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You Can Play Tekken 8 In A Closed Network Test Next Month
By Marcus Stewart - Gameinformer | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:20Bandai Namco is inviting players to throwdown in Tekken 8 for the first time with a pair of closed network tests next month. The tests lets players duke it out with 16 fighters across five...
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Riot and League of Legends pros reach compromise ahead of planned walkout, North American play to resume next week
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:16The LCS Players Association didn't get what it wanted, but it got something.
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Tekken 8 gets closed network test this July on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:06Bandai Namco is giving select Tekken fans a chance to get stuck into the series' latest instalment early this summer, with a Tekken 8 closed network test kicking off on 21st July. Tekken 8's clo...
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Save Big On Steam Deck Games For A Limited Time
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:02You can never have too many games in your Steam library, and if you're looking to add a few new titles to your collection that'll work on your Steam Deck, then good news because Green Man Gaming has a...
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Kvark's atmosphere defines it as more than a Half-Life rehash
By Sin Vega - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:00The glut of "old school" shooters has largely passed me by, not least because I can easily play Doom today if I want to. But Kvark looks to Half-Life instead of the Doomquake clone era, and is all t...
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Friday the 13th: The Game will be delisted in December due to licence expiration
By Chris Moyse - Destructoid | Jun 09, 2023 - 18:00The Final Chapter Gun Media has announced that its asymmetrical horror title Friday the 13th: The Game will be delisted this December, following the expiration of the studio's license. The multiplaye...
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Elder Scrolls 6 Was Announced 5 Years Ago This Week
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:53The Elder Scrolls VI is one of the most-anticipated upcoming games across the video game industry, and it's about to reach an anniversary of sorts. The game was officially announced on June 10, 2018 a...
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Fortnite: Where To Get A Cybertron Cannon And How It Works
By Billy Givens - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:52Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 has kicked off with a ton of new stuff, including a Transformers crossover that is certain to excite fans of the beloved franchise. In addition to some events around the ma...
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Is PC hardware 'leak' culture out of control?
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:43Be careful what you believe...
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Disney Dreamlight Valley - How To Catch Kingfish
By Billy Givens - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:41There are a lot of fish to catch in Disney Dreamlight Valley, and while most of them are simply specific to certain color puddles, a handful of these water-dwellers can only be caught during certain t...
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Fortnite’s New Battle Pass Features ‘This Is Fine’ Joke
By Claire Jackson - Kotaku | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:23A meme that has likely felt apt the past few days if you’re in New York, the “This is Fine” meme has long been a symbol of catharsis for those of us hopelessly accepting crushing realities beyond our...
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Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 Launches With Over 500K XP To Earn From Quests
By S.E. Doster - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:22Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 is live, and the season starts a brand-new line of weekly and story-based quests. As you jump into this new season, you'll be given a selection of Snapshots, Weekly, and Tr...
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Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 - How To Use Job Boards To Earn Gold
By S.E. Doster - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:12A new season has arrived in Fortnite. Chapter 4 Season 3: Wilds brings a new biome and a Transformers crossover, letting you fight through the jungle as Optimus Prime. Additionally the update replaces...
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Review: Super Mega Baseball 4
By Zoey Handley - Destructoid | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:00The gladiators from my website will crush your team like nine flabby grapes It’s the start of the Super Mega Baseball 4 2023 season. The Internet’s Destructoid is taking the field. We’ve got a great...
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth spans 2 discs on PS5 because, well, that’s Final Fantasy
By Owen S. Good - Polygon | Jun 09, 2023 - 17:00Image: Square Enix It doesn’t necessarily mean a ridiculous installation size, but we’ll see Even for fans of Final Fantasy, the news that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth would ship on...
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Pride Month Humble Bundle Includes Great Games From LGBTQ+ Developers
By Brendan Hesse - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:42Humble Bundle is celebrating Pride Month with a special Pixel Pride game bundle. The limited-time bundle includes up to seven indie PC games made by LGBTQ+ developers and featuring LGBTQ+ themes and s...
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Upgrade Your Home Theater Experience With These Projector Deals
By Brendan Hesse - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:38Projectors are a great way to watch movies or even play games on a big screen, but they can be quite expensive. Luckily, in celebration of National Movie Night--yes, that’s apparently a thing that hap...
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Ubisoft Forward Sale Is Live With Stellar Deals On Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, And More
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:36The Ubisoft Forward Sale is now live, slashing prices on hundreds of games. Everything from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to Riders Republic is on sale, giving you a chance to clear out your wishlis...
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Zuck points out that every Apple Vision Pro VR demo 'was a person sitting on a couch by themself'
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:33Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, makes it clear that 'There’s a real philosophical difference' in how his company approaches VR.
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TSMC tells US workers to expect long shifts or find another job
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:30It's certainly a novel approach to PR...
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Summer Game Fest: Sonic, Sephiroth and zero women
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:23This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we react to last night's Summer Game Fest opening livestream, which offered us a first look at new Sonic and Prince of Persia games, plus a mouth-watering glimp...
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Fortnite’s new season reveals a hidden jungle full of weapons, raptors, and Transformers
By Austen Goslin - Polygon | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:18Image: Epic Games Chapter 4 season 3 is called Wilds Fortnite’s newest season, Wilds, has arrived and it brought the Autobots with it. The latest season’s cinematic reveal trai...
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HyperX Cloud III
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:14A comfy headset that doesn't quite stand out in the crowded $99 gaming headset field.
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Here are 6 whole horse games you could buy for the same price as Diablo 4's £6.39 horse armour
By Katharine Castle - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:14Like lots of people in the RPS Treehouse right now, I've been squeezing in bits of Diablo 4 around the various Summer Game Fest streams happening this week. I'm having a decent, if mildly monotonous...
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Alan Wake 2 gameplay trailer caught my horror-loving attention
By Andrew Heaton - Destructoid | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:00I was barely curious, but now I'm wishlisting it There was a lot to check out from yesterday's Summer Game Fest, and there's still a lot more to come. We'll be bringing details about what else has be...
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Graphics card sales just got even worse
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:00Er, anybody wanna buy a GPU?
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Q Acoustics M20 HD review: unnaturally flexible bookshelf speakers
By Reece Bithrey - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 16:00As you'll have seen from some of my recent reviews here, I'm beginning to get into the world of audio in a bigger way than I had been. Of course, headphones are just one part of it, and speakers are...
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F1 Manager 2023 PC Preorders Are Discounted Already
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:53The only thing more exciting than piloting bleeding-edge vehicles at ludicrous speeds in a Formula One race, is handling the day-to-day operations of running an F1 team. For anyone looking to experien...
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You can now sign up for Tekken 8's closed network tests
By Liv Ngan - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:52The fighting game hype continues, as Bandai Namco has just opened up registration for Tekken 8 closed network testing. You better hustle if you want in though, as selection is happening on a first co...
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Diablo 4's Most-Played Class Revealed
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:43Blizzard boss Rod Fergusson has revealed Diablo IV's most popular class. Posting on Twitter and potentially without the permission of Blizzard's marketing and PR teams, Fergusson said that as of now t...
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Fortnite Fans Mourn As Season 4 Vaults Chug Splash And Other Great Healing Items
By Patricia Hernandez - Kotaku | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:40Fortnite just debuted its latest season, which features mechs versus dinos on a sunken island. There’s a new battle pass to grind, new skins to unlock, a new map, new augments, and new weapons and ite...
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Tekken 8 Closed Network Test Announced For July
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:32Tekken 8 publisher Bandai Namco has announced that the game will be receiving a closed network test, starting on July 21. This slice of the game will be substantial, as eligible players will be able t...
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How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct
By Michael McWhertor - Polygon | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:30Image: Microsoft Microsoft and Bethesda have a big show planned On June 11, Microsoft will hold its annual Xbox Games Showcase where it’s expected to reveal what’s coming next...
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Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 Exotic And Mythic Weapons Guide
By Billy Givens - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:20Every season of Fortnite comes packing some exciting Exotics and Mythics to find, usually giving you an upper hand in showdowns with other squads. As expected, Chapter 4 Season 3 keeps the fun going w...
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Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3: All New And Returning Augments
By Billy Givens - Gamespot | Jun 09, 2023 - 15:11Augments may be a relatively new addition to Fortnite, but Epic has ensured that it keeps the pool of these helpful boons updated frequently. With Chapter 4 Season 3, there are more Augments than ever...
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Horror story: As an actually good Friday the 13th game dies, another implacably rises
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 14:54Don't look now.
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CCG company sues Disney's next big card game for alleged 'premeditated' IP heist, asks court to block its release and throw the book at them
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 14:34Upper Deck reckons Disney Lorcana's maker, Ravensburger, deliberately stole its ideas to speed the game's production.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II hits PC and consoles this winter
By Chris Moyse - Destructoid | Jun 09, 2023 - 14:30For the Empire Among the many previews, updates, and release dates revealed during yesterday's Summer Game Fest presentation, Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive offered up new gameplay footage...
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RPS GOTY Revisited: 2014's Endless Legend is still one of the most vibrant, important 4X games
By Ollie Toms - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 14:00It's impossible to determine just how long ago 2014 was. Wisdom would dictate it sits around the 9 year mark, but no one truly believes that. Endless Legend? That was no more than two years ago, and...
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Baby Steps is a man-baby walking sim out next year from Devolver
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:59At the Devolver Direct showcase, the publisher announced brand new game Baby Steps, from the developer behind Ape Out and Getting Over It. It is, quite literally, a walking simulator and feature...
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Legend of Zelda film reportedly in the works, Universal closing "big deal" with Nintendo
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:58Hot off the heels of the Super Mario Bros. Movie's success, it looks like another Nintendo IP could be making the transition to the big screen. According to well-informed film critic Jeff Sneid...
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Give us more awkward celebrity cameos at video game live shows
By Alice Bell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:48I'm sad to say that I've long passed the stage where covering a trailer show like Summer Game Fest makes me feel almost nothing, because for me it's a work event where I have to stay up to 1am drinki...
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The Sludge Life 2 demo is here, and it destroyed my morning
By Liv Ngan - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:47Sludge Life 2 wasn't officially a part of the line-up at Summer Game Fest last night, but it's damn well stolen the show for me today. A demo for the game dropped yesterday, and I've spent about an h...
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This cult classic Suda51 and Shinji Mikami collaboration is getting a remaster, and god willing it'll come to PC
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:12The Shadows of the Damned remaster hasn't announced any platforms yet, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't hit PC too.
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Our "happy experience" playing Party Animals
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:00You may remember a beta for the absurd Party Animals that released back in 2020 - a riotously fun party game that swiftly rose up the most-anticipated lists. Fast forward three years and we finally...
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Game of the Week: Planet of Lana finds room for vital videogame space
By Christian Donlan - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 13:00I dropped into Fortnite late last week - that rare game where you genuinely do drop in - and I had a lovely time as ever. But I had a wistful time too. It felt like something had changed - slowly,...
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You can overhaul your Steam Deck controls with these drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks
By PC Gamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 12:16Fewer moving parts makes for more precision and better reliability.
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Activision removes Nickmercs skin from Call of Duty shop following anti-LGBT+ comment
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 12:00Activision has removed Nickmercs' Call of Duty skin from sale, after the streamer made an anti-LGBT+ comment. The skin is no longer available to buy in both Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone. Nick...
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Lara Croft tumbles into Fall Guys with Tomb Raider crossover
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 09, 2023 - 11:56Famed archaeologist Lara Croft will join the bumbling beans of Fall Guys, thanks to a new Tomb Raider crossover. "A Lara Croft bean is something you never knew you needed," Tomb Raider's Twitte...
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Friday The 13th is being delisted at the end of this year
By Liv Ngan - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 09, 2023 - 11:47Welp, it feels like this has been a long time coming. Friday The 13th: The Game will no longer be on sale by the end of the year, due to license expiration. The asymmetric multiplayer game, based on...
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