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Match Over, For Now | Fortnite is back on the US App Store, as Epic and Apple's legal battle royale over it concludes with a 55-year-old exec tweeting the word "fam"

It has returned, fellow hip and trendy youths.

May 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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Dark Science | Despite low Steam turnout, Doom: The Dark Ages is id Software's most popular game at launch, clearly thanks to Game Pass

Doom: The Dark Ages is apparently id Software's biggest launch, if you strictly accept Bethesda's definition.

May 21, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Big Move | Avowed director packs up and leaves Obsidian for one of Netflix's game studios

After 12 years at Obsidian, Carrie Patel is off on a new journey.

May 21, 2025 Connor Makar

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Super Stonks | Helldivers 2's Heart of Democracy update delivers the game's highest Steam player count since its initial post-release hot streak began to wane, as battle rages on Super Earth

"It’s all you folks and your amazing support."

May 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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Sequel | Single-player sickos rejoice, PlayStation 5 gets another non live-service game in the form of a Stellar Blade sequel, dropping “before 2027”

That almost certainly means 2026, but hey, that's how the company framed it.

May 20, 2025 Connor Makar

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Chef's Kiss | The Witcher 4 being about Ciri isn't "woke" and all the fuss is "stupid" Geralt himself says, fittingly in a video where he offers advice about talking to girls

Also, Geralt isn't a distracted boyfriend, Doug Cockle reckons, he's just a lad who can only focus on what's right in front of him.

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Number Twos | "Protec the lil' uns!" As Helldivers 2's CEO takes a victory lap around the latrines, players have already fallen in love with their new SEAF buddies

"What's the pant situation soldiers????"

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Force Pushback | Fortnite's AI Darth Vader hasn't just created problems for Epic by being Jedi mind-tricked into saying bad words, it's led SAG-AFTRA to file an unfair labour practice charge

"We must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members."

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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No-Brainer Brains | Dead Island 2, the co-op zombie shooter that's better than it has any right to be, is free to own right now

There are far, far worse zombie games you could be spending your time with than Dead Island 2.

May 20, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Switch and Chips | Worried that Nintendo Switch 2 stock levels could leave you without a console until 2026? Well, Ninty’s reportedly done a deal with Samsung that might help

Chips may be the big thing right now, but Samsung's also seemingly already got one eye on a Switch 2 hardware refresh down the line.

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Purple Alert | UPDATE: "All eyes now turn to Liberty's Heart" Helldivers 2's big battle for Super Earth is here, as the Heart of Democracy update brings an Illuminate "Great Host" invasion

At least the divers' latest heroic stand means there's been time to fortify the Mega Cities and call in some reinforcements.

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Skillige Isles | Fancy a Witcher 3 10th anniversary playthrough with extra "classic RPG feel"? Well, this new mod gives it a totally revamped Witcher 1-style skill system

Yo, I heard you like games that are getting a bit old, so I added something even more old school into your kinda old game.

May 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Ryu? | It's pretty clear Monster Hunter Wilds' first Capcom collab will be with Street Fighter

Capcom has officially begun teasing the first collaboration event coming to Monster Hunter Wilds, ending weeks of speculation.

May 19, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Legal Power | LEGO seemingly shuts down Bionicle fan game after 8 years of development, because as we all know Bionicle is a scorching hot IP that the company is doing a lot with right now

The team has taken the alleged takedown request in stride, forming an independent developer called Unmasked Games.

May 19, 2025 Connor Makar

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Party On The Path | "Cannot wait for what is yet to come" As The Witcher 3 turns 10, CD Projekt devs share the defining memories it created and look to the future

"I want to make you proud of us and excited again."

May 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Disaster | Morale at Bungie reportedly in "free fall" after disastrous art plagiarism fiasco and horrendous community-facing live stream

It's also ben reported that higher-ups have been ignoring developer feedback on key features for years. Which, y'know, ain't great.

May 19, 2025 Connor Makar

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The Dark Steam Ages | Doom: The Dark Ages has the lowest Steam player count of any of the modern Doom games at launch

Doom: The Dark Ages has not had the best Steam launch, at least when you compare it to the other modern Doom games.

May 19, 2025 Sherif Saed

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SepTerminator | “It will find you” Oblivion Remastered’s modded Sean Bean-hunting Terminator wouldn’t exist without Resident Evil and a magical NPC that’s been ambushing newbies since 2006

“I love the idea of something big and scary chasing you down while you're already crushed under the pressure of saving the world.”

May 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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Just Why | UPDATE: Fortnite's now letting people squad up with a Darth Vader AI chatbot for, sigh, reasons, so of course streamers have already made it swear and talk about boobs

Heads up: if you're under 13 (this varies by region), you'll need to get your parents' permission to ask this thing why it exists.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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New Yeee-Hardware? | Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly coming to Switch 2, which would give GameChat a chance to prove its worth via yelling about Tahiti and horse balls

'Guys, Dutch clearly has a plan, why wouldn't I trust him?' said the Switch 2 player to their fellow chatters.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Money Matters | That’s a lot of Claptrap: Take-Two reveals the Borderlands franchise has sold nearly 93 million copies ahead of Borderlands 4 blowout later this year

The bar has been set pretty higher for Borderlands 4.

May 16, 2025 Connor Makar

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Not Back Yet | Fortnite developer Epic accuses Apple of glockblocking its attempts to shoot the game back onto US iOS, then probably hit the griddy

Epic says Fortnite on iOS will now "be offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it", as the corporate battle royale continues.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Too Early? | We're only a few days into Diablo 4 Season 8, and Blizzard is already looking for players to test out Season 9

Blizzard will soon reveal what players can expect from Diablo 4's next season, which seems a little too early, but actually makes sense.

May 16, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Top 50 Club | Steam now lets you check out each month's top 50 best-selling games, and scroll all the way back to Half-Life 2's release if you want to feel mega old

Valve has given Steam's monthly game charts a big refresh, for those of us who really want to study the most popular games on the platform.

May 16, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Mech or Break | Phew, Helldivers 2 just got an "emergency hotfix" to tackle a mission-ruining glitch that's been letting people spam crash-inducing mech swarms

Things had gotten so bad clips of the exploit had been banned from the Helldivers 2 subreddit.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Again | Bungie accused of plagiarizing art (yet again), but blames all the alleged Marathon art theft on a former employee

Third time's the charm with Bungie, as yet another claim of plagiarism has been levied at the studio.

May 16, 2025 Connor Makar

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It's A Date | GTA 6 delay was about Rockstar delivering its "creative vision with no limitations", and Take-Two's CEO sounds decently confident the game won't slip again

"Delays pain me - how could they not?" Strauss Zelnick says. You should get that checked out, mate.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Jerald of Rumare | Oblivion Remastered's radiant quest hero is at it again: here's a Witcher-ish mod that lets warriors become full-time professional monster slayers

They're seemingly planning on adding a heap more battles to the Imperial City's Arena next, because Adoring Fans call for bloodshed.

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Next Game Incoming | Of course Warner Bros. announces a Mortal Kombat 1 Definitive Edition just after posting disastrous results for its gaming division

A recent financial report from Warner Bros stated that gaming revenue decreased 48% from this time last year.

May 15, 2025 Connor Makar

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Staying In Shadows | Assassin's Creed Shadows' delay turned out well, so Ubisoft's bigwigs are pushing some of the biggest games it has in the works further down the road

If it ain't broke, give it an extra year or so just to allow you to really make sure it ain't broke.

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Kingdom Hearts Bwaor | Square Enix posts Kingdom Hearts 4 screenshots to show fans the game is still alive, still carrying the shovel it buried Missing-Link with

Kingdom Hearts 4 is still seemingly a real thing worked on by humans, my non-existent sources can confirm.

May 15, 2025 Connor Makar

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Bright Future | Helldivers 2 is still Arrowhead's "main focus", as its CEO suggests work on its next game will kick off "later this year" with "freedom to explore some really cool concepts"

"A very, very small team will spin up something later this year and go at it sloowly."

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Rope in your pals | Kojima is kicking off a Death Stranding 2 world tour, so grab your baby and hike on over to one later this year

12 locations around the world will feature IRL Death Stranding 2 events, so head on over if you can.

May 15, 2025 Connor Makar

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2FA, please | UPDATE: Phew, Valve confirms alleged data breach was "not a breach of Steam systems" and says you don't need to change your password

"Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account."

May 15, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Boomer Stabber | UPDATE: Rip and Tamriel: Doom's Praetor armour has been modded into Oblivion Remastered, so you can practice for The Dark Ages by duffing up Daedra

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura, it's the Doom Slayer, standing here, next to me!

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Gacha In My Sights | Wish Oblivion Remastered's Dark Brotherhood missions never ended? Well, this mod adds a huge new radiant contract system with, er, Morrowindy gacha mechanics

Yeah, you read that last bit right, would-be Diligent Father destroyer.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Every Little Helps | As Super Earth beckons, Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead is making a key Galactic War system change to help out "the casual diver who only has time for a mission a day"

Also, there's a new character in the Super Earth drama - Major Truth.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Immersion Kittyller | Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix gets rid of "trippy, high-saturation graphical artefacts", but also totally breaks everyone's immersion by making cats actually obey people

Have you ever tried getting a huffy feline friend to look at a camera, Larian?

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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They Always Do | Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which inexplicably skipped PC when it came out last year, finally returns home this month

It never made sense why the Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy kind of pretended the PC platform doesn't exist when it was released last year.

May 14, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Throwing the Key | Square Enix cans Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link for good, all while fans beg for any crumb of Kingdom Hearts 4 news

It's been awfully silent in the world of Kingdom Hearts. Here's hoping this leads to more movement with KH4!

May 14, 2025 Connor Makar

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Price Going Up | PS5 sales are keeping pace with the trajectory of the PS4, but Sony wants to jack the price anyway (thanks, tariffs)

Sony is also considering opening up manufacturing in the USA, something the US government has expressed as a major goal.

May 14, 2025 Connor Makar

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Sigh | GTA 6 trailer two has been recreated in GTA 5, but it’s 2025 so of course it has to include a suspiciously AI-sounding cover of Trevor doing Hot Together

Come on man, this'd be so much funnier if it was clear you've just done a terrible impression with your own vocal chords.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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World Premiere | Wa-hoo! The sequel to the Super Mario Bros Movie gets a name, thanks to NBCUniversal prematurely pressing let’s a-go

The name's since been scrubbed, likely after someone noticed and let out an ear-splitting Toad scream.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Illumi-nother One? | Helldivers 2's upcoming battle for Super Earth might be part of another big update, alleged PlayStation leak suggests, but Arrowhead's CEO is keeping his lips sealed

May 20 could be another seismic day in the Galactic War, if this apparent leak turns out to be accurate.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Festival of Skulls | Warhammer Skulls returns on May 22 with a drop pod full of reveals around Space Marine 2, Darktide and more

Games featured include Space Marine 2, Rogue Trader, Darktide and more!

May 13, 2025 Connor Makar

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Tamrielnator | Uh oh Jauffre, this Oblivion Remastered mod turns the main story into a terrifying race against a time-travelling level 70 terminator laser-focused on slaughtering Martin Septim

"It will hunt you to the ends of the world for a chance to end the Septims' reign forever."

May 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Back Into Hyding-ra | Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra's release has been delayed to early next year, so Skydance can spend more time superpolishing it

The studio's also teasing having "some exciting things in store" and says it'll start sharing soon.

May 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Persona! | Atlus teases something Persona 5-related with a cryptic social media post, though what it actually is remains a mystery

The most likely outcome is a Western release of Persona 5: The Phantom X, which would certainly be nice!

May 13, 2025 Connor Makar

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Onward, Can't See-d | UPDATE: I see your Oblivion Remastered ghost horse that now looks like a happy accident or Daedric-tier trolling, and raise you this totally invisihorse I netted while investigating it

It's amazing, but I haven't been able to give it a lick and so can't confirm whether it tastes just like juniper berries.

May 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Pause to Rip Tear | This next set of Monster Hunter Wilds Event Quests is kinda low-key, maybe so you have more time to play Doom: The Dark Ages

The handoff is about to happen, and Monster Hunter Wilds players will soon get to enjoy a host of new Event and Challenge Quests in the game.

May 13, 2025 Sherif Saed