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How To Edit Memoirs In Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
By Cristina Alexander - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:15If you carried a camcorder everywhere you went in the ‘90s, without advanced A/V technology you likely had a hard time editing video footage to create your own cinematic masterpiece. However, in Lost...
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Valve tracked 1.7 million Steam users who joined in 2023 to see if they stuck around—they did, and they spent $93 million
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 19:13Hot stuff.
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$100 Xbox gift cards are $85 for the rest of the day
By Cameron Faulkner - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:57There are a lot of things you can buy with an Xbox gift card. There are games, of course, plus add-on DLC. You can use it to purchase TV shows, and movies, too. Instead of having a recurring subscript...
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New PlayStation Game Coming From Gears Of War: Judgment Studio
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:51Polish developer People Can Fly has announced that it's making a game for Sony Interactive Entertainment based on an IP that Sony owns, though it remains to be seen what the game is.In a statement, Pe...
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Severance’s Best Storyline Stole The Show In Season Two’s Penultimate Episode
By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:40As we head into next week’s season finale, I’m starting to better understand the frustration some viewers feel with Severance’s pacing in its second season. We’re nine episodes in and not a lot has ha...
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Electro Bop Boxing League is a swanky atompunk autobattler with a wonderful sense of fun
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:39I don't much enjoy sports sims, but sometimes an imaginative spin on a sport will sneak past my guard. Electro Bop Boxing League has spins aplenty. You probably could have stopped at robot boxers, De...
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Assassin's Creed Shadows is joining Xbox's "Stream your own games" library
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:38With Assassin's Creed Shadows now less than a week away, Microsoft has announced it'll be the latest to title to join Xbox's steadily growing "Stream your own games" service. Read more
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The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:37Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced Mod-Conversion Tool Coming From Rockstar-Owned Team
By Blair Marnell - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:34The PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 has been out for almost a decade, and it's been endlessly modded in the intervening 10 years. However, the recently released Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced upgrade is...
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God Of War Ragnarok Gets New Free Update This Month To Celebrate The Franchise's 20th Anniversary
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:22The God of War franchise is turning 20 years old later this month, and to celebrate, developer Sony Santa Monica has announced a free update to God of War Ragnarok that'll go live on March 20. Inspire...
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Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:18Putting a dampener on that new card.
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Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:17'Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.'
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Get Rich Quick In Avowed With Our Totally Legal Scheme
By Brandon Morgan - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:15Crashing on the shores of Avowed’s Living Lands, I didn’t have two gold pieces to rub together. But with one quick scheme—okay, it was actually multiple methods in a concerted effort—I managed to fill...
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Freaky Friday 2's First Trailer Doubles The Body Swapping
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:15Things are about get freaky. Again. Disney has just released the first trailer for Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. And this time, four people ar...
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Starfield On PS5 Still Not Confirmed But New Evidence Emerges
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:12Bethesda's 2023 RPG Starfield is not ruled out for PS5, but it also hasn't been announced for Sony's system like some of Bethesda's other games have, including Doom: The Dark Ages and Indiana Jones an...
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Final Fantasy 14’s next update makes getting around faster and smoother
By Ian Walker - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:05When Final Fantasy 14’s 7.2 update — subtitled “Seekers of Eternity” — drops on March 25, it’ll bring with it all the flashy content players of the massively multiplayer role-playing game have come to...
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Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:04Fly me to the moon.
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10 great Steam Spring Sale games to grab at a discount
By Toussaint Egan - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 18:00Spring may not start until next Thursday, but that’s not stopping Steam from leaping headfirst this week into its annual sale event to celebrate the season! From now through March 20, PC gamers can en...
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World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:57A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners game, based on the Netflix series, is an incredible value
By Charlie Hall - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:52Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone, the latest iteration of Monster Fight Club’s light and flexible miniatures skirmish franchise, is now widely available — including at local game stores and online a...
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Soundcore Liberty 4 Pro review
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:49Massively customisable, tiny earbuds.
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Fortnite comes to Snapdragon: Epic Games announces upcoming Arm support for its Easy Anti-Cheat software
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:47Soon you can build forts and fight knights in... look, I'm getting old, okay?
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Sony Didn't Let Jonah Hill's Character In Superbad Use A PlayStation Because He Was Too 'Vile'
By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:302007's Superbad was a massive hit comedy film starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as two virgin teens trying to party and get laid before graduation. In the movie, Hill’s character is such a shitty d...
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New Tides Of Annihilation trailer is a buttery montage of bossfights
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:27In my hectic pursuit of a scoop, I have spent a non-zero amount of today peering at a smudgy image of a London bus sign from a Tides Of Annihilation trailer, trying to work out whether the new goon...
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The Super Nintendo Now Runs Infinitesimally Faster Than It Did 35 Years Ago And Players Are Trying To Find Out Why
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:20Most hardware breaks down and gets worse as it ages. Some old Super Nintendo systems, however, are actually running faster. The changes aren’t noticeable to your average player, but dedicated fans hav...
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Intel Arc B570 review: a budget GPU that's too good to be true?
By Richard Leadbetter - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:17Intel's Arc B580 graphics card impressed us a few months back, thanks to genuinely decent performance with plenty of VRAM at a mainstream price, but we never got around to reviewing the even cheaper...
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree gets Nebula Awards nom
By Maddy Myers - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 17:01The Nebula Awards, a long-running honor for excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing, has included video game writing since 2018. It previously bestowed its top prize in game writing to Elden...
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'We've been keeping fans waiting for an awfully long time': We finally got to see more of Silent Hill f and boy, does it look great
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:40This is the kind of Silent Hill content I love to see.
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Avowed's New Patch Includes Player-Requested Features, Roadmap Is On The Way
By Claire Lewis - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:39Avowed's latest update includes quite a bit of content, but in addition to the usual bug-fixes and stability improvements players expect from a post-launch patch, the 1.3.0 update also includes a numb...
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Avengers Director Says Future Of Entertainment Lies In The Blending Of Gaming And Linear Storytelling
By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:38The last decade alone has seen a major shift in how entertainment is produced and consumed, and while the future isn't set in stone, Avengers: Endgame and The Electric State directors Joe and Anthony...
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8 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
By Justin Clark - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:38Yeah, playing as a yakuza running around the streets of Japan is cool, but have you ever tried it in Hawaii, while dressed like a pirate with a crew that includes no less than three highly intelligent...
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Silent Hill F Preorders Include $10 Gift Card At Best Buy
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:36Revealed by Konami in 2022, Silent Hill f received a new cinematic trailer this week--though no release date was announced. Showing off a chilling small town in Japan and its lead protagonist, studen...
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Penne for your thoughts: This pasta display can show three individual frames and it's trying its best, okay
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:36There cannelloni be one. I'll stop now.
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The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:29A simpler time. Maybe not better, but simpler.
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Switch 2 Won't Sell As Well As Original Due In Part To Backward Compatibility - Analyst
By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:22The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 later this year is expected to be a big moment in the video game industry, and many are wondering how the system is going to sell. Nintendo has not published any sa...
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Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:17Is Intel finally on the up?
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How To Level Up Super-Fast In Avowed
By Brandon Morgan - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:15You know, I’m something of an adventurer myself—that is, until the way-too-large spiders rear their ugly eyes in my direction. (Can you rear your eyes? -Pedantic Ed) To ensure fights like the one down...
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Final Fantasy 14's next patch gets a release date and a flamboyant raid boss
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:05Final Fantasy 14's next patch, 7.2, will release on Tuesday 25th March. Read more
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Ubisoft reportedly considering fresh business to own Assassin's Creed and other big franchises, co-owned by others like Tencent
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 16:04Ubisoft is considering the launch of a fresh business unit, part-owned by outside companies, that could manage its biggest video game brands. Read more
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Here’s where you can pre-order Silent Hill f
By Cameron Faulkner - Polygon | Mar 14, 2025 - 15:46Silent Hill is back in a big way. Silent Hill f builds on the momentum of the phenomenal Silent Hill 2 remake by charting new territory for the horror franchise. The upcoming game, which doesn’t have...
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The First New Silent Hill In Over 13 Years Gets The Haunting Reveal Fans Have Been Waiting For
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 15:45Silent Hill f’s reveal trailer has finally arrived and the long-awaited next entry in Konami’s survival horror franchise looks promising. There’s haunting memories, twisted horrors, and plenty of fog....
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Morrowind-inspired indie RPG Ardenfall releases in early access this year
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 14, 2025 - 15:35"Ardenfall is almost cheeky in how close it is to a classic 'thesda game," Alice Bell wrote of the demo to this open-world RPG back in the Aliceful year of 2023. She also asked me about my own propen...
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Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on designing Vanguard Exiles so you could play with dice if your computer died
By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 14, 2025 - 15:00What can we learn about games by comparing the thrill of a nailgun kill in Quake to the elation of triple word score in online Scrabble? For Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering and KeyF...
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Pokémon TCG Pocket Promises To Nuke A Currency Players Just 'Shredded' Tons Of Rare Cards To Stock Up On
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 15:00The “T” in Pokémon TCG Pocket stands for “trading,” but ironically that’s been the worst part of the game ever since the feature launched earlier this year. Finally, the mobile hit’s developers have p...
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Asus appears to have quietly changed the design of its Q-Release PCIe slot after claims of potential GPU pin damage
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:33A subtle change, but a change nonetheless.
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Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, 'saw no line' before she recorded them for Bioware's flagship trilogy: 'It was all cold reading on the spot'
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:18"It's extraordinarily demanding."
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FromSoftware fanatics are making brand new RPGs with the Dark Souls dev's 25-year-old game-making tools
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:10Fans of damp tunnels and chatty skeletons may have enjoyed Lunacid, a first-person dungeon crawler which left early access in October 2023. Sin called it “lo-fi first-person dungeon skulking done rig...
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Pokémon Go datamine points to stat-boosting Bottle Caps, fans say
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:05Pokémon Go looks set to let you increase the stats of your Pokémon, fans say, after code snippets relating to the feature were spotted in a fresh datamine. Read more
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SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pad review
By PC Gamer | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:01Top-notch competitive gaming performance for a price.
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Marvel Rivals' Moon Knight Is A Glass Cannon
By Brian Barnett - Kotaku | Mar 14, 2025 - 14:00As a Dualist, Moon Knight is a glass cannon, able to dish out tons of damage in the right circumstances, but not able to take much himself. Your job is to find sneaky places to wait, set up Ankhs near...
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