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Call of Duty Movie Officially Has a Game Setting

Peter Berg, the director and co-writer of the upcoming Call of Duty live-action movie has officially confirmed that it'll be set in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare universe. While no exact details of the movie's plot have been confirmed just yet, this setting might mean that the Call of Duty movie will revolve around...

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Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros delayed to 2027, as PlaySide take more time before playing their turn to ensure the RTS hits a "high level of quality"

Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros, the Age of Empiresy RTS teeming with Targaryens and laced with Lannisters, has been delayed to 2027. Developers PlaySide have decided that while development's "progressing well", they need a bit more time to nail their strategical rendition of the Seven Kingdoms. Read more

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 3 million in its first week

After its big 2m sales opening, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has reached a new sales milestone: Ubisoft announced that the remake has sold over 3m units in a week across all platforms. Read more

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Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link may have been cancelled, but that hasn't stopped footage of Keyblade-wielding astronauts from leaking online

Footage of the cancelled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has appeared online, just over a year since development on the game ended. Read more

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Donkey Kong Arcade Machine Lego Set Gets Its Full Reveal

Lego’s next in a long line of Nintendo sets may well end up being its best, and certainly most complex yet. Not just a Lego recreation of the original Donkey Kong arcade machine, but a recreation that has moving parts, allowing you to actually control Mario and play it.

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The FMV game where you're a hamster being doted on by three Japanese sisters was inspired by its creator's job as an animal mascot, and Grand Theft Auto 5

Sweet Hamster Days was initially rejected by Steam, perhaps because Valve is more restrictive of games that feature sexually explicit images of real people, or possibly for some other reason we'll never know. As a designer called Oda told Automaton, "We still don’t know exactly how the platform saw things, but after re...

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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed review (2018)

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer re-review provided by:Need to KnowRelease date January 31, 2013Expect to pay $20Developer Sumo DigitalPublisher SegaReviewed on Core i7-6700K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980 Steam Deck VerifiedLink SteamI’m not sure anybody has ever had more fun making a game than Sumo Digital did when it...

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There's an unofficial PC port of Gears of War 2 based on a leaked build from 2008

Gears of War 2 featured a campaign you could blast through over the course of a weekend. The perfect length for the kind of story that strings together a bunch of setpiece spectacles that won't tax your thinking muscles. At one point you end up inside a giant worm and have to fight your way out. It's great.But it's one...

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Steam Week in Review: Take cover, because it looks like more than half of Steam games will have an AI-disclosure by 2027-2028

When Valve launched Steam Direct in June 2017 it marked a huge shift in the storefront's identity. Before Direct, Valve manually decided what did and did not release on Steam, or else it used initiatives like Steam Greenlight to have users decide what games would or would not enjoy placement.Before June 2017, the amoun...

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The Wire's Greatest Strengths Almost Got It Canceled

Prestige television has become synonymous with HBO these days, but some of the network's flagship shows were never guaranteed long runs. The Wire is the best example of this; it's regularly described as one of the greatest television series ever made, even though it spent much of its original run fighting for survival....

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Xbox Game Pass Losing 2 Of its Highest-Rated Games and 6 More Titles on July 31

Microsoft has published the provisional list of seven Xbox Game Pass titles scheduled to leave the service on July 31. Two of them rank in the top 1% of the highest-rated games on the platform, making their near-future departure a notable setback for the Xbox Game Pass catalog's overall critical profile.

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The Canceled Kingdom Hearts IV Prologue’s Cinematic Has Allegedly Leaked And Fans Are Trying To Decipher It

Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link was a canceled mobile game that would have tied into the upcoming fourth mainline game in the series

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