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X4: Foundations' Empire update, out now, delivers the space sim's biggest bout of battle balancing yet, plus RTS-style ordering and ship showrooms for showoffs

Egosoft deployed the Empire update for X4: Foundations, delivering sweeping combat rebalancing alongside new tactical and quality-of-life features for…

15h ago
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A lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG has resurfaced after mystery user drops it in a seven-year-old forum thread

A lost Dragon Ball Z fan-made RPG has resurfaced online after spending years in obscurity. An anonymous user dropped the game into a seven-year-old fo…

15h ago
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Summer Hikaru Died leads 2026 best manga awards nominees list

Summer Hikaru Died has emerged as the frontrunner in the 2026 American Manga Awards nominees, leading a competitive field of entries across multiple c…

15h ago
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Disney's Marvel x Muppets crossover is about to put Avengers: Doomsday to shame

Disney's Marvel Studios and the Muppets are joining forces for The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe, launching this September to mark five decades of …

15h ago
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Dragon's Dogma 2's controversial microtransactions are going away

Capcom is eliminating the controversial microtransactions from Dragon's Dogma 2 that sparked player backlash since the game's March 2024 launch. The p…

15h ago
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Control a huge drilling vessel rife with bloody religious symbolism in Mole, a horror sim from former GTFO developers

A psychological horror sim called Mole launches on Steam today from developers who previously worked on GTFO, the punishing cooperative shooter. Mole …

Yesterday
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The UK's dramatic under-16 social media ban will also apply to "gaming services", but at least they're not coming for multiplayer

The UK government announced a ban on social media for under-16s taking effect spring 2027, targeting platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapch…

Yesterday
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Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar monitors can successfully beat biology to hone motion clarity in games - though they're not yet worth the price

Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar monitors deliver genuine motion clarity improvements that outperform standard gaming displays, but pricing remains prohibitivel…

Yesterday
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Xbox Closing We Happy Few, South Of Midnight Developer Compulsion Games – Report

Microsoft is closing Compulsion Games, the Canadian studio behind We Happy Few and the Peabody Award-winning South of Midnight. The shutdown affects o…

Yesterday
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Halo: Campaign Evolved Release Date And Global Launch Times Revealed

Microsoft confirms Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 23 with early access, rolling out to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC simultaneously across all regio…

Yesterday
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Every detail of Blood Dungeon looks slapdash, but its mix of platformer and Vampire survivors gets my heart thumping

Blood Dungeon merges platformer mechanics with the wave-survival formula that made Vampire Survivors a phenomenon, creating something that works despi…

Yesterday
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We're finally getting a Vanillaware game on PC - Muramasa: Revenant Blades, an expanded 4K edition of the gorgeous Japanese action RPG

Vanillaware finally brings its hand-drawn action games to PC. Muramasa: Revenant Blades launches as a 4K expanded edition of the gorgeous 2D samurai a…

Yesterday
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Don’t Hold Your Breath For A Dead By Daylight Sequel

Dead by Daylight celebrates its tenth anniversary today, June 14, having become the genre-defining force in asymmetrical multiplayer horror. Behaviour…

Yesterday
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Dead By Daylight Is More Violent Than Ever, And The Devs Told Me Why

Dead by Daylight, the asymmetrical multiplayer horror game that has reached 70 million players across a decade, has deliberately escalated its violenc…

Yesterday
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Everything Announced For Dead By Daylight During Its 10th Anniversary Stream

Dead by Daylight hits its 10-year milestone today, and Behaviour Interactive used an anniversary stream to unveil a substantial content roadmap for th…

Yesterday
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Square Enix whip out the defibrillator to bring back Kingdom Hearts 4 from the brink with a new trailer and promise of a PC release

Square Enix resurrected Kingdom Hearts 4 during Nintendo's latest Direct presentation, unveiling new footage for a game that vanished from public view…

2 days ago
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New Xbox Exec Clarifies Recent Comments About In-Game Ads

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball walked back recent comments about in-game advertising, clarifying that his previous statements don't reflect …

2 days ago
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Fable Reboot Delay Was Disappointing To The Devs, But Avoiding GTA 6 Makes Sense

Playground Games delayed its Fable reboot from 2026 to February 2027, a strategic move that studio GM Ralph Fulton admits stung internally but makes c…

2 days ago
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The Number Of Steam Next Fest Demos This Month Is Too Damn High

Steam Next Fest has exploded to unmanageable proportions. The June 2026 edition features 4,931 demos, making it nearly impossible for players to disco…

2 days ago
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This Week’s Epic Games Store Freebie Is Warhammer 40K With A Need For Speed

Epic Games Store is offering Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III and Need for Speed as free games this week. Players can claim both titles starting Thur…

2 days ago
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Vanillaware seemingly want their other games on PC too, but if you want that to happen, talk to their publishers

Vanillaware's acclaimed catalog remains largely locked outside PC, despite passionate fan campaigns for ports of classics like Odin Sphere, Dragon's C…

2 days ago
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Penguin Colony's demo shows life as a flightless bird is lonely, scary, awkward, and cosmically intriguing

Penguin Colony, the upcoming title from the studio behind indie darling Umurangi Generation, upends penguin game expectations with a blend of sillines…

2 days ago
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Big Walk was born during a COVID lockdown out of a distaste for birthday party Zoom calls

House House, the studio behind the indie hit Untitled Goose Game, launches Big Walk this summer. The game emerged from pandemic frustration with remot…

2 days ago
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Dragon's Dogma 2 is getting a frosty Dark Arisen expansion, plus two big updates that fix some of the things you moaned about back in 2024

Capcom is expanding Dragon's Dogma 2 with substantial content and fixes aimed at addressing player complaints from launch. The studio will release two…

2 days ago
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The Last Of Us Season 3 Adds Big-Name Actor, But You Won’t Recognize Who He’s Playing

HBO's The Last of Us Season 3 has added Peter Sarsgaard to its cast, though the actor will play a character audiences likely won't recognize from the …

2 days ago
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Xbox CEO Reportedly Wants To Speed Up Release Of Next Halo And Fallout Games, But Spinning Off The Business Entirely Isn’t Completely Off The Table

Xbox CEO Phil Spencer is pushing for accelerated development timelines on both the next Halo and Fallout entries, according to recent reports. The pus…

3 days ago
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Two More Games Are Losing Online Services Soon

EA and 2K Games have announced server shutdowns for two racing and sports titles. Grid Legends will lose online functionality, while TopSpin 2K25 will…

3 days ago
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Super Mario and Yoshi Lego Set Discounted To Its Lowest Price Yet

The Lego Super Mario World Mario and Yoshi set has dropped to $104, marking its lowest price since launch. The 1,215-piece set originally retailed for…

3 days ago
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Titanfall Fans Are In For A Treat With Empulse

1047 Games, the studio behind Splitgate, is launching Empulse, a competitive shooter designed as a spiritual successor to Titanfall 2. The game enters…

3 days ago
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Nintendo Loves Remaking 3D Zelda Games, But For Some Reason, Not The 2D Classics

Nintendo confirmed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2, continuing the publisher's pattern of revisiting 3D Zelda games rather th…

3 days ago
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"Pay the gravity tax": In crushing strategy game Asema, your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast

Asema arrives as a factory strategy game that weaponizes gravity itself against player ambition. Developer Niceplay Games builds the core loop around …

3 days ago
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Witcher 3 modders are restoring the RPG's massive cut plague questline, just in case CD Projekt's Songs of the Past expansion isn't enough extra Geralt

CD Projekt Red announced Songs of the Past, a major expansion for The Witcher 3 set to release in 2027. The studio's news triggered an immediate respo…

3 days ago
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Star Trek: Outposts Unknown's demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn't last a day in RimWorld

Star Trek: Outposts Unknown arrived with a playable demo that positions itself as a gentler alternative to survival-focused settlement builders like R…

3 days ago
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Microsoft Considering Spinning Off Xbox, Speeding Up Elder Scrolls And Fallout Game Releases – Report

Microsoft is exploring a fundamental restructuring of Xbox, with internal discussions centering on spinning the gaming division into a separate compan…

3 days ago
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Ubisoft’s Next Ghost Recon Game Reportedly Running Into Big Problems

Ubisoft's next Ghost Recon title, internally known as Project OVR, faces severe development challenges that could result in either a complete reboot o…

3 days ago
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I sure hope Crimson Desert's new pet limit means I can own 100 pigeons at once, even if I'll only have 50 in camp because Pearl Abyss are cowards

Pearl Abyss raised Crimson Desert's pet limit to 100 creatures in its latest update, though the studio capped camp housing at 50 animals. The sandbox …

4 days ago
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Stranger Than Heaven will explore Tupac's "potential future" if "he was still alive now", according to RGG studio head

RGG Studio, the developer behind the Like A Dragon/Yakuza franchise, confirmed that Stranger Than Heaven will feature Tupac Shakur as a playable chara…

4 days ago
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In An Incredibly On-Brand Move, Kingdom Hearts 4 Has Characters From A Game You Can’t Play Anymore

Kingdom Hearts 4 features characters from Kingdom Hearts Union X, a mobile gacha game that Square Enix shut down in 2024. Players who never experience…

4 days ago
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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Brings Back Campaign Early Access, Here’s How To Get It

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 brings back campaign early access for players who commit to the game before launch. Preordering or pre-purchasing the s…

4 days ago
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PlayStation’s Wireless FlexStrike Fight Stick Preorders Are Now Open

Sony has opened preorders for the PlayStation FlexStrike, a wireless fight stick launching August 6 at $200. The new controller targets the fighting g…

4 days ago

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