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Hyper Light Breaker Early Access Review

Normally, when a sequel is announced that’s a wild departure from the original, I welcome it with open arms – look no further than my inexplicable but everlasting love of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts as evidence. But after more than a dozen hours with Hyper Light Breaker – a follow-up ...
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Bringing Conan the Barbarian’s Sword Mastery to Mortal Kombat 1

January 21, 2025 Bringing Conan the Barbarian’s Sword Mastery to Mortal Kombat 1
  • Nick Nicastro, Design Manager, NetherRealm Studios
For many, the 1980’s was a golden age of entertainment, music, and most of all movies, with its cultural impacts reverberating to this day. In 1982, Conan the Barbarian ...
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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Post-Launch Roadmap Sets Stage for 3 Expansions in 2025

Developer Warhorse Studios and publisher Plaion have announced the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 post-launch roadmap, revealing the content players can look forward to after the game's release date in a few weeks.The plan for free and paid post-launch content was detailed in a video, below. Although there is little gameplay ...
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Pokémon TCG and Pokémon TCG Pocket Coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals

The Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon TCG Pocket have teamed up with McDonald's to give away cards both in real life and the app.As reported by PokéBeach, the Dragon Discovery event will be available in the U.S. from today, January 21, to February 24. It is also scheduled for ...
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Feature: Citizen Sleeper Dev Talks Sequels, Stress, And Creating “My Own Take On The Mass Effect Series”

Wake up, Sleeper.Citizen Sleeper was, coincidentally, one of 2022's sleeper hits. With its combination of top-tier writing and decision-based gameplay, this table-top-inspired RPG and space adventure pulled us into its airlock and wouldn't let us out until we had played through the emotional damage of witnessing every possible outcome (and ...
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Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival Event Is Already Being Compared to Overwatch’s Lúcioball

NetEase Games has revealed the Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event, which adds a handful of new hero skins and a soccer game mode that might look familiar to Overwatch and Rocket League players.The team behind the hero shooter hit announced its latest update with a trailer, below, promising to kick ...
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Here’s a demo for Eternal Strands, the Zelda-meets-Colossus wizarding sim from a former Dragon Age director

Many moons ago in the Before Times, a mysterious cataclysm scattered a number of seasoned BioWare developers across the face of heaven. The developers fell upon the mortal planes like comets. Where each landed, a game development studio took root. Inflexion Games. Summerfall Studios. Humanoid Origin. Worlds Untold. Archetype Entertainment ...
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Why That Brief Look at Mario Kart 9 Suggests Nintendo Switch 2 Is ‘Significantly More Powerful’ Than the Original — According to a Developer

An indie developer familiar with making games for the original Switch has explained why that brief look at Mario Kart 9 suggests the Switch 2 is "significantly more powerful."The Nintendo Switch 2’s grand hardware reveal last week swept many off of their feet. However, one thing that Nintendo has been ...
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Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Pass January 2025 Wave 2 Lineup

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass January 2025 Wave 2 lineup of titles.The announcement on Xbox Wire comes ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct on January 23, where fans will get to see a number of day one Game Pass games, including Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, ...
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