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Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit

Google has lost another protracted antitrust fight in the EU. Back in 2018, the European Commission fined the company billions of euros over agreements that forced phone manufacturers to pre-load only Google products like Search, Chrome, and the Play app ​store on their Android devices, to the exclusion of rival produc...

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Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'

If you take a gander inside your gaming PC and randomly point at any component in there, you're almost certainly going to land on something that's noticeably more expensive than it was just 12 months ago. And if that so happens to be an Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus chip, then that's included too, as the recommended retai...

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GTA 6-Style Code In A Box Physical Launches To Replace Discs, Analyst Claims

With the recent news that Sony is halting disc production from 2028 onwards, and reports suggesting that Xbox is following suit with a digital-exclusive Project Helix, the era of physical games is all but coming to an end. Nintendo is keeping the torch lit, but physical media might still continue elsewhere as a zombifi...

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Slay the Spire 2 gets 15 powerful new multiplayer cards, while making life easier the first time you install a mod

Slay the Spire 2 has received a bunch of potent new cards specifically for co-operative multiplayer. They span all five of the game's classes, from the aloof and stargazing Regent to the venomous and underhand Silent (Silent! My beloved, etc). The update in question is out now via the roguelite deckbuilder's Steam beta...

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Rooster Teeth's Alfredo Diaz on Achievement Hunter, Crazy Ghost Stories & His Pro Gaming Days

This week on Pause for Thought, we have yet another Rooster Teeth alum. You know Alfredo Diaz from his days with Achievement Hunter, but you may also know him from his streaming and pro gaming days or his current spooky podcast Red Web. We dive into his whole career as well as what he's been up to lately.

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New Open-World Survival Crafting Game on Steam is Basically Palworld's Take on Monster Hunter Stories 3

A newly announced Steam game is already drawing comparisons to Palworld, but it's more about how it innovatively combines that formula with Monster Hunter Stories-style anime aesthetics. Indeed, as is the case with many creature-collecting games, sometimes innovation isn't in introducing something new but in combining...

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Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Has Given Toph An Insta Kill Weakness

While it's been a rough couple of decades for Avatar on the video game front, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is shaping up to actually be a pretty terrific game. It's getting nonstop praise from the FGC crowd for its gameplay and animations, while it also has a surprising level of attention to detail that should get...

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Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely continues its mobile investment spree with Umamusame: Pretty Derby director's new company Studio AuKnow

Mobile gaming giant Scopely has made a "strategic investment" into Studio Auknow, a new company formed by the former director of Umamusame: Pretty Derby. Read more

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall isn't bothered that people may not like its next game, and that's the most refreshing thing I've heard all week

"Maybe people won't like it. That's life," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director and Sandfall Interactive founder, Guillaume Broche, when asked about the studio's yet-to-be-revealed sophomore game - its second game. "We didn't make the first game to please anyone, and I think that's why it worked." Read more

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Square Enix Isn't Too Concerned With Game Preservation

With the announcement that PlayStation will no longer support physical releases from 2028 onward, game preservation has once again become a hot topic in the gaming community.

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10 Great Video Games Where You Will Always Feel Underlevelled

Most games are a power curve: you start as a nobody and end as a demigod, and the fun is the climb. These ten refuse you the summit. Some deny you levels altogether, casting you as prey with a torch and a prayer.

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PS Plus Has Already Confirmed 7 Upcoming Monthly Games Through September 2026

As of this writing, the PlayStation Plus subscription service has confirmed 7 games releasing on one of its tiers through September 2026. That leaves a lot of games to be confirmed, but it's worth mentioning that this is mostly due to events. 4 of these 7 games were confirmed at or around the June State of Play, settin...

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