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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"
Final Fantasy Tactics is already a JRPG GOAT, but The Ivalice Chronicles is cribbing one of Final Fantasy 16's best features to make it even better
News Active Time Lore lives on in State of the Realm
MCU boss Kevin Feige says his son "feigned interest in a supportive way" until he started playing Marvel Rivals: "Suddenly, he was asking me to tell him more about Hela"
News Who among us does not want to know more about Hela?
Helldivers 2 devs say DLSS and FSR are "on the wishlist," but there are "other more fundamental problems that impact performance" to fix first
News "We speak about it often"
Ubisoft CEO addresses Stop Killing Games after overseeing the deaths of The Crew and XDefiant: "Support for all games cannot last forever"
News "Clearly this is a far-reaching issue, and we're working on it"
Helldivers 3 is "hopefully many years away," because Arrowhead is "focusing on the here and now" and Helldivers 2 "can run for a long time if people keep playing it"
News "It's great to be part of the ride"
"I can't move my hands": After 92 hours, 264 attempts, and 12 days of grinding, Trackmania player beats 4-hour ice gauntlet after his opponent in the $3,800 race had finally gone to sleep
News "You can really see the despair"
Valve boss Gabe Newell shares his "daily routine," which is shockingly like his Steam God persona: "I get up, I work, I go scuba diving, work some more" then "go on a second scuba dive or I go to the gym"
News "I work seven days a week"
Donkey Kong Bananza doesn't have Switch 2's latest firmware on the cart, which means there's still no way to play backwards compatible Switch 1 games without an internet connection
News Nintendo still isn't making it easy for offline gamers
Oblivion Remastered dev team spared the worst of mass layoffs at Virtuos, studio claims as it "remains fully committed" to projects like Cyberpunk 2077 and Metal Gear Solid Delta
News The layoffs include "fewer than 10 in France, where the core team working on Oblivion Remastered is located"
The Legend of Zelda movie has finally cast its titular princess, and it turns out she was already a video game movie veteran at roughly 12 years old thanks to Final Fantasy
News I can only describe this as one of the video game movies of all time
Donkey Kong Bananza doesn't use Switch 2's frame rate-boosting DLSS tech, joining Mario Kart World in dodging what we thought would be one of the console's defining features
News "Seriously, FSR1 again?"
One more Cyberpunk 2077 delay for old times' sake: the Nintendo Switch 2 version of patch 2.3 has been pushed back, but seemingly not for long
News "It's coming, so stay tuned"
Donkey Kong Bananza review: "Destruction isn't just a flashy gimmick for the Minecraft generation, it's one of the best inventions Nintendo has had in years"
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