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Samson Crashes Hard: A Beautiful Wreck That Can't Drive, Can't Fight, and Won't Let You Finish

Samson arrives as a visually striking but fundamentally broken open-world brawler that mistakes a small scope for ambition. The game follows ex-convict Samson McCray, freshly released to his 1990s ...

Emily Chen April 17, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Pixar Finally Crashes Disney Lorcana: Wilds Unknown Preorders Live Now

Disney Lorcana is getting its Pixar moment. Preorders for the Wilds Unknown expansion went live this week, marking the first time characters from Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Brave have entered ...

Emily Chen April 17, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Quirky Physics Platformer Yerba Buena Swings for Portal, Hits a Plot Wall

Yerba Buena is a game caught between two worlds. Set in an alternate 1970s San Francisco, it pairs charming visual design with a physics puzzle mechanic that shows real promise, yet stumbles hard w...

Emily Chen April 17, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Metro 2039 Emerges from the Darkness: First Gameplay Reveal Teases Haunted Underground

4A Games and Deep Silver lifted the curtain on Metro 2039 during an Xbox showcase, unveiling the first gameplay footage and confirming a winter 2026 launch window for the franchise's next chapter. ...

Emily Chen April 17, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Space Marine 2 Hits 12 Million Players, Sequel Already in the Works

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has rocketed past 12 million players, a milestone that has left its publisher stunned. Focus Entertainment credited the third-person action game with exceeding expe...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Remake Eyed for July Launch

Ubisoft's pirate-themed remake is reportedly heading for release on July 9, according to reporting from Insider Gaming, though the publisher has not yet officially confirmed the date.The project, t...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Stitch Edition Lorcana Starter Set Delivers Dazzling Promo Card and Real Value for Collectors

Disney Lorcana's new Stitch-themed Collection Starter Set from the Winterspell expansion packs enough substance to justify its $30 price tag, especially if you're drawn to one of the trading card g...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Lana Del Rey Sings New James Bond Game's Theme

Lana Del Rey has officially been revealed as the voice behind the title track for the upcoming James Bond video game 007: First Light, publisher IO Interactive confirmed. The track, which carries D...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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D&D Launches Star-Studded Actual Play Show With Baldur's Gate 3 Cast

Wizards of the Coast is bringing tabletop gameplay to screens with Dungeon Masters, an official actual play series that taps into the star power of Baldur's Gate 3. The show launches April 22 and f...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Street Fighter's Star-Studded Lineup Brings Game Icons to Life

Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment are betting big on 2026 with a Street Fighter film that looks to break the curse of past fighting game adaptations. After the infamous 2009 misstep wi...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Battlefield 6 Swings Big in 2026: Naval Maps, Massive Arenas, and a Desperate Bid to Win Back Players

Battlefield Studios is laying out an ambitious roadmap for 2026, one that signals a fundamental shift in how the studio plans to rebuild player confidence after a turbulent first year. The four-stu...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Metro 2039 Teaser Drops a Nightmare: Fascist Soldiers, Psychic Monsters, and a Shocking Villain Return

Deep Silver and 4A Games have unveiled Metro 2039 with a cinematic trailer that trades the series' usual gritty realism for outright horror. The footage introduces a new protagonist, fresh enemies,...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Street Fighter 6 Makes Alex's Family Tree Even Messier

Capcom's attempt to smooth over a family relations nightmare in Street Fighter 6 has only deepened the confusion. An April 15 patch tweaked Alex's backstory dialogue in multiple localizations, but ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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4A Games Reveals Metro 2039, Darkest Entry Yet in Post-Apocalyptic Shooter Series

The next chapter of the Metro franchise is arriving this winter. 4A Games announced Metro 2039, a single-player focused first-person shooter set in the ruins of Moscow, with a release window for PC...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Witherbloom Breaks the Mold: Strixhaven's Elder Dragons Ranked

Magic: The Gathering returns to its beloved wizarding academy with Secrets of Strixhaven, bringing five reimagined Elder Dragons that serve as the school's legendary founders. Each card represents ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Nintendo Devs Built Their Own Office Inside a Video Game

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream arrived on Nintendo Switch today with a cheeky easter egg tucked inside: the game's developers recreated their actual Kyoto headquarters as a playable island comple...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Hypixel Studios Lawyers Up Against Nintendo eShop Knockoff

A brazen copycat has forced the developers of Hytale to dust off their legal team. Within days of a cloned game hitting Nintendo's eShop under the name Hytale: Sandbox RPG, Hypixel Studios founder ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Ashes of Creation Director Fires Back at Financial Allegations

Steven Sharif, director of the troubled MMO Ashes of Creation, is pushing back hard against what he calls a coordinated smear campaign, dismissing newly surfaced financial documents as "completely ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Capcom's Pragmata Runs Like a Dream Across Nearly Every PC Setup

Capcom's latest title, Pragmata, arrives as the studio's second game built on the RE Engine in recent months. While the gameplay feels rooted in the Xbox 360 era, the visuals are decidedly modern, ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 11 min read

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Bethesda's Starfield heading to Nintendo Switch 2, ratings board leak reveals

Starfield is coming to Nintendo Switch 2. A Taiwan ratings board listing, spotted this week, confirms that Bethesda's space RPG has been approved for the hybrid console, though an official release ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Capcom Nukes 1,000+ Resident Evil Mod Videos from YouTuber's Channel

Capcom's legal team has forced a British content creator to take down over 1,000 videos featuring sexually suggestive modifications of Resident Evil characters, escalating the publisher's ongoing c...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Replaced soars on pixel-perfect visuals, stumbles on unresponsive controls

Sad Cat Studios' Replaced asks a provocative question: what if an artificial intelligence was implanted directly into your brain? The 2.5D action platformer explores this premise by casting you as ...

Emily Chen April 16, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Diablo 4's Dark Sequel Teases Lilith's Return in Haunting New Cutscene

Blizzard has unveiled a fresh in-game cutscene from Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, the action-RPG's second expansion, giving players an early glimpse at the return of the demonic antagonist Lilith. The ...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Sony Santa Monica's Next God of War Goes Global: Chinese, Japanese Mythology in the Works

Sony Santa Monica is expanding the God of War universe far beyond Scandinavia and ancient Greece. The next installment will draw from multiple mythological traditions rather than anchoring itself t...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Target drops over 100 exclusive Pokémon items to mark gaming franchise's 30 years

Target is rolling out a sweeping merchandise offensive to commemorate three decades of Pokémon, unveiling a collection of more than 100 exclusive products spanning clothing, accessories, toys, and ...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Walmart Slashes Nvidia RTX 5070 Price to $599, Best Deal Yet This Year

Walmart is now selling the PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card for $599 with free shipping, marking the lowest price available for Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU and the first time the card has ...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Costco Pokémon Drop Erupts Into Parking Lot Chaos

A Costco in Mississauga, Ontario descended into mayhem Friday morning when a Prismatic Evolutions card release turned violent, drawing police response and leaving merchandise scattered across the p...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Sony Drops April Surprise: Eight Games Headed to PlayStation Plus

Sony has officially confirmed its PlayStation Plus catalog additions for April, and the lineup packs serious variety. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered headlines the batch, joined by racing thrills, spo...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Marathon's Friendliness Experiment Actually Works

Bungie's latest patch for Marathon is doing something unexpected: it's turning players into teammates, even when they're supposed to be enemies. The mid-season update introduced the C.A.R.R.I. syst...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Fortnite Players Can Now Sing Into Mics, Laufey Joins Festival Tomorrow

Fortnite is turning its Festival mode into a full karaoke experience. Starting tomorrow, April 16, players on PC and console will be able to sing along to tracks using compatible microphones, drama...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Tomodachi Life Switch Sequel Nails Creativity but Stumbles on Sharing

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream transforms your Nintendo Switch into a digital sandbox where custom Miis become the stars of their own sitcom. You design them, dress them, feed them, and watch as ...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Pokémon Go Players Crack the Code to Finding Rare Desert Snake

A newly released Pokémon is sending players on a hunt through government databases. Silicobra, a sand-themed creature, arrived in Pokémon Go this week with an unusual constraint: it spawns only in ...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Rockstar Hack Fails to Dent Take-Two Stock Price

Take-Two Interactive's share price climbed this week even as hackers dumped stolen financial data from its subsidiary Rockstar Games, signaling that Wall Street viewed the breach as a non-event for...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Marathon's Massive Patch 1.0.6 Overhauls Combat, Rewards Team Play Over Aggression

Bungie rolled out patch 1.0.6 for Marathon on April 14, and the update is far more than a routine balance pass. The overhaul reshapes how players interact with one another, introduces 11 new weapon...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Starfield's PS5 Debut Flops: 140K Sales Raise Red Flags on Xbox's Console Strategy

Starfield's arrival on PlayStation 5 has failed to move the needle, with estimates showing just 140,000 copies sold in its first week on Sony's console. The lukewarm reception is now forcing Micros...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Witcher 3 Director Hails Crimson Desert as Gaming's Refreshing Rebel

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who steered CD Projekt through the creation of The Witcher 3, has become an unlikely evangelist for Pearl Abyss' Crimson Desert, praising it as exactly the kind of bold, uncon...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Crimson Desert Hits 5 Million Sales in Record-Breaking Month

Pearl Abyss' Crimson Desert has reached 5 million copies sold in less than four weeks, cementing its status as a commercial juggernaut. The single-player open world action game launched March 19 an...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Video Game Legend Marty O'Donnell Gets Trump's Backing for Congress Run

Marty O'Donnell, the composer behind Halo's iconic soundtrack, is mounting another bid for Congress with a major political endorsement in his corner. Donald Trump threw his support behind the forme...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Spider-Man Face Model's Cryptic Post Fuels Marvel Game 3 Speculation

A fleeting social media post from the actor who models Peter Parker's face has set gaming forums ablaze with theories about Insomniac's next Spider-Man project. Ben Jordan, who provides facial capt...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG Crushes Crowdfunding in 24 Hours, Raises $3.5 Million

The Dungeon Crawler Carl phenomenon keeps expanding. Renegade Game Studios launched a crowdfunding campaign for two new tabletop games based on Matt Dinniman's LitRPG series, and backers have alrea...

Emily Chen April 15, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Disney Lorcana Explodes With Pixar: Toy Story, Brave, Incredibles Officially In The Game

Disney Lorcana's trading card game just got a massive shot in the arm. During a special Lorecast event, Ravensburger unveiled an ambitious slate of Pixar content heading to the collectible card gam...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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LEGO Batman Suit Brings Steampunk Gotham to Life

WB Games has unveiled a fresh take on one of Batman's most distinctive alternate designs. The upcoming LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will feature a playable Batsuit inspired by Gotham by G...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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20th Century Studios Locks Down Horror Game Adaptation

20th Century Studios is moving forward with a feature film based on 99 Nights in the Forest, the breakout Roblox horror game that has already accumulated 26 billion lifetime visits despite launchin...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Toy Story Invades Disney Lorcana with Sid Phillips, Aliens, and The Claw

Disney Lorcana is getting its first official Toy Story cards in the upcoming Wilds Unknown expansion, introducing a brand new card classification designed to reward players who fill their decks wit...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Hasbro's Marvel Rivals Figures Land This Fall, and They're Unapologetically Huge

Hasbro is bringing the superhero shooter Marvel Rivals to store shelves with a wave of oversized action figures that capture the game's signature exaggerated aesthetic. The Marvel Legends Series co...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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GTA 5 Star Warns: Satire May Not Land in GTA 6

Jay Klaitz, who voices Lester Crest in Grand Theft Auto 5, thinks Rockstar Games faces an unexpected challenge with the upcoming GTA 6: reality itself may have outpaced the satire. In an interview,...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Noir Detective Game Shoots Itself in the Foot With Cartoonish Violence

Mouse: P.I. for Hire arrives dressed impeccably in the trappings of classic noir: a mouse detective in a shadowy city, hardboiled dialogue, a conspiracy that spirals from a missing magician into co...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Windrose Hits Early Access with Instant Player Surge, 25K Concurrent Peak

Windrose, the pirate survival game that spent years in development under different names and different plans, launched into early access today with strong momentum. The game racked up nearly 26,000...

Emily Chen April 14, 2026 0 comments 7 min read