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Warframe's Next Chapter Splits One Hero Into Two, Draws Inspiration From Smash Bros Playbook

Warframe is about to do something it has never attempted before. When Jade Shadows: Constellations launches on June 17, players will encounter the 65th Warframe as a dual-character system, a design...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 11 min read

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End of Abyss Gets the Dark Upgrade: Creepy Metroidvania Shapes Up to Challenge and Unsettle

A year ago, End of Abyss showed promise as a moody twin-stick adventure with solid atmosphere but little staying power. The near-final build on display now tells a different story entirely. The Oct...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword Swings Into Must-Play Territory

Capcom's comeback slice-and-dice actioner has the mechanics to back up its swagger. After multiple hands-on sessions spanning Summer Game Fest and Tokyo Game Show, Onimusha: Way of the Sword emerge...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Rockstar hands out free GTA 5 next-gen upgrades starting tomorrow

Rockstar Games is opening the door to free upgrades for Grand Theft Auto V players who own digital copies on PS4 or Xbox One, with the transition beginning June 18. The offer extends to the current...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Maverick Games' Clutch Could Be Your Next Driving Obsession

When Mike Brown, the creative director behind Forza Horizon 5, left Playground Games to start Maverick Games three years ago, the question became what his debut project would look like. The answer ...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Jeremy Clarkson Diagnosed with Aggressive Prostate Cancer

Jeremy Clarkson has disclosed a diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer in newly released episodes of his Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm, marking the first time the former Top Gear presenter ha...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Square Enix's Time-Hopping Adventure Captures Zelda Magic With Fresh Flair

Square Enix and Team Asano have crafted something unexpected: an action-adventure game that borrows liberally from The Legend of Zelda's playbook while carving out its own identity through smart co...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Microsoft's Exclusives Promise Rings Hollow as Trust Crumbles

Microsoft's gaming chief offered an unequivocal promise this week: Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution will never reach PlayStation 5. They will remain Xbox exclusives, period. Xbox Chief ...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Ubisoft Admits Shadows Story Fell Short, Fans Celebrate Redemptive Final Chapter

Ubisoft wrapped up Assassin's Creed Shadows with a final story update this week, and the response from longtime players has been markedly different from their reaction to the base game. Black Tides...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Four Fresh Codes Drop for Evomon as Roblox Creature Game Launches

Evomon, the new Pokémon-inspired creature collector on Roblox, kicked off with a bang on June 17, 2026, and players eager to jump into the action now have four working codes to grab free rewards ri...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Housemarque Chases FromSoftware's Long Game

Housemarque is betting on patience. The PlayStation studio, which launched Saros to modest commercial returns, is drawing a playbook from FromSoftware's decades-long rise from obscurity to global d...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Microsoft Announces Ninja Theory Game, Then Plans to Shut Studio Down Days Later

Microsoft's timing raised eyebrows this week when the company announced Senua, the next entry in Ninja Theory's Hellblade franchise, at its Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month. What seemed like ...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Dire Wolf Games Brings Wheel of Time's Final Battle to the Tabletop

Robert Jordan's sprawling fantasy epic is about to hit the gaming table. Dire Wolf Digital announced War of the Dragon, a board game that transports the climactic conflicts of The Wheel of Time fro...

Emily Chen June 17, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Well-Reviewed Shooter Shut Down One Month After Launch, Entire Dev Team Cut

Luna Abyss, a shooter that launched to critical acclaim just weeks ago, has been shelved along with its nine-person development team. The studio behind the game, Kwalee Labs, announced the layoffs ...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3 Opens Preorders Ahead of October Release

The Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3 is now available to preorder across multiple platforms, with the bundle arriving October 8. The announcement came during June's Nintendo Direct, which also teased ...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Stern's Transformers Pinball Machine Nails the '80s Nostalgia and Easy-to-Learn Gameplay

Stern Pinball is riding high after its Pokemon machine, and the company is wasting no time. Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye just rolled off the factory line, and early hands-on time reveals a...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Blood of Dawnwalker Preorders Open: Three Editions, Three Price Points, All the Extras

The Blood of Dawnwalker is officially available to preorder across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC, with the game set to launch on September 3rd. Those who saw the title during Summer Game Fes...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Double Fine Claps Back at Closure Rumors With Just One Emoji

Double Fine Productions responded to swirling reports about its potential shutdown with the studio equivalent of a shrug: a single smiling face with sweat drops. The San Francisco-based developer, ...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Resident Evil Veronica Must Answer These 5 Franchise Questions

Resident Evil Veronica arrives in 2027 as a complete reimagining of the 1999 original, and fans are already wondering what Capcom will change, preserve, or expand. The remake signals a major shift ...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Commodore Revives the Flip Phone for the Digitally Exhausted

Commodore, the legendary computer brand from the 1980s, is betting that some people want their phones to do less. The company just announced the Callback 8020, a flip phone engineered to strip away...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Free Potions and Tickets Flood Anime Astral Simulator: Complete Code Haul for June 2026

Anime Astral Simulator, the incremental fighting game on Roblox, is packed with active redemption codes that unlock potions and free-to-play tickets. Players working their way through Ninja Village...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Football Manager 26 Finally Settles Messi vs Ronaldo: The Results Are Brutal

The World Cup 2026 has reignited soccer's most tireless argument: who is the greatest, Messi or Ronaldo? Fans cite trophy cases, goal tallies, assists, charitable work. Both players have accomplish...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Forza Horizon 6 Players Face Credit Wipeout After Exploit Spree

Playground Games is cracking down on Forza Horizon 6 players who discovered and exploited a broken in-game economy loophole, confirming that accounts caught using the glitch will be reset to a hard...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Blood Message Swings Hard: Brutal Combat Meets 9th Century China in IGN's First Look

After watching a hands-on demo of Blood Message at Summer Game Fest 2026, it's clear the action game has serious ambitions. Built on Unreal Engine 5, it delivers the kind of visual polish and comba...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Microsoft Pushes Game Pass Forward as Xbox Studios Face the Axe

Microsoft has unveiled its Xbox Game Pass lineup for late June and early July, rolling out titles including EA Sports FC 26 and the 2021 Call of Duty entry Vanguard, even as the company grapples wi...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Epic Games Lifts Veil on AI's Role in Fortnite Skin Design

Epic Games has finally addressed what it's been doing with generative AI in game development, pulling back the curtain in a newly released video that shows exactly where artificial intelligence fit...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Helldivers 2 Overhauls Combat and Rewards With Massive Balance Patch

Arrowhead Game Studios has shipped patch 6.3.0 for Helldivers 2, a sweeping update that reshapes how players engage with campaigns, manage their arsenal, and survive the escalating threat of enemy ...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Free Loot Incoming: Blox Fruits Codes Still Active This Summer

Blox Fruits players have a solid stack of working codes ready to claim right now, offering quick boosts and cosmetic rewards for anyone grinding through Roblox's One Piece-inspired adventure. The l...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Life is Strange Studio Don't Nod Facing Cash Crisis as November Deadline Looms

Don't Nod, the French developer behind the narrative adventure series Life is Strange, is burning through its remaining capital at an alarming pace. According to a financial audit released this mon...

Emily Chen June 16, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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EA Sports UFC 6 Nails the Drama, Fumbles the Fighting

The story of a fighter matters more than the knockout. That's the bet EA Sports UFC 6 is making, and after several days in the octagon, it's a wager that mostly pays off. The game leans hard into t...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Turn-Based RPGs Storm Back Into the Spotlight

Final Fantasy is betting big on a format that once seemed destined for the museum shelf. The upcoming Final Fantasy Resonance, arriving October 22 on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch, mar...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Call of Duty's Treyarch Loses Studio Head After 22 Years

Mark Gordon is stepping down as head of Treyarch, the studio behind the Black Ops franchise, after more than two decades with Activision. The departure, announced via social media, marks a signific...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Hide-and-Seek Paint Game Meccha Chameleon Doubles Sales in Days, Adds New Map

Meccha Chameleon has rocketed to 2 million copies sold in just over a week, cementing its status as one of Steam's fastest-growing party games. Developer lemorion_1224 announced the milestone on th...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Ninja Theory and Double Fine Scramble to Survive as Microsoft Gaming Division Implodes

Microsoft's gaming studios are in survival mode. Ninja Theory, the developer behind the technically acclaimed Hellblade series, and Double Fine Productions, creator of the Psychonauts franchise, ar...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Vampire Survivors Gets the Comic Book Treatment This Fall

Titan Comics is diving into the lore of poncle's breakout hit Vampire Survivors with a new four-issue comic series launching this September. While the game itself prioritizes frantic gameplay over ...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Dr. Stone Lands in Fortnite for Final Season Celebration

Fortnite is getting its own slice of anime this weekend with a custom Crunchyroll island dedicated to Dr. Stone. Players can drop into the themed experience from June 19-21, just as the show's four...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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EA Opens Advertising Pipeline Into Madden, Sports FC

EA has launched a new advertising platform designed to inject branded content directly into its sports games, capitalizing on a monthly player base exceeding 120 million users. The initiative targe...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Xbox Game Studios Loses Two Top Executives as Microsoft Signals Major Shake-Up

Craig Duncan and Louise O'Connor, two of Microsoft's longest-serving gaming executives, are stepping down from their roles at Xbox Game Studios as the division faces mounting pressure to improve it...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Microsoft Axes Compulsion Games, South of Midnight Developer

Microsoft is shutting down Compulsion Games, the Canadian studio behind the critically acclaimed but commercially underperforming action adventure game South of Midnight. The closure will affect mo...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Final Bow With New Story Chapter and Brutal Endgame Mode

Ubisoft is closing the book on Assassin's Creed Shadows with a substantial farewell update that wraps up the narrative of its two protagonists and introduces punishing new challenges for hardcore p...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Final Fantasy Resonance Rewrites Console RPGs: Crystals, Airships, and a Decade-Old Dream

Final Fantasy Resonance arrives October 22 as something the series has not attempted in years: a return to turn-based combat wrapped in HD-2D visuals, transforming a mobile game into a full console...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Cracks the Airship Code That Stumped the Series for 25 Years

The Highwind is back, and this time Square Enix is letting you jump out of it. That simple shift marks a turning point for a franchise that has chased the dream of a truly explorable world for over...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Hot Wheels Crashes Into Open World: Toy Cars Get Paradise-Style Freedom

Milestone's latest swing at the Hot Wheels franchise abandons the confines of living room tracks for something far more ambitious. Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush takes the iconic toy cars and sets them ...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Capcom Kills Dragon's Dogma 2 Microtransactions Before Dark Arisen Launch

Capcom is pulling the plug on Dragon's Dogma 2 microtransactions, effective June 24, ahead of the Dark Arisen expansion arriving later this year. The publisher will discontinue the Deluxe Edition a...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Free Cash and Cars Waiting in Driving Empire Right Now

Driving Empire players can snag fresh rewards this month through a growing list of active redemption codes. The racing title continues to roll out freebies, and nearly two dozen working codes are l...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Adopt Me Codes Return: One Working Redemption Found for June 2026

The code system for Roblox's Adopt Me is officially back online, and players now have at least one active redemption available. After a prolonged absence, the game's Trading Hub has reinstated a Co...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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UK to Block Under-16s From TikTok, Instagram, YouTube by Spring 2027

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a sweeping social media ban for children under 16, declaring that the government will pursue legislation before Christmas and enforce the restriction by spring...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Fortnite's New Creature Craze Is Already a Real-Money Hustle on eBay

Fortnite's latest seasonal feature has spawned an unexpected secondary economy. Players are dropping real cash on eBay to acquire rare Sprite creatures, with some listings fetching up to $100 for t...

Emily Chen June 15, 2026 0 comments 4 min read