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Talking Point: How Would You Fix Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom’s Most Frustrating Feature?

Natural selection.We've been playing The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom pretty consistently over the past week and it's safe to say we're really rather fond of it. Sure, the frame rate could be improved (not that it bothers everybody) and the lock-on can be a little fiddly, but overall ...
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Sword Art Online Developer Wants to Take the Series in a More Mature Direction

New entries of both the Sword Art Online anime and the games have consistently been released for more than ten years now. On October 4th, both the newest anime season, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, and the newest game, Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream were released. SAO: ...
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Dead Cells developer’s new action-roguelike Windblown is getting a demo and Early Access release this month

Windblown is an action roguelite much like Dead Cells, the previous game from developer Motion Twin, but it trades sidescrolling 'vania vibes for a 3D and more colourful world, and adds co-op for up to three pals. That sounds plenty appealing, and it now has a release date: October 24th ...
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How Ghost of Yotei Gets History Right

The new trailer for Ghost of Yotei is here and in three minutes, Sucker Punch has managed to tease a ton of cool details from Japanese history. Placed 300 years after the story of Jin and Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yotei takes us to a time of turmoil in ...
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Guess a daily word with only clues as to its position in the alphabet to guide you

I'm on a one-man mission to destroy your productivity. Yesterday I offered you Scrambled Maps, which is good for fifteen minutes of not working. Today I offer Alphaguess, a once-a-day browser puzzle game in which you must guess a word. With every incorrect guess you make, the game tells you ...
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Zelda Was Haley Joel Osment’s Star Wars, and He Wants to Be in the Live-Action Movie

We can guess that there are plenty of Hollywood stars who want to appear in the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie, and Haley Joel Osment is one of them.Osment stopped by our IGN Arcade series to look back at movies like The Sixth Sense as well as talk ...
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Saber Interactive are making a new action-RPG set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender hasn't had much luck when it comes to adaptations, whether to film or to video games. Now Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive are going to take a new swing at it. The pair have announced an action RPG set in the "Avatar Legends universe", the ...
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Ubisoft’s Disastrous 2024 May Lead To The Company Going Private

It lost half of its market value this year alone.Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly considering taking Ubisoft private as part of efforts to stabilise the company amid a tumultuous 2024.Acording to Bloomberg, both parties have reportedly been speaking with advisors on how best to bolster Ubisoft's value after ...
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Share of the Week: Astro Bot Levels

Last week, we asked you to showcase the best Astro Bot levels using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: NightmarexDoll shares a spooky level with a mansion and a smiling moon in the background.  pavesoint shares a level in the clouds featuring a mechanical sun. SoundwaveXP ...
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Starship Troopers VR Dev Suffers Layoffs Amid ‘Challenging VR Gaming Market’

The developer of a number of upcoming virtual reality titles including Sony’s Starship Troopers VR game has suffered a significant round of layoffs amid what it called a "challenging VR gaming market."XR Games, developer of the poorly received Hitman 3: VR Reloaded as well as the upcoming Zombie Army VR ...
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