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The PlayStation 5 Pro has been out in the wild for over a week now, and while it offers impressive improvements on many existing games, there are also some for which it seems to introduce new issues that make things look worse. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the Silent Hill 2 remake are just a couple of games that new…
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Two years after the Lego Tallneck was released, Sony has announced its second Horizon Zero Dawn crossover set with the toy brick company, and just in time for the launch of the abridged, Lego Horizon Adventures adaptation of the open-world RPG. The set is actually affordable, too.
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Dune: Prophecy wasted relatively little time setting itself apart from the movies. In the season one premiere of the Dune prequel series, a war is violently declared by the killing of likely the youngest person ever murdered onscreen in director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune universe.
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From the best decks in Pokémon TCG Pocket to a ludicrously expensive card in the original game—and a bunch of other updates, guides, and recommendations in between—here are the most helpful tips we published this week.
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This week saw the classic shootersUnreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the RTS series have been…
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Valve’s seminal shooterHalf-Life 2 is now two decades old and to celebrate, the company has released a new documentary alongside a massive update to the game itself.
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In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game.
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Despite arriving a year after Dune: Part Two, HBO’s new TV adaptation Dune: Prophecy is actually a prequel that takes place almost 10,000 years before the events of the recent films. That doesn’t mean that Denis Villeneuve’s vibes-heavy take on Frank Herbert’s novels isn’t helpful context for what’s going on in Prophec…
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Coca-Cola has been making Christmas ads for a very, very long time. But it’s latest one was created using AI-generation tools and its a terrible, ugly mess.
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Ten years later, the original Destiny is still around and kicking, and it won’t cost you much to dip your toes back into the old-school Bungie looter shooter. The price for all of Destiny 1's DLC and expansions in one simple package is currently just $20.
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It’s the Year of Shadow, a time to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s brooding rival. While Shadow Generations gave the black-and-red hedgehog a starring role in a game this year, it wasn’t the first time that Shadow the Hedgehog got his own game. Today is November 15, and that means it’s been 19 years since Shadow the…
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A new job listing from Blizzard seems to indicate that the studio behind Warcraft and Overwatch might be working on an open-world shooter and based on past reports, it might be a Starcraft FPS led by a veteran Far Cry developer.
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It’s a common refrain that Call of Duty simply needs to cut out the middleman and just turn into a full fledged multiplayer-only game, but there are some absolute sickos out there who just keep egging Activision on to keep giving us 3 or 4 hours of absolute military-industrial nonsense, and god bless ‘em that they…
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According to Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg, the upcoming installment in the sci-fi franchise is going to shake things up and make the alien hunter himself the protagonist.
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It wouldn’t feel like a proper entry in the series if Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 didn’t present a fun single-player campaign alongside the compelling grind to Prestige. Not only is the narrative exciting, but the missions vary quite a lot and give you plenty of options for how to accomplish objectives. There are a lot…
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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is full of attention to detail and love for the 40-year-old franchise. Of course, that doesn’t mean it has every reference or detail that fans are looking for. Those playing the PC version have already taken the responsibility of fixing that into their own hands. Since the game’s launch,…
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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a game packed with numerous characters and mechanics alike. Although it does feature training modes to help you master the various systems available, some things just aren’t explained well. Impact Actions are a great example even though it’s a commonly encountered mechanic. Something that…
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There are few series that have revolutionized video games quite like Dragon Quest. Debuting all the way back in 1986, the first Dragon Quest made its mark by distilling the complex mechanics of early RPGs such as Wizardry and Ultima into a form that even casual gamers could enjoy. Featuring the artwork of the…
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As we get deeper into November, more and more companies are announcing Black Friday deals. Xbox has joined the holiday tradition and revealed a ton of deals on games, consoles, and controllers.
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HBO’s The Penguin only exists because The Batman was wildly successful and audiences really gravitated to Colin Farrell’s against-type rendition of Oswald Cobblepot, or Oz Cobb as he’s known in this universe. So why isn’t Robert Pattinson’s caped crusader anywhere to be found in the show’s eight-episode tour of…
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s ending is one of the best segments in the game if not the whole series. But its secret ending, one you unlock by doing specific side quests and finding certain artifacts throughout the world, is a bit more controversial. After fans unlocked the scene in question, some weren’t thrilled at…
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Pokémon Gold and Silver turns 25 years old this month. The Game Boy Color RPGs brought fans to the Johto region, introduced 100 new monsters, and are widely considered some of the best games in the franchise’s long history. To commemorate the anniversary, The Pokémon Company is releasing a new line of merchandise…
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Microsoft’s latest holiday marketing campaign is all about how you can play Xbox games even without the actual console. “This is an Xbox,” the slogan reads as it lists laptops, smartphones, VR headsets, and other platform-agnostic devices. But despite doubling-down on the virtues of “play anywhere,” the company is…
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Despite a recent spate of successful games-to-screen transitions—such as Fallout, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Arcane—publisher Ubisoft continues its endless run of cinematic misfortune. The latest blow comes in the form of the long-planned Splinter Cell movie, which is now not going to happen.
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A confused Fortnite player noticed something while playing the popular free-to-play battle royale shooter and posted a screenshot on Twitter. In the shared image, it looked as if a weird picture of mold had popped up in the game. Why was there mold in Fortnite? Turns out, you can blame Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and a…
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Infinity Nikki was cutting it close, but it turns out the cozy open-world game will sneak out right in time to close out 2024. The game looks like Just Cause inside an anime cottagecore feed and it’s coming out on December 5.
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Ghostface arrives in Mortal Kombat 1 later this month. The iconic killer from the Scream films is a bit of a horror movie oddball as each one has been a different person, often working with others. And that’s true in Mortal Kombat 1, too. Plus two of the killers are actually mysterious Mortal Kombat characters.
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The Queen of the North is about to become a gun-toting British archeologist. According to recent reports, Game of Thrones Sophie Turner is set to play the lead role of Lara Croft in Amazon’s Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider TV series.
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Overwatch 2 is running a limited-time event called Overwatch Classic that reverts the game to its original roster, rulesets, and hero kits. It’s miserable to go back to, especially if you have no nostalgia for Overwatch as it existed in 2016. However, it is bringing back some old meme-y strategies from back in the…
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The next stop on Lady Gaga’s years-long tour through the weirdest corners of film and television could be Nevermore Academy. According to Variety, the Oscar-winning star is set to appear in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, yet not as it was originally planned.