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For decades, a war has been raging online and in stores. A fight between massive corporations trying to sell you plastic boxes that play games and their weirdly dedicated supporters. The fight was always silly, but very real and expensive, involving massive companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on…
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Overwatch 2 has what Blizzard calls “groundbreaking changes” on the way next month, but before that, it has a smaller, welcome one in the pipeline. Clash, introduced in season 12, is Overwatch 2’s newest game mode. As director Aaron Keller describes it, the mode was inspired by the original hero shooter’s two-point…
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Sniper Elite: Resistance features a heavy focus on stealth, deadly sniper killshots, and brutal takedowns. Perfect for those who love stealth and the thrill of landing the perfect shot. But, uh, you can also earn a trophy or achievement for finding a gnome and snapping a picture of it—and it’s pretty unlikely that…
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Netflix is known for just dropping hundreds of hours of movies and TV at a moment’s notice, almost daring you to test your limits of unproductivity to finish it all. This week, it did a version of that by laying out its slate of 2025 films set to be released. Out of the dozens of movies that range from the lowlights…
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Unsurprisingly, Sniper Elite: Resistance features the franchise’s famous X-Ray killcam feature, which slows down time to show bullets entering a soldier’s body. Sometimes, you may even hit an organ for some extra gruesome visuals. If you’re wondering how many organs are in the game and how to hit them all to snag the…
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On January 30, Microsoft nonchalantly announced that later this year open-world racing sim Forza Horizon 5 would make the leap to PlayStation 5. That might not mean much to some, but for Xbox’s biggest fans, it marks the beginning of the end of an era that truthfully wrapped up years ago.
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From early previews, it’s taking most people approximately 60 to 70 hours to complete Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The game features two massive maps, one bigger than the other, an extensive skill system, a branching storyline with choices and consequences, and some of the most harrowing melee combat in the RPG genre.…
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There aren’t really many shooters out there as dedicated to realistic sniping as the Sniper Elite franchise. That dedication continues in the all-new Sniper Elite: Resistance, which puts you in the boots of an entirely new protagonist and sends you off to pop Nazi noggins. But while its campaign is a stealthy good time
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Look, The Pokémon Company is a giant company that can do whatever it wants. Still, however, one must ask: Is releasing a life-sized posable plush of Gardevoir, the psychic/fairy-type Pokémon who you should never Google without SafeSearch on, perhaps a callous use of one’s power? Is it an example of being so…
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Back in 2021, modder Lance MacDonald released a patch for playing Bloodborne on PlayStation 4 Pro at 60FPS in boost mode. Sony didn’t seem to notice or care. Until now. Almost four years later, the console maker and publisher of this game hit MacDonald with a DMCA request to have the patch removed from the internet.
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Sony’s biggest exclusive of the PlayStation 5 generation has finally arrived on PC and it probably shouldn’t have, at least not in this state. Spider-Man 2 already has a rating of “mixed” on Steam, players warning about crashes, freezes, and all sorts of other issues, even for those with high-end graphics cards like…
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Warner Bros. is pulling the plug on another failed multiplayer game. Its Smash Bros.-inspired platform fighter MultiVersus will shut down at the end of season 5, just a year after it’s bumpy return from live-service purgatory. The game will still be available to play offline, but there won’t be any refunds for players…
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Where recently it was the case that every newly published comic was immediately optioned for a new Netflix or Amazon movie or TV show, Hollywood appears to have now shifted its obsessive focus onto video games. What were once the barrel-bottom residue of the movie world, video game adaptations have found their feet,…
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We’re only three episodes into Severance season 2and we’ve already seen Lumon complicating child labor laws, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) suspiciously being treated like the most important Lumon employee, and the people of the Mammalians Nurturable who tend to the goats we are all still confused about. Now, after hours of …
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Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm can start making money from YouTube again after the Google-owned video platform remonetized his channel of over 4.5 million subscribers on Thursday. The change in policy comes six months after the controversial streamer was dropped by sponsors and business partners due to the circumstances…
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On January 29, Blizzard announced it would be holding an Overwatch 2 Spotlight event next month to reveal “groundbreaking changes” to the hero shooter after about two months of Marvel Rivals eating its lunch. The announcement included confirmation that the support hero Lucio’s Cyber DJ legendary skin would be made…
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Bodies tear, break, grow, shrink, endure, decay. I occasionally think of myself as a sack of skin transporting around a pure, permanent, irreducible self protected from oblivion by its mortal shell but also transcending it. But as I get older, weaker, more tired, the act of self deception, for better and for worse,…
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While the video game industry is huge and has been around for decades, studying its history is tricky due to a lack of tools and resources, as well as legal headaches. But the Video Game History Foundation has just launched a new, free to use website that will let you dig through decades of old game magazines, press…
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The Zone is home to countless mutations and enemies, like bandits wielding shotguns and Snorks ambushing a lone Stalker foolish enough to wander into an abandoned factory at night. Sure, the right weapon, like a powerful submachine gun or fast-firing revolver, will make quick work of most enemies in the game, giving…
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weapon—usually an assault rifle of some type—you will undoubtedly run into a situation where you don’t have the time to reload an empty magazine. Having a powerful sidearm to fall back on makes all the difference in the world in those moments. But which weapon to choose? Yeah, Skif’s Pistol is an excellent starting…
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PlayStation 5 players are about to get access to another hit Xbox exclusive. Multiplayer racing hit Forza Horizon 5 will come to Sony’s platform four years after it was first released. It’s the latest Xbox Game Studios release to make the jump as Microsoft transitions to being one of the biggest third-party publishers…
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Blizzard has announced it’s holding a big blowout event for Overwatch 2 next month. The Overwatch 2 Spotlight showcase will take place on February 12 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern and will unveil “groundbreaking changes to the PvP experience that will be unlike anything you’ve seen before,” as well as new maps,…
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Over on the Xbox Store you can currently find Mariostro Strikers: Soccer League, a newly released game that is clearly a knock-off of the popular Nintendo-published Mario Strikers series. And yes, the cover is an awful AI-generated nightmare.
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Mobile gaming is more popular than ever. As game streaming becomes more viable, and with many games now offering cross-progression across consoles, PC, and mobile hardware, taking your games on the go has never been easier.
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Bittersweet news: We don’t have to wait three years for Squid Game season 3 like we did for season 2, but we now know Netflix’s number one non-English language series of all time will be ending soon. Today, Netflix unveiled Squid Game’s final season will premiere on June 27 with some sneak peeks into the aftermath of…
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When Path of Exile 2 launched in Early Access last year, fans of the action-RPG series were assured that work would still continue on the first game, which was due to have its 3.26 update go live last year. Months later, the studio behind both games—Grinding Gear—explains why that didn’t happen and gives a brief…
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Only recently, I passed on my GameCube to my nephew who was just starting college. He wanted something to play Mario Kart and GoldenEye on with new friends, and apparently it’s proving a hit. But this means I don’t have a GameCube. So let’s check eBay...
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UFC featherweight contender Brian Ortega likes to play Fortnite online with other people. However, one player started trash-talking too much and Ortega made a bet him with that he would make the trip from one side of the United States to the other to put him in a chokehold. And he did just that and recorded it for…
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Earlier this week we got a new teaser for Alien: Earth, an upcoming FX series set in the expansive sci-fi universe. It shows a nasty Xenomorph escaping containment inside a ship crashing into Earth. Scary stuff. But also, this show will (seemingly) deliver on a promise a single Alien 3 teaser made over three decades…