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PlayStation is Being Sued After Recent Video Game Shutdowns

Four gamers are suing PlayStation maker Sony Interactive Entertainment and seeking class-action status under California's digital goods transparency law, AB2426, which took effect in 2025. In short, companies are required to tell customers that digital goods like video games and music are licenses, not outright purchas...

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How to Turn On Match Game in Destiny 2

The Match Game modifier in Destiny 2 takes the interaction between elemental combatant shields and player damage types and cranks it up to 11 by giving enemies significant damage reduction to anything that doesn't match the color of their shields. This is one of the game's simpler combat modifiers, and to activate it,...

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Warframe Developers Express Their Heartbreak Over The End Of Destiny 2

'No one is celebrating that this has happened' says Warframe's community director

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PUBG's new AI teammate is somehow more useless than my friends

PUBG's new Ally Duo game mode is a creepy letdown. The battle royale game has a limited-time experience right now that pairs you up with an LLM-powered teammate, Ella, who, on paper, behaves (and chats) like a regular human. It calls out enemy players, shoots at said players, and tells me every five minutes that it's j...

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Persona 4 Revival's overhauled combat looks splashier and easier than ever, though I'm a little worried about those dungeons

When Atlus announced its remake of Persona 4 (or more accurately, of Persona 4 Golden), a cry went up around the land. Mostly, I think people were rightly excited about Kanji Tatsumi in 4K, but there are a few peccadilloes in the original game's design that some folkโ€”including here at PC Gamerโ€”were eager to see Atlus i...

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Accidentally thrusting Morrowind to death just got more difficult, thanks to engine reimplemention OpenMW's chunky new update

We've all done it. One moment, you're playing The Elder Scrolls 3. Then, boom, you pass the thrust and everything implodes. Thankfully, the latest update to OpenMW - the open source engine reimplementation that's one of the the best ways to play Morrowind on modern hardware - includes measures to stop this thrusting fr...

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Best Hammer Magicite In The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales

The hammer's magicite pool demands more planning than most weapons in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. Many of its best options are expensive, niche, or tightly complementary; Body & Soul needs Charge Time Down to offset its penalty, and Blowback only earns its slot alongside Enhanced Knock Back.

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New Official Sword Art Online Release Happening on July 10

A new Sword Art Online game is heading to PC and consoles, taking players back to one of animeโ€™s most recognizable settings. Echoes of Aincrad reimagines the original death-game premise as a full action RPG built around survival, progression, and player choice. Set inside the Aincrad arc, it leans hard into that famili...

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When Is Chaos Coming Out In NTE? (Neverness to Everness)

If Chaos follows the same pattern as Hotori, then Chaos banner in NTE will come out on June 23, 2026, at 11:00 PM ET (UTC-4). There will be maintenance as the game enters the second half of the version, so Chaos release date will be the same for everyone; no more server-time headache. His banner will be accompanied by...

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Destiny 2: Where to Get the Hellion Aspect

Hellion is one of the Solar Aspects for the Warlock class in Destiny 2, and players can easily get it just by playing through the Final Shape campaign. It's inside a Prismatic Chest in the Seclusion, an area that you'll pass through during the fourth main mission of the expansion. The chest containing Hellion will be i...

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Ori creator declares Xbox Game Pass a mediocre slop factory that's 'a little like Communism'

Xbox is under fire yet again. It's teasing layoffs as part of a "reset", reportedly closing Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and more, and it can't present a coherent planโ€”all just days after unveiling upcoming games at its Xbox Games Showcase.Rightfully, Xbox has been criticised by industry figures in response, including a...

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"No one is celebrating" - Warframe devs on Destiny 2's "earth-shattering" death, and why the genre is weaker for it

In case you are unfamiliar with the sci-fi video game space, one of its giants has come to a sudden and tragic end. Destiny 2 - a juggernaut in the genre - will no longer be receiving updates from its developer Bungie. While fans have flocked back to celebrate the title, it is nonetheless the end of an era. Read more

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