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Steam Users Can Get 8 Video Games Worth $245 for Just $15, Includes Several 9/10 Hits

Steam users can currently claim 8 total PC games, worth a grand total of $245, at the steep discount of $25. While not every game is of equal value (either commercially or critically), several games are bona fide 9/10 hits, and the headlining title is Octopath Traveler 2. The beloved RPG sets the tone for the entire bu...

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Minecraft brewing stand explained - all potion recipes

How do Minecraft brewing stands work? Minecraft potions aid you in difficult moments by providing useful status effects, and they can be used to negatively impact foes. To make potions, you first need to know the Minecraft brewing stand recipe and how to use the complicated item. While Minecraft enchantments are helpfu...

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After Working With Christopher Nolan, Spider-Man Star Tom Holland Suddenly Realized Marvel Movies Are A Factory

Wait a minute...are we just making this movie to make a billion dollars?

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Magic: The Gathering Boss Confirms The TCG Is Here For The Long Run

Magic: The Gathering is the longest-running Trading Card Game in history, and it's comfortably one of the two most-popular. While that popularity has taken a dent recently, with fans, collectors, and players regularly voicing their unhappiness with the TCG, it remains strong.

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Insomniac's Wolverine Looks Like More Generic Marvel Fare

In recent years, we have seen movies, games, and TV shows across the board washing out their color palettes to embrace drab, concrete visuals. It’s especially exhausting to watch the life drained from the panels of comic books, a medium that prides itself on experimental and vibrant artwork, in more recent adaptations....

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The action-RPG our editor was excited enough to fly to China for just got a 50-day delay

Upcoming "kungfupunk" action game Phantom Blade Zero was so good that our own Wes Fenlon didn't even mind having to fly around the world to play it last August. "I don't think a game has ever come close to letting you fight with that operatic flourish you see in great films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," said We...

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Remembering John Blanche, The Man Who Made Us Love Warhammer

There aren’t enough superlatives to begin describing John Blanche’s impact on Warhammer, or even all of tabletop gaming. One of the founding fathers of Warhammer 40k, Blanche’s iconic artwork defined the mood and setting of Games Workshop’s lineage of games. He put pencil and ink to everything from Fantasy Battle to Ne...

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Bungie's traditional launch woes made for a terrible first impression of Marathon's exciting second season and undermined its free-play week

After the unfortunate end to Destiny 2's live service support, all of Bungie's eggs are in a Marathon-shaped basket. The studio's immediate future hinges on the extraction shooter, so this makes Marathon's second season, Nightfall, all the more crucial. It launched yesterday and coincides with a free-play week for thos...

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Here Are The Rarest Marvel Super Heroes Cards You'll Want To Find In MTG

As another new Magic: The Gathering set approaches, we're taking a look at the rarest cards from the Marvel Super Heroes set. These are the cards you want to pull from Play and Collector Boosters and are sure to be among the most valuable cards in the set, too.

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No, God Of War Isn’t Leaving Kratos Behind: ‘We’ll Always Tell Stories About Kratos’

Santa Monica Studios says the new Faye-centric Laufey is ‘not a departure; it's more of an expansion’

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Marvel's Wolverine Deconfirms A Popular Spider-Man Theory

Creative director Marcus Smith provides more details on Marvel's Wolverine, confirming the universe that the game takes place in as well as if Spider-Man will show up in some capacity during the campaign. As the September launch date approaches, Insomniac has finally pulled back the curtain on Marvel's Wolverine with a...

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Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

Wireless is wonderful for, say, your gaming mouse, headset, and controller but less so for your keyboard. Between managing input latency and battery life, a wireless keyboard would have to be something pretty special to win me over. Well, Cherry is trying their chances with what is likely the world's first Ultra-Wideba...

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