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US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon
Today's court order finds that Apple has violated a 2021 injunction, and that one Apple exec "outright lied under oath."
Shotgun Cop Man review
The Flash game aesthetic lives on in this fast-paced action-platformer.
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Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale
Servant of the Lake will be "a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure."
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Gearbox is 'making rarity matter again' in Borderlands 4 after dropping too many legendaries in Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 "devalued" legendary items, so in Borderlands 4 they'll "truly be special events."
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Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you
"Oh no! What do we do? I'm so scared!" 🥺👉👈
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Every house you can buy in Oblivion Remastered, including upgrades and freebies
Every house (or castle) in Cyrodiil is a fantasy fixer-upper.
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'Be more like Larian, less like Activision': Ex-Call of Duty producer takes his old employer to task for prioritizing FOMO over quality
The XDefiant producer and former face of Call of Duty has some thoughts on CoD's live service shift.
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New Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix patches a rare case of 'teeny tiny legs' syndrome and ensures Charisma gives polearm users the clout they deserve
God, I love patch day.
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EA says Codemasters won't be making any more rally games: 'We've reached the end of the road working on WRC'
The FIA says it's going in an "ambitious new direction" with future WRC game releases, but for Codemasters it's the end of an era.
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Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale just three years after it launched
Saber Interactive has confirmed the takedown is intentional, but won't say why.
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You can get 74 indie games for a scant $16 in this eSims for Gaza Itch.io bundle
Plus over 80 TTRPGs, 26 books, over a dozen comics, and a few soundtracks on the side.
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Blizzard's making a huge World of Warcraft change: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace some of their functions
All the details on Blizzard's planned changes to World of Warcraft add-ons, which will end support for the MMO's most popular mods.
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Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans
All your subreddits are belong to us.
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Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's new release date 'is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date,' and you know he's talking about Grand Theft Auto 6
The Borderlands 4 release date was moved up by nearly two weeks, and we're all wondering why.
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A murder-mystery horse MMO baffled me so much that I spoke to gaming's resident horse expert—turns out they've been holding out for their Stardew Valley moment for years, and I'm on their side
"The genre didn't grow up with us," says consultant and prolific horse game appreciator Alice Ruppert.
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Ex-GTA dev says PC makes scads of cash now so hopefully GTA 6's 'PC version will be closer behind' consoles—that is if 'decision-day' at Rockstar doesn't give us a last-minute delay
Rockstar might have shut down his blog, but not even the Housers can stop Obbe Vermeij from posting.
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Turns out Janet Jackson's laptop-crashing cursed bassline was the scourge of notebook makers for at least half a decade
No struggle, no progress.
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Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I'm just happy I'm not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics
Leave it to the engineers. And the YouTube DIY'ers.
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'We were literally held hostage': Overwatch 2 players are finding the matchmaking in Stadium tough, but the devs say they're working on a couple of solutions
Sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
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Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'
"I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."
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ChatGPT's latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is 'overly supportive but disingenuous'
Sam Altman puts it in different terms, saying GPT-4o "glazes" too much.
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Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, Failbetter Games and Astra Logical are among the first partners confirmed for this year's PC Gaming Show
The PC Gaming Show returns on June 8, 2025.
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How to kill will-o-the-wisps in Oblivion Remastered
Only the right weapon can take down these seemingly invincible creatures.
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Looks like the first RTX 5060 laptop benchmark results are in and show pretty much what we expected
Hopefully as efficient as some other RTX 50-series laptops we've seen.
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Yennefer's voice actor not only knows nothing about what's happening with The Witcher 4, she seems only vaguely aware she was in The Witcher 3: 'I didn't know what I was doing'
Denise Gough, also currently appearing as Dedra Meero in Andor, seems baffled by a question about CD Project's upcoming sequel.
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'Please give us one more chance': Infinity Nikki developer grovels in lengthy apology letter following disastrous launch of its newest patch
Version 1.5 has been mired by bugs, login issues and monetisation upsets.
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'Don't leave trash on Arrakis'—Dune: Awakening creative director implores players to 'clean up your old bases'
Don't desert your work.
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How to complete the Chaos in the Kitchen quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
One step closer to welcoming the Cheshire Cat.
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If you ever thought Vampire Survivors was missing gore, lore, and buckwild nudity, then do I have a game for you
Conquest Dark is a Vampire Survivors-like that manages to strike the right chord between fresh and familiar.
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Eric Barone has regrets about not fleshing out Stardew Valley's characters more, but likes that it's so open ended since it makes things 'more personal' for each player
There could've been more to Stardew's unsolved mysteries.
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Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like
She's taking it better than I would, that's for sure.
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'A lot of people hate it, but I think it's fun': Eric Barone backs Stardew Valley's fishing minigame, but does admit that 'it starts too hard'
They call me the Jeremy Wade of Stardew Valley.
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You can watch the first two episodes of Star Wars' new animated miniseries early… if you hop on Fortnite
Disney and Epic are teaming up for a Star Wars watch party in Fortnite.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI generates 'fantastic' Python code, and that it now creates 'maybe 20 - 30% of the code ... in some of our projects'
Hey, who commented 'purple monkey dishwasher' in here?
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'I kind of failed in that particular aspect': Eric Barone doesn't understand all the Pierre hate and wishes that he'd been 'a little bit more nuanced' when it came to creating JojaMart
Pierre isn't all that bad, but JojaMart is.
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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hasn't 'really' played a lot of other farming and life sims, but he appreciates the impact the game has had on the genre—'it seems to have inspired a lot more people to consider this kind of game'
The routine of farm life won't be stopping any time soon.
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A little power management goes a long way in the latest Intel drivers giving a free 10% fps boost to the MSI Claw AI+ handheld and any other Lunar Lake device
And an average increase of 25% in 1% Low FPS, though only at 17 W or lower.
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Google's dominance in decline as its overall share of online search dips below 90% for the first time in a decade, and its desktop PC share is now below 80% and falling fast
Is deGoogling the next big thing?
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