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Sony Announces PlayStation State of Play Broadcast For This Week

PlayStation will stream a major State of Play broadcast this week, featuring over an hour of news and reveals, including the latest updates from its own teams within PlayStation Studios.The event will be held this Thursday, February 12 at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 10pm UK time — and ...
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Games Workshop had a Warhammer FTL clone pulled from Steam over some overly Space Marine-esque shoulderpads

Last year I covered the demo for Void War, robotically describing it as FTL meets Warhammer 40,000, because that is what it is, and sometimes, you have to call a Spade Marine a Spade Marine (I did enjoy the demo, as flagrantly combinatory as the game may be). Read more ...
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Epic Games Store Refutes Claim It ‘Ghosted’ Horses Developer, and Insists It Gave ‘Context Around the Policies They Violated’

Epic Games has hit back at claims it made "provably incorrect statements" about controversial horror game Horses, and instead insisted it was transparent with developer Santa Ragione about its inability to sell the game via the Epic Games Store as planned. Horses, the indie horror game banned from both Steam ...
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Horses devs accuse Epic of making “provably incorrect statements about the game’s content”, after store exec’s declaration of love

Late last year, horror game Horses was denied a release on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Both Valve and Epic judged that Santa Ragione's surreal work violated their rules regarding adult content, while the studio have asserted the the game "uses challenging, unconventional material to encourage discussion" rather than ...
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Mario Tennis Fever’s Opening Movie Is As Cinematic As They Come

Fever dream.Mario Tennis Fever arrives on Switch 2 this week, and to mark the occasion, Nintendo has released the game's action-packed opening movie.You'll find the full cutscene above, which shows Mario and Bowser locked in a bitter back-and-forth on the court with Peach and Daisy. Naturally, the Fever Rackets are ...
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Gore Verbinski’s BioShock Movie Would Have Somehow Included Both of the Game’s Endings

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has said that his scrapped BioShock film adaptation would have somehow included both of the original game's endings to mess with the audience's heads. Verbinski was attached to make a movie version of the beloved game back in 2008 alongside Universal Studios, with ...
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Yakuza Kiwami 3 director says actor accused of sexual assault was cast for his “slimy feel”

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties' director Ryosuke Horii has addressed the controversial casting of actor Teruyuki Kagawa in the remake, which has resulted in fan backlash due to a 2022 report from Shukan Shincho detailing sexual assault allegations against the actor. Kagawa apologised at the time, but didn't specify ...
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Rayman Creator Discusses The Rayman ‘Remake’ Ubisoft Has Yet to Announce

More details of the unannounced Rayman remake have bubbled up again, this time from the creator of Rayman himself, Michel Ancel.In a new interview with RetroGamer, Ancel discussed the secret project, confirming that rather than a remaster that simply presents the same game with slightly snazzier visuals, the re-release — ...
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Is Down to Just $30 Today, Matching Its Black Friday Offer From Last Year

If Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has been on your list to jump into, but you missed out on the holiday sales price drops, we have good news: Amazon's currently offering its PS5 version for just $29.99 on both PS5 and Xbox (see it here). What a thrill, indeed.When ...
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Pokémon’s Super Bowl Ad Asks Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, and More ‘What’s Your Favorite’ Pokémon?

Pokémon's promised ad spot at the Super Bowl just aired, and in it we got a glimpse into the Pokémon preferences of celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Charles Leclerc, and more.The minute-long ad shows Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Formula One racer Charles Leclerc, singer Jisoo, actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, ...
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