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LG wants to roast your retinas with its new 10,000-nit OLED panels for VR headsets
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 15:02Now we're cooking with OLEDoS...
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Animal Well tricked you into thinking it’s a Metroidvania
By Joshua Rivera - Polygon | May 15, 2024 - 15:00Image: Billy Basso/Bigmode via Polygon How to talk about one of the best games of the year If there is one thing that people who make and play video games love more than video...
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SNEG is bringing the classic entries in Close Combat at Warlords series to Steam
By Zoey Handley - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 15:00SNEG has announced that they’re bringing the classic games from the Close Combat and Warlords series to Steam. They were (mostly) available already on GOG, but now they're joining their other SNEG-r...
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Wayfinder is ditching its free-to-play live-service model to become a paid, co-op RPG without microtransactions
By Ed Thorn - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 15:00Wayfinder, currently a free-to-play RPG developed by Airship Syndicate, is undergoing a pretty drastic change in its upcoming Echoes patch. Right now it's a live-service game with microtransactions,...
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Wayfinder Is Removing Microtransactions And Always-Online Requirement: Here's Why
By Jason Fanelli - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 15:00Recently, Airship Syndicate announced it would be delisting its online action-RPG Wayfinder--which it had just received the full rights to from publisher Digital Extremes--in order to make "major chan...
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Mortal Kombat 2 Movie Gets October 2025 Release Date
By Wesley LeBlanc - Gameinformer | May 15, 2024 - 14:31Warner Bros. has announced when Mortal Kombat 2, the sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat film adaptation, will arrive in theaters and IMAX, and it's coming next year. More specifically, Mortal Kom...
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Sony To Reveal "Long-Term" Vision This Month, PlayStation Described As "Essential"
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 14:27Sony has announced that will share its "long-term vision" for the company overall this month, and this includes an update from the PlayStation division. The company said in a release that Sony Interac...
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Leaked Dell docs suggest Qualcomm's new laptop chips could deliver nearly twice the battery life of the latest Intel CPUs
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:25Less is more, as the saying goes, and it's especially true when it comes to power consumption.
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How to get to the Ashlands in Valheim without your boat catching fire
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:19Build the Drakkar to make it to the new biome in one piece.
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Sony's New Live-Service Game Concord Launches This Year
By George Yang - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 14:18One of Sony's live-service games, Concord, will be released this year. The game is the debut launch from Firewalk studios, which Sony acquired last year.According to Sony's latest financial report, So...
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Assassin's Creed Shadows Cover Apparently Leaks, Reveals Two Possible Heroes
By George Yang - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 14:13The cover for Assassin's Creed Shadows seems to have leaked, and it looks like players will be able assume the roles of two heroes.The leaked cover features a black male samurai named Yasuke and a fem...
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GameSir Nova Lite controller review
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:11Somehow the Gamesir Nova Lite manages to punch well above its very light weight.
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GameSir Nova Lite review
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:06Somehow the Gamesir Nova Lite manages to punch well above its very light weight.
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Microsoft using AI to tackle community safety in voice chats, but there's still a long way to go
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:06Microsoft is utilising AI to assist with identifying harmful content and ensure the gaming community is kept safe when playing games online. In a blog post for its Xbox Transparency Report, the...
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Destiny 2 Outbreak Refined 1: Where to find the Zero Hour switches
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 14:01Complete this weapon quest to upgrade Outbreak Perfected.
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Former Bungie composer on madcap Congressional run says he's part Reagan, part McCartney, and Tolkien about tearing it all down: 'The Ring of Power needs to be thrown into Mount Doom'
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:58Marty O'Donnell says what's happening in Congress is "like a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2."
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XDefiant is doing away with Skill-Based Matchmaking: 'We believe that no SBMM is paramount to a fun and varied game'
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:56Taking the skill out of matchmaking.
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Will XDefiant be on PS4 and Xbox One? Answered
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 13:55XDefiant is the latest FPS targeting Call of Duty's crown, but if you don't own a PC and haven't upgraded to a next-gen console, will you be able to get in on the action? Unfortunately, for Xbox One...
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Five of the Best: Shape changes or shifts
By Robert Purchese - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:23Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be sh...
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Watch the Assassin's Creed Shadows reveal right here
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:17Ubisoft is finally ready to lift the lid on Assassin's Creed Shadows, the upcoming entry in its historical stabathon series due to launch later this year, and set in fedual Japan. The first Assa...
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Diablo 4 season 4 is not even a day old and fans think its the best season start so far
By Michael Beckwith - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 13:17Blizzard Entertainment promised some big changes to Diablo 4 with its fourth season; ones that would affect the entire game, such as its Tempering System and Masterworking. While the season lacks an...
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Helldivers 2 dev says patrol spawn rates are busted and that Arrowhead's walking its changes back, but 'we want to give it proper testing' to 'see that it works this time'
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:00Slow and steady wins the war.
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Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console
By Benj Edwards - Ars Technica | May 15, 2024 - 13:00How Nintendo took a gamble on a new kind of gaming experience in the '90s.
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If you're playing Diablo 4 on an Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU switching off frame gen will stop those annoying crashes
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 13:00Blizzard and Nvidia working on a fix.
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The Sims 4's kicks off the weirdly horny new roadmap with a refresh to base game swimwear
By Alice Bell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 12:58The Sims 4 is nothing if not a teetering jenga tower of updates and add-ons and DLC packs, and the latter half of 2024 will be no exception for EA's life sim king. Yesterday saw the release of an upd...
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Ubisoft battling Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks, as main character art appears online
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:49Artwork revealing characters from the under-wraps Assassin's Creed Shadows has been posted online, ahead of this evening's big reveal trailer going live. You'll be able to watch the Assassin's...
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Xbox 360 digital store gets swathe of discounts ahead of closure
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:47Microsoft has announced a raft of discounts on Xbox 360 digital games, ranging from Tom Clancy and Tomb Raider to the likes of Just Dance and Puzzle Arcade, ahead of the store's closure in July."To c...
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NieR developers join forces for new project that "might be NieR, it might not be NieR"
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:34NieR series producer Yosuke Saito has joined NieR series director Yoko Taro on a new project, along with series composer Keiichi Okabe. Saito revealed the news in an interview with former Capcom...
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Game dev challenges other devs to multiply something in their game by 1000, triggering landslide of chaotic videos
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 12:29I think most would agree that the artist formerly known as Twitter has never been in more need of a thermonuclear cleansing. The Musk era has transformed what was already fondly known as a hellsite i...
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Nier’s producer, director, and composer are teaming up again for something that may or may not be a new Nier
By Michael Beckwith - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 12:28It's been seven years since the release of Nier: Automata. Now, that game's producer, director, and composer are confirmed to be working together on a new project, but producer Yosuke Saito has stop...
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Nexon says sweaty FPS the Finals surpassed expectations at launch but has tailed-off badly, pledges to 'understand and address the key issues'
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:28Final Countdown?
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AMD's launched a pair of new budget chips in its 8000-series, lopping the GPUs of its APUs
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:28One looks like it could be the bargain CPU of 2024. The other...err...sadly not.
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Helldivers 2 devs are finally reverting frustrating patrols and spawn rates
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 12:24After weeks of player backlash, Arrowhead Studios has finally confirmed they are reverting the patrol and spawn rate changes, once again making it possible for solo players to enjoy the game. In...
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Where on the Moon is Archie in Destiny 2?
By Matthew Reynolds - Polygon | May 15, 2024 - 12:16Image: Bungie This good boy went to the Moon Archie returns to Destiny 2 with a trip to the Moon following the May 14, 2024, weekly reset. This is the latest in a series of “Wh...
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I’m not sure if FPS The Explorator is real or I just fell asleep watching Adult Swim, but I’m already in love
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 12:09Old-school FPS adventure The Explorator contains much more intense shooty violence than the adorable lizardy folk that populate it might immediately suggest. I really want to use the word ‘zany’ with...
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Mortal Kombat 2 film ties down release date, but it's not out until next year
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:07The upcoming Mortal Kombat film sequel has secured itself a release date.New Line Cinema's Mortal Kombat 2 will arrive in cinemas on 24th October, 2025, Deadline reports. It will also play in Imax.In...
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Mario Game Boy classic added to Nintendo Switch Online
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 12:05Nintendo has added more Game Boy classics to the Nintendo Switch Online subscription catalogue today, including the legendary Super Mario Land. The new arrivals come as Game Boy passes its 35th...
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Sony reportedly shipped five times more PS5 consoles last quarter than Microsoft did with Xbox
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 11:57Sony shipped five times more PlayStation 5 consoles than Microsoft managed with Xbox Series X/S in the last quarter. That's according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad, who's done some diggi...
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LEGO Fortnite’s May 14 patch brings major buffs to tools and materials
By Matt Porter - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 11:45While there wasn't a full Fortnite patch on May 14 like many believed there would be, LEGO Fortnite received a pretty major surprise update that buffed both weapon durability and how much Wood and S...
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Braid Anniversary Edition is out now, rewinding time approximately 15 years
By Brendan Caldwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 11:43Look, you've had 15 years to play that well-regarded time-bending puzzler sitting in your Steam library, staring at you this whole time. Well, now you can have another 15 years. Braid Anniversary Edi...
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ASRock Z790I Lightning WiFi review
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 11:43A Mini-ITX board built for the tough demands of 13th and 14th Gen i9 processors.
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Ahead of the Xbox 360 store shutdown, Microsoft is making as many of its games as cheap as possible
By Michael Beckwith - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 11:28In just a couple of months, the Xbox 360 store will finally be retired. While disappointing, it was only a matter of time considering the console's age. However, Microsoft is easing the sting a litt...
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Valheim gets a fiery rebirth as Ashlands biome goes live with new siege weapons, bone spiders and boiling seas
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 11:28Do you love the smell of napalm in the morning? If so, you'll probably love the smell of Valheim's Ashlands biome, which has just launched for all players after a period of beta testing. Sadly, my co...
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Behind Infinite Craft, one of the internet's favourite time-killers, its creator wrangles with AI "alchemy"
By Mike O'Brien - Eurogamer | May 15, 2024 - 11:00Infinite Craft is a browser game with a simple premise. You begin with four elements – water, fire, wind, and earth – and combine two of them to make a new element. Water and fire make steam, steam a...
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Total War Warhammer 3’s frost wyrms are just shrinking because they’re cold, I swear, and other changes in new hotfix
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | May 15, 2024 - 10:44Thrones of Decay - the expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3 that finally made it viable to steamroll the old world with a doomstack of 20 tanks, just as Franz intended - just released a...
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Best Sorcerer build for Diablo 4 Season 4
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | May 15, 2024 - 06:10The new Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn is live, and the changes have put the Sorcerer class in a decent spot going into the season. If you are looking for a fast-clearing AoE-centric class with some...
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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 15
By PC Gamer | May 15, 2024 - 05:00Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
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Nintendo Switch Online Adds Super Mario Land, Two Other Game Boy Games
By Kevin Knezevic - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 05:00Nintendo has added a new batch of classic games to the Nintendo Switch Online service. Subscribers now have access to three additional Game Boy titles, including the beloved Super Mario Land, which ha...
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Get Your Kirby Fix With This Extremely Good Deal On Kirby Star Allies For Nintendo Switch
By Phil Hornshaw - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 03:07Kirby Star Allies might be six years old, but Nintendo games have an annoying habit of staying expensive no matter how long in the tooth they get. That's why you might want to jump on the deal Walmart...
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SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5 Headset Lets You Customize Console Gaming Audio On Your Phone
By Brendan Hesse - Gamespot | May 15, 2024 - 02:56Today, SteelSeries unveiled the next wireless headset in its Arctis Nova family, the Nova 5. Launching at $130, the new Arctis Nova 5 line is meant to bridge the gap between the entry-level Nova 1 and...
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