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Last-chance Prime Day Asus ROG Ally deals 2025: The biggest savings still available
Deals Here are all the best Prime Day Asus ROG Ally deals and accessory discounts
"EOS speedrun": Persona 5's latest spin-off becomes the worst-rated Atlus game on Steam as reviews plummet over gacha that's even more "aggressive" in the global version
News Some feel that "Western players are getting treated like trash compared to the original version"
The best last-chance Prime Day monitor deals 2025
Deals Prime Day monitor deals will kick off again this coming Tuesday, and we're here to help you grab all the deepest display discounts in the lead up to the event.
Last-chance Prime Day Steam Deck deals 2025: The biggest sales still happening
Deals I'm already seeing plenty of accessories for the gaming handheld with nice discounts.
The dev who turned Bloodborne into a Zelda game has now made his very own Soulslike Western with a map that's several times larger than A Link to the Past
News Exclusive | Tombwater is looking very promising, and its full map reveal has got me even more intrigued
Last-chance Prime Day tablet deals 2025: the biggest sales still available on Amazon
Deals Amazon Prime Day Tablet deals have made a comeback today, with various savings rolling in for the week.
How to watch the Ghost of Yotei State of Play gameplay deep dive, and what time it goes live in your region
News Ghost of Yotei is getting its own dedicated PlayStation State of Play today, featuring "nearly 20 minutes" of gameplay
Bloodborne looks almost unrecognizable in these "never-before-seen design planning maps and alpha layouts," showing FromSoftware's evolution of an iconic hidden shortcut
News Yharnam changed a lot throughout its development
Deltarune just got another small update, but I'm more interested in this brief, fine-print teaser for upcoming patches containing "some extremely slight adjustments to gameplay"
News What could the changes be?
Subnautica 2's early access launch schedule may need "some adjustments," Krafton claims, despite former lead saying the survival game is "ready"
News The company is "in the process of refining our development plans"
Helldivers 2 new Major Order kickstarts the effort to rebuild Super Earth's fallen Mega Cities following the Illuminate invasion, to bring the planet back to its "rightful state of glory"
News Remembrance will be "the first of our fallen Mega Cities to be rebuilt"
Microsoft reportedly doesn't include lost first-party game sales when calculating Xbox Game Pass profits, but the subscription service is apparently earning money regardless
News No, Xbox apparently isn't losing money with Game Pass
Hytale studio founder isn't giving up yet on reviving the canceled game, but says "suggestions to use another game or engine" to bring it back are "out of touch"
News He claims that many people "don't understand all the early decisions, direction and vision" that went into Hytale
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 master laughs in the face of the RPG's challenge modifiers, as not even the game's toughest boss with 100 times more health can withstand 1.4 trillion damage
News Sciel can launch an attack deadlier than a Gommage with the right setup
FromSoftware is struggling to squash an Elden Ring Nightreign bug that sees its new, third boss bug vanish from a notorious duo bug fight, making it impossible to win
News The big bug boss fight is, ironically, bugged
Xbox executive producer offers "best advice I can" to those caught up in Microsoft's latest lay-off spree – AI prompts to "help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss"
News He also suggests asking AI to "act as a career coach"
FromSoftware actually did it: Elden Ring Nightreign powers up its annoying bug duo boss by – I almost can't believe this – adding a third bug to the fight
News The first two bugs weren't enough for you? Have another
The games industry is so broken even FPS legend John Romero and his studio are struggling with funding, and now-former staff say it's Microsoft's fault: "Our whole studio is being let go because of the layoffs"
News John Romero announced a new FPS game back in 2022, and said the devs were teaming up with "a major publisher"
Microsoft orders more Xbox layoffs, boss Phil Spencer tells staff "our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger" but the fourth big round of layoffs in 18 months is coming anyway
News The exact number of staff affected isn't currently clear
Persona offers a new contender for silliest JRPG villain with Persona 5: The Phantom X and its "Subway Slammer," who declares "the whole subway's mine for the slammin'!"
News Persona 5: The Phantom X has a rather different debut antagonist compared to Kamoshida
Dark and Darker update plunges the game into negative Steam reviews, director blames his "inconsistent decisions and shallow responses to feedback" and says "we're not particularly good at developing games" by chasing "successful formulas"
News "It saddens me to hear claims that we're intentionally ruining the game," says Dark and Darker's director
Subnautica 2 fans worry the underwater survival game is "dead before arrival" following its studio's sudden leadership change: "I'm scared to know what this means for the future"
News The leadership changes have arrived ahead of Subnautica 2's early access launch, still set for later this year
GTA veteran says game releases seem "more stressful" now than during the PS2 era, because "not knowing whether you can fix everything in the day-1 patch seems terrifying"
News The era of no day-one patches is long gone now, though
