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After a rocky launch, MindsEye is officially this year's worst-rated game according to Metacritic, ranking below 183 other games
News Reviews have been far from positive
Borderlands 4 isn't $80 after all, publisher confirms, weeks after Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford enraged the community by saying a "real fan" would pay that much
News "No price increase for Borderlands 4," Randy Pitchford declares today
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs tease "new content" as they eye up "a wide range of future improvements" for their hit JRPG love letter
News "It's very much on our radar"
Mario Kart World tricksters are getting so advanced, they're breaking the damn game: "I could explore underneath basically the whole track"
News Something tells me this area isn't supposed to be accessible
Elden Ring Nightreign Steam reviews recover to "Very Positive" after several patches and FromSoftware promising to add the duo option it "overlooked"
News FromSoftware's co-op romp is really growing on players
Elden Ring Nightreign's notorious Bell Bearing Hunter mini-boss is more trouble than some Day 3 bosses, but one player has found a classic cheese: body blocking
News That's one way to deal with it
Pokemon makes its funniest in-game event even better with a meme reference hidden in its distribution code: "This is quite possibly the best special event code in the history of ever"
News Wolfey's Incineroar is here, and you'll need to type in a very special code in order to claim it
Sony knows "there's a huge interest" in PlayStation's "next-generation console strategy" after the PS5, and "the future of the platform is top of mind" for the company
News "We are committed to exploring a new and enhanced way for players to engage with our content and services"
Mario Kart World is outselling Switch 1 launch title Zelda: Breath of the Wild by over 4x in Japan, Switch 2 physical launch estimates show
News But will it ever be able to totally outsell its predecessor?
Switch 2 is Nintendo's fastest-selling console despite high prices, former Nintendo marketing leads say "you're basically teaching them that they can continue to do this"
News The ex-Nintendo employees say the company's strategy for dealing with backlash was usually to "pretend it didn't happen"
MindsEye's launch "hasn't been without its challenges," says ex-GTA lead's studio, and the action game is set to get a "series of updates aimed at enhancing your experience"
News The devs have a "long-term vision to make MindsEye the best possible game for you"
As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG
News "You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks" about the price, Brandon Adler says
Mario Kart World's new Rewind feature can be used in Time Trials to set wild records, like this 13-second lap
News That's one way to use it
"MindsEye definitely needed a delay": GTA 5 veteran's new action game is here with 'Mixed' Steam reviews and "bugs galore," as players share spaghettified NPCs and cars with lives of their own
News It's not off to a great start
Fans briefly panicked after Hideo Kojima's account shared "The life and death of Hideo Kojima" piece, but he's fine – he's just thinking about death and the things he still wants to make
News "I still have a lot of things I want to do – that I need to do"
MindsEye continues to project confidence: ex-GTA 5 lead's new game is available physically, but the devs ask folks to delay streams until official launch time – meanwhile a 7-hour "100% walkthrough" is already on YouTube
News "If you can save this for later, it would be great"
ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X "have access to all the games you can play on Windows PCs," so you'll be able to play PlayStation games like The Last of Us and God of War
News PlayStation games with PC ports will all be playable on the Xbox handhelds
Mario Kart World has Mirror Mode after all, and you can even explore it in Free Roam thanks to this Super Mario 64 Easter egg
News You'll have to fulfil some slightly complicated unlock requirements first, though
The Witcher 3 almost ended on a Mass Effect 2-inspired "suicide mission," but CD Projekt Red "decided to make this more personal ending" instead
News "Mass Effect 2 was a huge inspiration for the game"
After 9 years of deadly new Hitman updates, the hardest part about designing new Elusive Targets like James Bond villain Le Chiffre is "actually keeping the target alive"
News "Le Chiffre took like five months to make, and some guy will surely do it in like a second"
Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases
News Gearbox is "very excited about the launch!"
Sims competitor Paralives secures a December early access release, hopefully giving life sim enjoyers something fresh after inZOI's mixed reception and Life by You's cancellation
News Paralives launches in early access on Steam on December 8
Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing "before" the Holiday season, Team Cherry says, and isn't "tied to a console release" like the Xbox ROG Ally
News But still no full release date - yet
