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We all love the excitement of a new launch, but coming to a great game after the fact might be even better. You can pick them up cheaply, often with all the DLC included, and they’re much more likely to run smoothly with any major bugs ironed out. Right now, the two best Fallout games are heading up a bundle that includes more apocalyptic favorites such as Frostpunk and Wolfenstein, along with plenty of other excellent games. This ‘special editions bundle’ from Fanatical gives you the choice of ...

Bong Joon Ho’s latest movie, Mickey 17, is a lot of things. It’s a story about work, cloning, colonization, inequality, first contact, and the evils of capitalism. It’s a satire, a slapstick comedy, and a sci-fi epic. It also belongs to one of the rarest and strangest subgenres of film: doppelgänger movies. Robert Pattinson plays...

"I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate."

Mario Day, otherwise called Mar10 Day or just March 10, is nearly here. This is a yearly celebration to commemorate Nintendo’s iconic plumber. It’s not his birthday or anything, but rather a totally random day that sort of looks like his name when spelled a specific way. It’s just like how Star Wars Day falls on May 4. The main feature of Mar10 Day is deals, on both Nintendo consoles and Mario-themed games. Walmart is selling a Nintendo Switch OLED bundle for $349 that comes with a digital downl...

Event runs until March 16.

Developer LocalThunk, the anonymous individual who made Balatro, recently published an extensive breakdown of how they made the game. The post, which details all the milestones involved with launching the indie game, goes deep on personal experiences, from self-doubt and disbelief at his success to serious health concerns and anxiety attacks. It’s also about the...

There's a lot riding on the next Battlefield game. EA's flagship military shooter has been struggling ever since Battlefield 2042 came out, but the developer has some big plans in place to try and rescue the FPS. To start with, the series' gunplay and movement are getting a huge overhaul, as EA is testing even the smallest mechanics to figure out what works and what doesn't.

As we creep ever closer to 13th April, HBO has dropped an all-new teaser for the second season of its critically-acclaimed series, The Last of Us.

I’m faced with a dilemma. Arabella, a little Tiefling child, has stolen a precious idol from the local druids at The Grove. She's now facing death at the fangs of acting First Druid Kahga’s serpent, Teela. You have several options, some meaning Arabella will live, others meaning Arabella will die. On every other playthrough, I’ve talked Kagha off the ledge, but there’s a fresh Dark Urge option here: flick your eyes toward the cave entrance, and urge the girl to run. It’s over in a flash. Fangs p...

MGS2 and 3 have definitely "improved". Last November, the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 for the Switch was bumped up to Version 2.0.0 and now Digital Foundry has taken another look at the current state of the game on Nintendo's platform. Focusing on MGS2 and 3, the Switch version has notably "improved" since the launch build. In its current state, it still runs at a native 720p resolution but has "practically no anti-aliasing" and lacks texture filtering, resulting in an "all-round ...

The perfect murder mystery is a rare thing to come by these days. Procedurals are a dime a dozen, of course; for FBI agents alone there’s a whole universe. But the art of a murder mystery is something more specific. Plenty of episodic procedurals borrow the idea and contain each investigation to a single episode;...

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If you're looking for a more cozy take on the MMO formula, the upcoming BitCraft Online is for you. Instead of the twisting narrative of FF14, or the two decades of history in WoW, this take on the genre is all about a player-driven world. Whatever you do will end up leaving a mark, and it's coming to Steam Early Access incredibly soon.

The mid-90s were an incredible period for the best JRPGs. Final Fantasy was on an incredible streak with FF6, FF7, and FF8, and the likes of Chrono Trigger and EarthBound remain all-time classics to this day. Alongside them, if you were really in the know, and could manage to pronounce it, were Suikoden 1 and 2. While they didn’t catch on quite as hard as some of their peers at the time, the pair gradually grew an audience, earning a well-deserved reputation as beloved cult classics that remain ...

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A Baldur’s Gate 3 and Stardew Valley crossover just makes sense. The prospect of watching a little pixelated Gale tend to crops, or observing Wyll patrol Pelican Town’s virtual cobblestone streets, brings me a profound sense of joy. These are dreams I didn’t know I had until I learned about a mod that aimed to bring the idea to life, and now it’s finally here. So if you’ve been itching to get back to Stardew, or just want another way to romance Astarion, your prayers have been answered.

Hyaaah! Hello chums, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, and the result was pretty definitive. The Western design won with 69% of the vote, with some of you noting that the Japanese variant didn't even look like it belonged to the Pokémon franchise. User Kienda said "If someone showed me the Japanese case out of context, I wouldn’t even twig it was a Pokémon game". Yep, fair comment!

China's video game industry has had some huge, global hits in the past few years with games like Black Myth: Wukong and Genshin Impact. But we have yet to see equivalent success from games made in India - which has a similarly-sized population of around 1.4 billion people, along with the fifth largest economy on the planet. In fact, it's rare to see an Indian game become a big hit outside the country's own borders.

In Doom Eternal, you have to sprint, leap, and pirouette to stay alive and get the drop on the hellspawn. In Half-Life and Half-Life 2, it’s all about keeping your HEV suit charged and, especially during the many platforming and physics-based puzzle sections, watching your step and proceeding with extreme caution. In most FPS games, you have to be either precise and skillful or slow and careful. Robocop Rogue City is the total opposite. You’re a machine. You’re a tank. Grab a 12 gauge, march rig...

amiibo live on. Although we're just weeks out from learning more about the Nintendo Switch 2, new findings have surfaced ahead of the Direct broadcast - shedding light on the successor system's capabilities. As reported by The Verge, the latest filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in the US have seemingly (and perhaps unsurprisingly) confirmed Nintendo's new and hotly anticipated system will support near-field communication (NFC), which connects with its popular amiibo "toys-to-...

Apple announced the infamous 12-inch Retina MacBook a decade ago today, an experimental new Mac that was as controversial as it was revolutionary. Apple unveiled the 12-inch MacBook on March 9, 2015, at the "Spring Forward" event in San Francisco, California. The event was primarily focused on the Apple Watch, which was being fully detailed ahead of its launch the following month, so the debut of the brand-new MacBook line took many by surprise. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the new MacBook as a...

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Nintendo added an absolute gem to its Switch Online library of classic titles this week: the 1994 Game Boy game, Donkey Kong. The beloved game arrives alongside the 1995 puzzle game, Mario’s Picross. Both are available now for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, right in time for Mario Day (March 10). Donkey Kong built upon the arcade game that came before it, and features roughly 100 stages. The story should feel pretty familiar even to those who don’t have a nostalgic connection to it — Donkey...

Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired, with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimately...

They're hoping to have the case made into a class action.

"Could we make it that they’re all baseball players in a baseball league?". Gail Tilden, former Nintendo of America’s marketing boss, recently spoke to The Video Game History Foundation's Frank Cifaldi at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and one of the topics she touched upon was the small matter of launching Pokémon in the West. As you'll probably be aware, Pokémon—or Pocket Monsters, as it's known in Japan—was already something of a phenomenon in its homeland before it reached North America ...

He's all about parrying instead of weapon switching.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR, the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first announced plans to create both a live-action movie and an anime based on BRZRKR back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show. But, we’ve heard little about the projects since. In the meantime, Reeves and au...

Released in late 2023, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 was a promising but ultimately frustrating, buggy, and visually lacklustre effort from Konami. However, the good news is that improvements have been made, with version 2.0 taking aim at several key issues on console and PC. It's a relief to see, because it's a project worth salvaging - being an all-in-one package containing seven core games in the series, with some beautifully presented extras. Today, I'm focusing on the Metal Ge...

Players have blasted NetEase for a perceived lack of moderation across Marvel Rival lobbies.

Game developers get pretty short shrift on screen, mostly by not being represented at all. Filmmakers generally love to make movies about driven, uncompromising artists just like themselves, but for some reason — probably either snobbery, fear, or lack of understanding — they don’t often choose people who make video games as subjects. On the...