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Xbox Game Pass Loses 10 Games Today, But It's Not All Bad News

Xbox Game Pass is set to lose ten games later today, July 15. It is not all bad news, however, because Microsoft previously signaled that the upcoming wave of Xbox Game Pass departures would be even larger.

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"We've seen how close you can get": How studio closures pushed Suzerain's maker to create two new DLCs and a turn-based strategy spinoff

"For the longest time, we went one by one," Ata Sergey Nowak, co-founder of Torpor Games, the studio behind strategy game Suzerain, tells me, explaining the four year gap between the game's release and its first DLC. "Our games take a long time, our staff was very limited, and our financing was very project-to-project....

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'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console

Admittedly, I've been feeling pretty dour about the whole handheld gaming PC thing lately, but I do still love having the option to take big games on the go. What I love a lot less is just how chunky modern handhelds have to be in order to contain and cool all of their internal hardware. Perhaps I'm just yelling at clo...

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League of Legends patch 26.14 is rolling out optional parental tools to enhance "child safety"

Riot Games has started rolling out opt-in parental controls in League of Legends, focusing on managing children's social interactions. This comes alongside purchase and playtime limits, as well as game access and greater control over how data is used across the company's services. The MOBA will start shipping these con...

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Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a permanent price cut less than 18 months after launch

18 months after release, Capcom is slashing the price on Monster Hunter Wilds and discontinuing three of its bundles in favour ofโ€ฆ three different bundles. Okay, cool.The change is coming in starting from August 3 or August 4, depending on where you are in the world. For the bundles, it seems like a little bit of shuff...

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God Of War Laufey Star On Sexist Trolls: โ€˜I Feel Totally Unbotheredโ€™

Deborah Ann Woll isnโ€™t fazed by the online hoopla

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Doom Dev Says There's "No Benefit" To Being Owned By Xbox

With studios being gutted and projects being canceled to prioritize flailing IP, itโ€™s hardly surprising that the sentiment among those at Xbox right nowโ€”and those who have been let goโ€”is bitter resentment. Not only do you have a former Obsidian Entertainment dev calling Xbox a โ€œcancer,โ€ but a current id Software employ...

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Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account With Thousands of Dollars in Games

Twitch streamer Joshua Khane has revealed that Microsoft recently deleted his account, which contained many of his purchased Xbox games and 25 years of stored data on its OneDrive. Joshua's tragic experience has become a hot topic in gaming communities. Many are pointing to it as an example of how terrifying an all-dig...

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Kingdom Hearts Player Restores Cut Traverse Town Race

The first Kingdom Hearts is more than 24 years old, but that hasn't stopped players from discovering and restoring a brand-new piece of cut content in Traverse Town.

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GTA Online's grindy new update sends exactly the wrong message ahead of GTA 6

If Rockstar was hoping that its latest GTA Online update would be a way to drum up fresh excitement on the road to GTA 6, it's been sorely mistaken. The arrival of the new Kortz Center Heist sounds great on paper, and it could even act as a testbed for what's to come in the [...]

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Developer Accused Of Past Sexual Harassment Confirmed To Be Working On New Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game

Paramount confirmed that the former Skullgirls and Indivisible CEO 'holds a position as an individual contributor' on its upcoming game

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Resident Evil 1 Remake Expected To Enter Full Development Next Year

Resident Evil Requiem launched earlier this year, and it won't be long until we've got Resident Evil Veronica in our hands, as it's set to launch next year. But if this latest rumour is to be believed, Capcom isn't slowing down the Resi releases just yet.

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