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You can currently buy three of my all-time favorite microstrategy games for $10

Steam's new Games Made in Sweden sale is out here reminding me just how many great titles we owe to our Scandinavian cousins. Vermintide, Darktide, Payday, Valheim, Amnesia, Satisfactoryโ€”the list goes on and on. Currently, a lot of these games have decent discounts, such as Vermintide 2 (one of our games of the year fo...

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TV Tokyo Gives New Official Statement on 2027 Naruto Release

Naruto fans know the franchise has plenty in the works, from the long-awaited live-action movie to ongoing Boruto content, but those aren't the only major projects on the horizon. It's worth noting that it's uncertain if this upcoming new release is tied to the original Naruto franchise or if it's a reference to the ne...

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More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

If you're rockin' a current-gen AMD graphics card, there are yet more hints that multi frame gen (MFG), ie, frame gen that promises more than 2x frame rate, could soon be with us. 'Soon' is relative, of course, especially in the case of AMD, but detective work by a user on the Chinese forum Chiphell has revealed the pr...

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Nintendo's next Lego set looks to be a retro Donkey Kong arcade machine

Lego and Nintendo's collaborations have been among the most eye-catching and sought-after in recent years. From little Super Mario builds, to a near-perfect replica of the original Game Boy, to complex Pokémon sets, collectors are clearly lapping up the 'brickified' versions of Nintendo icons. And perhaps the mo...

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Google on its new Play Store fees and that new Level Up program

  Google Play GM for games Aurash Mahbod has explained to us what the tech giant is trying to achieve with its new fee structure and Level Up program. As we reported previously, the changes to the fees kicked in on June 30 for developers in the US, EU and UK, and will apply in Australia from September 30, Japan an...

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Nintendo Classic Donkey Kong Arcade Getting The $200 Lego Treatment May Have Just Leaked

Though it seems like this one is simpler than the Pac-Man Lego cabinet

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Well, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is now only barred from purchase in 117 countries according to Steam's backend, which is a start

Good news! Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' Steam backend no longer lists it as not being available for purchase in 132 countries. It's now only listed it as not being available for purchase in 117 countries. That's 15 whole countries removed from the list of excluded nations, which looks like it could be linked in some w...

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 21
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'After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Appleโ€™s phone technology! Wow': Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting on the internet again

One of the unfortunate drawbacks of social media is that anyone, and I mean anyone, can now have a public feud that the rest of us have to witness. Case in point, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are having a tiff on X, and it's starting to get out of hand.Responding to an X post from Elon Musk, in which the SpaceX...

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People Are Paying To Own Pieces Of Garbage From Outside Taylor Swift And Travis Kelceโ€™s Wedding

Fans werenโ€™t invited, so theyโ€™re taking anything they can as a souvenir

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 4
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'Bad for Gamers' UK Games Retail Association Comments on PlayStation's No-Disc Future

One of the largest retail trade bodies in the UK, the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association, has criticized PlayStation's recent decision to move away from physical discs, calling it a step backward. The association, better known as ERA, represents some of the UK's biggest video game retailers, including Game an...

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ESO: Challenge Difficulty Modes, Explained

Challenge Difficulty in The Elder Scrolls Online lets players choose how punishing the overworld experience in the game is. The higher the difficulty, the less damage you'll do, and the more damage you'll take. In exchange, you can get up to 100% bonus XP and 200% more Gold compared to the usual difficulty. There are s...

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 8
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English Hatsune Miku Trend Goes Viral After World Cup Win

You may have seen an uptick in Hatsune Miku fanart on social media over the past few days. While depicting Miku enjoying different cultures is nothing new, you would have seen very specific regional Mikus recently: Brazilian, Norwegian, and English.

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