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Smash Bros. Player Barred From Austin Competition Following Bed Bug Concern

Announcing a hiatus, Melee pro Jason ‘Mew2King’ Zimmerman says he regrets posting the now viral photos and would have stepped back if he believed the community was at risk

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Anime Gambling Horror Game Ditches Free Steam Demo Over Fears Of Getting Ripped Off By AI

Drunken Goddess Reflux will have a closed beta instead

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Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Finally Fixing One Of Its Most Frustrating Features

Alongside slowing its release cadence, trading and immersive cards are also getting improvements

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‘Father Of PlayStation’ Ken Kutaragi Blames A ‘Mentality Issue’ For The Backlash To Killing Discs

The Sony veteran doesn't sound very sentimental about the end of physical media on the platform he spearheaded

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2026 Has Already Seen More Games Added To Steam Than All Of 2025, And It’s About To Get So Much Worse

24,000 titles are expected by the end of the year, but this could be nothing compared to 2027

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More Surprise Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Footage Reveals One Of The Coolest Moments From The Original

Dark Link was one of the top 10 highlights of the N64 classic

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Big Walk Devs Say The Game Won’t Come To Xbox In Accordance With The BDS Boycott

‘We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets’

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Epic Dunks On Steam With Vibe-Coded Storefront And Gets Roasted: ‘This Launcher Is So F*cking Vibeslopped Its Funny’

The Fortnite maker is promoting faster response times

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GTA 5 Getting Yanked From PlayStation Plus Right Before GTA VI Launches

You've got a little more than a month to check it out before it's gone

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October’s PlayStation Plus Catalog Is One Of The Service’s Best Months In A Long Time

Mafia: The Old Country, Mycopunk, and the return of Horizon Forbidden West plus Dino Crisis 2 for Premium subscribers

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Nintendo Breathes Quality Of Life Into The Ocarina Of Time Remake

Hands-on previews praise Nintendo for adding modern conventions

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There’s A New Xbox Controller That’s Cheaper, Smaller, And Doesn’t Use AA Batteries

Microsoft says it's for gaming on the go

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5 Things We Just Learned About The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake

Listen!

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GTA 6 Leaker Announces They Won’t Release The Full Game: ‘The Leeks Stop For Now’

Cyberleek has shutdown their website and seems done with leaks, but says their is a dead man's switch waiting if someone comes after them

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Enshrouded Is A Survival Adventure Perfected To A Form Of Art By Its Players

After two years as an Early Access hit, the full launch for PC and PlayStation 5 is just hours away.

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Players Are Furious About Total War: Shogun 2‘s AI-Upscaled ‘Enhanced’ Edition

Steam users say it runs worse, looks worse, adds more bugs, and clearly used genAI to enlarge the artwork

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The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake’s Latest Trailer Shows A Lot Of Old, But Some Surprising New

The Switch 2 remake is mostly a faithful reimagining of the N64 classic, but it is making it easier to face old foes once more

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Some Sony First-Party Games Have Been Delisted From the PlayStation Store

Some of Knack, Nathan Drake, and Kratos’ games were pulled due to what appears to be a pricing error

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Xbox Labs Is A Big Announcement About AI That’s Missing The Word AI

A new team has been tasked with exploring AI-coded game stuff

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The Vibe-Coders Have Come For Nintendo, And Obviously This Won’t End Well

Claude-assisted ports of Nintendo games have started popping up online, which surely won't upset the famously litigious Nintendo

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New Oblivion Remastered Patch Fixes What The Old Oblivion Remastered Patch Broke On Switch 2

The classic tradition of Bethesda updating its games to fix its past updates continues

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Former PlayStation Head Reflects On His Time At The Company: ‘What Headquarters Says Isn’t Important. We’re PlayStation!’

Kaz Hirai was speaking in an interview about his management philosophy during his time heading the company’s gaming push

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Grand Theft Auto 6’s PC Port Reportedly Arriving Just A Few Months After Its Big Console Launch

The open-world crime drama is currently only announced for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

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God Of War Laufey Collector’s Edition Doesn’t Include The Game, This Time On Purpose

After Ragnarok's special edition accidentally shipped without download codes, Sony seems to have taken inspiration

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Unlike Sony, Nintendo Exec Says Switch 2 Maker Has No Plans To Abandon Physical: ‘We Know How Much Fans Enjoy It’

Game key cards have helped the company bridge the divide

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Steam Smashes Its Player Records, With Over 43 Million Concurrent Users In October

It also broke the record for the number of players in-game by another half a million

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Gears Of War: E-Day Was Taken Down By DDoS Attack, Developers Confirm

The botnet assault took place on Sunday, with developer The Coalition saying its on top of things now

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EA Producer Announces Wing Commander 3 Remaster At Portland Retro Gaming Expo

Using recently discovered master tapes of its live action sequences, one of the crown jewels of '90s PC gaming could make an unexpected comeback

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Jailbroken PS5s Can Now Emulate PS2 Games Using Physical Discs

Support for PlayStation 3 discs appears to be on the way too

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Developer Goes Into Debt Spending $1,000 A Day To Keep Steam Demo For AI-Fueled Driving Sim Going

Hoping to launch next year, Teach My Little Sister How To Drive is prematurely sending its creators into the red over exhaustive token use

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We Might Be Cooked, As These Vibe-Coded Web Browser Ports Of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, And GTA: Vice City Seem To Work Perfectly

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight

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Will GTA 6 Ever Come To Switch 2? Nintendo Of America President Says Go Ask Rockstar

Never say never, I guess?

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Gears Of War: E-Day Estimated To Have Sold Just 320,000 Copies Despite Rave Reviews

But the Game Pass math is more complicated than you might think

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Live-Action Cyberpunk 2077 Movie In Development At Paramount

Hollywood continues its rush to make more video game adaptations following Mario and Minecraft success

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You’ll Have One Last Shot At The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Switch 2 That Keeps Selling Out Everywhere During A Midnight Launch

A midnight release for Ocarina of Time? What year is it?

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The Witcher 3 Remastered Gets Notable Improvements And A Much-Requested Feature On PS5 And Xbox

Dozens of fresh fixes have arrived for the newest version of the open-world RPG

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Xbox Is Building A Film Division, And It’s Putting Minecraft In The Driver’s Seat

And the former head of Minecraft is going to run it

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It’s Going To Be A Long Time Before We Get A New Halo Game

Halo: Campaign Evolved might be getting a horde mode as a skeleton crew works on one last update before Activision takes over the franchise

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9 Of The Best RPGs on Switch 2 Are Currently On Sale

Some of them are Amazon Prime deals, and won't last long

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Gears Of War Has Always Had Women In It

Gears of War: E-Day including women commanders and soldiers is nothing new

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The Best-Selling Game Of 2025 Storms Onto Game Pass One Year Later

Battlefield 6 joins the subscription service this month, but so do a bunch of neat-looking indies

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Gears Of War Boss Dodges Question About Future Layoffs, Promises Next Game In Series Will Come Sooner

Gears of War: E-Day is good, but will the Coalition get a chance to make more games before Xbox starts making cuts

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AI Bro Defends Sloppily Reverse-Engineering PlayStation Homebrew Tool Without Permission By Invoking ‘Freedom Of Speech’

Zer0Day justified his AI-slop rip-off of GoldHEN by stating that ‘creativity should never have to ask for permission’ in a lengthy post on GitHub

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Pokémon Fans Are Trading Cards For Jonas Brothers Concert Memorabilia

Better a cute concert memory than helping a scalper, I suppose

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When Is Forza Horizon 6 Coming To PS5? A Reliable Leaker Claims To Finally Know The Answer

billbil-kun confirms earlier claims by The Verge's Tom Warren that the PlayStation port has slipped into 2027

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Xbox Lands Exclusive Streaming Rights For GTA 6 At Launch

A workaround for PC players

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Xbox’s CEO Says The Brutal Reset Is Already Working: ‘After An All Time Low, We’ve Started To Return To Growth’

Asha Sharma reportedly pointed to green shoots during a company townhall

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Strip Mahjong Game Producer Talks About Being ‘Hopelessly Devoted To Those Girls’ And ‘Left Penniless’ As Teen After Sequel Tops Japanese Steam Charts

One producer shares how he sought to relive his childhood camaraderie and 'cross the line' with sexy mahjong

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The PlayStation 5’s Operating System Can Now Be Emulated On PC

We now have video evidence of the PS5's VSH being emulated on PC, which is a huge stride for the PlayStation 5's emulation scene

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Here’s What Valve Should Do With The $20 Billion It’s Making This Year

There are so many ways Steam could work better for the developers that generate the profit

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