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How to get Stone Grilled Olm in Honkai: Star Rail
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 13:26Find this food for Rebini so he can finish his painting.
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Diablo 4 is desperate to not be Diablo 3, but too timid to move past it
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 13:19Without any true innovation in its action-RPG formula, the long-awaited sequel is just a monument to fear and live service bloat.
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Lies of P is an elegant Soulslike that's too on the nose
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 13:00It's usually the dogs. Ask any Souls fan and they'll tell you how infuriating the dogs are. Hiding around corners. Interrupting combat. Hunting in packs. They're secretly one of the trickiest enemi...
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This 2v2 fighting game is too much for my eyes, but you can try it on your fingers
By Matt Cox - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:56Street Fighter 6 may be the hot new fighting game in town, but like every other fighting game in history, it lacks depth: literal depth, ha ha, el oh el. Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age is here to fix...
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Final Fantasy 16 demo is out, save carries over to full game
By Oli Welsh - Polygon | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:53Image: Square Enix Clive service begins Square Enix has released a demo for Final Fantasy 16 on PlayStation 5 that features the game’s prologue, with progress carrying over to...
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Microsoft will "continue to support" Flight Simulator 2020 after launch of 2024 sequel
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:51Microsoft and developer Asobo have moved to assure Microsoft Flight Simulator players that the current 2020 version of the game will continue to receive updates, after yesterday's announcement of a...
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Iran's "quantum processor" turned out to be a $600 dev board
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:42The internet has wholly debunked claims over the so-called 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm.'
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BioShock Infinite trailer producer highlights similarities with Clockwork Revolution
By Liv Ngan - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:38The producer of BioShock Infinite's trailers has spoken up on Clockwork Revolution, the time-bending steampunk RPG from Wasteland 3 developer InXile Entertainment which was announced at yesterday's X...
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Officially Announced For PC
By Demi Williams - Gamespot | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:36Jump Over The Age and Fellow Traveller have revealed Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector with a brand-new trailer, the sequel to 2022's acclaimed RPG Citizen Sleeper.Announced during the PC Gaming Show...
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Ebenezer and the Invisible World is a side-scrolling spectral adventure
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:19Everyone knows the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol is the Muppets version - and there's no way this can be beaten. Still, if you're looking for another oddball take on Ebenezer Scrooge, there'...
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Soulcalibur 5 will be delisted next week on PS3 and Xbox 360
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:19Soulcalibur 5 is set to be delisted next week across PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. From 19th June, the game and its DLC will no longer be available for purchase. The news was announced on Twitt...
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Reddit communities begin blackout in protest of site changes
By Andrew Heaton - Destructoid | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:10Will the site listen? It's a red-letter day for Reddit, as thousands of its communities will begin a blackout today. Those of you who are frequent users — also known as "Redditors" — will see some of...
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You can now play Mega Man and Street Fighter in-browser for free
By Liv Ngan - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 12:00Capcom has made a selection of its retro games playable in-browser to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary. The games can be found by visiting Capcom Town, a website set up specifically for the...
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Persona 3 remake won't include later edtions' female lead, extra content
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 11:58Persona 3 Reload, the newly announced remake of the original game, won't include extra content from other versions. Persona 3 was re-released as Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable: the former...
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Vampire Survivors gets chaotic free update across Steam, Xbox and mobile
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 11:58A free and extensive update for Vampire Survivors is available today. Developer Poncle shared this news during the PC Gaming Show last night, revealing update 1.5 will introduce players to a new st...
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Banner Saga studio's Towerborne launches on Xbox Game Pass day one
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 11:58The Banner Saga trilogy developer Stoic has announced Towerborne, a side-scrolling co-op action adventure for PC and Xbox, coming next year. This is the project previously referred to internall...
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Pax Dei is a social sandbox MMO that will attempt to pull off EVE Online in medieval Europe
By Matt Cox - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 11:33I can think of a few questions that might entice you into upcoming social sandbox MMO Pax Dei. What if EVE Online took place in medieval europe, except all the fairies the peasants believed in were r...
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Vampire Survivors 1.5 Update Releases On June 12
By Demi Williams - Gamespot | Jun 12, 2023 - 11:01Developer Poncle has announced that Vampire Survivors will be getting a free update in the form of version 1.5, which is set to be released today, June 12.Revealed during the PC Gaming Show 2023, the...
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Microsoft's brilliant Xbox Games Showcase teased the best line-up in years - if you can wait to play it
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 10:33After a shaky start to 2023, Microsoft's Xbox and Starfield showcase double header was a confident and compelling menu for the next couple of years - and a welcome distraction from the smoke still...
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Starfield's PC Specs Have Been Revealed And You'll Need An SSD To Play
By Demi Williams - Gamespot | Jun 12, 2023 - 10:14Starfield's system requirements on PC have been revealed and it looks like players will need to free up 125GB on their SSD in order to play.The official Steam page for the upcoming open-world RPG has...
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Starfield Will Run At 30 FPS On Xbox Series X|S
By Demi Williams - Gamespot | Jun 12, 2023 - 09:43Starfield director Todd Howard has confirmed that the upcoming open-world role-playing game will be locked at 30 FPS on Xbox Series X|S.During a Giant Bomb at Nite livestream--GameSpot's sister site--...
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Overwatch 2's first story missions are coming August 10th, along with a new PvP mode and Support hero
By Matt Cox - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 09:32Blizzard may have abandoned their plans for a fully-fledged Overwatch 2 PvE mode, but they do still want to tell us some stories. They've just announced Overwatch 2: Invasion, a big update that'll in...
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Today's Wordle hint and answer #723: Monday, June 12
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 06:05Today's Wordle: Help with solving Monday's puzzle.
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Starfield will be 30 fps on consoles
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 05:29Todd Howard confirmed that the Xbox Series X/S versions of Starfield will fly in the slow lane.
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This modern fantasy action RPG has you take a break from corporate life to crawl dungeons
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 04:49"Braving a dungeon requires more than just cutting-edge sports gear and a good sword arm."
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Todd Howard: Starfield Locked At 30FPS On Console For 'Consistency'
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 12, 2023 - 03:14Since Starfield was revealed, fans have been wondering what framerate the sci-fi RPG would run at on console. In a new interview with IGN, creative director Todd Howard confirmed the Xbox Series X/S v...
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Every game at the PC Gaming Show 2023
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 03:02All the exciting trailers and interviews from this year's PC Gaming Show, hosted by Day[9] and FrankAI.
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Final Fantasy XVI demo available worldwide on June 12
By Steven Mills - Destructoid | Jun 12, 2023 - 03:00Prepare to stay up late or wake up early Square Enix announced the highly anticipated demo for Final Fantasy XVI will launch worldwide tomorrow on the PlayStation Store. A listing for the demo had ap...
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Final Fantasy 16 demo launches today
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 02:25Final Fantasy 16 will be available to play today in demo form, Square Enix has confirmed. The highly-anticipated demo will go live for PlayStation 5 in the UK at 9am - that's 4am Eastern time o...
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Persona 3 Reload won't have the female protagonist or other additions of Persona 3's Portable and FES editions
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 02:16Though Atlus says it will have "new scenes and events".
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Starfield locked to 30fps on console, Bethesda confirms
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 02:10Xbox console exclusive Starfield will be locked to 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Bethesda's Todd Howard has confirmed. On Xbox Series X, it will run at 4K resolution. On Xbox Series S, it will ru...
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Final Fantasy XVI's PS5 Demo Is Here, Will Let You Play The First 2+ Hours
By Levi Winslow and Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 12, 2023 - 02:10With Final Fantasy XVI’s June 22 release right around the corner, Square Enix decided it’s finally time to drop a PlayStation 5 demo for the action-RPG so players can get a taste of the grittier, Game...
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Starfield's different playstyles lets you be more than just a shooty-shooty space cowboy
By Rachel Watts - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:58If you're like me and thought that Starfield was just gonna be a shooty shooty space cowboy game, then think again. Revealed during the Starfield Direct that happened just after the Xbox Games Showca...
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Parcel Corps is going to give me some killer calves
By CJ Andriessen - Destructoid | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:57I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike The PC Gaming Show is never a stream I focus on as I don't really game on my PC. But with so many of these games jumping over to console, I decided t...
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The Dune: Awakening devs described a bunch of cool stuff that could theoretically happen to you in their MMO
By Alice Bell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:54Frank Herbert's weirdo sci-fi epic is a great shout for a survival game and an MMO in many ways. You've got warring factions, you've got a hostile desert planet, you've got canonical giant monsters t...
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Capcom's Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess is a mystery, but a pretty one
By Alice O'Connor - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:36One big mystery in tonight's Xbox Games Showcase was the announcement of Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess, a new game from Capcom. It's some sort of action game seemingly steeped in Japanese mytholo...
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Starfield's spaceship combat is more than just holding down a trigger and hoping for the best
By Rachel Watts - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:34I'd rather just saunter around space looking at pretty planets in Starfield, but I guess in a game as big as Bethesda's sci-fi behemoth they want fighty fighty spaceship battles. During the Starfield...
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Vampire Survivor’s next free update drops tomorrow
By CJ Andriessen - Destructoid | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:33GOLD-FINGER (he sang in his most Shirley Bassy voice) Vampire Survivors continues to be the indie gift that keeps on giving. After a stellar debut last year, in which it won Best Game at the British...
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Animal Crossing meets My Time At Portia in archipelago life-sim Critter Cove
By Rachel Watts - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:30Who would have thought a bathtub would make a great little tugboat, but after seeing Critter Cove's protagonist toot his way around a sunny archipelago, it makes perfect sense. Announced during the P...
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Vampire Survivors is getting even more reasons why you should absolutely play it
By Rachel Watts - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:26RPS' coveted game of the year 2022, Vampire Survivors, is getting another update, which means there are now even more reasons why you should play this game if you haven't already. Like, seriously. Th...
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Starfield’s ship building still threatens to produce the most cursed crafts in sci-fi
By James Archer - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:25Of the many Starfield elements deep-dove into during the Xbox Games Showcase's Starfield Direct, the ship building was one that we’d previously seen a decent amount of. Yet it also cemented, in quite...
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What you actually need to know from the PC Gaming Show 2023
By Katharine Castle - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:23Cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer has their own NotE3 show, don't you know, which this year was packed with almost two and a half hours of fresh(ish) PC gaming announcements. There sure was a lot to get in...
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Metaphor: ReFantazio is a new "high fantasy" RPG from the makers of Persona
By Graham Smith - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:22Atlus have become a Persona factory in recent years, producing not only the mainline urban fantasy RPGs but spin-offs like Persona 5 Strikers and the recently announced Persona 5 Tactica. Thankfully...
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Starfield Direct recap: sandwich heists, cowboy towns, space magic, and other things we learned
By PC Gamer | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:15The Starfield presentation covered a lot of familiar ground, but we got a deeper look at Bethesda's space RPG.
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Sure, why not, a metroidvania where you play as Ebenezer Scrooge
By CJ Andriessen - Destructoid | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:12Bah fun(?)-bug A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic that remains a staple of the holiday season, with producers in film and television taking advantage of its public domain status every couple of...
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The Hardspace: Shipbreaker dev's new game is a sci-fi deckbuilder with Battlestar Galactica vibes
By Alice Bell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:06Okay, so you're not being chased by an army of murderous robots that are only seconds behind you, but you're still jumping around trying to find a new home for the last of humanity who managed to esc...
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Another Call Of Duty Streamer's Skin Getting Removed Over Anti-LGBTQ Controversy
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 12, 2023 - 01:00Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar is getting his wish. Activision will remove the streamer’s cosmetic bundle from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone, a spokesperson for the publisher confirmed. Be...
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I can't wait to play Frostpunk 2 in 2024, because apparently I hate myself
By Rachel Watts - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 00:34I honestly thought that 11 Bit Studios would have a tough time making Frostpunk 2 stand out from the original game, but from the looks of the sequel's new trailer, it certainly stands out all right....
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Try the new Warhammer RTS with an open beta in July
By Alice O'Connor - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 00:33If owning forty thousand hammers sounds ludicrous to you, come have a peek at the new trailer for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin. This accompanies news that the fantasy RTS will run a multip...
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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's system requirements have been announced and affect the base game
By Graham Smith - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 12, 2023 - 00:32Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty got a new trailer and release date earlier this evening. Developers CD Projekt Red then followed up by sharing the expansion's system requirements, which includes a Ge...
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