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Palworld pulled in almost 900,000 players over the weekend, its second-highest peak ever

Palworld recently celebrated its launch into 1.0 and out of early access with 27-pages of patch notes and no price hike, and the devs were rewarded with the best turnout they've seen since the game first released into early access way back in January 2024. A peak of 855,525 concurrent players turned up for the 1.0 rele...

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GDQ Ends SNK Partnership Hours After Announcement Due To Saudi Ownership

Summer Games Done Quick 2026 was a massive success, raising over $2.8 million for Doctors Without Borders and producing some all-time great moments like adef's run of Balatro.

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Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock

A report from The Wall Street Journal tells the tale of Tim Cook's visit to the White House last summer, in which the Apple chief attempted to persuade the administration to abandon plans to impose tariffs on 100% of all semiconductor imports.Apple was eventually granted an exemption to the tariffs, in return for a com...

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Obsidian still have "the same DNA" that went into New Vegas and KOTOR 2, The Outer Worlds 2 director insists, following chatter around layoffs

Last week, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 developers Obsidian lost around quarter of their staff to Microsoft's mass layoffs. The studio were subsequently reported to be pivoting to start work on a new Fallout game helmed by New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, with a sequel to Avowed all but canned in the process. Cue, natu...

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Xbox cuts "not the end" for The Elder Scrolls Online, insists ZeniMax, despite a drastic reduction in size

Last week's sweeping Xbox layoffs have affected The Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, a studio that had already faced cuts a year ago. This has reignited fears amongst the community that the game is being moved into 'maintenance mode', in which no substantial new adventures or updates will be developed for it...

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Day-One Game That Flips Vampire Survivors Formula on Its Head

1The Xbox Game Pass library expands yet again, this time with a day-one release called Ascend to Zero. This is the third title to join the subscription service in July 2026 and the 111th Xbox Game Pass release of 2026.

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EA Sports College Football 27 Is One Of The Worst-Rated Games Of 2026 On Steam

The excitement that was born from the return of College Football in 2025 felt like a distant memory last week, as the release of College Football 27 was marred by the introduction of egregious microtransactions. Those microtransactions have been removed, but the bad reviews that came with them remain.

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This week in PC games: vert-ramping trains, a retold murder mystery, and Cthulhu’s new gig as an AI Director

Merry Monday, readers. Edwin’s been struck down by a post-TennoCon lurgy, and we were only too happy to allow him some rest, provided he file his Soulframe and Warframe: Tau stories before collapsing into a feverish heap. We even agreed to feed the Maw in his absence, albeit without reaching a similar accord on r...

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Dungeons & Dragons Might Be Ending Its Quiet Period At Gen Con 2026

It's been a quiet couple of years for Dungeons & Dragons β€” since the release of the 2024 5e rules revision (often referred to as 5.5e), official releases have been sparse, and several senior designers have departed Wizards of the Coast.

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How to get Panthalus in Palworld

Catching Panthalus isn't something you'll be able to do early on in Palworld. As with most other legendary pals, this newly-added giant whale is a tricky fight, and what's more, you'll have to complete a quest before you can even face it.Despite the fact you get the Panthalus quest after the new tower boss added in 1.0...

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The Pokemon Company Wants to Raise Pokemon Game Prices, Leak Suggests

The Pokemon Company has wanted to raise the price of Pokemon games since the initial release of Pokemon Sword and Shield on the Switch, new documentation reportedly shows, but external factors that are no longer at play prevented the company from doing so. Without those external factors, fans can expect Pokemon Winds a...

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Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion gets an extra ending cutscene, made by a modder keen not to finish up on a rather awkward note

Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead. Shagging Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 might say various things about your taste in blokes, but it's understandably the way a lot of folks go. Not everyone's got the nerve to admit that they want to cast some spells with Gale's other wand. Anyway, a veteran BG3 modder's no...

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