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Runescape housing update has you shacking up in a Homestead with friends, and brings back house parties

Runescape's Road to Restoration update is well underway as part of its 25th anniversary, and player-owned housing is the next gameplay system to get a fresh lick of paint. Following Spring's player avatar update, which upgraded visual fidelity for the models alongside a suite of new hairstyles, the next target Jagex ha...

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UK Retail Group Slams PlayStation Killing Discs As The β€˜Triumph Of Corporate Convenience Over Consumer Choice’

The move is coming even as many still buy games physically

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Warframe creative director says Destiny 2's end is tragic, because even with hard work 'the business side of this industry always gets the last remark'

Destiny 2 isn't going anywhere, but it also isn't… well, going anywhere. The game's servers will still be running for the foreseeable future, but Bungie has since ceased updates to its flagship shooter to move onto other projects, tragically laying off much of its staff in the aftermath of that decision. It's a sorry s...

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Actor Sam Neill, One Of The Good Ones, Has Died Aged 78

The Jurassic Park and Hunt for the Wilderpeople star is being remembered fondly

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Dragon Ball's Cell Max is Officially Making a Return

When it comes to recent Dragon Ball transformations, it's hard to ignore how loved Beast Gohan and Orange Piccolo are, but those can only be so applauded, in part, due to the introduction of Cell Max. The last time fans saw Cell Max, he was defeated by the aforementioned heroes, but now Dragon Ball fans will be able to...

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Expensive and pointless? Black Ops 1 and 2 PS4 and PS5 ports cost a lot of money and barely offer any upgrades over the originals

The promised PlayStation 4 and 5 ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 have arrived. But unfortunately, these updated releases have left players disappointed at the quality offered for the price. Activision is charging £35 ($40) for each Black Ops re-release, meaning a total of £70 ($80) if you want both...

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Palworld pulled in almost 900,000 players over the weekend, its second-highest peak ever

Palworld recently celebrated its launch into 1.0 and out of early access with 27-pages of patch notes and no price hike, and the devs were rewarded with the best turnout they've seen since the game first released into early access way back in January 2024. A peak of 855,525 concurrent players turned up for the 1.0 rele...

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GDQ Ends SNK Partnership Hours After Announcement Due To Saudi Ownership

Summer Games Done Quick 2026 was a massive success, raising over $2.8 million for Doctors Without Borders and producing some all-time great moments like adef's run of Balatro.

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Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock

A report from The Wall Street Journal tells the tale of Tim Cook's visit to the White House last summer, in which the Apple chief attempted to persuade the administration to abandon plans to impose tariffs on 100% of all semiconductor imports.Apple was eventually granted an exemption to the tariffs, in return for a com...

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Obsidian still have "the same DNA" that went into New Vegas and KOTOR 2, The Outer Worlds 2 director insists, following chatter around layoffs

Last week, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 developers Obsidian lost around quarter of their staff to Microsoft's mass layoffs. The studio were subsequently reported to be pivoting to start work on a new Fallout game helmed by New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, with a sequel to Avowed all but canned in the process. Cue, natu...

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Xbox cuts "not the end" for The Elder Scrolls Online, insists ZeniMax, despite a drastic reduction in size

Last week's sweeping Xbox layoffs have affected The Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, a studio that had already faced cuts a year ago. This has reignited fears amongst the community that the game is being moved into 'maintenance mode', in which no substantial new adventures or updates will be developed for it...

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Day-One Game That Flips Vampire Survivors Formula on Its Head

1The Xbox Game Pass library expands yet again, this time with a day-one release called Ascend to Zero. This is the third title to join the subscription service in July 2026 and the 111th Xbox Game Pass release of 2026.

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