Light

The incredible art made Wind Waker feel like playing a cartoon...

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GTA 6 Will Launch Digitally at Midnight Around the World, So Of Course Fans Are Already Planning to Set Their Console Locations to New Zealand IGN ⚡ 15h ago

GTA 6 Will Launch Digitally at Midnight Around the World, So Of Course Fans Are Already Planning to Set Their Console Locations to New Zealand

Rockstar will launch Grand Theft Auto 6 at midnight local time in most countries on November 19 — meaning some fans are already planning to ...

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10 Best New TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2026 Polygon ⚡ 15h ago

10 Best New TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2026

For fall 2026, highly anticipated releases include Carrie, VisionQuest, South Park, Harry Potter, Scrubs, Crystal Lake, Blade Runner 2099 an...

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Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day PCGamer ⚡ 16h ago

Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day

Onimusha: Way of the Sword's launch day success has propelled the series to 10 million lifetime sales, says Capcom....

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Two years after its rocky launch, Civilization 7's first paid expansion Earthrise is on its way - but first comes the atomic age Eurogamer ⚡ 16h ago

Two years after its rocky launch, Civilization 7's first paid expansion Earthrise is on its way - but first comes the atomic age

It's been a bumpy ride for Civilization 7, but two years after its widely criticised launch - and as the legendary 4X series celebrates its ...

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New Super Smash Bros and Nintendogs games are on the way, according to prominent Nintendo leaker Eurogamer ⚡ 16h ago

New Super Smash Bros and Nintendogs games are on the way, according to prominent Nintendo leaker

A prominent Nintendo leaker has spilled even more information about the console maker's potential plans, which include the long-awaited retu...

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Introducing the VGC Live in Glasgow 2026 poster, available for pre-order now VGC ⚡ 16h ago

Introducing the VGC Live in Glasgow 2026 poster, available for pre-order now

VGC's first live show is only a month away...

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Suikoden 3 Has One Of The Best Stories in the Series Kotaku ⚡ 16h ago

Suikoden 3 Has One Of The Best Stories in the Series

Suikoden 3 has one of the best instances I’ve seen of branching narratives...

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Practical Magic 2 First Look: A New Generation of Witches Emerges Polygon ⚡ 16h ago

Practical Magic 2 First Look: A New Generation of Witches Emerges

Check out this exclusive image of Practical Magic 2, showing some of the new characters that are introduced to the franchise....

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Walmart’s Bricktember Sale Includes the LEGO Mario Kart Luigi & Mach 8 Set at Its Lowest Price Yet IGN ⚡ 16h ago

Walmart’s Bricktember Sale Includes the LEGO Mario Kart Luigi & Mach 8 Set at Its Lowest Price Yet

LEGO’s Mario Kart Luigi & Mach 8 set has hit its lowest price yet at Walmart during its Bricktember sale event, with the retailer knocking $...

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OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it PCGamer ⚡ 16h ago

OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it

Back on track?...

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The Secretlab Labor Day Sale Has Big Discounts on Its Titan Gaming Chairs Including the Nanogen Edition IGN ⚡ 17h ago

The Secretlab Labor Day Sale Has Big Discounts on Its Titan Gaming Chairs Including the Nanogen Edition

The Secretlab Titan Evo is our top gaming chair pick for 2026....

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Patrice Désilets vows to make a sequel to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Eurogamer ⚡ 17h ago

Patrice Désilets vows to make a sequel to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Patrice Désilets, the creator of the Assassin's Creed series and director of 1666: Amsterdam, has said he will make a sequel to open-world h...

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New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied digging RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 17h ago

New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied digging

"Never show the monster," horror film-makers, game-makers and other creepozoids have chanted, over the decades. The Well Is Not Empty wastes...

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Blood of Dawnwalker: Leave the Valley ending, A Hero They Deserve trophy guide VGC ⚡ 17h ago

Blood of Dawnwalker: Leave the Valley ending, A Hero They Deserve trophy guide

How to get the leave the valley secret ending and trophy in The Blood of Dawnwalker...

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The Story Behind Silent Hill: Downpour And Its Haunting Take On Psychological Horror Kotaku ⚡ 17h ago

The Story Behind Silent Hill: Downpour And Its Haunting Take On Psychological Horror

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Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die' PCGamer ⚡ 17h ago

Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die'

Things are still chugging along over there, it seems....

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Alienware Just Released the World's First 39 IGN ⚡ 17h ago

Alienware Just Released the World's First 39" 5K Monitor With RGB Stripe Tandem OLED Technology

The best monitor for both gaming and workstation productivity is now shipping....

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Flexispot's Labor Day Sale Takes Up to 65% Off Office Furniture, Including Our Favorite Standing Desk of 2026 IGN ⚡ 17h ago

Flexispot's Labor Day Sale Takes Up to 65% Off Office Furniture, Including Our Favorite Standing Desk of 2026

Flexispot is best known for its standing desks and ergo chairs, but the brand has since expanded to home furniture....

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Get 6.6ft 240W USB Type-C Cables for Less Than $3 Apiece IGN ⚡ 17h ago

Get 6.6ft 240W USB Type-C Cables for Less Than $3 Apiece

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Get a Brand New 27 IGN ⚡ 17h ago

Get a Brand New 27" Samsung Odyssey OLED G5 Gaming Monitor for Just $269 With Free Shipping

The lowest price right now for an OLED gaming monitor....

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Get Two Months of the Paramount+ Premium (Ad-Free) Subscription for Just $1 Per Month IGN ⚡ 17h ago

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

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Save $400 Off the Asus ROG Flow Z13 Convertible, the Only Decent Gaming Laptop Deal for Labor Day IGN ⚡ 17h ago

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This 2.56 pound convertible is more powerful than the Xbox Ally X20....

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The Amazon Labor Day Sale Has Great Deals on Budget-Friendly Workout Machines IGN ⚡ 17h ago

The Amazon Labor Day Sale Has Great Deals on Budget-Friendly Workout Machines

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Blood of Dawnwalker: Fishmonger location, Selfish trophy guide VGC ⚡ 18h ago

Blood of Dawnwalker: Fishmonger location, Selfish trophy guide

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Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online PCGamer ⚡ 18h ago

Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

That's a whole lot of compute, and apparently a big chunk of that went into 'safety and alignment'...

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Blood of Dawnwalker: Give the Font of Life to Coen, Anca, or destroy it? VGC ⚡ 18h ago

Blood of Dawnwalker: Give the Font of Life to Coen, Anca, or destroy it?

All rewards and penalties for choosing the Font of Life recipient in The Blood of Dawnwalker...

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Scuf Omega review PCGamer ⚡ 18h ago

Scuf Omega review

Closer to an Alpha or Beta than an Omega....

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Solaris in Xenogears Is A Disturbing But Fascinating Journey Into Human Nature Kotaku ⚡ 18h ago

Solaris in Xenogears Is A Disturbing But Fascinating Journey Into Human Nature

Xenogears has one of the most ambitious and complex narratives ever told...

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The Tetris Company condemns the White House’s ‘Build the Wall’ game, says it’s against dividing people VGC ⚡ 18h ago

The Tetris Company condemns the White House’s ‘Build the Wall’ game, says it’s against dividing people

"We take copyright infringement very seriously," the company says...

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Blood of Dawnwalker: Craft the Arbiter Armor, A Bulwark Against Darkness quest guide VGC ⚡ 19h ago

Blood of Dawnwalker: Craft the Arbiter Armor, A Bulwark Against Darkness quest guide

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Dawn Of Sorrow’s Tactical Soul System Made It One Of The Best Castlevania Games Kotaku ⚡ 19h ago

Dawn Of Sorrow’s Tactical Soul System Made It One Of The Best Castlevania Games

The tactical soul system empowered gamers with an overwhelming number of play styles...

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Big Rumors Are Circulating Ahead Of The September 2026 Nintendo Direct And A New Leaker Just Nuked Their YouTube Comments Kotaku ⚡ 20h ago

Big Rumors Are Circulating Ahead Of The September 2026 Nintendo Direct And A New Leaker Just Nuked Their YouTube Comments

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Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything' PCGamer ⚡ 20h ago

Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'

The tag fighter failed to capture newbies and veterans alike....

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Xbox tells existing Game Pass members its new cloud gaming cap doesn’t apply to them, but only in certain countries VGC ⚡ 20h ago

Xbox tells existing Game Pass members its new cloud gaming cap doesn’t apply to them, but only in certain countries

Xbox is limiting cloud gaming to 15 hours per month on Game Pass Ultimate...

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Valve has reportedly made £11bn from Steam already in 2026, and biggest earning new arrival is Forza Horizon 6 Eurogamer ⚡ 20h ago

Valve has reportedly made £11bn from Steam already in 2026, and biggest earning new arrival is Forza Horizon 6

If you're Valve, 2026 has been a good year for the bank account, all thanks to the money Steam makes. According to new analysis, the PC stor...

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Blood of Dawnwalker: All Sanzhani quests, locations, and rewards VGC ⚡ 20h ago

Blood of Dawnwalker: All Sanzhani quests, locations, and rewards

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Sony Is Reportedly Bringing Killzone Back Over A Decade Later Kotaku ⚡ 20h ago

Sony Is Reportedly Bringing Killzone Back Over A Decade Later

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Eurogamer ⚡ 21h ago

"This is super, super heavy" - Experts test Nvidia's divisive graphics-altering DLSS 5 tech and find it really does tank your game's frame-rate

Nvidia's gen-AI-powered, graphics-changing DLSS 5 tech has been tested and it really does take a heavy toll on a game's frame-rate. There wa...

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This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R. RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 21h ago

This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R.

Hello there, loyal regulars and filthy, fickle drop-ins! A merry New Week to you, wherever you are. Thanks for feeding the Maw while we were...

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Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving PCGamer ⚡ 21h ago

Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving

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Don't count on the rumoured StarCraft game being a Destiny-like, says Jason Schreier Eurogamer ⚡ 21h ago

Don't count on the rumoured StarCraft game being a Destiny-like, says Jason Schreier

The rumblings about the next StarCraft game continue to get louder. Following recent reports that Korean developer-publisher Nexon had acqui...

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New DLSS 5 mod offloads Neural Rendering to a second card massively cutting the AI filter's performance hit PCGamer ⚡ 21h ago

New DLSS 5 mod offloads Neural Rendering to a second card massively cutting the AI filter's performance hit

DLSS Neural Rendering is being developed hard in the modding community....

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Saber CCO says there’s ‘absolutely no’ GenAI in its licensed games including Space Marine 3, Hellraiser and Jurassic Park Survival VGC ⚡ 21h ago

Saber CCO says there’s ‘absolutely no’ GenAI in its licensed games including Space Marine 3, Hellraiser and Jurassic Park Survival

Tim Willits says the AI being used in Rideshare Stimulator is an experiment to "see if it works"...

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As the western games industry struggles, China's games industry is booming, a new report shows Eurogamer ⚡ 22h ago

As the western games industry struggles, China's games industry is booming, a new report shows

As the western video games industry continues to struggle, the Chinese industry appears to be booming, revealing a worth of more than $50bn ...

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Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else PCGamer ⚡ 22h ago

Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else

They didn't even have boxed GPUs at the event this time....

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RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 22h ago

"We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris Company

Those terrible firebrands at the Tetris Company have publicly rebuked the US government for publishing a Tetris parody game that promotes th...

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Pokémon Champions’ director vows to keep turn-based battles as single-player is ruled out VGC ⚡ 22h ago

Pokémon Champions’ director vows to keep turn-based battles as single-player is ruled out

Masaaki Hoshino reflects on Champions' launch and discusses the future of competitive Pokémon...

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword has already sold over 1 million copies Eurogamer ⚡ 23h ago

Onimusha: Way of the Sword has already sold over 1 million copies

If you were hoping Onimusha: Way of the Sword would revive the dormant series, you may get your wish. Capcom today announced the latest inst...

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RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 1d ago

"You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization 7's Arc of Tomorrow update aims to be a proper Cold War simulator

Civilization 7 is getting a new free update that takes the 4X strategy game into the atomic age, while trying to make nuclear era conflict a...

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Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

"Many a brave knight are going to die" - Riot Games head Marc Merrill speaks on in-development MMO after 2XKO's untimely demise

Marc Merrill - one of the co-founders of Riot Games and its current CPO - has spoken about the in-development MMO, describing it as "the gra...

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The Blood of Dawnwalker's most popular mod right now nullifies its main hook Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

The Blood of Dawnwalker's most popular mod right now nullifies its main hook

It may not surprise you to learn that The Blood of Dawnwalker's most contentious mechanic can already be removed. If you're unfamiliar, the ...

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Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar

All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending September 6....

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'If you're designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:' The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

'If you're designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:' The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff

Consulting the foundational texts....

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The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House's racist rip-off: 'we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them' PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House's racist rip-off: 'we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them'

Also, "We take copyright infringement very seriously."...

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A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser

I just think it's neat....

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Former Capcom Employee Says Western Studios Spend Too Much Time On Jira Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Former Capcom Employee Says Western Studios Spend Too Much Time On Jira

In a comprehensive breakdown of Capcom’s new golden age, one former staffer says their micromanaging competition might be missing the forest...

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18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first custom map, MGS3's Groznyj Grad PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first custom map, MGS3's Groznyj Grad

Groznyj Grad? The mountain redoubt of GRU Colonel Volgin?...

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Kalshi Prematurely Pays Out Millions In Wagers For Losing College Football Team Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Kalshi Prematurely Pays Out Millions In Wagers For Losing College Football Team

The legal standings of speculation markets only gets dumber as Kalshi accidentally made the wrong call in the very state it's being sued by...

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The Blood of Dawnwalker sold 1 million copies in just 3 days PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

The Blood of Dawnwalker sold 1 million copies in just 3 days

None too shabby....

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'There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3' promises Saber Interactive executive PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

'There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3' promises Saber Interactive executive

The Machine Spirits lie silent....

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Buddy The Unicorn Kicked Out Of Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Buddy The Unicorn Kicked Out Of Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights

The theme park’s increasingly popular Halloween season continues to amass more and more movie maniacs, assuming they’re invited...

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Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: 'Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?' PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: 'Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?'

"I mean, it's funny, but why not?"...

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Devs Don’t Want The Ending ‘Explained To You By Someone Else’ Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Devs Don’t Want The Ending ‘Explained To You By Someone Else’

No spoilers, please...

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Marvel’s Wolverine Ending Leaks Online In Final Stretch Ahead Of Launch Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Marvel’s Wolverine Ending Leaks Online In Final Stretch Ahead Of Launch

The embattled X-Man began with leaked footage in 2023 and it seems PlayStation's biggest exclusive of the year will have to weather one last...

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Do you ever listen to videogame music in your day-to-day life? PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Do you ever listen to videogame music in your day-to-day life?

Or should videogame music stay *inside* the game?...

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GSC Game World says there's a reason it didn't give Stalker 2 more time in the oven: 'To make something better, you need to receive feedback, and this feedback should be fresh' PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

GSC Game World says there's a reason it didn't give Stalker 2 more time in the oven: 'To make something better, you need to receive feedback, and this feedback should be fresh'

"Every developer would like to have an infinite amount of time, but … the market state is not very promising."...

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Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger Feels Like He’s Been On An ‘Apology Tour,’ But The Movie Will ‘Speak For Itself’ Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger Feels Like He’s Been On An ‘Apology Tour,’ But The Movie Will ‘Speak For Itself’

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The Halloween game has a sex minigame in it, except no it doesn't, because it was apparently removed PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

The Halloween game has a sex minigame in it, except no it doesn't, because it was apparently removed

Some perverse pairings may be the culprit....

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Civilization 7’s Biggest Free Update Yet Will Finally Take It To The Atomic Age Over Two Years Later Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Civilization 7’s Biggest Free Update Yet Will Finally Take It To The Atomic Age Over Two Years Later

Arc of Tomorrow will arrive in 2027...

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Saber Interactive CCO says studio won't change its comms strategy after AI writer controversy Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

Saber Interactive CCO says studio won't change its comms strategy after AI writer controversy

Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits has confirmed the company has not revised its communications strategy despite its CEO telling the press th...

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Halloween: The Game Devs Seemingly Patch Out Sex Mini-Game In Emergency Pre-Release Fix Kotaku ⚡ 1d ago

Halloween: The Game Devs Seemingly Patch Out Sex Mini-Game In Emergency Pre-Release Fix

Halloween: The Game's sex minigame has been swiftly removed in under 24 hours, after players realised that a character with the likeness of ...

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Double Fine's first game since leaving Xbox is a comedy bus-driving sim called Thank You Bus Driver Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

Double Fine's first game since leaving Xbox is a comedy bus-driving sim called Thank You Bus Driver

Double Fine's first game in its new post-Xbox era is Thank You Bus Driver. Read more...

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword proves the parry formula is far from stale, you just need to get freaky with it PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Onimusha: Way of the Sword proves the parry formula is far from stale, you just need to get freaky with it

Parry fatigue? Not me....

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I never thought a fishing sim could be this fun, but How to Fish proves me wrong with its ridiculous physics, killer spider crabs, and classic co-op chaos PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

I never thought a fishing sim could be this fun, but How to Fish proves me wrong with its ridiculous physics, killer spider crabs, and classic co-op chaos

I now know How to Fish, kinda....

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Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work

Playing the demo for Deficit was far from a net loss....

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Valve staged its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

Valve staged its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer "leak" to get around an ESRB ban, says former writer

Valve itself "leaked" the 2009 Left 4 Dead 2 trailer. Read more...

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Here's 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year's Opening Night Live PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Here's 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year's Opening Night Live

Rat's entertainment....

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Dutch artist responds to the White House's Build the Wall game with Build that Bridge Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

Dutch artist responds to the White House's Build the Wall game with Build that Bridge

A Dutch artist has released Build that Bridge, a free browser game built as a direct response to Build the Wall, the Tetris-style minigame t...

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The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold 1 million copies in just 3 days Eurogamer ⚡ 1d ago

The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold 1 million copies in just 3 days

The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold more than a million copies worldwide in just three days. Read more...

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Civilization 7 will finally enter the atomic age in 2027, via a free update Firaxis says will be 'even bigger in scope' than last year's Test of Time PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Civilization 7 will finally enter the atomic age in 2027, via a free update Firaxis says will be 'even bigger in scope' than last year's Test of Time

First expansion "Earthrise" also announced....

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