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Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound review: "Absolutely proves Ninja Gaiden deserved to be revived – I've never been happier to be right"
Review
Space Marine 2 publisher praises Oblivion Remastered, FromSoftware, and the "Frenchy friends" on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as proof "the industry remains powerful" despite layoffs and studio closures
News "I don’t want to guess the investment behind GTA 6"
After 33 years, Nintendo finally brings back the Super NES mouse game that's perfect for Switch 2, and even lets you plug a USB mouse into a Switch 1 to play it
News Nintendo's never this good at emulation
Game industry fires back as certain adult games continue to be delisted from Steam and Itch.io: "Financial institutions are now influencing which stories can be told and sold in games"
News "Games that feature consensual adult content, including queer, kink-positive, or romantic narratives, are easily targeted under vague or overly cautious enforcement"
"We do not design and produce games for everyone": Space Marine 2 publisher "didn't believe" it would reach 7 million players and says niche games made for specific people are the future, AAA mass appeal be damned
News Space Marine 2 and RoadCraft have more in common than you'd think
"Baffling and sad at the same time": The latest Oblivion Remastered patch was supposed to improve performance, but testing finds reality doesn't match the patch notes
News Things still aren't looking smooth in Cyrodiil
UK's controversial online safety law requires Discord users to scan their face to prove they're adults, and somehow Hideo Kojima's own Death Stranding 2 has given privacy-conscious players a workaround
News I guess that means Normal Reedus is definitely over 18
Yoshi-P knows Final Fantasy 14 has a problem balancing casual and hardcore content, but he hopes the new Deep Dungeon will show the MMO's new philosophy on difficulty
News Naoki Yoshida wants to change the balance of FF14
"This is another attack on physical media": Watchdog group finds that Super Mario Bros Wonder is suddenly unplayable on Switch 2 without an online update
News "Nintendo crossed a line"
Pathfinder and Warhammer CRPG studio declares support for Stop Killing Games: "Every player deserves lasting access to what they've paid for"
News We're closing in on the final days of Stop Killing Games' EU petition with 1.4 million signatures in tow
Leaked Battlefield 6 release date semi-confirmed in standard and Phantom Edition post, and it looks like the threat of $80 games persists
News $80 games persist, but so do I
Battlefield 6 campaign trailer goes all-in on the destruction the series was once known for: "Blow through walls and bring down buildings for a tactical advantage"
News Is Levolution finally back?
Hideo Kojima shares bizarre "I didn't f*** the fridge" song he got off a USB drive from a "multidisciplinary artist" in London, and nobody's sure whether to believe this is viral OD marketing or just Kojima being Kojima
News It's Never Be Game Over all over again
Battlefield 3 was originally "more of an MMO" before the Bad Company 2 devs took over, but they made good use of the "leftover" assets to help build the campaign
News Battlefield 3 could've been very different
Hades 2 pulls a reverse Terraria, launching "one more" final update before the roguelike leaves Steam early access and goes to 1.0
News "Thank you for playing in Early Access!"
Deltarune was the best-selling Switch 2 eShop game at launch, beating everything from Mario Kart World to No Man's Sky
News Forget Nintendo, Toby Fox was the big winner of the Switch 2 launch
Xbox says goodbye to $80 games for now, drops The Outer Worlds 2 to $70 and promises to "keep our full priced holiday releases" to the old standard
News That probably means Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is safe from the $80 price tag, too
I beat Donkey Kong Bananza feeling 100% confident about Pauline's true identity, but now I'm deep in a rabbithole of fan theories and I don't know what to believe anymore
News Who is Pauline, really?
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls makes some wild changes from the tag fighting games that have come before, teasing a single health bar per team and 3 assist options for every character
News Time to start guessing how big the roster is, too
EA drops a Battlefield 6 reveal trailer countdown for July 24: "Prepare for the ultimate all-out warfare experience"
News After months of leaks, the proper reveal is upon us
Pokemon Legends Z-A's Mega Dragonite leak finally confirmed, and it's either "so good" or the "worst design for a Mega Evolution Pokemon ever" depending on who you ask
News It certainly does have those "distinctive Dragonair-like features"
3 years later, my favorite retro game collection is getting fresh DLC complete with the "first-ever re-release" of the broken Pac-Man port that became the best-selling game of the pre-Nintendo era
News Bad games deserve to be in these collections, too
Stop Killing Games accused of "systematic concealment" of financial contributions because its figurehead spent too many hours volunteering to promote the campaign
News "We've been doing this by the book, guys"
