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Subnautica 2's August Update Makes Major Improvements to Co-op

Update 1.2 has finally arrived for Subnautica 2 and for fans of co-op, the studio has added a variety of highly requested and anticipated features to further improve the game. It's been a lengthy road for Subnautica 2 since it started production back in 2022, marked by a number of controversies, including a very public...

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Exclusive: Marvel’s Wolverine Game Director On X-Men Origins Inspirations, A Lengthier Development Time, And The Online Backlash

Over the past few console generations, Insomniac Games has cemented itself as the most efficient team under PlayStation Studios. Even before becoming first-party in 2019, Insomniac was releasing games nearly every single year. That energy carried over into the PS5 generation with three massive projects launched in less...

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Near-Perfect Turn-Based RPGs You Forgot Exist

While chronicling the history of RPGs, a pattern quickly emerges: turn-based battle systems began to decline in the PS2 era and never really recovered. Most of us noticed this as it happened, but the sheer drop in the number of releases between the PS2 and PS3 puts it into perspective, and things only worsened in the s...

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July’s top mobile game downloads: Roblox, Free Fire, Arrows, Block Blast, Soccer Superstar, more

  Here are the top mobile game downloads from last month, according to Appmagic data. Appmagic’s estimates do not include numbers from China’s fractured Android market. There’s also commentary on July’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond below. In between these monthly updates, you can also keep tabs o...

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Everyone Hates AI So Much, Jason Kelce Is Telling Beer Drinkers To Send Jars Of Their Piss To Data Centers

The former NFL player suggests you pee in a jar and put it in the mail

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STALKER 2 gets serious performance and visual upgrades with its 2.0 update, testing confirms, polishing up one of the biggest flawed gems in FPS games

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 it has the structural integrity of baked...

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Brand-New Horizon Game in Danger of Cancellation, Report Says

According to a recent report from a reliable insider, PlayStation is overhauling and potentially canceling the next Horizon game. Developers at studio Guerrilla Games reportedly have through December to hit a more impressive milestone, following a pivot away from being a live-service game, or the title may be outright...

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Keychron K8 Ultra 8K review

Keychron has carved out a wonderful niche in the now admittedly overcrowded mechanical keyboard space for offering fantastic all-round keyboards with all the features and robustness you could want for a surprisingly affordable price, given what's on offer.The new K8 Ultra 8K might feel like I'm parroting a lot of the s...

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Sony Reportedly Ditches Live Service Horizon Game, Reboots It As Multiplayer Title

Horizon Hunters Gathering is no more - at least in the form that it was announced in.

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Fans Debate Whether GTA 6 Looks ‘Mid’ In New Alleged Leak As Insider Claims It’s From More Than A Year Ago

The alleged gameplay footage has wowed some but left others unimpressed

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"Through the looking glass": as Arkane fight for their future, Dishonored veteran Harvey Smith reveals new studio dedicated to immersive sims

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 worlds, where players create their own me...

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STALKER 2: Cost of Hope review: An expanded Zone that begs to be explored, even as its faction war fizzles

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 their own past wrongs. Of course, most of the...

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