Issue #287

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Every big announcement from PlayStation’s new State of Play

The Witcher 3 Is Getting Console Mod Support Later This Year

One Of The Rarest Video Games Ever Has Been Preserved Online

Nacon enters the direct drive sim racing game - and hands-on impressions are positive

This game about being trapped on a spaceship overgrown with a jungle that wants to eat you is basically Project Zomboid in space, and it looks absolutely terrifying

Fortnite Teaser Confirms Chapter 5, Season 4’s Super Hero Theme

Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it’s still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great

People Can Fly shuts down two games and prepares for layoffs

Upcoming Game Pass games

Diablo 4 Year 2 Anniversary event with free goodies confirmed for Blizzard’s ARPG

EA’s cancelled Black Panther game would have featured an evolved take on Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System

Six Months Later, Tango Gameworks Has Completely Rebranded, And Is Hiring For An Unannounced Action Game

Star Wars Jedi Director Developing Dungeons & Dragons Single-Player Action Adventure

FromSoft Confirms Elden Ring Nightreign Duo Expeditions And DLC

Nintendo Switch 2’s unique SoC is “unlike anything” Nvidia has ever made, claims CEO

A Phasmophobia film is in the works at Blumhouse

XDefiant Has Now Been Taken Offline Forever

Nintendo Switch 2 is Out Now Worldwide

Coming to Game Pass: EA Sports FC 25, The Alters, FBC: Firebreak, and More

Amazon Prime Members Get These 9 Free Games In June

Deathloop is free to keep on Epic Games Store

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SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless

Fulcrum Defender

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour

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2025 Has Been The Year Of The Double-A And Indie Games So Far

Why EA Canceled a New ‘Black Panther’ Video Game

Hands-Off Preview: Drop Point Aims To Usher In A New Vision Of The Survival MMO

I Don’t Care About The Story Or Gameplay, Unless I Do

Hell Is Us Hands-On Impressions – Show, Don’t Tell

Video Games Were Supposed To Be Fun, But It Feels Like That’s Not The Point Anymore

Is Marathon the Best Chance Extraction Shooters Have To Break Into the Mainstream?

When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one

The 2-year hunt for ‘one of the rarest games in history’

I didn’t even know what roleplaying was until I experienced this bizarre ’90s B-game where you slowly turn into a bug

XDefiant, the once-touted ‘CoD killer,’ shuts down tonight. Here’s how Ubisoft’s shooter totally misfired

I found a mysterious demo disc with no name hiding a game almost no one in the world has ever seen, and it made me feel like I’d uncovered buried treasure

Nobody understands gambling, especially in video games

Preview: Hands-On With Anvil Empires, Siege Camp’s Sandbox Empire-Building MMORPG

Why Mini-Games are Inspiring a New Wave of Casual Gaming

GOG lays out the business case for robust game preservation

Mario Kart World: The Final Preview

11 things you probably didn’t know the Switch 2 can do

The forces behind the astonishing success of drug dealing simulator Schedule I

The Evolution and Cultural Influence of Modern Video Games

The 25 best games on Game Pass

It’s here: Unboxing and setting up our Switch 2 review unit

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I’m starting to realize waiting to buy games is just a better consumer experience

What was your first “holy crap this game is huge” ?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Breaking Omertà: “Where It All Began” | Mafia: The Old Country

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour — Overview Trailer — Nintendo Switch 2

27 Exciting New Games Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 - June 2025

Hell is Us | Demo Trailer PEGI

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance combat trailer

RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business | Character Intro Video

The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo 4K | State of Unreal

Nintendo Switch 2 – Launch Trailer

Fast Fusion Nintendo Switch 2 Gameplay

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Is generative AI really ‘just a tool’?

What game companies can learn from AI analysis of 1.5M gamer conversations | Creativ Company