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How to Get Bigger Player Lobbies in Shift At Midnight

Keeping the gas station running in Shift at Midnight is a lot to handle on your own. Between finding doppelgangers, cleaning up, and surviving the monsters that come after you, there's always something demanding your attention. Bringing a few friends along makes the job much more manageable. You can have up to six play...

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Best Ways to Spot Doppelgangers in Shift at Midnight

Identifying doppelgangers is what Shift at Midnight is all about. If one slips through your shop, it will come back to hunt you before the night is over. The first few shifts don't put up much of a challenge, but the game doesn't stay that forgiving for long. Before you know it, you will have to pay attention to every...

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I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there's a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits. Nukemark is based in Unreal Engine 5.7 with Na...

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Microsoft will let devs bring more Xbox 360 games to PC in the coming years via backwards compatibility, leaked document suggests

Microsoft, they of the recent mass layoffs and reported Israeli military links, are reportedly set to offer devs a chance to bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as part of an ongoing backwards compatibility push. Read more

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All Shift at Midnight Monsters and How to Beat Them

Doppelgangers may be your biggest concern in Shift at Midnight, but they are not the only creatures trying to kill you. Depending on what happens during your shifts, you can face several different monsters, and each one has to be handled a little differently. Here's every monster in Shift at Midnight and how you can de...

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Microsoft is working on making Xbox 360 games playable on PC, leaked document reveals

Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 games to PC. That's according to a leaked document viewed by The Verge. The document, which the company recently sent to developers, reportedly says they will be able to bring their Xbox 360 games to PC. Read more

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Atelier Ryza "AI Chat RPG" Announced By Gust And Koei Tecmo

In one of the stranger stories of the day, Atelier developer Gust has announced a partnership with Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company Spiral to develop a game based on the Atelier Ryza subseries (thanks, Automaton).

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How to Prepare For Pokopia's Bubbly Basin DLC

Pokopia receives its first paid expansion on August 5, 2026, with Bubbly Basin! There are new worlds to explore, with an underwater town filled with new water PokΓ©mon and a fully aquatic environment. The release of this DLC is nigh, which is why there are some things that you will want to do in-game to get yourself rea...

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Day-One Game from Pokemon Developer

Select Xbox Game Pass users have officially gained access to Beast of Reincarnation, the latest title from Pokemon developer Game Freak. This is the first official addition to the Xbox Game Pass library in August 2026, arriving alongside one new title for Premium-tier subscribers.

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GTA 6 Map May Have Once Again Been Found In GTA 5

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick promised that Grand Theft Auto 6's marketing would begin this summer. He also promised that the game's marketing would be creative. With only one month of summer left, though, the marketing has been surprisingly quiet. Unless it hasn't.

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Palworld Is Officially Expanding to More Platforms

Singapore-based studio Garena has just announced Palworld Online, a new, officially licensed spinoff that will bring the creature-collecting survival crafting experience to iOS and Android devices. Though an exact release date hasn't been given just yet, Palworld Online is set to launch sometime in 2026.

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A retired tennis pro built and launched Tennis Tycoon entirely with Claude Code

  Retired pro tennis player Iain Atkinson has used Claude Code to build and release his own tennis club management sim, Tennis Tycoon. He’s the latest amateur coder to use the AI platform to release a game without any prior experience, and follows on from Deniz Sancar’s hit football drafting game 38-0-...

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