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11 Fascinating Next Fest Demos For Games You’ve Never Heard Of Before

Get ready to add to your Wishlist pile with this eclectic collection

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"This is just the start" - Housemarque responds to Saros' slower sales versus Returnal's, and compares itself to one of the most beloved studios around

Housemarque is a team with a long history of creating games for a certain type of audience. The Finnish studio, which started out making smaller, arcadey titles, has grown to be among the most prestigious PlayStation first-party studios. But despite the expanding scope of its games, its philosophy about its niche genre...

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Death Stranding movie director promises we're "not gonna see a lot of jaws getting ripped off" after his gory Robin Hood flick, as preparations for next year's filming continue

Squeamish sorts can rest assured that Death Stranding's live-action movie adaptation won't have the same level of violence as director Michael Sarnoski's previous films, but it will, he says, still honour the video game's "bleak and barren post-apocalyptic environment". Read more

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'

When the Nvidia CEO isn't busy basking in the adoration of fans at Computex Taiwan, it seems he might spend his time considering how to shift social norms. In what direction, you ask? Why, using AI more, of course.That's what he told the Associated Press when the interviewer asked whether AI itself concerns people or "...

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Stop Killing Games suffers setback following European Parliamentary hearing - but all is not lost

Disappointment ripples across the Stop Killing Games movement today after the European Commission delivered its verdict on the recent parliamentary hearings around online game preservation, and how the EU intends to help - or not - the movement going forward. Read more

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Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation

Guild Wars 3 developers ArenaNet have published a Hot Take of sorts about the MMORPG genre, while explaining in broad strokes how their forthcoming "modern evolution" will differ from Guild Wars 1, released in 2005, and Guild Wars 2, released in 2012. As they note, MMOs and gaming at large have changed enormously over...

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Control Resonant Won't Be Delayed From September Because It's "Unique Enough" To Stand Out

No one wants to launch their game close to GTA 6. Well, aside from Devolver Digital, who are releasing a game on the game day as a bit, but that's pretty much it. As a result of this, many publishers have changed their game's release dates to either September or February, giving Rockstar a wide berth. The only problem...

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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales: The Kotaku Review

Where the fairy flies off at the mouth

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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Review - A Near-Perfect Zelda-Like

Zelda-likes, over the years, have been content to borrow heavily from their core inspiration: green-clad heroes, swords, dungeons with plenty of locked doors and convenient keys that drop from ceilings, all that good stuff. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is not much of an exception: you have vitality re...

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New Official Invincible Release Confirmed for July 30

A brand-new, officially licensed Invincible tabletop RPG is set to release on July 30, 2026. Titled Invincible: Superhero Roleplaying, the starter set of this upcoming tabletop RPG will retail for $29.99 and will include everything fans need to dive in and play with their friends.

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Voidling Bound Is The Game I Wanted Palworld To Be

Voidling Bound is less PokΓ©mon with guns, and more Spore if it was a third-person shooter

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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales review

I always thought history was boring as a kid. Nuts to the past, I want cool tech, body mods, and lightspeed travel! But maybe I would have felt differently if I had a game like The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales back then. What better way is there to appreciate the past than violently cutting down a million...

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