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Xbox Game Pass Adds Its First Games for June 2026, But Something's Missing

Xbox Game Pass has added Final Fantasy 6 and Jurassic World Evolution 3 to its ever-rotating content library. These first June arrivals mark the 91st and 92nd titles to join the service in 2026, but what follows afterward is unclear because the next Xbox Game Pass lineup has yet to be announced, breaking with an eight-...

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Boruto Officially Confirms A New Power Up For Sasuke Uchiha

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 34 marked the beginning of a new arc on May 20, 2026. With all of us eagerly awaiting the release of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 35 on June 20, 2026, a lot of excitement is building up concerning the character arcs of Sarada Uchiha, as well as the likes of Boruto Uzumaki, the protago...

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Former Forza Horizon creative director reveals his studio's debut racer, which is still alive despite losing Amazon support

It did not look like a happy ending was in the cards for Maverick Games when Amazon ended its publishing deal for the studio's in-development racing game earlier this year. But that assessment may have been premature, as the studio has now unveiled its debut project, Clutch, and has a full trailer coming in the Summer...

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Backrooms Director Is Already Planning A Sequel As He Hunts For A New Screenwriter

Amid the enormous success of the creepypasta movie release, Parsons is already plotting a follow-up

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Part of me wishes we could see the Subnautica 2 the devs scrapped: The Dwarf Fortress of ecosystem simulators

Subnautica, if you ask me, is a game about being incredibly wet and alarmingly hungry. It's an under-the-sea game (you can tell from the name) about hoovering up resources and using them to construct ever-more complex tools that you transcend the barriers placed before you by nature. That's what Subnautica was, and, th...

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Turn-based RPG Entropy offers up a world abandoned by the gods that looks like a PS1 game fished from a toilet

An hour into Entropy, the new turn-based RPG from Dread Delusion studio Lovely Hellplace, I stumbled on three randos frenziedly interrogating a severed head. In theory, the head belonged to a demon, one of the hellspawn who had recently laid the realm to waste, but the bystanders seemed… ambiguous on this front....

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LEGO Fans Build 331 Pound USS Iowa Ship Using Nearly 100,000 Pieces

A group of LEGO fans have come together to create a wildly impressive build of the USS Iowa using an estimated 100,000 pieces. After many months of building, the LEGO version of the shipis now complete, and it's pretty mind blowing.

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AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition

Sometimes the best things at Computex are the things that aren't at Computex; namely, talk of upcoming tech. Case in point here is AMD's Ryzen and Radeon VP and GM David McAfee telling Tom's Hardware that a Zen 5 replacement for the Ryzen 5 7600X3Dβ€”meaning surely a Ryzen 5 9600X3Dβ€”β€œmay be something that we look at doin...

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LEGO Pokemon Smart Play Hands-On Preview: What Smart Play Was Made For

Introduced during the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of the year, the LEGO Smart Brick is a high-tech 2x4 LEGO block that contains a tiny chip that's no bigger than a single LEGO stud. This little chip interacts with LEGO Smart Tags; 1x1 tile pieces that cause the Smart Brick to produce lights and sounds ba...

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Subnautica 2 Hotfix 3 Calms Down Aggressive Wildlife

Subnautica 2 has been out for a little while now, meaning a lot of the game's problems are well known to both fans and developer Unknown Worlds. That is exactly what the early access period is for though, and one of the more frequent bits of feedback that has been received from loads of fans is how aggressive the game'...

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Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review

US-based Maingear has been offering custom and prebuilt desktop PCs, laptops, and workstations for around 24 years, and most recently, it has launched an updated version of its gaming-focused MG-1. What makes this particular model stand out is that, amongst the raft of hardware configurations you can choose from, there...

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Super Yooka-Laylee Kart leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest as developer Playtonic Games teases "there may be faster ways to go"

Summer Game Fest 2026 is happening this week, and while that usually means we can ready ourselves for plenty of surprise video game reveals, invariably not everything will manage to stay a secret until its big day. And it looks like developer Playtonic's Yooka-Laylee series is the latest to get leaky, with a Yooka-Layl...

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