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Pokémon TCG Pocket is already nine months old, because time has come loose from its moorings and there’s a global conspiracy to cover up this chronological catastrophe. Over its three-quarters of a year, the mobile version of the collectible card game has introduced many new sets of cards, a new ranked tournament…
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We may never get another Deus Ex game featuring Elias Toufexis’ lovely voice as Adam Jensen again, but right now you can snag Human Revolution, the debut of our sunglass-wearing badass cyborg, for less than five bucks and, since it’s on GOG, there’s no DRM, meaning you can back up copies of it, responsibly lend it to…
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It often feels like the entire world around you is conspiring to bring about your demise. On Arrakis, that’s true. Between the sandworms and the other deadly players, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone or anything friendly. Even worse, your only haven—the base you build—isn’t free or safe. You owe money to the local…
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CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m not complaining, however,…
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There is a twinkling sound every time you turn on the original Destiny that lives on in the hearts of anyone who spent hundreds of hours playing it. Over a decade later, Destiny 2's newest expansion transported players back to those fond early days by re-using the old menu music for The Edge of Fate’s login screen.
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Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I’ve heard of the game’s singular expansion since its 2023 release–from the inclusion of…
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Remember that really catchy but also very annoying Jack Black song “Lava Chicken” from the Minecraft movie? If you are a parent with kids under the age of 16, you likely do, and you are probably so happy to finally be free of it. Well, bad news: The song was just added to the actual Minecraft game. Sorry.
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The original Kingdom Hearts came to the PlayStation 2 in 2002 when David Gallagher was 17 years old. The actor, now 40, has played deuteragonist and noted “sexy guy” who “the gamer girls” go crazy for, Riku, for more than half his lifetime, but somehow hasn’t ever played the Disney RPGs. Gallagher has a Twitch channel…
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Superman is a box office hit, a really good superhero film, and one of the best movies of the summer. And that’s all still true if you saw the movie in India. However, moviegoers in the country did miss out on one of the film’s most romantic moments because the censors found it a bit too intimate.
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The Analogue 3D promises a classic Nintendo 64 experience on modern displays with all the bells and whistles that entails. The $250 retro console sold out last year and was supposed to ship in early 2025, but the company behind it says orders have been delayed yet again, this time blaming tariffs.
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The latest Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch makes a lot of changes and tweaks, but one very interesting and important change involving a lore-breaking door wasn’t listed in the lengthy patch notes published earlier this month.
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It’s a big day for Helldivers 2 fans. The sci-fi extraction shooter finally lets them plant flags anywhere they want, including on enemies. The morale boost from spreading the spirit of “mission accomplished” throughout the galaxy boosts weapon handling and defense for all players in the surrounding radius.…
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Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey starring Tom Holland, Matt Damon, and a bunch of other big-name actors is set to hit theaters on July 17, 2026, aka a year from now. The movie is still filming as you read these words. And yet, Warner Bros. will soon start selling tickets for IMAX 70MM showings that will likely sell out…
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Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 exclusive, Donkey Kong Bananza, launches later this week and will finally deliver that big single-player binge-worthy game that the hybrid console currently lacks. When you finally get your hands on the new game, you’ll be destroying everything at 60FPS, and that’s because Nintendo…
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Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s feature-complete and…
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McDonald’s Pokémon collaborations are a scalper’s dream and a parent’s worst nightmare because they include limited edition cards in Happy Meals, and collecting the whole set will likely require multiple trips through the restaurant’s drive-thru. However, the next team-up between the fast food restaurant and The…
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Some Switch 1 games have quietly started running much better on Switch 2. Others have gotten free upgrades or patches to help improve performance or fix backwards compatibility issues. The latest of those is Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a collection of three classics that Nintendo doesn’t even sell anymore because, well,…
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Life-size plushies are a well-established feature of Pokémon merchandise. This year has seen pre-orders open for a colossal Gardevoir cuddly, alongside a range of Eeveelutions that are bigger than your pet dog. But when it comes to the non-soft toys, the size tends to be far more modest. Until now, that is. Sideshow,…
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When it was announced that Persona 5: The Phantom X would be accelerating its story content rollout for the West to catch up to China, which has had the game for over a year, players were wary. As a gacha game with timed events and currency, The Phantom X is a game in which narrative developments and their associated…
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Steam’s “Fests” are an almost weekly event now, growing ever more niche as the behemothic game store tries to think up another category to highlight. Now that the Steam Summer Sale is over, the board is cleared for another fest, and this time it’s Automation. Which is to say, all those factory-based games that you…
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Candy Crush maker, King, which Microsoft acquired along with Activision Blizzard back in 2023, was the first hit when mass layoffs were announced across the company earlier this month. Now some impacted staff say morale is at an all time low, as AI they’ve been training for years is potentially used to replace them.
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Peak wasn’t on anybody’s radar at the start of this year, and that includes the people who made it. While it was originally pitched back in 2024, most of it was made in a four-week-long crunch session back in February. Months later, the ruthless climbing sim for friends is one of Steam’s biggest surprise hits of 2025.…
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Like a subscription service for werewolves, PS Plus has begun its monthly changes, with new games arriving as of today, July 15, and others flagged as leaving next month. Heading for the exit in August, among others, is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but already having stepped in to replace it is CD Projekt Red’s colossal…
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The times of transition between two console generations are often fraught, with publishers trying to sell to two ever-shifting markets, with their expectations of forward or backward compatibility, and the perceived inherent unfairness of needing to buy the same game twice. Square Enix has taken an interesting…
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Remember playing the original Super Mario Bros. on the Super Nintendo? You don’t? Ah! Well. Nevertheless.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is a really good remake of the PS2-era skateboarding games THP 3 and THPS 4. However, it is missing something very important. In the game’s recreation of THPS 3's iconic Canada level, someone has been removed: The dude pissing off the edge of the map. I decided to reach out to the developers…
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John Wick Hex, released in 2019, was a tactical role-playing game that recreated the vibes and feel of the Keanu Reeves-starring action movies perfectly. And now, with little warning, John Wick Hex is being delisted from all platforms.
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I spent about 35 hours in Hitman World of Assassination this past weekend—interrupted mostly by the non-optional need to sleep and occasional concerns over the health of my GPU running for so long in a non-air conditioned apartment room in New York City in the summer. But I was determined to find out if the Agent 47…
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Sony celebrated the 30th anniversary of PlayStation with PS1-style special edition consoles and accessories that looked great and almost nobody could get. Everything sold out almost immediately, leaving some fans wondering why the company was depriving itself of the opportunity to sell stuff to its most loyal customers
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Today, July 14, I bought Magic: The Gathering cards for the very first time. Wizards of the Coast and Sega’s new Sonic collaboration set went up for pre-order on Magic’s “Secret Lair” site and it seems like, somehow, I may have cut the line. My brother was also in the queue and was willing to ship me the cards I…