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NewsIf you play a pirated Super Smash Bros exactly 69 times on N64, Nintendo's "sneaky" anti-piracy measure will "lull the illegitimate user into a false sense of security" and trap you as Mario forever
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NewsSilksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"
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News"The most broken weapon in Borderlands 4" is a purple shotgun that makes damage numbers go brrr: "Nothing's going to take really more than one shot"
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newsRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma director says the cozy RPG series' "final form" is a game you can "keep living in forever," but "whether we can actually pull it off is a completely different story"
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NewsBorderlands 4 gets 758MB update on PC, and it's not all performance fixes: Gearbox says it "smooths out progression" and brings the first of a zillion weekly updates
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Silksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"
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"The most broken weapon in Borderlands 4" is a purple shotgun that makes damage numbers go brrr: "Nothing's going to take really more than one shot"
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NewsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford isn't quite done annoying Borderlands 4 fans just yet, admitting he did an "oops" when giving tech advice – but "the mistake was innocent"
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GuideHow to get Elevator Clearance in Borderlands 4 Recruitment Drive
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NewsAs Borderlands 4 PC performance woes continue, Gearbox says "we're reading every piece of feedback" and it's "our top priority" to make improvements, with one patch coming today
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GuideAll Honkai Star Rail codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideAll Wuthering Waves codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideRoblox Brookhaven codes for music tracks and memes (Sep 2025)
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsPokemon's cute, cozy life sim spin-off may be hiding some deeply tragic lore as fans question the backstory of our Ditto protagonist: "What happened to their trainer?"
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NewsPokemon Legends Z-A locks the Mega Evolutions for the Kalos starters to ranked seasons, making them impossible to get without paying for Nintendo Switch Online
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GuidePokemon Pokopia: everything we know about the Pokemon game that looks a lot like Animal Crossing
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NewsNintendo announces Pokemon Legends Z-A DLC before the game's even out: Mega Dimension expansion adds "spatial distortions" and makes Raichu the third Pokemon to ever get two Mega Evolutions
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DealsI think everyone should try this legendary board game, and it's never been cheaper than it is now
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ReviewThere's now a real version of the Witcher Gwent card game, and it's just as engrossing as the original
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NewsAnno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025"
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NewsBeautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon
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NewsManor Lords' new update is "overhauling a lot of systems at once," and it should be worth the 6-month wait as "we'll be able to shift to smaller, more frequent updates going forward"
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NewsMy favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
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NewsFantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
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news"I remember uploading the build, crossing my fingers that things wouldn't immediately fall apart": A year later, city builder mega-hit Manor Lords has a bigger dev team teasing big updates
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NewsAfter 7 years and a sequel, the original Frostpunk is getting a remake titled Frostpunk 1886 – a reimagining of the city builder that's "no mere visual overhaul"
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GuideRoblox Murder Mystery 2 codes have all expired
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News"I'm here to interrupt the Silksong": Peak devs echo Team Cherry by telling players the game is just "that evil," tease "the next biome" already in the works
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NewsREPO devs "want to be a bit more secretive" with the next big update, threatening to unleash a load of new monsters at once: "Some will be there to make your life a living hell"
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NewsThe first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
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newsUbisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
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NewsMetal Gear Solid and Resident Evil Village stars set to host Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
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NewsNew Counter-Strike 2 cases are free to open, but keeping skins will cost you – and the FPS community isn't thrilled: "Valve will literally reinvent the gambling industry before adding a random fun game mode"
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NewsBattlefield 6 makes changes to movement in Labs, and players can't decide if things have been "overnerfed" or if the new risk/reward tweaks make the FPS more grounded
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NewsEscape from Tarkov dev has outdone itself, telling players to buy the whole game again if they want it on Steam after 9 years leading to 1.0: "There are no excuses"
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NewsBattlefield 6 sniper glints won't be so blinding come the shooter's release, as devs have "stepped it back" after fans' "humorous" feedback: "I saw those memes with the hillside just full of these giant glares"
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NewsFree-to-play League of Legends fighting game 2XKO "went back into R&D mode" after the initial reveal, producer says, which was both "awkward" and "the right call"
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newsStreet Fighter movie delays release date as it invites everyone to choose their fighter with retro character select cast announcement
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NewsThe Balatro hivemind absorbs another victim as Super Smash Bros. modder is compelled to add Joker king Jimbo to Melee, and there hasn't been a new character this scary since 2001
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newsDead Space creator Glen Schofield "would love to make an Alien game," but he has to completely "own the creative" side of it
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NewsBethesda's studio buying spree was fueled by wanting to work with likeminded devs: "If you have a chance to work with [Resident Evil creator] Shinji Mikami, you should always say yes"
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NewsAfter 5 years of work, Sony's cult classic PS1 JRPG trilogy is now fully playable in English as the roguelike spin-off finally gets its fan translation patch
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NewsLock your doors: Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to Switch 2 as a monster game-key card that will eat around 90GB of storage
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NewsFinal Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu says video game music is getting more boring, and Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead agrees: "Nothing is made for anyone in particular anymore. (Except shareholders)"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake director takes a hammer to difficulty discourse as the JRPG reveals ultimate god mode, says he's played games where he "gave up because of the time it takes to level up characters or traverse the game"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake gets 2026 release date on Switch 2 and Xbox with Rebirth and Part 3 to follow
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NewsHundreds of MMO players show up to support a father mourning his infant son, who shares a name with an NPC in Old School RuneScape: "We have such an incredible community with the biggest hearts"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 is getting a "big update" to bring out the "uniqueness of each job" in battle content, Yoshi-P says, before confusingly adding "that nothing is going to change" for those who like things the way they are
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NewsThe long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
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NewsBethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
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NewsOne of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
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