ConnexionBloodstained is back after 6 years with 3D cutscenes that look like they're from a different era of videogames
Why is everyone made out of plastic?
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Vue lecture
If an NPC hates you in this adventure from the makers of Road 96, it's probably because another player was mean to them earlier
Tides of Tomorrow's asynchronous multiplayer system lets other players' choices impact your own game. And vice versa.
An all-new Thief game was announced during State of Play, but it's a VR game so who cares
More than 10 years has passed since the botched Thief reboot and this is what we get.
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Silent Hill f is coming in September, so here's a deeply disturbing new trailer to give you something to think about while you wait
Konami revealed the release date during today's State of Play showcase.
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Our first look at 007 First Light is finally here, and oh no: I'm pretty sure this Bond was born in the year 2000
Young, smirky Bond looks an awful lot like Dexter: New Blood actor Patrick Gibson.
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Suda51 just announced a delightfully bizarre action game about a cyborg man with a chainsaw sword
Now that's a lot of particle effects.
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Oh hell yeah, that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real, and it's out later this year
The Ivalice Chronicles includes two versions, I'm sure we'll all be normal about which to play first.
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Nioh 3 stars legendary warlord Tokugawa (the inspiration for FX's Shogun), and it's coming to PC in early 2026
I'm not an expert, but I think the glowing guardian spirits are a product of creative license.
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Oh dang, we're getting an all-new Lumines, and this one's got 'over 30 stages of synesthetic sensory wonderlands'
That's my favorite kind of sensory wonderland!
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Almost exactly 5 years after it was announced, Capcom's astronaut action game Pragmata finally has a release date: 'It's real'
But it's still a wait: Pragmata's due in 2026.
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Summer Game Fest 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect at Friday's livestream
The show's partners include brand new developers with unannounced games, as well as many of gaming's biggest publishers.
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A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI
The first RPG from Raw Power Games has piqued my interest, but the Midjourney concept art might not go over well.
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Balatro doesn't have microtransactions for a very good reason: 'It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans," LocalThunk says
That also holds for in-game ads, season passes, and other "nonsense that isn't actually the game."
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Welcome To The Dark Place: All the key details on the Lethal Company developer's next horror adventure
Don't go expecting another multiplayer mega-hit, as solo dev Zeekerss is returning to his roots.
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Bungie makes the (correct) decision to roll back Destiny 2's most severe Edge of Fate nerfs before they've even happened
And yes, I am going to take partial credit
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CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is 'super great' and, when it comes to The Witcher 4's direction of travel, 'these are our next steps for sure'
"I love Kingdom Come because of the realism and the feeling, the sense of humor."
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No Man's Sky just got another mondo update and I think it's a management game now?
You're mayor now. No, you can't refuse.
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CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
It's going to be a long wait until 2027...
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Elden Ring Nightreign hits 3.5 million copies sold in just 5 days, with 7.5% of players already managing to beat all the Nightlords
That's a lot of work in not a lot of time.
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WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
As a FF14 and WoW player both, I don't think this is gonna go as well as they think it will.
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Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin
"It's actually a napkin story. You don't hear many in real life, but this is a real one."
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I wasn't expecting a FromSoftware game, of all things, to be so gut-bustingly funny—but just like Helldivers 2, Elden Ring Nightreign turns death into a punchline
Whomped in the Lands Between.
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This tech DIYer swapped their graphics card's cooling for a CPU cooler because why not? Also it actually works
I don't know whether I'd recommend doing this on an RTX 5090, though.
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I built a real SteamOS Steam Machine out of the guts of an old laptop so Gabe doesn't have to go through that whole sad dance again
I get why you might not want to go back, but I just made myself a Steam Machine from office bits and it was (eventually) pretty damned easy.
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Just two days after I said this is the only wireless gaming headset I'd buy on sale it's now $20 off
I've only just reviewed it.
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Elden Ring Nightreign Sentient Pest boss guide: How to beat Gnoster
Somehow this bug-based expedition is also one of the most beautiful.
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I just found out there's a server tossing championship, and it makes me want to try yeeting my own PC down the road
I hated Phys Ed as a kid—but I'm sure I would have changed my tune if the curriculum included server tossing.
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Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
The beautiful irony of idiotic AI.
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'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
You're always being guided, you're just annoyed when you realise it.
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I've been gaming with Razer's new wireless charging mouse pad and I'm glad there's finally serious competition for Logitech
About that price, though…
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Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion
Which has been pretty good for devs, at least.
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DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
Inevitably creating the potential for bots emailing other bots and absolutely nothing else to worry about.
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Elden Ring Nightreign Darkdrift Knight boss guide: How to beat Fulghor
Screw the Night Aspect, Fulghor is the real final boss.
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB review (XFX Swift)
AMD's budget GPU offering swings for the fences.
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Spot the connector: Gigabyte's new graphics card design lets you hide your power cable even if you don't have a back-connect motherboard
It seems clean build designs are the name of the game in 2025.
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'Why are they so greedy': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are in disbelief to find bundle ads but Activision claims it's simply a 'UI feature test' that was published 'in error'
"This feature has now been removed from the live game."
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This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
Is 3D wireless power the future?
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'You shall main Wylder Spooderman': An Elden Ring Nightreign player has found the best Wylder setup 55 hours in, letting them use their grappling hook every 4 seconds
With great power comes great skill cooldown.
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Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows
Hey, at least that's fewer folks on Windows 10.
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