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18 Of The Very Finest Cosplay Kits From San Diego Comic Con 2026

Featuring fits from Marvel Rivals, The Last of Us and Nightreign

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How To Tell If A Customer Is A Doppelganger Or Human In Shift At Midnight

Being able to tell whether a customer is a doppelganger or a human in Shift at Midnight is crucial to ensuring you don't have to survive the entity's attacks each night. Some doppels are easier to spot than others, so it's easy to miss some.

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One of 2026's Best-Reviewed Games Is the Funniest Thing I've Played Since Portal 2

Whenever I hear about a "best-reviewed" game, I don't always immediately feel that I just have to play the game or even give it a try. However, after repeatedly seeing news about SFB Games' fourth installment in its Detective Grimoire series, The Mermaid Mask, making waves as one of this year's top-scoring games, I fin...

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After a slow start, Alan Wake 2 is finally doing the numbers for Remedy and has hit another major milestone

Remedy Entertainment has revealed updated sales data for Alan Wake 2, which has now exceeded 3 million copies. Read more

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mobile

SciPlay Games Israel has cut 20 jobs, says report

  SciPlay has cut around 20 jobs at its Israeli development hub, according to Calcalist – that’s roughly 7% of the approximately 300 people working there. SciPlay Games Israel is the studio behind several of the company’s biggest earners, including Quick Hit Slots, 88 Fortunes and Hot Shot Casino. The...

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Mortal Shell 2 will let you lower its difficulty by making executions refill your health, or up the challenge by turning off the sun

While Soulslike Mortal Shell 2 doesn't feature traditional difficulty modes, developers Cold Symmetry have included a set of special items that let you tweak the challenge to your liking. As someone who just got back from a three-day cycle trip with friends who coasted up the hills on bikes fitted with fancy 12-speed r...

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mobile

MTG unveils Playamp brand for midcore games division

  MTG has rebranded its midcore games division as Playamp, bringing Plarium, InnoGames, Snowprint, Hutch, Ninja Kiwi and Futureplay together under a single new identity. The division, previously referred to internally as the Midcore District, covers MTG’s in-app purchase-driven studios, and sits alongside Pl...

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Underrated Steam Game is a Perfect Mix Between The Sims and Hogwarts Legacy

Longtime Steam users will know that early access games are a gamble. While a vast majority of developers are passionate about what they’re working on, not every project lives up to expectations. Sometimes, feature creep leaves games in early access limbo. Other times, small teams simply cannot achieve their visions, or...

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Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere'

Earlier this year, Google Chrome annoyed a whole lot of adblock users by killing support for Manifest V2 extensions. It's a Manifest V3 world now, which means the permissions and APIs that thoroughgoing adblockers like uBlock Origin rely on are a thing of the past on Chrome (it's since been replaced by a pared-down ver...

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Scalpers Are Selling The Hatsune Miku MTG Deck For Over $300 Despite Print-To-Demand U-Turn

Impatience is the biggest enemy of so many Magic: The Gathering players. A brand new product drops in the form of a Hatsune Miku Commander deck, and even though Wizards of the Coast made the decision to release it as print-to-demand, those who managed to get into the first wave with immediate shipping are successfully...

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Stop Killing Games join lawsuit against the PlayStation Store's "Sony Tax," in latest venture beyond game preservation

"It’s time to sue Sony," game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and "Sony Tax" on digital games. While the case originated back in 2024, as part of an effort by Dutch consumer grou...

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GTA 6 might not cost $100, but most of the people pre-ordering it are buying it at that price, Take-Two reveals

Though many may baulk at the idea of paying $100 (£90) for a game, a lot of the people who pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto 6 bought the more expensive Ultimate edition rather than the $80 (£70) Standard edition. That's according to Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two. Read more

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