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The Tarnished fighting in Elden Ring next to MissMikkaa wearing Malenia's helmet.

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Dance Til They Die | Wahey, Elden Ring's DLC has now been beaten on dance pad, following a seven hour long boogie-off with its big final boss

The entire run only took a single week, just in case it wasn't already impressive enough.

July 9, 2024 Mark Warren

A still from Agatha All Along showing the titular character in a morgue, dressed in a 50s style look, she's in black and white while everything else is in colour.

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Spell It Out | Agatha All Along hopes to bewitch you into forgetting how long ago WandaVision came out in its first trailer

Let's just hope the name doesn't change again.

July 9, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Super Salute | Helldivers 2 players have finally found an in-game quirk they don't want Arrowhead to patch out - lifesaving mid-air salutes and hugs

"It's a mechanic now."

July 8, 2024 Mark Warren

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Skyfall From Grace | Cities: Skylines 2 still isn't faring all that well, as its console ports get indefinitely delayed

Sorry to those of you hoping to play on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.

July 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.

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Chooms | Move over GTA Online, Cyberpunk 2077 has an in-development multiplayer mod that proves its worth with a 20-player Night City

20 players all played at once in the same Night City, as multiplayer mod CyberMP picks up momentum.

July 8, 2024 Connor Makar

In this Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope artwork, multiple characters can be seen including Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rabbid Peach, Rabbid Rosalina, Bowser, Edge, a Looma, a Goomba, and more.

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Raving About It | Subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online? Never got round to Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope? Aren't you lucky, because it's free to play this week

What's better than free?

July 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Malenia in the Elden ring fan-made anime.

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Maleni Hero Academia | Elden Ring fan-made anime - fanime if you will - gets a teaser trailer featuring plenty of bosses we know and love

Big high five if this lot combined have killed you less times than the number of seconds the teaser lasts.

July 8, 2024 Mark Warren

Piper and Lucy pose in their revealing biker outfits against a stylised orange-red background.

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New drip | Love Zenless Zone Zero? Get creative and prove it to the developer, and you could stand to win $3000 in cash

The drip fest is here, giving you an opportunity to showcase your artistic and stylistic skills.

July 8, 2024 Connor Makar

Corin wields her sawblade as she prepares to enter combat.

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Combo! | The Zenless Zone Zero community is working hard to make Devil May Cry style combos work

While some have bounced off the game citing a lack of depth, others are digging in and finding plenty of sauce.

July 8, 2024 Connor Makar

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Pixelated Love | Forget Kingdom Hearts 4, Disney’s new 2D pixel art RPG will hopefully fill the Mickey-shaped hole in your heart (even if it is with gacha)

If it's got the mouse, it's close enough.

July 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Back At It | Baldur's Gate 3 developers commemorate "lift-off" on what's next by revisiting the same dungeon they cleared during that RPG's final push

Because hey, sometimes you just need to remind yourself how well your last playthrough turned out.

July 8, 2024 Mark Warren

A hunter from Bloodborne stood on a Victorian-esque street at night, a full moon shining down on them.

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Close Enough | Bloodborne on PC gets a step closer, but not from PlayStation

It's something!

July 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Yennefer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next to the player spellcasting as Phillippa Eilhart.

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The Switcher | Huge new Witcher 3 mod lets you take on the Wild Hunt as a customisable witcher, witcheress, or sorceress - complete with spellcasting

If you've ever fancied swapping Geralt for Yen or Triss without totally breaking your immersion, this even has a fresh quest for mages.

July 8, 2024 Mark Warren

The First Descendant may have copied a lot of Warframe’s systems, but now the community is accusing the developer of lifting barely-altered Destiny 2 icons, too

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Pick One | The First Descendant may have copied a lot of Warframe’s systems, but now the community is accusing the developer of lifting barely-altered Destiny 2 icons, too

The First Descendant is not exactly a bastion of originality, but players are starting to notice a few in-game elements that may have gone a bit too far.

July 8, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Astarion, a fluffy haired elf, rendered in Stardew Valley's pixel art style, while wearing sunglasses, a scene of him in a rocking chair next to the portrait of him.

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Roll For Kiss | Stardew Valley's Baldur's Gate 3 mod team hopes to let you romance pixelated Astarion later this year - in a seasonal outfit, too

Last year's biggest game will potentially meet one of this decade's biggest titles at the end of the year.

July 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Manor Lords screenshot of farm fields filled with growing vegetables, with people tending to the land.

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Taking It Slow | Manor Lords publisher doesn't think devs should be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks" just to regularly update a game

"Not every game should be aimed at becoming some live-service boom or bust."

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Key art of LA Noire showing the protagonist holding a gun, pointed upwards, with a female singer next to him, and another woman to his left, rendered in the style of a 40s movie poster.

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It's Black And White | Sorry, the creators of LA Noire aren't working on a new game after all

It was all just a bit of a misunderstanding.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Ichigo from Bleach Rebirth of Souls looking angry at something to the side.

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Born Again | Bleach Rebirth of Souls is a new arena fighter based on the classic anime, proving the genre isn't dead yet

It's a good time to be a Bleach fan.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Key art for Pokemon Go's eigth anniversary showing all manner of Pokemon, including a giant Wartortle in the background.

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To The Dynamax | You might have hated it in Pokemon Sword and Shield, but Pokemon Go has teased a much-disliked feature for its 8th anniversary

They're going big with this one.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Artwork for the mobile game Zenless Zone Zero, showing one of the game's characters holding a gift box.

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ZZZ Top | Mihoyo has another hit on its hands, as Zenless Zone Zero hits 50 million downloads not even a week into its release

Don't sleep on all those Zs.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Wot's All This Then? | Fallout: London still doesn't have a release date, but the mod team promises "the end is in sight"

It shouldn't be too long until you get to play the impressive-looking mod.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Final Fantasy 14 key art showing a warrior of light on a farm with various vegetables and animals surrounding them.

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Who's Calling? | What's next for Final Fantasy 14? A mobile port from Tencent, if a new report is to be believed

The hit MMO with the award winning expansion Heavensward might soon be playable on your phone.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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A Dino Crisis | A year after it was released, Exoprimal updates are coming to an end

Guess this one's going the way of the dinosaurs.

July 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Sub-mail | Rival gacha game sends in-game mail on Zenless Zone Zero release day that subtly takes shots at HoyoVerse’s similar character designs

A cheeky email to players of Alchemy Stars stirs up some delicious genre-wide drama.

July 5, 2024 Connor Makar

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Geralt in The Witcher 3 taking part in a boat race.

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Sea Sprinter | Witcher 3 modder resurrects the boat races CD Projekt cut from the base game, just in case you want to give Roach a break

You've beaten The Continent's fastest jockeys, now it's time to take to the water.

July 5, 2024 Mark Warren

The Tarnished in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree.

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Booted Boss Blabber | Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree’s mute final boss appears to have cut dialogue that’d have seen it break its eerie silence

No, it's not "Oi, Tarnished, I'm about to batter you for three hours straight!"

July 5, 2024 Mark Warren

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Burning Tirade | Oh good, the Diablo 4 boss with the worst timing has a new variant

Are you a fan of Diablo 4's perennial stalker? Well, get ready for a more spicy version of the damn thing.

July 5, 2024 Sherif Saed

Some soldiers with a variety of weapons in Helldivers 2.

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Boom Banter | Helldivers 2 players might be getting some fresh weaponry from the first game soon, cue a bunch of memes about anti-tank mines

Oh, and here's some more info on how the Superior Packing module actually works at the moment.

July 5, 2024 Mark Warren

Peanut Butter the speedrunning dog alongside Shohei Ohetani in MLB The Show 2024.

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Clutch Canine | Stop what you're doing, a speedrunning dog just won a game of NES baseball by slamming a walk-off home run at SGDQ 2024

Peanut Butter the Shiba Inu just did one of the best baseball things since the Bautista bat flip.

July 5, 2024 Mark Warren

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Trip To Pandora | Cate Blanchett has a very reasonable explanation for why she's in the Borderlands movie

It wasn't the big paycheck.

July 4, 2024 Fran Ruiz

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - Mrs. Freeze

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Ice To Meet You | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League might be a dead game walking, but you're still getting more content

Season 2 will help players stay cool this summer.

July 4, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Star Wars: The Acolyte - Qimir on the unknown planet

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Mining For Cortosis | The Acolyte's mystery oceanic planet isn't a connection to The Last Jedi, but there's a better alternative

Sith lore strikes back.

July 4, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Back To Zero | The Horizon Zero Dawn series we'd completely forgotten about has reportedly been cancelled for now

And it's not because of the usual creative differences.

July 4, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Empty Space | Battlefield 2042 is hosting a Dead Space crossover event which would've been useful to both games a year ago

Dead game and dead franchise.

July 4, 2024 Fran Ruiz

The master sword in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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Against The Hyrules | Man jailed for carrying Legend of Zelda Master Sword replica in public, prompting suspicions that Ganondorf runs the Warwickshire fuzz

Seriously, though. Assuming this is all he did, four months in the slammer seems maybe a bit harsh.

July 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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A promotional image for Marvel's What If...? showing the Watcher, a bald humanoid reaching his hand towards the camera, images of looks at other Marvel universes surrounding him.

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Too Many Questions | Don't expect any more Marvel's What If...? after season 3, as a studio exec calls it "the completion of a trilogy"

What if... the show got a season 4?

July 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Secret's Not Out | Worried about Superman leaks? James Gunn says not to: "I'd never shoot a big spoiler outside in the middle of the city"

Who do you think Gunn is?

July 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Moolah | Is The First Descendant’s monetization actually as bad as everyone is saying? An investigation

How pricey is The First Descendant really? Let's find out by looking at Energy Activators.

July 3, 2024 Connor Makar

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Some helldivers gathered around a console in Helldivers 2.

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Illu-moonate | Oh boy, Helldivers 2's latest Major Order might lead to Super Earth getting its mitts on a "powerful interplanetary battle station"

Hey now, you're a Death Star?

July 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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Take it in Pride | First F1, the World Cup, and golf – now esports: gaming’s biggest ever sports-washing tournament starts today

Life changing money, courtesy of the Saudi Arabian Public investment Fund.

July 3, 2024 Connor Makar

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A Fallout 76 player waving the Fallout version of the US flag.

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Post Art-pocalypse | Fallout 76 "mix-up" seemingly sees fan artwork used in Atom Shop, fan somehow finesses this into official work for Bethesda

Fallout: Breaking creator Zack Finfrock's clearly been dumping his SPECIAL points into Charisma.

July 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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Gamer Gazer | The First Descendant players foolishly attempt to change the conversation from jiggle physics to thick armoured dudes

Character discourse in The First Descendant has taken a bit of a turn; from praising the oversized rear ends of characters to admiring their thick armour.

July 3, 2024 Sherif Saed

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