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After spending so much time drifting between minor islands, stumbling upon a massive city like Honolulu, in a pirate ship of all things, is quite the spectacle. Of course, despite your arrival being positively dramatic, the locals still want to fight you! But worry not: The city contains much to see and do besides…
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Released earlier this month, Zombieville USA 3D is a new, super-stylish top-down indie roguelike zombie shooter that is both simple and incredibly well made, with fantastically responsive controls and impressive animation and art. And it currently costs less that $10.
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You’ve no doubt encountered someone who posts on social media like they’re Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, right? You know what I mean. These people, usually to simp for billionaires, voice their support for AI taking over creative fields, or justify discriminating against people, love to make their arguments in the…
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If you talk to enough people about Black Mirror, Netflix’s factory of fear, it won’t take long before someone questions whether they need to watch such a dark show when the actual world we live in is so prone to darkness itself. That would be a misguided view of the long-standing psychological thriller anthology’s…
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A super-secret and very hard level hidden in Split Fiction, so difficult that only a few of the game’s devs could overcome it, has been completed by a pair of speedrunners. Their reward? A free trip to Sweden to get a sneak peek at Hazelight’s next game.
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It’s not every day you get good news in the media landscape, but it looks like we might have some. Game Informer, the longest-running video game magazine in America, was shut down last August by its wretched owners over at GameStop. However, it looks like the publication is gearing up for a return based on posts on…
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College football players who agree to appear in the upcoming EA College Football 26 will reportedly receive more than double the $600 EA paid players last year. And they will also get a free copy of the upcoming sports sim, too.
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Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman, is incredibly powerful in the Marvel Universe. That’s also true in Marvel Rivals, once you know how to use her well-rounded set of tools. As one of the first post-launch additions to the Strategist class, she fills the role of ‘main healer’ with a primary attack that heals allies and d…
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I once had a Batman action figure from Batman: The Animated Series. It meant the world to me. Then I lost it playing in the yard one day and never saw it again. Every once in a while I would look under some bushes or dig up a spot here or there hoping to uncover my lost treasure, but to no avail. The same thing…
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After months of teases, we finally have the first issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog x DC Comics crossover. The limited series of comics has Sonic and his friends teaming up with members of the Justice League, each superhero pairing off with one of Sega’s anthropomorphic animals. Sonic naturally ends up racing alongside…
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Game industry unionization efforts that exploded across Sega of America, Bethesda, and others have recently been on pause. A new initiative by the Communications Workers of America could jumpstart things again. At the Game Developers Conference 2025 happening this week, the group announced the founding of the United…
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February saw the launch of a bunch of big, next-gen only releases including Monster Hunter Wilds, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Avowed, but despite a month littered with new games, new console sales continue to lag. In fact, last month was reportedly the lowest point for gaming hardware sales since before the…
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Michael Steranka, senior product director on mobile smash hit Pokémon Go, has told Polygon that the game being sold to Saudi-owned Scopely is “actually great.” News of the sale last week understandably led to a lot of concern among fans, especially since Scopely also owns the extraordinarily monetized Monopoly Go. But…
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A lot of people don’t like Electronic Arts—two time winner of The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award—for various reasons. But Josef Fares, the director behind the new co-op hit Split Fiction, says he’s had a great experience working with the publisher, even if nobody believes he’s telling the truth.
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As we are all aware, the purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people. Nobody does this better than Ryu Hayabusa, which is why when demons want to take over the planet, they have to send, conservatively, 780,000 of them to try and stop him. Now, nobody’s saying Ryu isn’t capable–he is a ninja after all–but that…
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Something about spring always gets me in the mood to play an RPG. So it’s perfect timing that Square Enix is running a sale on some of its biggest releases and has the voice of Final Fantasy XVI’s Clive Rosfield, Ben Starr himself, to give fans a refresher on what’s out there to choose from.
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Have you seen the absolute size of your pirate ship in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii? It’s impossible to run a vessel of such an immense size without a crew. Thankfully, the islands of Hawaii feature some of the most hardened pirate cosplayers in the nation, so you’re never without a shortage of options. But…
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Just like her fellow SNK fighter Terry Bogard, Mai Shiranui has integrated well as a Street Fighter 6 DLC character with many of her fan-favorite techniques present. However, the standout aspect of her kit is one that’s completely new and exclusive to this game: Flame Stocks. This mechanic provides powerful buffs to…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows, like most modern open-world video games, features a large map filled with various animals, including horses, birds, foxes, rabbits, dogs, and cats. But unlike most other open-world games, even others from Ubisoft itself, you can’t kill any of these animals. Instead, you can only pet and…
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Overwatch 2 has been swimming in collaboration skins over the past few years, and the crossover the hero shooter did with K-Pop group Le Sserafim remains one of its most popular. It’s so well-liked, in fact, that Blizzard is working with the pop act again for another set of skins for a (mostly) different set of…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out later this week and folks, it’s really good! And while one of the big reasons I enjoyed this latest installment is because it’s wonderful to play, it also helps that Shadows is a drop dead gorgeous open-world RPG with some of the best-looking scenery I’ve seen on this generation of…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is, if you count every spin-off and mobile game, the 31st entry in Ubisoft’s long-running historical open-world franchise about sneaky assassins and secret conspiracies. While I consider myself a fan of the series and was excited to play a new Assassin’s Creed adventure set in feudal Japan, I…
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Amazon’s God of War TV show was announced years ago and is still sorting itself out behind the scenes. Now, well-known TV writer Ronald D. Moore has confirmed he’s joined the project, adding that it’s already slated for at least two seasons. Also, he’s never really played the games because modern controls are just a…
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It’s been six months to the day since Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced they were suing Pocketpair, the developer behind the “Pokemon with guns” survival game Palworld. After months of controversy surrounding the game’s various alleged Pokemon knock-offs a lawsuit seemed inevitable, and the internet was lit…
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Lego has teased its latest video game mashup and this time it’s with Pokémon. There’s no release date beyond “2026,” no pricing info or other details at the moment, and it doesn’t really matter because whatever this is will probably sell out while it’s still in the pre-order phase. Are you ready to give some rando on…
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The second set of Xbox Game Pass games for March 2025 have been confirmed and they include plenty of things to look forward too. From apocalyptic RPC Atomfall to the Blizzard Arcade Collection sporting retro co-op delight The Lost Vikings, it’s packed. It’s almost enough to make up for all of the great games leaving…
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There are so many degrees of scope when it comes to the city building format. The genre, that first flourished in the early ‘90s with SimCity 2000 has consistently delivered intricate excellence, with series like Tropico, Frostpunk and Anno, building to the triumph of 2015's Cities: Skylines. But it’s also offered…
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A Xenosaga spin-off that was surprisingly important to the series’ story but was thought lost to the old Japanese mobile phone network it was released on has been recovered and shared online. The RPG Xenosaga: Pied Piper is once again playable, with a fan translation on the way.
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Rolling Stone has obtained an audio recording of actor and former Marvel star Jonathan Majors admitting to strangling his ex-girlfriend, dancer Grace Jabbari, in September of 2022, months before Majors was arrested for physically assaulting Jabbari in March of 2023. As described in the subsequent lawsuit, the incident…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out in just a few days and Ubisoft has a lot riding on the blockbuster’s launch as it reportedly explores breaking up the company following multiple years of delays, cancellations, and disappointing sales. Complicating matters, the latest installment in the long-running historical stealth…