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Naughty Dog Gave Up Fighting Crunch, Former Designer Says

A former designer at Naughty Dog has revealed how the studio abandoned its initial efforts to control work hours and eventually embraced crunch as fundamental to making games at its caliber. Benson...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Ghost of Yotei Soundtrack Drops on Gold Shimmer Vinyl This June

Sucker Punch's samurai epic gets the vinyl treatment. Ghost of Yotei's original soundtrack is headed to record shelves on June 12, with preorders now live at $49.98. The release features a striking...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Blizzard Reveals What's Next for Diablo 4's Darkest Villains in Mephisto Expansion

Blizzard is preparing to plunge players back into the demonic chaos of Diablo 4 with Lord of Hatred, the action-RPG's second major expansion. The studio sat down to walk through the narrative threa...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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New Subscription Service Indie Pass Floods PC With Over 70 Independent Games

Indie.io rolled out Indie Pass on Monday, a subscription platform dedicated entirely to independent games. The service launches with more than 70 titles across multiple genres, sourced from develop...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Middle-earth's Hidden Gems: The Lord of the Rings Board Games Worth Your Money

Seventy years after Tolkien put pen to paper, Middle-earth continues to dominate the imagination. The publisher machine has churned out countless licensed games over the decades, many of them cynic...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Pokémon Go Champ Appeals Championship Loss Over Fist Pump Celebration

A competitive Pokémon Go player is formally challenging The Pokémon Company's decision to strip him of a regional championship title after he was penalized for celebrating his victory with a fist p...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Pragmata Nails the Shooter Blueprint, Stumbles on the Story

Pragmata feels refreshingly old-school in the best way: a third-person action game that knows exactly what it does well and commits entirely to that vision. Capcom's latest is built on a single cor...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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James Bond Game Spoilers Spill Online Before Release, Developer Silent on Leak

Over an hour of footage from the upcoming James Bond game 007: First Light has leaked online, exposing major story details and the game's ending weeks before launch.The footage was originally submi...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Pokémon Go Champion Challenges Disqualification Over Fist Pump Victory Celebration

A competitive Pokémon Go player is formally contesting The Pokémon Company's decision to strip him of a regional championship title over what officials deemed unsportsmanlike conduct during his vic...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VR Game Nails the Co-op Chaos

Virtual reality has finally found the perfect match for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. TMNT: Empire City transforms the iconic reptile quartet into an unexpectedly charming multiplayer experienc...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Dreadmoor wants to make fishing in hell feel satisfying

A new crop of fishing games has emerged in the past couple of years, each adding its own flavor of dread to the simple act of casting a line. Dredge showed us what happens when you trap a fishing c...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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GTA 6 May Drown in User-Generated Content, and That's a Problem

Rockstar has reportedly built GTA 6 around user-generated content, leaning into a creative ecosystem that would let players craft their own missions and storylines. The timing appears deliberate: t...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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GTA 6 hackers threaten to dump stolen data as ransom deadline passes

Cybercriminals who breached Rockstar Games have vowed to publish stolen company data online after the developer refused to meet their extortion demands, according to reports.The hacking group Shiny...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Xbox Vet Says Naughty Dog Made the Right Call Killing The Last of Us Online. The Real Blunder Came Years Earlier.

When Naughty Dog shut down The Last of Us Online in December 2023, it shocked the industry and devastated the team that had spent seven years building it. But according to a veteran game publisher ...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Marathon Players Push Bungie to Ease Cryo Archive's Brutal Entry Fee

The Marathon community is making a unified pitch to Bungie: lower the barrier to entry for Cryo Archive, the game's notoriously punishing endgame raid, before potential players give up entirely.The...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Fable Doubles Down on Fall 2026, Brushes Off Delay Chatter

Microsoft's official Fable account moved quickly to defend its autumn 2026 release window after a weekend flooded with reports suggesting an internal push to delay the game, potentially into 2027.G...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Ashes of Creation CEO Fires Back at Leaked Financial Bombshell

The implosion of Ashes of Creation just got messier. A YouTuber claiming to possess years of company financial records has alleged that Intrepid Studios squandered millions on personal luxuries whi...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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EA Pulls the Plug on Dragon Age: Inquisition's PS3 Servers After 11-Year Run

Electronic Arts is shutting down multiplayer servers for BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition on PlayStation 3 later this month, marking another casualty in the publisher's ongoing consolidation of le...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Metro 2039 Incoming: Gameplay Leaks Before Official Microsoft Reveal This Week

A new entry in the Metro franchise is headed for an official announcement, with Microsoft planning to unveil the project during a showcase scheduled for April 16, according to leaker NateTheHate, w...

Emily Chen April 13, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Invincible VS Players Demand Punishment for Rage Quitters Before Launch

The Invincible VS beta is winding down, and players are leaving with a clear message for developer Quarter Up and publisher Skybound Games: do something about rage quitting. The tag-team fighting g...

Emily Chen April 12, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Bethesda Betrayed Its Own Values, Says Former Marketing Chief

Pete Hines spent nearly a quarter century building Bethesda's reputation before walking away in 2022, but he left convinced the company had become something hollow. In a recent interview, the retir...

Emily Chen April 12, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Kojima's Next Villain Casting Sparks Intrigue: 'Mads Mikkelsen Energy With a Twist'

Hideo Kojima is hunting for a formidable antagonist for Physint, his next tactical espionage game, and the character description alone hints at something deliciously sinister.According to casting d...

Emily Chen April 12, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Nintendo Bundles Switch 2 With Mario Galaxy to Capitalize on Movie Momentum

Nintendo is making a calculated push to convert blockbuster movie hype into hardware sales. Starting April 12, the company is offering a limited-time bundle pairing the Switch 2 console with Super ...

Emily Chen April 12, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Resident Evil Pack Hits $89.99 Before It Vanishes; M5 MacBook, Mario Galaxy Double Pack Also Slashed

Weekend shoppers have a narrow window to grab some genuine bargains Saturday, starting with a Resident Evil collection that's rapidly disappearing from shelves. The Resident Evil Generation Pack, c...

Emily Chen April 11, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Rockstar Hit by Third-Party Hack as Extortionists Demand Payment by Mid-April

Rockstar Games confirmed this week that a data breach exposed company information through a compromised third-party service, though the developer characterized the incident as contained and inconse...

Emily Chen April 11, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Pearl Abyss Drops Massive Crimson Desert Patch With Surprise Features Fans Never Asked For

Pearl Abyss wasted no time turning promises into reality. A single day after announcing planned improvements for Crimson Desert, the developer pushed out patch 1.03.00 with nearly everything it had...

Emily Chen April 11, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Disney Extraction Shooter Coming This November from Epic Games

Epic Games is developing a new extraction shooter powered by Disney characters, with Bloomberg reporting a launch window of November 2026. The unnamed title represents one of three games currently ...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Pokémon Champions Launches with Bare-Bones Roster, Gacha Mechanics Lurking

Nintendo's new battle-focused Pokémon Champions arrived this week as a stripped-down successor to the Stadium legacy, promising pure PvP combat without the grind of catching, breeding, or collectin...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Amazon's Rare Board Game Deal Returns: Buy 2, Get 1 Free This Weekend

Amazon is running a buy 2, get 1 free promotion on select board games this weekend, marking the first time the retailer has offered this discount since March's Big Spring Sale. The sale spans dozen...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Cult Classic Visual Novel Yanked From Google Play Store Over Content Concerns

Google has pulled Doki Doki Literature Club from its Play Store, citing violations of platform policies tied to the game's portrayal of sensitive subject matter. The sudden removal marks an unexpec...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Jobst Fires Back at Mitchell With Defamation Suit Over Bankruptcy Claims

Karl Jobst is taking legal action against Billy Mitchell, the arcade legend at the center of a years-long gaming world feud that culminated in a $240,000 judgment against the YouTube creator last s...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Skyrim's Complete Literary Collection Just Hit Its Lowest Price in Months

Nearly 15 years after Skyrim's release, Bethesda's three-volume hardcover collection of every in-game book is sitting at its best price of the year. The full set has dropped to $68 on Amazon, marki...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Resident Evil Requiem's Copy Protection Falls: First 2026 Game to Lose Denuvo Shield

The copy protection on Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem has been fully bypassed, marking the first major 2026 release to have its Denuvo DRM defeated. Security researcher voices38 released a function...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 Gets Collector's Steelbook, But There's a Catch

Konami UK has unveiled a new Steelbook case for Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, though the company has remained silent on whether collectors outside the UK can snag one. The limited cas...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Karl Urban Wants to Play John Marston in Red Dead Redemption Movie

Karl Urban has joined the growing list of Hollywood actors lobbying for a Red Dead Redemption film adaptation, and he's already picked his dream role.The actor, known for his work in The Lord of th...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Sam Witwer Ready to Go Bald for Star Wars Return

Sam Witwer has made clear he's willing to make a dramatic physical transformation if Lucasfilm decides to revive one of his most beloved Star Wars roles.The actor, speaking to Polygon, said he'd im...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Resident Evil Horror Trilogy Bundle Resurfaces at Amazon After Long Sellout

The Resident Evil Generation Pack is back in stock at Amazon following an extended period of unavailability, offering Nintendo Switch 2 owners a chance to grab the exclusive 30th anniversary collec...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Professor Layton Finally Gets 3D World, PC and PS5 Versions Locked for 2026 Launch

Level 5 has officially mapped out the release strategy for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, confirming a simultaneous global launch across multiple platforms in 2026. The puzzle adventu...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Sonic Sale Bonanza Hits Amazon as Sega Kicks Off 35th Anniversary Blitz

Sega isn't waiting until June to celebrate Sonic's 35th birthday. The company has launched "Forever Fast," a year-long anniversary campaign that began with a sprawling Amazon sale featuring games, ...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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How a Broken '70s Muscle Car Game Finally Captured the Cool of Ryan Gosling's Drive

Samson, the debut open-world crime game from developer Liquid Swords, arrived in rough shape. Glitchy. Repetitive. Janky enough that its own creative director, Christofer Sundberg, conceded it laun...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Capcom's Sci-Fi Shooter Pragmata Hits £41.99 Pre-Order Deal Before April Launch

Capcom's hotly anticipated new IP Pragmata is already discounted ahead of its April 17 debut, with Amazon UK slashing the price to £41.99 across PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Switch 2. That's £8 off the...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Crimson Desert Roadmap Unleashes Boss Rematches, Hard Mode, Recapturing Territories

Pearl Abyss is preparing a substantial overhaul for Crimson Desert, rolling out improvements from April through June 2026 that directly address widespread player feedback. The developer detailed an...

Emily Chen April 10, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Marathon's $250M Budget Leaves Bungie in a Tight Spot

Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon carries a price tag exceeding $250 million, according to a new report, creating mounting pressure on the studio to reverse a sharp player decline without resort...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Sylvanas Returns, and WoW Fans Think Blizzard Is Quietly Reviving Its Most Hated Expansion

A cryptic appearance by World of Warcraft's most controversial character has set the community ablaze with speculation that Blizzard plans to revisit Shadowlands, the expansion players have spent y...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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The Original Xbox's Best-Kept Secrets: Games Nobody Talks About

When people reminisce about the original Xbox, they tend to fixate on the obvious titans: Halo, Grand Theft Auto III, and Splinter Cell. But buried in that console's library are lesser-known titles...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Pokémon Champions Dev Scrambles to Fix Broken Launch, Admits Long Road Ahead

The developer of Pokémon Champions issued a formal apology this week after the competitive battle platform stumbled out of the gate, acknowledging a growing list of bugs while offering little assur...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Pokopia Patches Vanishing Pokémon Bug, Rolls Out Biggest Fix Yet

Pokémon Pokopia received a substantial update on Switch 2 this week, addressing a persistent problem that left players unable to locate creatures whose habitats had disappeared from their islands.V...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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PUBG Boss: AI Art Is Fine if the Gameplay Rocks

The head of PUBG Studios has shrugged off concerns about artificial intelligence in game development, declaring that he has no problem with studios using AI for artwork as long as they nail the cor...

Emily Chen April 9, 2026 0 comments 8 min read