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It sounded like a miracle: Nvidia’s new budget GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card, priced at just $550, would perform even better than last generation’s $1,600 RTX 4090. That was the claim CEO Jensen Huang made on stage at CES 2025 a couple of months ago. It turns out it was (mostly) bullshit, but the RTX 5070 is already…
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Spring is nearly here! That means we are almost done with the brutal cold days of Winter. Ahh, it’s so nice to go outside again. But there’s no time for that! We have video games to play and Amazon Prime members have a bunch of free games to grab as part of their subscription plan, including the fantastic Saints Row…
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The day of Mario is nearly upon us. In celebration of the overall-wearing plumber and his ongoing gaming franchise domination, Nintendo has marked down a bunch of Switch games that are normally $60. It’s also released a new Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch OLED bundle, in case you wanted to pick up the eight-year old…
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In case you missed it this morning, a trailer for the canceled 2023 live-action CW Powerpuff Girls show was leaked. The internet almost universally deemed it a dumpster fire and started clowning on it, and Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the superhero sisters, has been going to great lengths to scrub it from…
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Sony has revealed a new PlayStation 5 DualSense controller inspired by the both Last of Us video games. And uh, well, hmmmm, it looks bad!
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Enormous, savage creatures roam dense forests and sprawling deserts in Monster Hunter Wilds. They’re impressive, deadly, and the game’s ostensible main attraction. But my favorite acquaintance in the Forbidden Lands is not some hulking, ferocious beast but a ‘lil guy named Rove. Other players agree: the philosophical…
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A 10 a.m. restock of Pokémon cards led to aggressive pushing and shouting between two men inside a store in front of a card-selling vending machine. The video has since gone viral on TikTok and social media.
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As you work your way through one of Zoe’s early fantasy levels in Split Fiction, you’ll come across a collection of baby birds in tiny nests. One of these little buddies hasn’t fully hatched yet, with only his poor little wings sticking out. But you can help him, while also helping yourself clear the bramble in your…
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I memory-holed the fact that CW was making an adult-oriented, live-action Powerpuff Girls show after the series was canceled before it was even released back in 2023. I, like plenty of other millennials growing up in the ‘90s, have a lot of good memories of watching the Cartoon Network show following three…
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Split Fiction is equal parts heartwarming tale and heart-pounding adventure, expertly blending sci-fi and fantasy into a creative cooperative journey unlike anything you’ve seen. Before you dive in with a friend or loved one, though, here are four things you should know about the game.
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Hazelight Studios has once again brought a whole heap of co-op joy with its newest game, Split Fiction, which sends two players on a high-stakes quest across high fantasy and sci-fi settings. There are plenty of funny and heartfelt moments for you and a friend to experience in this adventure. But if you’re wondering…
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Discord has become a central artery for gaming. It’s the default place for companies to build communities around their games and for the people who play them to hang out with one another, coordinate gaming sessions, or just shoot the shit about whatever’s going on in life. It’s one of the least crappysocial media…
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Want to bring your ranked matches to the Endgame with Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange in Marvel Rivals? Doctor Strange offers a fantastic one-two punch for hero shooter fans: strong and simple. He’s a hero of a Vanguard (tank) variety, meaning his main responsibility is to soak up incoming damage. Oh, and to mess with…
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I’ve been waiting a long time for a game like Avowed. In fact, you might have to go back to 2002’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind to find another first-person fantasy role-playing game that so utterly captivated me with its world. I’ve seen some people grouse that it’s not as full-featured as the likes of Skyrim,…
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President Donald Trump’s recently imposed tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada could potentially lead to higher game and console prices, fewer physical releases, and supply shortages, according to some industry analysts.
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After a few delays and leaks, Ubisoft’s next main entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is nearly here. And, in a series first, it comes with a mode that removes many choices, instead adhering to one “canonical” narrative path. Now Ubisoft has explained why this option was added and also…
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Almost every major Japanese publisher had to have a big RPG franchise in the PS1 era. Square Soft had Final Fantasy. Enix had Dragon Quest. Capcom had Breath of Fire. Bandai Namco had Tales. And so, Konami made Suikoden. Its innovation was trading a set party of heroes for a cast of 108 total characters who could be…
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We’re about a month away from season two of The Last of Us premiering on Max, and Neil Druckmann, the director of the series of games the show is based on, is doing interviews to promote its return. Naturally, those conversations end up drifting over to the future of the video game series that started it all. That’s…
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Avowed contains multiple fantastic two-handed Great Sword options, so it’s hard to specify which is the absolute best for you without knowing what type of build you’re going for. But one thing is for certain: Great Swords swing slow as hell. As such, more attack speed is never a bad thing. And that’s where The…
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Calling all fans of Monster Hunter, creepy forests, awesome 2D action games, and/or intergalactic warfare, this month’s Humble Choice selection is for you.
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Paradise is the type of show in which bravery is essential, and being a badass is survival. The remarkable Hulu series is set in a world where rich and powerful people designed a utopian city called Paradise inside of a Colorado mountain in order to survive an extinction-level event that has ravaged Earth. The…
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Absolum is a just-revealed side-scrolling brawler from some of the best teams in the genre. It looks like the beautiful art of Hades mixed with the soul of Golden Axe. It’s the latest neat-looking retro surprise in a year shaping up to be full of them.
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There are a whole bunch of Great Axes that are worth hauling around in Avowed, and it’s hard to go wrong with any of them. There’s a specific Great Axe obtainable at the very end of the game that would likely take the top spot overall, but given that you have less than an hour of playtime left when you reach that…
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FragPunk is a first-person hero shooter where you use deckbuilding card mechanics to augment your characters’ strengths and weaknesses. It’s the next free-to-play game from NetEase, which also produced Marvel Rivals, and it’s coming out this week, just not on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S where it was suddenly…
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Picture this: You’ve just capsized and crashlanded on a remote island with a fort looming overhead. You’re defenseless, and a strange blue being is sifting through your ship’s remnants. You need a weapon, and in the moment, anything will suffice, like the dagger or wand on the ground before you. That’s all good, but a…
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No one embodies the soul of the Fantastic Four like The Thing, so it only makes sense that lovable lug would join Marvel Rivals after the rest of his family was added to the game. I’m here to tell you how to best use Ben Grimm to stop that pesky Yancy Street Gang, once and for all.
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It’s only the beginning of March but 2025 already has some bangers worth spotlighting, including real standouts like Split Fiction and Avowed, so we decided to start compiling the best games of the year early and update this list as the days, weeks, and months go by. Here are some of the best games we’ve played so far…
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The PlayStation-owned studio Visual Arts was hit with with fresh layoffs this week amid a further restructuring of Sony’s U.S. game development operations. While some of the cuts included staff who had contributed to recently canceled projects like an upcoming live-service game at Bend Studio, a source told Kotaku the…
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Two Point Museum—available now on PC and consoles—is the third game in the Two Point franchise. The wacky sim series started off with Two Point Hospital in 2018 and then leaped to colleges and universities in 2022's Two Point Campus. Now, players are able to build their own wild and weird museums in Two Point Museum.
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Peak release season for the first half of 2025 is officially upon us. The February flood picks up into a tidal wave in March with dozens of new games both big and small to check out, as well as tons more that will blow up or be discovered in the weeks ahead. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the big tentpole blockbuster…