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Document Your Journey Through Feudal Japan With Assassin's Creed Shadows' Excellent Photo Mode

I’m an absolute sucker for taking in-game screenshots of my favorite games and even those I don’t particularly enjoy. And I’m not alone. Virtual photography has become quite the movement among us digital shutterbugs.

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How To Unlock Yasuke In Assassin’s Creed Shadows

You’d be forgiven for thinking Yasuke is the starting character in the early moments of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The opening cutscene follows his introduction to Oda Nobunaga; then time skips to an action-packed tutorial that showcases Yasuke’s basic controls. Afterwards, the game shifts to deuteragonist Naoe, and…

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How To Defeat The Wounded Onryo In Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t lacking for ways to just drift around the Japanese countryside for hours and hours. But eventually, once you’ve done a bit of legwork and made a few new friends, Naoe will have to get her gameface on so she can get some of that revenge she’s been thirsting for since the Onryo left her…

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Overwatch 2 Just Teased A Long-Awaited Hero And Fans Are Freaking Out

Overwatch 2’s next hero is Freja, and the crossbow-wielding damage character is getting an early trial period this weekend. To celebrate, Blizzard released a new animated trailer featuring her doing some sick acrobatic tricks and taking out synthetic omnic goons. That’s all well and good, but what fans are honing in…

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DoorDash Will Soon Offer More Ways To Buy A Burrito Via Payment Plan

These days it’s very expensive (and annoying) to order food via popular delivery apps like DoorDash and UberEats. In fact, its so pricey that DoorDash is teaming up with another company to offer customers yet another way to pay for future burritos and burgers via multiple smaller payments.

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Make Sure You Get Your Blacksmith Right Away In Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Like any open-world game, it can take a second to get your bearings in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. After the game’s opening act, your first line of business is to find Tomiko and establish your hideout. This is your base of operations where you’ll accrue allies and build facilities, though you’ll quickly find one of the…

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No One Was Around To Collect Life Is Strange: Double Exposure's Award For Social Impact Following Layoffs

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was a divisive sequel to a beloved narrative-driven adventure series. It ended up winning the Social Impact award at the Game Developers Choice Awards last night, but following mass layoffs at developer Deck Nine Games last year, it was also one of the only games where no one was…

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How To Exploit Wounds In Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds changes up some of the series’ regular mechanics, but perhaps the most important is the introduction of the new Wounds system.

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All The Game And Anime Announcements At Digimon Con 2025

Bandai and Toei held a lengthy Digimon Con 2025 livestream this morning, March 20, to showcase upcoming projects in the long-running virtual pet and monster-taming franchise. As previously teased, we saw an upcoming mobile card game, but we also got new looks at the future of Digimon video games and anime in between…

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It's 2025 And There's A Fight Over The Future Of The Nintendo 64 Brewing

We’re in the midst of a retro console revolution. Between emulation handhelds pouring out of China and more affordable FPGA consoles popping up all the time, there have never been more options to choose from for playing classic games from the ‘80s, ‘90s, and 2000s. The Nintendo 64 is one of the platforms getting…

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25 Assassin's Creed Shadows Tips To Check Out Before Playing

Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out now, is a very good entry in Ubisoft’s long-running franchise. But it’s also a big, complicated game with a lot of different mechanics, systems, features, and options. And Shadows doesn’t always do a great job of explaining how all of this stuff works.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Addresses Ongoing Controversy Around Cultural Sensitivity With Day-One Patch

A day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will address criticisms of how the open-world RPG allows players to go on a violent rampage through religious shrines in 1500s Japan. Parts of specific buildings will no longer be destructible, and the monks inside will no longer bleed when hit, following recent comments on…

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Stand Back 'Peaches,' Jack Black Has A New Rock Anthem For A Minecraft Movie

It would frankly be silly at this point not to get Jack Black to release his vocal chords if he’s starring in a movie. Following the viral success of ‘Peaches,’ Black’s gloriously silly ditty sung as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it looks like A Minecraft Movie is trying to capture some of the same magic.…

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Ark: Survival Evolved Fans Can't Believe How Bad Its Newest Trailer Looks

A surprise trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved teased its new water-based expansion Aquatica this week and fans are livid. That’s because the video appears to make generous use of AI-generated footage to show a bland and incoherent mashup of underwater scenes that have nothing to do with the game.

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Monster Hunter Wilds' Confusing Co-Op Settings, Explained

Multiplayer is one of the staples of Monster Hunter. It’s a far different game when playing alone, and the game doesn’t make it terribly easy to understand the nuances of its co-op system. So let’s go through the (unfortunately) convoluted “friend” system in Wilds so you don’t have to suffer wandering alone.

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Report: Canned Coyote Vs. Acme Movie Might Be Heading To Theaters After All

These days I appreciate any good news we get and hold onto it for dear life. And today, the good news keeping me going is a new report that claims Warner Bros. is negotiating a deal that would finally bring the canceled Coyote Vs. Acme movie to theaters in 2026.

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11 Awesome Games That Are All Just $5 On PlayStation Right Now

PlayStation’s Mega March sale is currently available on PS4 and PS5 (sorry, fellow Vita owners) and has some great deals on older games, especially stuff from the 2010s. If you’re looking for something to play and don’t want to break the bank, I have some perfect picks to add to your library.

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What To Do First Upon Reaching Honolulu In Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii

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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New Cartoony Zombie Game Is Perfect On Steam Deck

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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The Antidote To Sephiroth Posting Is Barret Posting

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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These 8 Black Mirror Episodes Wound Up Becoming Terrifyingly Relevant

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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Split Fiction Players Complete Super-Secret Level And Win Awesome Prize

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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Game Informer Seems To Be Teasing A Comeback

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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EA Offering Players More Money To Appear In College Football 26

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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Become The Ultimate Stealthy Strategist With Marvel Rivals' Invisible Woman

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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Pokémon Sun Cartridge Lost Outside And Battered By The Elements For Six Long Years Somehow Still Works

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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The Entire Sonic And DC Comics Crossover Was Worth It For This Page

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 Developers Launch North America's First Industry-Wide Union Anyone Can Join

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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Gaming Hardware Sales Hit A 5-Year Low Last Month

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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Pokémon Go Lead Claims Being Run By Saudi-Owned Scopely Won't Ruin The Game

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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