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Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian reportedly moved onto a new Fallout game by Xbox, but at the cost of a sequel to Avowed

Days after Microsoft's devastating 3200 job cuts at Xbox, the true scope of the redundancies is becoming clearer. Obsidian Entertainment, which reportedly lost a quarter of its staff in the cuts, has had its priorities shifted too. Read more

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June’s top mobile game downloads: Arrows, Amaze Go, Free Fire Max, Roblox, more

  Here are the top mobile game downloads from last month, according to Appmagic data. Appmagic’s estimates do not include numbers from China’s fractured Android market. There’s also commentary on June’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond below. In between these monthly updates, you can also keep tabs o...

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'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice

Thank you again rural Walmart from r/pcmasterraceThanks to the very hungry AI industry and the resulting memory supply crisis, RAM is reaching prices I naively once thought impossible. Between the tail end of 2025 and now, I've had a bit of a rude awakening, let me tell ya. However, that doesn't mean you can't get RAM...

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Weird 2026 Game

Xbox Game Pass users can now start playing Tamashika as part of their subscriptions. The highly unusual title arrives alongside one other Premium-tier addition, making it the second new Xbox Game Pass release of July 2026 and the 110th since the start of the year.

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The Cuts At Doom Maker id Software Will Change It Forever: ‘I Don’t See How They Make A Game With That Team’

Laid off developers fear the studio's id Tech engine has no future

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Valve just changed how CS2's bomb works, and it's terrifying

Counter-Strike 2 Season 5 is here, and Valve continues to show a willingness to shake up its beloved FPS. Along with all the usual skins, stickers, and armory adjustments you'd expect, and the official implementation of Cache, the most striking part of the new CS2 patch notes is a redesign of the way bombs detonate. [....

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WoW's game director thinks its UI overhaul has been 'successful so far,' even if it's 'not perfect'

One of the most controversial bits of World of Warcraft: Midnight was Blizzard taking aim at UI mods (addons) that impacted combat, with the idea that you probably shouldn't have to make your game look like an airplane dashboard designed by a drunk person just to play a videogame. Something that I've come around to, fo...

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Dragon Age's former lead writer thinks the series is probably dead, but he'd be happy to take it off EA's hands and 'go somewhere dark and dangerous' with it

While former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider won't play The Veilguard, he knows enough to realise that the series ain't looking too hot right now. He's pretty sure it's dead, at least under EA. When we asked if he saw a future in the series he considers "his baby", he wasn't hopeful. "From Electronic Arts? Unlikely...

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An alleged member of a hacking group was caught, thanks to one hated Windows feature

Windows GDID (Global Device Identifier), its own telemetry service, has drawn ire from users for some time. Turns out the data it tracks can be used by law enforcement to incriminate alleged hackers, which is both a decent outcome and sort of worrisome if you think about it too much. As noted by TechSpot, the US Depart...

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The Elder Scrolls 6 Is About to Take Over GTA 6's Longest-Running Meme

Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the most anticipated games of all time, and the long-running "We got X before GTA 6" meme is going to soon be passed down to a different game: The Elder Scrolls 6. Both games have been in development for a mind-boggling amount of time, but the wait for GTA 6 is at least nearly finally over,...

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9 Gundam Protagonists Who Deserved Better Endings

Often considered the pinnacle of the mecha genre, the Gundam franchise has spent entire decades entertaining fans with intriguing and gripping tales that depict the truths and issues of today’s world. Imbued with epic robot and space battles, this amazing series manages to teach viewers important lessons that will stay...

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Doom devs id Software were reportedly kicking around ideas for a new Perfect Dark, a John Wick-inspired game, and multiplayer demonslaying prior to layoffs

When Microsoft's mass layoffs gutted Doom developers id Software earlier this week, the studio were reportedly kicking around a number of ideas for games they could work on after finishing Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC. Among these pitches, it's claimed, were the likes of a new Perfect Dark game and an original...

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