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Guide: 98 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo’s ‘Play On’ eShop Sale (Europe)

Every game we scored 9/10 or higher.Hot on the heels of the North American equivalent, Nintendo of Europe has opened the doors on the 'Play On' Switch eShop sale, bringing discounts to thousands of titles until 23rd February.To help you separate the hot from the slop, we have assembled the ...
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Marvel Rivals Sets February Release Date for The Thing and Human Torch

Marvel Rivals will round out The Fantastic Four team when The Thing and Human Torch launch as playable characters on February 21, 2025.The release date for the new heroes in Marvel and NetEase Games’ popular hero shooter was announced today, revealing that they'll arrive alongside an update for the second ...
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Company Of Heroes devs Relic bounce back with plans for big RTS games, smaller experiments and spiritual revivals

Last March, Sega sold off Company Of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War developers Relic Entertainment in the course of wider "restructuring", "realigning" and lay-offening at the house of Sonic. Relic's new corporate partners are a holding company established by the UK investment firm Emona Capital LLP - an ...
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GTA 6 publishers think PC is of “increasing” importance in 2025, but still won’t announce the magic date

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has hailed PC gaming's "increasing share of the market", in what you could optimistically interpret as the prelude to a GTA 6 PC release date announcement, and less optimistically, as a simple reassurance to investors who are fretting about the decline of console game sales ...
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Opinion: The Okami Sequel Simply Has To Come To Switch 2

Let's just touch base.It's been an exciting few months for Okami fans, huh?Nearly 19 years after the release of the PS2 original, Capcom finally confirmed that a sequel is now officially in development at The Game Awards 2024. Plus, it's being developed at new studio Clovers under the direction of ...
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Roblox Referenced in Active SEC Investigation, Report Confirms

The eminently popular live service game Roblox is involved in an active investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) according to a new report, though the extent is unclear.As reported by Bloomberg, a Freedom of Information Act request elicited a statement from the commission, confirming Roblox had been ...
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Level-5 CEO Reveals Fresh ‘Fantasy Life i’ Screenshots, Teases More Info Coming Soon

Stealing more time.After a handful of delays, we are slowly creeping up on the April 2025 release window for Level-5's much-anticipated Fantasy Life follow-up, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. With the countdown officially on (assuming it isn't pushed again, of course), Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has taken ...
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Spooked by the 2011 PSN Hack, Some PlayStation Customers Want Sony to Say Exactly What Went Wrong With PSN Over the Weekend

Sony has said the 24-hour outage that knocked out PlayStation Network over the weekend was due to an “operational issue.”In a tweet confirming the recovery of its network services, Sony apologized for the downtime and thanked the PlayStation community for its patience. As a make-good, it’s giving all PlayStation Plus ...
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As Civilization 7 Dataminers Discover Reference to the Atomic Age, Firaxis Says ‘We’re Excited for Where This Is Going’

Civilization 7 dataminers have unearthed evidence to suggest the game is set to receive a fourth, unannounced Age — and developer Firaxis has teased its plans in an interview with IGN.A full campaign in Civilization 7 is one that goes through all three Ages: Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern. Once the ...
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Steam’s overlords still think in-game ads are fine as long as they’re “appropriate”

Cheery mom-and-pop computer game business Valve have created a new Steamworks page for their policy about in-game adverts and advertising in general, with a troubleshooter's list of dos and don'ts for developers. As Graham pointed out to me just now, Valve's handling of such things hasn't really changed over the ...
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