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Best Pals for Your Base in Palworld 1.0

Palworld 1.0 completely changes how base management works. New Partner Skills, higher Work Suitability caps, and the revamped condensation system mean the strongest workers are no longer chosen by their Work Suitability alone. Some Pals now improve the efficiency of every worker around them, while others speed up breed...

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9 Games To Play For People Who Love Stardew Valley

(Other than more Stardew Valley)

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Sony's decision to kill off PlayStation discs could destroy the $7.2bn used game market, according to analysts

The second-hand video game market stands in jeopardy in the wake of Sony's decision to end the manufacturing of PlayStation discs by January 2028. The market, which analysts estimate is worth $7.2bn globally, could be destroyed as a result of Sony's controversial move. Read more

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Spider-Man: 5 Moves Brand New Day Should Steal From Insomniac's Games

The MCU's Spider-Man swings back into theaters very soon, and the hype for Brand New Day is real. A few big mistakes aside, Tom Holland's Spidey has already proven his worth, but he can definitely pick up a few lessons from Insomniac's versions of Peter Parker and Miles Morales. As stated in his interview with Polygon,...

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Mighty Doom dev Alpha Dog is back as an independent studio

  Mighty Doom developer Alpha Dog Games is back and looking for work. The Nova Scotia-based studio was acquired by ZeniMax Media, Bethesda’s parent company, in October 2019, then became part of Xbox Game Studios after Microsoft completed the acquisition of ZeniMax for $7.5bn. However, Alpha Dog was closed down in...

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Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Breaks GTA 6's 475 Million Views In 24 Hours Record

Avengers: Doomsday is starting to feel a lot more real after the epic new MCU movie got its first proper trailer this week. If you thought it might be too little too late with interest in the franchise seemingly at an all-time low, you’d be wrong. The Doomsday trailer has been watched 503 million times in 24 hours, mak...

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Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn't yet look ideal

For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia finally announced RTX Spark, an Arm processor with some real GPU grunt. And it seems that might have sparked (sorry) the onset of bei...

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Beast of Reincarnation Director Discusses the Game's Bladerunner Connection

Beast of Reincarnation is set to release this Fall, and after playing some of the game myself, I can hardly wait for launch day. My intrigue was further deepened when, a few hours after my exclusive hands-on preview with Beast of Reincarnation, I sat down with game director Kota Furushima to discuss the project’s vario...

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Exclusive Kingdom Hearts Pins Will Debut At D23

Disney has confirmed that an exclusive Kingdom Hearts pin set is going to be sold at D23, which is yet another good sign that Kingdom Hearts 4 could make an appearance.

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"It started to feel like there wasn't any stealth": 007 First Light had to pull Bond's punches to protect IO Interactive's specialty sneaking

While it’s not a series of truly Hitman-scale murder sandboxes, 007 First Light does make good on its promise of enabling multiple Bond, James Bonding disciplines: shooting, sneaking, punching, and my personal favourite, getting immediately discovered then bullshitting something about being a door technician for...

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New Open-World Burnout Replacement Officially Revealed

The official sequel to 2025's Wreckreation was unveiled on July 21, and it appears to capture the same spirit as Burnout Paradise. The first Wreckreation game was also compared to the Burnout series thanks to its focus on road rage, improvised racing routes, and destructive, car-wrecking crashes.

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The Elder Scrolls Online is already feeling the impact of Xbox's layoffs, ironically hurting the cash shop

Earlier this month, Microsoft gutted The Elder Scrolls Online, with 379 staff across ZeniMax gone. And this is the second time it's happened in two years. As Harvey and I put it a few weeks ago, ESO's developers deserved better. The developer, now claiming to be the same size it was 10 years ago (similar to id Software...

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