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PlayStation's Spider-Man Games Are In Steam's Top Ten Thanks To Brand New Day

PlayStation was expecting more people to pick up its Spider-Man games on PS5 thanks to the success of Brand New Day. What it wasn’t expecting, based on its proposed plans for PC moving forward, or rather its lack of them, was for a significant chunk of those copies to be sold on Steam.

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New Steam Game is Basically Dispatch Meets Persona

Indie games on Steam encompass virtually every genre, and visual novels are no exception. Though the golden era of choice-based, story-driven games came and went in the 2010s, with the shutdown of Telltale being a big blow to fans of the genre, narrative games have been seeing a resurgence lately. Not only has Telltale...

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Super Limit Breaking Neo Review - One More Bonus

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is my favourite Dragon Ball game of all time. As a lifelong fan of Budokai Tenkaichi who desperately wanted to see it return, Sparking Zero lived up to all my expectations and then some, delivering a stacked roster with tons of variety, evolved combat that perfectly distilled the feeling of t...

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Big Walk review

"Chris, I think you're muted. Your nose has gone small." Read more

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Communication is the biggest puzzle piece in chill co-op game Big Walk, so don't take any shortcuts by using Discord

I played first-person co-op puzzle game Big Walk with strangers back in March and had an absolute gas. Naturally, it's even better with friends: in two long sessions with my PC Gamer pals Tyler and Morgan, we've solved over a dozen puzzles, had twice as many laughs, and as you might expect, done a heck of a lot of walk...

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The Soulslike genre has grown stale after Elden Ring, and only FromSoftware can take it to strange new places

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a cliché, a person first compelled to write about games because I slew Dark Souls’ Gwynn, Lord Of Cinder and sat quietly for a moment before thinking to myself, “Hit me, come on, hit me!”. No, I was not okay. But my understanding of games shifted...

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How to Open the Secret Box in Incinerate the Relic - The Outlast Trials

If you've played the Resort's MK-Challenge Trial, Incinerate the Relic, then you might have stumbled across a locked box in the Owl Room that you can't seem to open. Thankfully, we know just how to find and open this box, along with the reward it gives. If you deposit every jewel, the box will open, but doing so might...

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Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

Noctua is one of the very best fan makers on the market, but introducing its fan into the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition gaming mouse seemed to involve a truly horrible sequence of fan tests. Noctua has "custom-built torture-test rigs", all designed to put fans through their paces to see if they can withstand how the aver...

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8 Shonen Anime With The Strongest Villains, Ranked

Generally, it is said that a story is only as good as its villain, and in terms of anime, this statement holds just as true. Over the course of some of the most popular franchises, there have been many terrifying foes that the main heroes have had to face off against, ranging from horrifying psychological threats to th...

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Square Enix responds to Kingdom Hearts Collection AI controversy two months after players called it out

Kingdom Hearts publisher and developer, Square Enix, has denied claims that it used AI-generated content to promote the yet-to-be-released Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3. Fans first accused the company of using AI back in early June, and now - some two months after the initial accusations - Square Enix has responded. Re...

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls shows early signs of popularity, soaring up tournament entry leaderboards

Marvel Tokon will be released unto the world by the terrible trio of Marvel, Sony, and Arc System Works later this week. While only the most talented of fortune tellers can say for sure how popular it will be, early indicators from fighting game tournament registration numbers paint a positive picture. Read more

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Making Baldur’s Gate 4 would be "a great challenge" for Rogue Trader devs Owlcat, co-founder says, as the studio reiterate their commitment to CRPGs

I'm not saying you've got to be making a vaguely Mass Effecty RPG starting with Ex to be considered as a successor to Larian on the Baldur's Gate series, but it certainly doesn't seem to hurt. Exodus devs Archetype Entertainment were offered such a chance according to former studio head James Ohlen, and while The Expan...

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