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Uh oh. Steam achievement lists for a smorgasbord of unreleased and unannounced PC games appear to have leaked via trophy tracking site Exophase. Atlus RPG Persona 6, RGG brawler Stranger Than Heaven, and Thief: The Dark Project Remastered have all seemingly had their trophies…
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The next set for Magic: The Gathering answers a very important question: what happens when the face of your game becomes the villain? Reality Fracture – officially releasing on 2nd October, but arriving a week early for MTG Arena – brings a close to Jace Beleren’s saga. Almost…
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Is Katamari Damacy an evil game? I realised as soon as I wrote the heading for this one that calling one game an evil version of Katamari might not be quite right, given the level of destruction you can enact in that series. Perhaps we're getting into an ontological argument…
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To mark the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has announced a live concert series which will tour the world through 2027. They’ve also debuted a brand new arrangement of the classic themes and motifs, which was used to open the Nintendo Direct. This new…
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"Low-poly dogs!" I hear you chant in the distance. "Low-poly dogs!" The war cry gets louder. "Low-poly dogs!" It's inescapable now, the low-poly dogs requested by the masses are here… Or, well, in the digital world of Old School RuneScape at the very least, as Jagex have…
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It's another one of those layoff days, unfortunately. This time the studio in question is PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, who have laid off seven staff members with little fanfare after cancelling a project that has been in development for several years. Read more
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Bit of an anticlimax, really. After months of (justified) revulsion and anti-anticipation over Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI rendering, it’s now available in a live game - license laden b-baller NBA 2K27 - and it looks... maybe not that bad? This not-that-badness does come at…
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The final hearing in the legal battle between a group of former Rockstar workers and the GTA 6 studio over the latter's decision to fire the former last year kicks off this week. It'll get underway on September 10th, and the Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain…
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Nintendo has revealed the first special edition Nintendo Switch 2, and it is gorgeous. The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Nintendo Switch 2 comes with delightfully green Joy-Con 2 (and a cute little pixel Zelda on the back of one), some triangular detailing on the…
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Giant robots and mech suits are cool. That’s the main thing to take away from the enduring popularity of Gundam, but for any story and setting that has existed for coming up on half a century, you need to keep reinventing and finding new tales to tell. Gundam Rogue Orbit…
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If there’s one thing that really stands out to me as a Dragon Quest Monsters newcomer, it’s just how heavily it leans into the puns. If you thought Pokémon were all eye-rolling puns for names – Exeggcute, anyone? – then that’s nothing on Sham Hatwitch being a…
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Goodbye, Build the Wall. The Tetris-style game that the US government had stuck on the White House website as a way of promoting the Trump administration's commitment to brutalising and persecuting immigrants in the name of securing borders. After the Tetris Company hinted that…
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Life is Strange developers Don't Nod have acknowledged that there's "material uncertainty regarding the company's ability to continue as a going concern beyond January 31st, 2027", as they kick off negotiations with the union representing staff who could be laid off as part of a…
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Arenanet are keeping a lot of Guild Wars 3 hidden away. Throughout the short presentation of their new fantasy MMO, the refrain is 'We're not talking about that yet'. Mounts, professions, dynamic world events, even shops and the economy are all things the developers will talk…
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The latest beefy expansion mod to hit Skyrim is an adventure to the Argonian homeland of Black Marsh, complete with hist trees and humid swamps. Though, its creator seems to be hoping the trip to the southern tip of the mysterious province will do more that just entertain,…
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"Never show the monster," horror film-makers, game-makers and other creepozoids have chanted, over the decades. The Well Is Not Empty wastes no time showing us the monster - one of the monsters, at least - and doesn't seem especially the worse for it. I mean, it's the worse, but…
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Look, before you say it, I know. Persona 4 Golden is held up by some as one of the best and most important RPGs ever. After all, it was the series' Final Fantasy 7 moment, where many of the mechanical and thematic threads of the earlier games finally knitted together and became…
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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 away last Monday. You were mostly successful in sating the creature's hunger and preventing cosmic disturbances, though we didn't get off…
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