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Samsung Is Hosting A Big Sale Right Now On Popular Tech
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:27Tons of deals are now live at Samsung, including enticing price cuts on TVs, monitors, smartphone, tablets, and other popular electronics. Many of the discounts end when July rolls around--and a few e...
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Star Ocean: The Second Story R Is An HD-2D Remake Of The PlayStation Original
By Grace Benfell - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:25PlayStation RPG classic Star Ocean: The Second Story is getting an HD-2D remake and releasing on a Nintendo console for the very first time. Star Ocean: The Second Story R is coming to Nintendo Switch...
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Pick up Samsung's 1TB 980 NVMe SSD for less than £40
By Will Judd - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:11Samsung's 980 SSD is the company's latest mainstream offering, combining PCIe 3.0 speeds with a DRAM-less design and TLC NAND. That makes it a cheaper alternative to their PCIe 4.0 drives with DRAM,...
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Xbox Series X And Game Pass Are Raising Prices To Match PS5
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:10Microsoft will raise the price of its more powerful Xbox Series X console in certain countries around the world and increase the cost of a monthly Game Pass Ultimate subscription by $2, it confirmed i...
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Metal Gear Solid 3 is headed to PC for the first time, as Konami confirms Steam release for Master Collection
By Matt Jarvis - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:09Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will see its first-ever release on PC thanks to the upcoming release of the series’ Master Collection, freshly confirmed for a Steam release this autumn. Read mor...
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Tears of the Kingdom players have found a new dupe glitch
By Alice Newcome-Beill - Polygon | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:07Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Suishi on YouTube Zelda’s got the meats Yet another clever duplication glitch has been discovered in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom....
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I'm really looking forward to tucking into Nour: Play With Your Food later this year
By Liv Ngan - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:00"Olivia, get the bowls and chopsticks ready to eat dinner," my mum asks 10 year old me. I do as I'm told, taking them to the dinner table. In childish, whimsical fashion as a childish, whimsical chil...
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Most anticipated game releases – July 2023
By Chris Penwell - Destructoid | Jun 21, 2023 - 19:00Take a breather Gaming hasn't slowed down since 2023 began. Hit after hit after hit has ensured that cash has been frequently relinquished from our wallets. Fortunately, the industry is cooling down...
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Penny's Big Breakaway Is A New 3D Platformer From The Sonic Mania Team
By Jason Fanelli - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:51Today's Nintendo Direct presentation was filled with new Mario games, but tucked in there amongst the rest was another new platformer coming to the Switch early next year: Penny's Big Breakaway, which...
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Twitch adds mandatory content labels and clarifies 'we consider kissing or licking a microphone to fall within Sexual Themes'
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:39And don't you dare think about smoking pot without a label!
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My favourite Steam Next Fest demo so far is this analogue 90s dial-a-witcher horror game
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:39Home Safety Hotline is a weird and wonderful tone piece.
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Vampire Survivors is getting four-player couch co-op so you can slay bloodsuckers with BFFs
By Matt Jarvis - Rock Paper Shotgun | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:36As if you needed more of a reason to while away the hours listening to Vampire Survivors’ strangely entrancing OST while mowing down thousands of skeletons, ghosts and vampires, 2022’s more moreish...
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Final Fantasy 16 review roundup: 'a bold new benchmark for the series'
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:34A mixed reception to its story, but heaps of praise for its Eikonic boss battles.
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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Brings More Creature-Catching To Switch In December
By Grace Benfell - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:32While Square Enix is focusing much of its efforts on Final Fantasy 16, it did have some recent news for Dragon Quest fans. The Pokemon-influenced side series is getting a Switch-exclusive comeback in...
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Broken Sword designer retires after 30 years in the industry, laments the 'threat of AI' to the next generation of creators
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:27Broken Sword, Resident Evil: Village, and The Witcher form just a part of his long career.
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Princess Peach is finally the star of the show in a new Switch game
By Michael McWhertor - Polygon | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:26Image: Nintendo Nintendo teases Princess Peach’s solo adventure for 2024 Nintendo will give Princess Peach a starring role in her own Nintendo Switch game next year, the compan...
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Amazon Is Giving Away Free Games To Celebrate Prime Day 2023
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:23Amazon is kicking off its 48-hour Prime Day 2023 sale on July 11, but leading up to the big event you’ll find tons of great freebies from Prime Gaming . This includes everything from in-game content...
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New 2D Super Mario Bros. Wonder, RPG remake lead Nintendo Direct reveals
By Kevin Purdy - Ars Technica | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:23Metal Gear, Batman Arkham series also get Switch releases this fall.
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Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 Heads To Switch, Launches In October
By Marcus Stewart - Gameinformer | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:19Today’s Nintendo Direct revealed that Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, the enhanced bundle of classic Metal Gear games previously announced at the PlayStation Showcase, is also hea...
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This Game Boy Advance SP Was The Star Of The Nintendo Direct
By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:18Nintendo just wrapped up its latest Direct presentation, and if you’re a fan of Mario and/or Pokemon, you were eating pretty well by the time the show was over. If you were anyone else? You probably w...
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Destiny 2 Just Shadow Dropped Its Most Important Reveal Ever
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:04Destiny 2’s 10-year story arc is grinding toward its ultimate conclusion, and some questions players have had for years are finally getting answered. One of the loot shooter’s biggest mysteries, like...
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Six Days in Fallujah’s creators are ready to release and defend the controversial shooter
By Matt Paprocki - Polygon | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:00Image: Highwire Games/Victura More than a decade after its reveal, Six Days is here In 2009, Six Days in Fallujah, a video game based on real urban combat between American Mar...
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New Twitch labels hope to better classify mature content
By Chris Moyse - Destructoid | Jun 21, 2023 - 18:00Parental Advisory Explicit Content Twitch is adopting a new range of labels and tags with which it hopes creators can better classify mature content on their respective channels — The new tags, which...
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Metal Gear Solid Returns To Nintendo Consoles For The First Time In A Decade
By Steven T. Wright - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:57Snake is finally coming back to a Nintendo console. As part of June 21's Nintendo Direct, Konami announced that Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 24, a...
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Super Mario RPG Preorders Are Live At Best Buy
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:51Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was one of the most iconic games on SNES. Now, Nintendo is reviving the adventure for another generation of players with a remake for Nintendo Switch. The a...
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The Best Game In The Star Ocean Sci-Fi RPG Series Is Getting A Stunning 2.5D Remake
By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:50Star Ocean: The Second Story was originally released on PlayStation back in 1999. Now it’s back by way of a 2.5D remaster in the style of Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy. It’s a revival that t...
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This quiet adventure finally makes climbing towers fun again
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:49Ascending a post-apocalyptic world handhold-by-handhold is wonderfully satisfying.
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Aliens: Dark Descent review
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:46A bug hunt that takes a more tactical approach to xenomorph blasting.
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 5 DLC Includes Brand New Course, Three Returning Characters
By Brian Shea - Gameinformer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:37Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is speeding closer to the end of its six waves of Booster Course Pass DLC, which is said to wrap up before the end of this year. During today's Nintendo Direct, we got our...
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Everything shown at the June 2023 Nintendo Direct
By Eric Van Allen - Destructoid | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:35Do not directly touch fuzzy Today was a new Nintendo Direct, with a whole host of news for Switch owners on what's coming for the rest of the year on Nintendo's handheld hybrid. It was, honestly, a p...
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Mario Kart 8 for Switch brings back Kamek, who was cruelly cut from Mario Kart 64
By Michael McWhertor - Polygon | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:32Image: Nintendo A brand-new course, Squeaky Clean Sprint, is revealed Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s next wave of DLC courses is coming to Switch this summer, Nintendo announced Wednesd...
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Everything from today's June Nintendo Direct
By Ed Nightingale - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:32After the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo's Switch slate was looking a little bare bones for the rest of 2023. But after today's Nintendo Direct we have a much cle...
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Logitech Controllers Are On Sale At A Curious Time
By Alyssa Mercante - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:30Just days after five people went missing on a tourist submarine believed to be (at least at one point during its construction) piloted by a wireless Logitech controller, Logitech appears to be running...
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Everything At Nintendo's 40-Min Direct For 2023's Big Switch Games
By Claire Jackson - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:25Hey, listen: You weren’t playing Zelda during that whole presentation were you? It’s okay. I don’t blame you. Well, whether you were elsewhere during Nintendo’s Direct presentation today or exploring...
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Star Ocean: The Second Story Remake Announced
By Marcus Stewart - Gameinformer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:22Star Ocean: The Second Story is getting an HD-2D overhaul that slaps the letter R at the end of the title, a nod to the fact that it’s a remake. The game first launched for PlayStation in 19...
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EA Has Addressed Madden 24's Mahomes Dive Pass That Everyone Hates
By Mark Delaney - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:20EA Tiburon has revealed a lengthy deep dive into Madden 24's on-field changes players can expect to find when the game arrives this August. Though you can read about most of those in a separate articl...
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For Madden 24, EA Tiburon Has Added Or Adjusted More Than 1,700 Tackling Animations
By Mark Delaney - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:19The Josh Allen-starring Madden NFL 24 was recently revealed by EA, but the studio only revealed the broad strokes regarding what players can expect for changes. In a new blog post, EA Tiburon is shari...
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder Preorders Are Live
By Jon Bitner - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:17The latest Nintendo Direct didn’t disappoint, giving fans their first look at Super Mario Bros. Wonder--a new 2D adventure with gorgeous graphics, new abilities, and plenty of platforming fun. The ti...
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New Zelda And Ganondorf Tears Of The Kingdom Amiibo Will Release Later This Year
By Steve Watts - Gamespot | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:13The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is getting more attention from Nintendo later this year, as two new Zelda and Ganondorf Amiibo have been revealed.Announced during the Nintendo Direct June sh...
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Kamek and Wiggler join Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass this summer
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:09As part of this afternoon's Direct, Nintendo shared more details on the next wave of Mario Kart 8 DLC content. Wave five will arrive this summer, complete with a new course known as Squeaky Cle...
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Nintendo 3DS-Exclusive Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Coming To Switch Next Year
By Wesley LeBlanc - Gameinformer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:06Nintendo has revealed that a "visually enhanced" version of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is coming to Switch next year. Dark Moon, otherwise known as Luigi's Mansion 2, was previously release...
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Tears Of The Kingdom Zelda And Ganondorf Amiibo Figures Coming This Year
By Brian Shea - Gameinformer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:05When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom arrived on May 12, its launch was accompanied by an Amiibo of Link. But Link was far from the only star of Nintendo's most popular game of 2023....
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a delirious new side-scrolling platformer coming to Switch in October
By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:03As rumoured ahead of today's Direct showcase, Nintendo has a brand-new side-scrolling Mario platformer in the works. It's called Super Mario Bros. Wonder and is coming to Switch on 20th October....
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Final Fantasy 16: as close to flawless as we've seen in a long time
By John Linneman - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:03With new worlds to explore, characters to meet, and battles to fight, all paired with a world-class soundtrack and a sharp presentation, Final Fantasy 16 arrives in excellent condition and gives play...
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They actually did it: EVE Online becomes the first videogame with Microsoft Excel integration
By PC Gamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:03New ways to excel oneself in New Eden.
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There's a new WarioWare coming to Nintendo Switch this year
By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:02Nintendo has just announced WarioWare: Move It! for Switch, which is set for launch on 3rd November. This latest entry in the fast-paced microgame series contains 200 quickfire rounds, controlle...
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Nintendo Live 2023 is heading to Seattle this September
By Eric Van Allen - Destructoid | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:01The fan event will take place in the U.S. for the first time Nintendo is bringing its Live celebration to Seattle. The company has announced that Nintendo Live 2023 is heading to Seattle, Washington...
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Solid Snake and Commander Shepard stars discuss threat of AI on voice acting
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:00AI is a hot topic of discussion across the video game industry right now. Several developers have flirted with this new technology, with the likes of Ubisoft announcing its Ghostwriter AI tool earl...
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Jennifer Hale and David Hayter on voice acting for VR, reuniting for Synapse, and Shrivelled Snake
By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:00Jennifer Hale and David Hayter are two of the most prolific voice actors in the industry today. Their careers span decades, with TV, film and video game credits to their names. Last week, I sat...
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Mario Kart 8's Next Wave Adds Even More Characters To Game That Never Dies
By Isaiah Colbert - Kotaku | Jun 21, 2023 - 17:00During today’s Nintendo Direct, we got a new look at wave five of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe booster pack DLC.
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