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Kingshot maker Century hires a flurry of footballers for World Cup ad spots

  Century Games has hired a host of top England and Brazil footballers – plus transfer influencer Fabrizio Romano – to promote Kingshot during the World Cup. England footballers Harry Maguire, Michael Owen and John Terry are promoting the title to UK players, while Gabriel Jesus, Jorginho, Marquinhos and Thiago Si...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 41
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Steam Machine review roundup: Hefty pricetag for a niche product

The Steam Machine is almost here. Valve has finally announced the price of their latest hardware release, with the interest list for purchasing one of the four options available open until June 25. Valve has sent review models to journalists around the world, and while some are fans of the Steam Machine, they all share...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 30
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RPG Studio’s PC Launcher Gets So Much Fan Hate It’s Already Gone In Less Than 24 Hours

Owlcat Games’ original announcement has nearly 2000 comments and zero likes

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One Piece Officially Welcomes Its New Protagonist After Luffy

One Piece is a story by Eiichiro Oda that made its debut 29 years ago, and today, it has cemented itself as the best-selling manga of all time by a significant margin. One Piece’s massive success can be attributed to Oda’s exciting story, but also to his character writing, notably the protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy.

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Monster Hunter Stories studio Marvelous in trouble as Tencent reportedly seeks to back away from Japanese studio investments

Huge Chinese multimedia conglomerate Tencent is reportedly re-considering its stakes in several Japanese video game developers, including Rune Factory and Monster Hunter Stories creator Marvelous. Read more

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PS Plus Extra Game Gets Massive DLC Expansion Ahead of Time

One of September's upcoming PlayStation Plus Extra games just received its final major content update before launch. RuneScape: Dragonwilds, which arrives on PS5 on September 15 and will be available via the Extra game catalog for PlayStation Plus subscribers on day one, has rolled out the Umbral Sands update for Early...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 21
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The seven best anti-Prime Day deals we can find in the UK and US β€” no Amazon required

Well, the big Prime Day deals bonanza has finally arrived, and we aren't going with it. Well, we are - as James has noted in his big master guide, there is some mutual benefit for talking about deals and all for both you and us, but that's besides the point. None of the deals you're going to find here are Amazon deals...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 13
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10 Best Video Games To Play When You're Stuck Indoors During A Heatwave

When the temperature climbs past the point of reason, the smartest move is to stop fighting it. Pull the curtains, point a fan at your face, and let a game do the cooling for you.

2 months ago πŸ‘ 29
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Report: Chinese Giant Tencent Could Bail On A Bunch Of Game Studio Investments

According to Bloomberg, the company is pulling investment from a number of Japanese developers

2 months ago πŸ‘ 40
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True to its word, AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000-series card owners with its latest Adrenalin drivers

After accidentally dropping its source code on GitHub last year and kicking the door wide open for modders, AMD has done something exactly what it promised to: It's added support for FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in its latest Adrenalin drivers.The 26.2.2 driver set doesn't come with many other goodie...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 40
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I played that $1,000 Steam game. I regret it

A recent Steam release has been making the social media rounds of late. Congratulations On Your Purchase is a, I hesitate to say 'game,' but a product, released at the end of May, that costs $1,000 / Β£748. "You paid for this. Not accidentally. Not on impulse. You saw the price. You read the description. And then you bo...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 30
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Stranger Than Heaven studio don't intend their "casting choices [to] take the spotlight and overshadow everything else", despite that now having happened two games running

Remember when, during Stranger Than Heaven's release date reveal at the Summer Geoffs, the word TUPAC flashed on screen in big capital letters during the climax of a trailer running down the history-hopping yakuza brawler's cast? Remember how afterwards, as you'd expect given the whole digital resurrection of a rapper...

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