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Lo, a new power rose in the East. The warlord Michael of Jordan united the people of Chicago under the crest of the bull, then with his general Scottie of Pippen and the triangular religion of bishop Phil of Jackson, conquered the whole realm. Alas, those feeble heirs who…
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In the 90s and early 2000s, visual novels were near the top of the pyramid in the world of Japanese game releases. They were important games that got made often and were easily funded. Nowadays, that isn’t quite the case. As demands for live-service gacha games and…
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Game Science have put out a fresh trailer showing off Black Myth: Zhong Kui, their follow-up to Chinese mythology-stuffed action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong, in action. A year on from its reveal at 2025's Gamescom, Zhong Kui's looking as slicey and rolly as its predecessor, despite a…
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The crypto-peddling hacker group who leaked footage of GTA 6 earlier this week appear to have access to a playable version of Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive's forthcoming open world game, if recent videos are any indication. Read more
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Stories of pirates are full of swashbuckling, daring-do, and grog. But Limbic Entertainment's city builder Corsair Cove reveals those hijinx are only a sideshow: logistics is the star. As the proud owner of a tropical island surrounded by high seas dotted with patrolling Spanish…
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Beyblade is one of the wildest anime in existence, because while the pure absurdity of something like Yu-Gi-Oh can sort of make sense, a world that features beast spirits inside of spinning tops was almost a step too far. Still, it had some banger moments, and there’s no…
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Now the ink's starting to dry on the Saudi Arabian government and Jared Kushner-backed takeover of EA, which has seen the company go private, staff are getting to grips with what the ownership change might mean for them going forwards. Fears of layoffs and teams or game series…
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Horizon Hunters Gathering, the live service multiplayer spin-off for PlayStation's post-apocalyptic Horizon series, is being rebooted as a smaller and more traditional co-op experience with a story mode, according to anonymous insiders. In the process, we're told, several of the…
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Belated congratulations to everybody who correctly guessed that Mortal Shell 2 was the mystery game our guides team were raving about a couple of weeks ago. You'll hopefully have read Jeremy's glowing review, in which he calls the new Soulslike RPG "an incredible second outing…
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I’ve always been curious about attending an orchestra performance for video game music, but never ended up going through with it. A lot of my favorite series, from Nier through to Sonic the Hedgehog have done them over the years, but I just never ended up justifying the…
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I don’t begrudge anyone who’s waited to try STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl until it got its technical defects fixed. They’re still wrong, obviously - an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS is still an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS when…
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Like the technical fix-uppery of the 2.0 update it’s launching alongside, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s Cost of Hope expansion arrives with a determinedly furrowed brow; that kind of enthusiastic, if just slightly contrite, look of someone hellbent on righting…
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Days after Deus Ex director Warren Spector announced that he was quitting the business, another former Ion Storm developer, Harvey Smith, has revealed Black Pony Immersive - a new studio dedicated to the creation of "imaginative first-person action RPGs set within well-realized…
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Under the Koei Tecmo Games umbrella, developer Gust is best known for the long-running Atelier franchise. They’re wonderful RPGs that bring together a blend of cutesy anime adventure with engaging alchemy synthesis gameplay, and there’s a new entry in the series…
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Yesterday, August 18th, further union rallies against Microsoft's mass layoffs across Xbox studios were held across North America. As the One Bethesda Game Studio (OneBGS) union and the Communication Workers of America (CWA)-supported protests continue, one unionised Bethesda…
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Space horror immersive sim RetroSpace will launch on 1st October 2026, developers The Wild Gentlemen and publishers Kwalee have announced. New to RetroSpace? In brief: you are a 3D-printed clone janitor, trapped aboard a space station that has been swallowed by a "sentient black…
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When thinking about games from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era in dire need of a remaster, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North wasn’t exactly at the top of our list. When Warner Bros. originally launched its licensed action RPG back in 2011, not only was it met with mostly middling…
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As you might have seen, there was another alleged GTA 6 leak yesterday, with apparent footage of Rockstar's crime sandbox in action spread across the net and in many cases swiftly hit with DMCA takedowns. The group seemingly behind the leakage this time have claimed that their…
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