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8 Shonen Anime With The Strongest Villains, Ranked

Generally, it is said that a story is only as good as its villain, and in terms of anime, this statement holds just as true. Over the course of some of the most popular franchises, there have been many terrifying foes that the main heroes have had to face off against, ranging from horrifying psychological threats to th...

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Square Enix responds to Kingdom Hearts Collection AI controversy two months after players called it out

Kingdom Hearts publisher and developer, Square Enix, has denied claims that it used AI-generated content to promote the yet-to-be-released Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3. Fans first accused the company of using AI back in early June, and now - some two months after the initial accusations - Square Enix has responded. Re...

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls shows early signs of popularity, soaring up tournament entry leaderboards

Marvel Tokon will be released unto the world by the terrible trio of Marvel, Sony, and Arc System Works later this week. While only the most talented of fortune tellers can say for sure how popular it will be, early indicators from fighting game tournament registration numbers paint a positive picture. Read more

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Making Baldur’s Gate 4 would be "a great challenge" for Rogue Trader devs Owlcat, co-founder says, as the studio reiterate their commitment to CRPGs

I'm not saying you've got to be making a vaguely Mass Effecty RPG starting with Ex to be considered as a successor to Larian on the Baldur's Gate series, but it certainly doesn't seem to hurt. Exodus devs Archetype Entertainment were offered such a chance according to former studio head James Ohlen, and while The Expan...

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'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck

If you've ever felt like your bike trainer has a disturbing lack of Rocket League or Forza Horizon, you are in luck. One app called Deck de France can let you use your bike as a controller for games, though it's pretty limited so far. Shared on GitHub (via Hackaday), Deck de France is technically compatible with any sm...

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Memory chip maker Samsung says the component shortage will continue to get worse in 2027, while earning a pretty penny from it

Samsung, one of the largest manufacturers of memory and storage in the world, has delivered bad news for anyone hoping the global component shortages will ease up soon. Samsung, which is responsible for about a third of the global memory supply, revealed in an earnings call that it expects the crisis to continue gettin...

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Jujutsu Kaisen: 8 Strongest Forms of Yuji Itadori, Ranked

Before Yuji Itadori surpassed every great sorcerer inJujutsu Kaisen, he started his curse-hunting career from scratch. As an ordinary high school student with little to no knowledge about all things supernatural, Yuji Itadori's drastic transformation and power progression in such a short amount of time is nothing but i...

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Wolverine’s Going To Get His Butt Out In Insomniac’s New Game

ESRB's game description reveals all

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Garena’s Palworld Online is a mobile MMO based on Pocketpair’s hit survival game

  Garena has announced Palworld Online, a mobile MMO based on Pocketpair’s Palworld, under an official licensing agreement with the Japanese developer. Gematsu reports that the game is set to launch on iOS and Android later this year, with further details still to come. Garena is developing and publishing th...

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Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch

If Microsoft gutting its Xbox division, laying off staff, and struggling to give its console a real unique selling point hasn't quite put you off the brand, you will now have to pay hundreds more for its devices if you live in Europe. As originally spotted over in a Resetera thread, the prices of Xbox Series S and Seri...

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Project Zomboid Hits 121,000 Concurrent Players After 13 Years In Early Access

Some games stay in early access for so long that they’ll probably never leave it. Project Zomboid is one of those games, and the new heights it reached over the weekend all point to reasons why The Indie Stone is likely more than happy to just keep adding to the game rather than finally give it a 1.0 release.

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FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'

Final Fantasy 14 isn't any stranger to crossovers—but Evercold will be a first for the MMO, wherein both the raid series and the alliance raid series (8-man and 24-man raids, respectively) will be crossovers. With the latter being a whackadoodle Evangelion crossover, and the former being a far more reasonable FF7 one....

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