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Opinion: RPG Storytelling Is Becoming Too Cinematic, and That's Breaking Something Nobody Talks About

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Opinion: Stop Chasing the Next Big Thing—Gaming's Real Problem Is Confusion, Not Innovation

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Opinion: The D&D Crossover Boom Is Really About Gaming's Identity Crisis

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Opinion: The Crossover Craze Is Gaming's Biggest Mess. Here's How To Fix It.

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Opinion: The Steam Janky Sim Flood Isn't a Bug in Game Reviewing, It's the Feature We Deserve

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Midnight Moments is a cyberpunk diorama builder for the neon sign and drizzly rain lovers

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Rideshare "Stimulator" is an Uber driver sim set in a city full of weirdos that I'm hoping is satirical enough to pull the concept off

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Machine Party, out now, is masochistic Mario Party from the dev that brought you Buckshot Roulette

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds revamps the agility skill and gives you Wipeout style courses to test your mettle on

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Thimbleweed Park 2 is "not really a sequel, not really a prequel," but it is in development and due out in 2028

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Lego Astro Bot And PlayStation Sets Are Rumored And People Are Already Dunking On Them: ‘So Is There A Physical Set Or Is It Just A Download Code In The Box?’

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Super Mario Sunshine Is Coming To Switch 2

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Sony Says Don’t Panic, It Has Enough RAM For All The PS5s It Plans To Sell This Year With The Launch Of GTA 6

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Xbox CEO Lays Out Post-Layoff Priorities For Ambitious Growth After A Terrible Year

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Microsoft Adds ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button To LinkedIn After Just Spending $41 Billion On AI

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EA Says Saudi Takeover Deal Is Set To Close Next Week

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Square Enix Insists That Cursed Kingdom Hearts Art Was Not AI-Generated

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Diablo 4 Will Finally Let You Play The Same Character Each Season

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Diablo 4 Season 15 Is Adding Stone Of Jordan And Other Iconic Items From Diablo’s Past

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Bethesda’s New Logo Looks Like It Actually Belongs To A Video Game Company

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The voice of Lady D and Orin the Red will be back for the next D&D videogame

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Dark Sun, D&D's most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027

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The mod we called 'the best Fallout game you'll play this year' back in 2018 just launched on GOG

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The rumors were true, Dungeons & Dragons' first 'Universes Beyond' crossover will be with World of Warcraft

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Saudi Arabia's $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts will happen next week

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Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader on Switch 2 is finally working after months of chaos

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Pokémon TCG Pocket's brand-new update is a reminder that Ruby and Sapphire had the best legendaries

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A24's Elden Ring movie wraps filming, report says

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How to get Spider-Man's web shooters in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is such a success it’s giving Assassin’s Creed a major boost

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Opinion: The Race to the Bottom on Hardware Losses Is a Con That Only Publishers Win

Yesterday

Opinion: Mobile Gaming's Comfort Trap Is Killing Innovation at the Genre's Core

Yesterday

Opinion: Esports' Biggest Problem Isn't Viewership—It's That Nobody Wants to Watch the Same Game Twice

Yesterday

Opinion: We've Stopped Asking If Game Reviews Matter. That's the Real Problem.

Yesterday

Opinion: Everyone's Obsessed With Retro Ports, But We're Missing Why They Actually Matter

Yesterday

Roguelite strategy spinoff Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand breathes fresh life into some of the series' oldest features

Yesterday

Stealth and armour placement rule supreme in Tyr, the new tank shooter from former Destiny and Valorant devs, with a public playtest now live

Yesterday

"The Case of the Golden Idol-style deduction meets The X-Files": Former BioWare devs unveil supernatural detective game The Eventide

Yesterday

Krafton have big plans for Subnautica, after the second game's once-divisive co-op "confirmed the potential to expand beyond the existing fan base"

Yesterday

Serve refreshments and spot demons in Night Plane, a PSX-style horror job sim about being a flight attendant in 1999

Yesterday

Here’s How Microsoft’s CEO Spoke About Xbox A Year Ago Vs. Now

Yesterday

Here’s Why GTA 6 Fans Are Convinced That After Waiting Over A Year, Trailer 3 Is Coming Soon

Yesterday

Xbox Revenue Dropped $1.7 Billion Last Year

Yesterday

Splatoon Raiders Needs A Retry Button

Yesterday

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Developers Say They Aren’t Nerfing Dragonsplague—Just Making It More Clear

Yesterday

Nexus Mods Wants To Replace Modding Frustration With One-Click Simplicity

Yesterday

Here’s Why Silent Hill: Townfall Is A First-Person Game

Yesterday

BeamNG.drive just had a graphics overhaul so we can finally watch a family hatchback navigate a speedbump at 100mph with dynamic ambient lighting

Yesterday

Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64

Yesterday

An innocent man spent 18 months in prison because police misread his Skyrim user name

Yesterday

Latest Palworld patch keeps Victor & Shadowbeak from accidentally teleporting out of existence, prevents Panthalus from breaking everything

Yesterday

Steam Machine reservation queue should be caught up by the end of 2026, Valve says

Yesterday

Studio Ghibli's worst movie returns to theaters for its 20th anniversary next month

Yesterday

Halo: Campaign Evolved restarts the Xbox vs. PlayStation console war

Yesterday

A Skyrim username mistake sent a man to prison for over a year

Yesterday

Final Fantasy 14 could finally introduce a controversial feature

Yesterday

Anonymous Persona 5 fans send Sony’s CEO a calling card with a clear message: we’re stealing back power for the players

Yesterday

Halo: Campaign Evolved patch notes – July 29 update

Yesterday

The ‘story is far from over’: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers lead set to return and direct a sequel after studio’s collapse

Yesterday

Xbox is reportedly losing money on every console it sells, thanks to AI-powered RAM crisis

Yesterday

Opinion: The PC Hardware Treadmill Is Broken, and Slowing Down Might Actually Fix It

2 days ago

Opinion: Stop Chasing the Algorithm and Start Building Games People Actually Want to Play

2 days ago

Opinion: The Live Service Update Killed Quality Control. We're Only Now Finding Out How Bad It Got.

2 days ago

Opinion: The Great Studio Exodus Isn't a Crisis—It's a Reset

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Opinion: The Release Calendar Is Broken, and Only Honesty Will Fix It

2 days ago

"I genuinely think there's awesome potential": Mike Bithell on his "im-slim" Vampirium: 1997 and the power of quick verbs

2 days ago

After gaining independence from Xbox, Double Fine are laying off a quarter of their staff

2 days ago

Inviting beaches and delightful physics await you in literal sandbox game, Sandcastle

2 days ago

Two years on from taking the role, Wizards of the Coast's president is stepping down

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Mistfall Hunter looks like legally distinct Elden Ring but with a faster paced, extraction spin

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An Ambitious New Stardew Valley Mod Lets You Run A Supermarket With An ‘Overcooked-Style Kitchen’

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HBO Is Getting Down In The Slop With Everyone Else

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Final Fantasy 14′s Next Expansion Will Feature A Crossover With Final Fantasy 7 So Of Course Fans Are Gonna Fight About It

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The Biggest Modding Site Around Wants To Make Installing Mods As Easy As Using Spotify

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Pokopia’s First Major DLC, Bubbly Basin, Is Out Next Week

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A Chance To Get Behind The Wheel Of Crazy Taxi: World Tour Is Coming Soon

2 days ago

GTA Online Players In Australia Can No Longer Gamble With Fake Money

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BioWare Lost The Knowledge Needed To Remaster Dragon Age, Former Producer Says

2 days ago

Capcom Is Having A Great Year, And It Has Franchises New And Old To Thank

2 days ago

A Cyberpunk Spin-Off Brawler Might Be Happening At WayForward – Report

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Speaking of Matt Damon, there's a new survival game out this week on Steam where you're stranded on Mars and have to grow potatoes to survive

2 days ago

Don't let this beautifully-drawn action RPG starring two girls trained in Sekiro-style combat get lost in the sea of new games on Steam

2 days ago

As Destiny 2 is laid to rest, Warframe is experiencing 'massive growth,' studio boss says

2 days ago

'Only the survival of our studio would make us consider such a painful action': Tim Schafer announces Double Fine layoffs just 3 weeks after Xbox cut it loose

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Corsair Cove review

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The Devil’s Mouth review: Prime Video’s killer-shark movie goes deeper than expected

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BG3 third-person camera mod completely changes how you play Baldur's Gate 3

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Double Fine lays off 23 after leaving Xbox Game Studios

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Stardew Valley's influence on cozy games is finally coming to an end

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Sega announces Crazy Taxi World Tour network test dates and signups

2 days ago

Opinion: The "Quirky IP Goes Mobile" Gold Rush Is Being Sold as Inevitable. It Deserves More Skepticism.

3 days ago

Opinion: The Great Expiration Experiment Shows Publishers Are Done Asking Permission

3 days ago

Opinion: The Indie Game Industry's Speed Problem—And Why Slower Might Actually Win

3 days ago

Opinion: The Expansion Model Is Becoming Publishers' Admission That Launch Dates Don't Matter Anymore

3 days ago

Opinion: The 'Post-Specs' Gaming Era Is Being Sold as Inevitable. We Should Question That Narrative.

3 days ago

Overthrow the Kaiser in Red Echoes: Berlin, a Weimar-era turn-based strategy game in the style of Suzerain

3 days ago

That evil Car Park Capital tycoon game is only getting more evil with MicroProse as publisher, but it still looks gorgeous

3 days ago

Dragon Age: Thedas at War is a BioWare RPG-inspired Crusader Kings 3 total conversion mod that's here to keep the series alive while it sits in EA limbo

3 days ago

"I dunno why they chose Crashphalt": forgotten Steam game suddenly becomes a hit after players start using it for Undertale online multiplayer

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STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date

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Ex–Dragon Age Producer Calls EA A ‘Hedge Fund With A Video Game Hobby’

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Marvel Boss Says We’re Only Getting Four Movies In Three Years To ‘Focus On Quality’ Over Quantity

3 days ago

A Pokémon Fan Explains Why He Set Up 58 Consoles Searching For A One-In-Nine-Million Shiny

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Physical Copies Of GTA 6 In Japan Will Expire After A Few Months

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Nolan’s Odyssey Gets Trashed By Translator: ‘There Are No Sex Scenes And All The Food Looks Horrible’

3 days ago

Meccha Chameleon Players Are Getting Malware From User-Made Maps

3 days ago

You Might Need A Face Scan To Buy Pokemon Cards Soon, Thanks To Scalpers

3 days ago

The Best Way To Remake More Final Fantasy Games Is Staring Square Enix In The Face

3 days ago

Stalker 2’s First Major Expansion Arrives Very Soon

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Xbox Network Is Down Right Now, Microsoft Confirms

3 days ago

'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity

3 days ago

EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried

3 days ago

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

3 days ago

Framework 13 Pro review

3 days ago

Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp'

3 days ago

Marvel Phase 7 and 8 movie slate and release dates: X-Men, Ghostrider, Black Panther 3, and beyond

3 days ago

Halo's new Xbox remake is an instant culture war disaster

3 days ago

Splatoon Raiders' Pudyin Den is one of Nintendo's toughest boss fights of all time

3 days ago

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Soul weekend beta was love it or hate it

3 days ago

Final Fantasy 14 fans break down theory on Evercold's second new job

3 days ago

Opinion: The $150 Sports Game Edition Is a Cry for Help, Not a Business Strategy

4 days ago

Opinion: The Game Industry's Obsession With Live Service Economics Is Cannibalizing Its Own Talent

4 days ago

Opinion: The Real Crisis Isn't Failed Live-Service Games—It's That We've Stopped Asking Who Pays For Failure

4 days ago

Opinion: Console Makers Should Stop Chasing the Upgrade Treadmill

4 days ago

Opinion: The Remake Boom Is Already Killing the Games That Deserve Remaking

4 days ago

The Sunday Papers

4 days ago

Blasphemous and Sekiro enjoyers may savour the boss rushing of Rubinite, a dark fantasy action RPG about a red-eyed murder princess

4 days ago

Scarlet Deer Inn, out now, is a Slavic folk tale platformer with a dark underbelly where every sprite is physically embroidered

4 days ago

Darkest Dungeon is getting its first new bit of DLC in six years, borrowing a couple of classes from its sequel

4 days ago

Manor Lords' next beta update adds what all video games are sorely missing: cow breeding

4 days ago

Cyan Worlds Gives A Look At What Could Have Been A New Myst Sequel

4 days ago

Miyamoto Believes Gamers Have Lost Interest In Hardware Specs, And Who Could Blame Them

4 days ago

Pokémon Company Strikes Blow Against Scalpers With Facial Recognition Checks To ‘Prevent Crime’ At Card Stores In Japan

4 days ago

Capcom Says The Goal Of A New Resident Evil Every Year Enables Games Like Pragmata

4 days ago

Big PlayStation Game Sale Is A Perfect Chance To Build Up Your Physical Collection Before Sony Kills Discs

4 days ago

Resident Evil 4 Has Sold More Than Twice As Much As Any Other Current-Gen Remake

4 days ago

Atari Announces 10-Movie Deal With Universal But Don’t Expect Them All To Get Made

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Resident Evil Movie Star Nearly Died During Filming After 150-Pound Blood Bag Almost Hit Him

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EA Sports FC 27 Has A New $150 Edition, Because Ultimate Wasn’t Ultimate Enough

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Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there's no end in sight

4 days ago

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD, which is its real name, is free on Steam for a limited time

4 days ago

One of the best shooters around just got a barely recognizable second episode, and it's only $12

4 days ago

What does GTA Online 2.0 even look like—and, more to the point, what do we even want from Grand Theft Auto 6 multiplayer?

4 days ago

The new 'backward compatible' Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games

4 days ago

Rick and Morty's season 9 finale had to be that brutal, showrunners say

4 days ago

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 6 ending explained: Is [spoilers] dead?

4 days ago

Path of Exile 2 is an intense action RPG that manages to be strangely cozy

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5 classic Apocalypse stories that explain how X-Men '97 season 2 will end

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2 might never get made

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PS5 emulators are making years’ worth of progress each day, as these Minecraft and Demon’s Souls clips show

4 days ago

Opinion: The Live Service Graveyard Should Teach Us That Patience Beats the Launch-and-Pray Mentality

5 days ago

Opinion: Mobile Gaming's Free-to-Play Trap Is Actually a Race to Ownership

5 days ago

Opinion: The Great Update Rollback Is Coming, and Publishers Aren't Ready

5 days ago

Opinion: The 'Esports as Olympic Sport' Dream Deserves Harder Questions Than It Gets

5 days ago

Opinion: The Esports Ecosystem Is Broken, and Prize Pools Won't Fix It

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Commit cinematic sacrilege in Baldur's Gate 3 with this true third-person camera mod

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Ringwyrm might have a nasty sounding name, but its action horror, fantasy Soviet vibes are too compelling to ignore

5 days ago

Thick as Thieves studio does what triple-A won't: keep its game playable

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Sega like physical games too, says their president, but with the shift to digital they're keeping the humble PC in mind

5 days ago

Final Fantasy 14's Evercold expansion brings aboard a Final Fantasy 7 collab and a job that's all about fighting with massive shields

5 days ago

Warren Spector’s Thick As Thieves Ends Support After Two Months

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The Tactical Tank Turns Splatoon Raiders Into Vampire Survivors

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Multiple Meccha Chameleon Steam Workshop Maps Got Infected With Malware And Its Discord Server Was Hacked

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Rare Nintendo Console Discovered Throughout Japanese Love Hotel

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Bethesda Addresses Concerns That The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Be Impacted By Xbox Layoffs And Claims ‘The Roadmap Is Unaffected’

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Kratos’ Next God Of War Game Will Pick Up Where Laufey Leaves Off

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Surprise: God Of War Laufey Has A Release Date, And Its Kratos-Led Sequel Has Been Announced

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GTA 6 Is The First Game I’ve Seen With A Best-Before Date

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Ubisoft Boss Has A Hot Take On Sony Killing Game Discs

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Resident Evil Actor Reveals His Inspirations For Leon Kennedy, And They Aren’t What You Expect

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Steam may be celebrating the railway experience with its Train Fest, but let's remember how rubbish the typical train trip is with some Train Sim World DLC

5 days ago

A crossover between Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft has leaked

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Videogame villains who sing at you are the best

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Games industry analyst says Meccha Chameleon's June revenue on PC was second only to Fortnite

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Final Fantasy 14 has finally added the class I'm always asking for: a Viking with two shields, laser cannons, and Wolverine claws

5 days ago

Star Wars Unlimited is changing forever thanks to this one major card

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Persona 6 fans are already dreading the return of the wacky hot springs scene

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PlayStation Network outages today only exacerbate furor towards the platform

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How to find the Vini Jr. Sprite in Fortnite Chapter 7, season 3

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How to get Cube Sprites in Fortnite Chapter 7, season 3

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Opinion: The Esports Expansion Trap—Why Slower Growth Beats the Gold Rush

6 days ago

Opinion: The All-Digital Future Isn't Coming. The Messy Middle Is.

6 days ago

Opinion: Esports' Prize Pool Problem Is Bigger Than You Think

6 days ago

Opinion: The Permadeath RPG Trend Is Being Sold as Bold. It's Just Punitive.

6 days ago

Opinion: Stop Building Tutorial Games. Players Want One Good Onboarding, Not Five Mediocre Ones.

6 days ago

I enjoy Fallgrade's grainy physics-defying city almost as much as I fear its foggy giant spider

6 days ago

"Let's make a better world": Denshattack's developers on counterculture, biker gangs, and the optimism of fighting a mecha with a train

6 days ago

Kingdom Come Salvation could be Warhorse's next medieval history RPG, if this EU trademark filing turns out to be the genuine article

6 days ago

Sweeping, strafing and suppression: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 threatens to blow up Total War's combat fundamentals

6 days ago

Thwack, the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta is underway, and, pow, Phoenix Cyclops is coming as a post-launch DLC fighter

6 days ago

The Next God Of War Is In Development, Stars Kratos, Will Tie Directly To Laufey

6 days ago

Dataminers Discover Xbox Backward Compatibility On PC Can Run Xbox 360 Games

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It Is Always Morally Correct To Say ‘Booyah’ In Splatoon

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Three Fantastic Games You Can Play For Free This Weekend

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Everything We Know About Grand Theft Auto 6

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Is PSN Down? It Was For Hours Today, But It’s Back Up Now

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Jimothy, The Viral Raccoon, Is Becoming An Earnable WoW Pet

6 days ago

Resident Evil Movie Trailer On PlayStation’s YouTube Page Is Full Of People Asking Sony To Change Course On Discs

6 days ago

Blizzard Employee Out Of A Job After Allegedly Helping Friends Cheat In WoW

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Secret Ending Seems To Tease A Halo 2 Remake

6 days ago