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Destiny 2: Heliostat Exotic Mission Guide

Wolfsbane is an Exotic Sword in Destiny 2 (even though it's actually an axe) that players can get by completing the Heliostat Exotic mission in the Pinnacle Ops tab of the Vanguard screen. Heliostat is fairly simple compared to other Exotic Destiny 2 missions, and you can do it alone without much issue. The mission sho...

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July 2 is the End of an Era for Nintendo

Thursday, July 2 will mark the end of an era for Nintendo and the Nintendo Switch. After the unprecedented success of the Wii and DS era, Nintendo found itself in trouble with the 3DS and Wii U. While the 3DS eventually turned things around, the Wii U was a complete commercial flop. Some went as far as to predict that...

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I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet

Weird WeekendWeird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time som...

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Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount

Stellaris is one of those games I've never played, but I'm delightfully confounded by it from afar, as occasionally one of my friends will send me a message about how her robotic gestalt consciousness is doing. And here I was thinking this was about annexing provinces, or whatever! If you'd like to be confounded up clo...

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Valve calls out Dota 2 dataminers desperate for Dark Carnival news: "Why are you guys reading our variable names?"

Rumors of a new Dota 2 event called Dark Carnival have been swirling among the MOBA's community for several months, with the leading speculation being that Valve is preparing a new, large-scale feature in the vein of 2024's Crownfall. Lately, in-game signs have suggested that something, at least, is on the horizon, and...

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword Might Be Launching Sooner Than Expected

While originally expected to release at the tail end of September 2026, Onimusha: Way of the Sword may have just pushed up its release date if recent retail listings are to be believed. Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the return of Capcom's 20-year-old classic hack-and-slash franchise, and it might just be getting ahead...

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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, one of the five Guillemot brothers who co-founded French publisher Ubisoft, has died in a plane crash.Reported by Oest-France (via Kotaku), a Cessna 421 light aircraft crashed in the French commune of La Baule-Escoublac, within the Northwestern department of Loire-Atlantique, on Friday afternoon.Acco...

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Interview: Game Director Naoki Hamaguchi On The Queerness, Diversity, And Easter Eggs Of The Remake Trilogy

Final Fantasy 7 takes place in an utterly fantastical world filled with monsters, magic, and all sorts of mythical things. But ever since the 1997 original, it has always sought to feel real and grounded in the context of its bold narrative. Just like our own world, most normal people are simply trying to make ends mee...

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New Official Elden Ring Release Confirmed for August 28

The next Elden Ring release is officially confirmed for Friday, August 28, and so fans should mark their calendars accordingly. Elden Ring was originally released in 2022 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The open world FromSoftware game earned widespread critical acclaim, quickly becoming one of the hig...

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The Last Time Nintendo Remade Ocarina of Time

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time has been one of the most talked about games of 2026. Closing their big June Direct with a teaser of what's to come, fans don't have much to go on for what this reimagining of one of the greatest games ever made will be. To get a better idea, today we look back to the last time Ninten...

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The Adventures of Elliot Water Ruins Walkthrough and Leytstaf Location

The Water Ruins is a dungeon in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales that has a different layout in each of the game's four ages. The Water Ruins in the Age of Reconstruction is the most complex version, though players will need to visit the dungeon in every age if they are trying to reach 100% completion.

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Pokemon Pokopia Releases Update 1.1.1

Omega Force has launched the Version 1.1.1 update for Pokemon Pokopia, which includes a pair of minor bug fixes to the popular life simulation game. The update follows a multitude of major announcements for Pokopia during the recent June Nintendo Direct.

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