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King's Field Fans Are Bringing Forgotten FromSoft Classic To VR

Kings Field doesn’t get brought up much when talking about FromSoftware games, but then again, pre-Souls games rarely do (outside the diehard fans). But the studio owes a lot to its debut series, a grueling first-person dungeon crawler with an opaque story told through grumbling, miserable characters. It set the mold f...

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Game Pass August 2026: Every Confirmed Free Game, Ranked

Xbox Game Pass's August free games are headlined by Beast of Reincarnation, but is it actually the month's best new arrival? Well, let's talk about that.

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Eli Roth Claims He ‘Misspoke’ When He Denied Ice Cream Man Uses GenAI

The Borderlands director's latest critical flop uses the dark arts of Dark Half's AI

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Official New Naruto Release Confirmed for Summer 2027

It's a good time to be a Naruto fan because the beloved IP's renaissance continues, the Boruto: Two Blue Vortex manga series is ongoing, and summer 2027 is set to be a big time for the franchise. Indeed, it's not just the anime and manga getting attention.

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Beast Of Reincarnation review: A briefly fun Sekiro-like that becomes chewing gum for the brain

Beast Of Reincarnation opened pretty promisingly. Its first stretch dropped me into a sprawling fantasy forestscape full of deadly spore-sprouting woodland creatures, gave me a sick hat and a fireball-shooting dog, then strapped a katana in my hand and introduced a real solid parry clang that would fire dopamine into m...

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PlayStation's Next State of Play Has Some Obvious Games in Store

The summer of game announcements is officially behind us, and it is time to turn our attention to autumn, where we may see some of the biggest games over the next year or so. In the case of PlayStation, they like to keep their big reveals and first-party titles safely tucked behind their State of Play events, and while...

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Marvel Rivals’ next update drastically reduces the game’s install size on PC and console

In a world afflicted with ever-increasing storage and RAM costs, it's nice to see a game make a serious effort to reduce its footprint on your SSD. Cue Marvel Rivals. On PS5 and Xbox, you will see an install-size reduction of roughly 15GB - down from 73GB - whilst the PC version reduces by a whopping 40GB. This means w...

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Kingdom Hearts Fortnite Collab Leaked Through Rocket League

Fortnite’s rumoured crossover with Kingdom Hearts has been all-but-officially confirmed with a leak that shows off one of the Rocket League decal designs.

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EA’s Saudi takeover will be "a real waste" if it turns the publishers into a "sequel-and-mega-franchise machine", Helldivers 2 studio boss says

Well, it's happened. EA's thumbs up from the European Commission, the $55 billion leveraged buyout by Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners has gone through. With the publishers now privately owned and saddled with a bunch of debt, questions loom about what their future w...

4 weeks ago 👁 9
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A PC cooling company shows Sony and Nintendo how it's done, as it pledges to pass US tariff refunds onto customers

Arctic, a well-known manufacturer of PC air and water coolers, has made a commitment to use the tariff refunds it received from the US government to lower the price of its products. This is notable because it's in stark contrast to the approach Nintendo has opted for, believing it has no obligation to pass these refund...

4 weeks ago 👁 9
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New Steam Game Is Like Super Mario Odyssey But With Pizza Instead of Cappy

Steam has an upcoming 3D platformer called Pizzapocalypse 2, which has serious Super Mario Odyssey vibes, with one of its primary mechanics being a versatile pizza instead of Mario's beloved Cappy. Pizzapocalypse 2 is being developed by a small indie team known as Monkey Strike Games, which released the previous entry...

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WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

World of Warcraft calling curtains on combat-based UI mods (AddOns) has been a bit of a mixed bag—while I'm personally more than fine having a class I don't need constant auditory pings and klaxons to play, there have been some missing functionalities and hiccups along the way.One element of this is, at least, somewhat...

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