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Dredge, the 2023 indie game that was part fishing sim, part cosmic horror, is getting the adaptation treatment. Developer Black Salt games will be partnering with production company Story Kitchen on a live-action film based on the game’s world. Dredge is just the latest in the ever-growing trend of video game…
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Moon Studios, the developer behind the beloved Metroidvanias Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, is working on No Rest for the Wicked. The action RPG is set to launch this month on April 19 and is a bit of a departure from the Ori series that made the studio famous. But what…
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Troy Baker’s voice is in a lot of games. He’s Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite and Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son. He’s Shadow of Mordor’s Talion, Joel in The Last of Us, even Indy himself in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. His acting career is as long as a grocery receipt from Costco. One game…
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Surprise surprise, Helldivers 2 players did not, in fact, beat the Automatons once and for all. After a lengthy campaign that involved the loss, and subsequent reclamation, of Malevelon Creek—or “Robot Vietnam”—a recent push from Arrowhead Games Studios called Operation Swift Disassembly tasked players with…
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Oops. Someone at Ubisoft accidentally pushed the wrong buttons on a YouTube trailer premiere for Star Wars Outlaws. The latest trailer for the open-world Star Wars game wasn’t published in full, but the premiere page went live alongside the video description a little earlier than it was supposed to. As a result, we…
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Over 60 hours into Rise of the Ronin and I still haven’t discovered everything that Team Ninja’s latest open-world samurai adventure game has to offer. And now, outside of all the cats to collect and fugitives to kill, there’s another secret connected to Nioh that I only just came across. That’s right: William Adams,…
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First there’s a solar eclipse, and now there’s an Avatar: The Last Airbender crossover event in Fortnite. Somewhere out there, a grown man is plotting an attack on the Fire Nation while he and his kids get a victory royale and I think that’s beautiful.
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A new Fanatical PC bundle containing seven Fallout games, basically the entire franchise, is currently available right now for the low price of $25. Even better, many of these games are playable on Steam Deck, too.
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Midori, the reliable leaker known for revealing that Persona 3 Reload would be getting The Answer as DLC, has more news for Persona fans. This time it’s about the inevitable Persona 6, which remains unannounced by Atlus. According to a post on social media from Midori, the dominant color in the next mainline entry’s…
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Ordz Games has revealed a new retro-inspired handheld gaming console that will allegedly let players earn Bitcoins while playing games that are connected to the larger blockchain network. The console isn’t out yet, but will likely cost around $500, according to the company behind the device.
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Final Fantasy is a series that’s been known for its epic summons, god-like entities who’ll aid you in battle. Rebirth introduces a number of classics who you can acquire by defeating them in Chadley’s combat simulator. One of which is Odin, who is notoriously able to swiftly end fights with just one attack. Fittingly,…
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If Hatsune Miku were an actual person and not an insanely popular virtual popstar vocaloid (a software that synthesizes sining from lyric and melody inputs) she’d currently be in hot water with fans after her latest concert series. Miku Expo is an annual international tour where vocaloid developer Crypton Future Media…
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Over the weekend, a lucky few JetBlue fliers were treated to a pleasant surprise as they entered Terminal 5 in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport: a photo op with none other than Nintendo’s (and gaming’s) leading man, Mario.
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With Sonic the Hedgehog leaping from the small screen to the big one and spawning TV series spin-offs devoted to specific characters (looking at you, Knuckles), executive producer Toby Ascher has said the film franchise will grow to Avengers-level proportions.
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Later this week, the Fallout TV series premieres on Amazon Prime after what feels like years of rumors, hype, and teasing. But before the show has even aired a single second of its first episode, Amazon is set to deliver more post-apocalyptic drama and has seemingly started prepping to film a second season in…
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With the release of the Rising Tide DLC on April 18, Final Fantasy XVI’s story will finally be over. While that doesn’t mean Square Enix is done working on the project (a PC port is still in the works), it does mean fans are curious as to what the team will do next and if we will ever see the game’s world and…
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If you somehow haven’t heard already, there’s going to be a solar eclipse today, April 8. The sun, moon, and Earth are going to be perfectly aligned for a brief window, and if you live in one of the areas where it will be visible, you’ll be able to see the phenomenon for around four-and-a-half minutes. Many people…
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They did it. They said it was impossible, and that all the odds were against them, but the bastards did it. Over the weekend, Arrowhead Game Studios passed down the final phase of Operation Swift Disassembly, a major order that tasked Helldivers 2 players with wiping out the robot Automatons for good. Despite…
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We all know Xbox is preparing for some sort of digital-first future. With products like the Xbox Series S (and the leaked Xbox Series X refresh), services such as Xbox Game Pass, and some games forgoing physical discs entirely, it seems the gaming giant is ready for gaming to go all digital, and unlike physical games, …
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It’s easy to lose track of time in Dragon’s Dogma 2. There is simply so much to do in Capcom’s action RPG. One minute you are waking up at the inn ready to start your long hike to the next town, and the next thing you you got lost on a detour through a cave system, it’s nighttime, and you’ve let an entire day pass you…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2’s pawns are your loyal companions, your classic RPG party, and also a health hazard thanks to the Dragonsplague illness that can result in the deaths of entire towns. They’re also a chatty bunch, constantly peppering your journey with banter, lore drops, and jokes as you run from one side of the map…
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Whether you’re trying to deal with the obnoxious son of the late Shinra president and his pesky pet or just learn a cool new trick to help you tackle Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s battles, we’ve got you covered this week. We’ve also got the lowdown on how to rank up your Fortnite Festival pass without playing the game,…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 currently has everyone talking, and we’ve got our own thoughts on the game’s highs and lows. We’re also cautiously optimistic for the future of Destiny 2 and have opinions on a few of this week’s gaming-related April Fools’ Day shenanigans. Read on for more.
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April Fools’ is always a weird time for news, because it’s hard for us to discern the real from the fake. There were quite a few game-related April Fools’ jokes this year, but there was also a lovely, real bit of Hollow Knight Silksong news to balance everything out. Plus, this week had streamers getting banned from…
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It’d be quaint to suggest that Baldur’s Gate 3 was just another big-ass game. The hit RPG launched out of early access late last year and positively took the world by storm, becoming the fixation of everyone near and dear to me. It set records and brought significantly more attention to Larian, the studio behind it…
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When I first started playing Overwatch, the original 2016 hero shooter that spawned the 2022 free-to-play sequel Overwatch 2, it was right when Moira was first introduced. The morally repugnant scientist joined the game’s support roster in 2017, and for a newcomer like myself, she seemed like a good hero to start…
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There is a lot of down time in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Capcom’s action RPG is in many ways a game that’s just about walking—but it’s neither boring nor a bad thing. Enjoying the lengthy journeys you take from point A to point B and getting distracted by secrets waiting just off the beaten path is what makes Dragon’s Dogma 2…
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It’s the freakin’ weekend, which means it’s time to get stuck in some games. Maybe you’re playing Dragon’s Dogma 2, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, or Rise of the Ronin. Or, if you’re a Game Pass subscriber, you could be playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s Multiplayer and Zombies mode as part of Xbox Free Play Days.
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Life is Strange: True Colors and Before the Storm studio Deck Nine Games is the subject of a massive IGN report whereby current and former employees allege the studio was a toxic place to work, that there was studio-supported crunch, and there were leaders who only made things worse.