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Switch 2 | Donkey Kong Bananza breaks Nintendo tradition with a rare discount, not that long after release
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Amazon drops an outrageously good 3 for $33 deal on 4K UHD Blu-rays, including Superman and more
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Nintendo Switch 2's best memory card drops to an all-time low in the New Year sales
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Pokemon Legends Z-A's new structure and battles have the power to make a Pikachu terrifying - hands-on
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Net A Good One | The best Netflix games to play in 2025
All of these essential games are included as part of your Netflix subscription, and they're all great.
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Friendly Fire | The sinister secret that Mario Kart World is hiding: where do those Dash Foods come from?
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PERFORMANCE ART | With technical improvements, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are utterly transformed on Nintendo Switch 2
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Oi Lads, rad. | Dune Awakening's creative director speaks on the end game, and how the Landsraad will give key roles to crafter and killer alike
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Davidoff The Track | F1 25's Braking Point 3 delivers more Butler drama than a Downton Abbey battle royale, but I wish it had pumped the brakes a bit more often
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Legend of Goro | Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut Red Light Raid Mode is baffling, totally on-brand, and a weirdly good fit as part of a Nintendo Switch 2 launch game
Here me out, this tacked-on multiplayer mode might actually justify some of the Switch 2’s more controversial features.
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Soul Trader | Following the breakout success of Metaphor Refantazio, Atlus’ only action-RPG gets a second lease of life on Switch 2 (and it’s pretty good, too)
Nearly 20 years later, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army proves that there’s a bit of life left in the peculiar spin-off series yet.
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Nvidia’s newest entry-level card promises high frame rates and great performance on new games for $300 - but only if you turn on all of the performance-enhancing extras.
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Isn't It Wonderful? | However many Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering cards they release, it’ll never be enough
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Duvaling Deeper | GTA 6 trailer 2 is here, so when‘s GTA 6 trailer 3 gonna drop? Don't worry, we've been rubbing our hot braincells together
Forget all that new info, I’ll never put away my diagram of lunar phases.
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Unreal Cool | The 00s is back, baby: EVE Vanguard, CCP Games' ambitious MMOFPS, channels some of the best bits of Quake, Unreal Tournament and classic Halo
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Mass Marketing | Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti finally brings a desirable new-generation GPU to the masses, but price remains a sticking point
Nvidia’s 5060 Ti is probably the best graphics card for those feeling an upgrade itch on a tighter budget - but only if you go for the 16 GB model.
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Good Stuff Bruma-ing | Oblivion Remastered has the potential to show us “the pinnacle of Elder Scrolls modding”, reckons the pioneer behind the first mod to edit its worldspace
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Hot Ship | “Staying beautiful isn’t about chasing trends” Eve Online developer CCP explains why looking good is more than just skin deep for a ‘forever game’ in 2025
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Taking cues from Helldivers 2 and other persistent-world shooters, EVE Vanguard will finally show you its chops in 2026.
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DON’T WATCH | BrokenLore: Don’t Watch is a surreal indie horror that offers an intriguing and visceral tale about the effects of social withdrawal
Don’t Watch is the latest for indie horror anthology, BrokenLore, which deals with very real, grounded topics in a terrifying manner.
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New Lands | Borderlands 4 looks like the Destiny 3 we'll probably never get, and that shift is the best move Gearbox could have possibly made
It's a bold shift in a new direction, done at the perfect time.
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I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.
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Ayrton Simcade-a | Formula Legends is simcade racer aiming to outpace its competitors in a tough field with its unique take on classic F1 - preview
3DClouds’s next game is bringing back those V10s - and all the other engine sizes we love.
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Between the Lines | Do Borderlands 4 and Ghost of Yotei’s launch dates actually tell us anything about the GTA 6 release date? Here’s what we think
It's no secret the gaming world is trying to navigate around GTA 6, but recent news could help us narrow down that release window.
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Iron Sights | Arc Raiders is already one of the most polished and immediately satisfying extraction shooters, and it’s not even out yet
There’s a lot to love about Arc Raiders, but more than anything, I admire how well thought-out many of its mechanics are.
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Elephant in the Room | In preparation for Borderlands 4 I played through Borderlands 3, and I'm torn on how to deal with the Ava problem
Years late to the party? Absolutely. But wow, what on Earth do you do about Ava?
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Play in the Sandbox | Dune Awakening preview: a loving recreation of a beloved sci-fi property that offers more questions than answers, but it's a good start
Dune Awakening is about as loving an adaptation of the Herbert's universe as you could get, to a fault.
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The best co-op games to play in 2025
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Racinema | F1 25 hands-on preview, part three: Braking Point 3 brings more Drive To Survive-ish drama, this time out front
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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are actually going live in the US today
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Bring Them Back | An innovative 'merge' system, decisions galore, and the branch into survival horror: Bloober Team on breaking new ground in Cronos The New Dawn
We sat down with Bloober Team to talk about what to expect from the upcoming sci-fi survival horror, Cronos: The New Dawn.
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One Last Run | Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a glorious send-off following its final update on PC, as players wonder “what’s next for Larian?”
One last hurrah for Baldur's Gate 3, as Larian moves onto to new ventures.
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Lilith Fans Assembly | Diablo 4 will help you pretend you have way more friends than you actually do with its bold, new... WhatsApp group?
Am I imagining things, or have we all just woken up to this bizarre trend of major brands now having their own WhatsApp groups?
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Shot in the Dark | As someone who hates extraction shooters, there's actually a very good reason I'm willing to give Marathon a shot
Bungie has been through a lot, but I still trust that those developers still working at the studio can make a killer new game, extraction shooter or no.
