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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Runs On Switch 2 And That’s The Nicest Thing I Can Say About It

MW4 runs at 60FPS on Switch 2, but it cuts a lot of visual corners to achieve that goal

Game Pass Ultimate Gets Off To A Slow Start In September 2026

Cyberpunk 2077 departs with not much to take its place

Nvidia Confirms AI-Slop Filter DLSS 5 Will Cut Your Framerate In Half

Not only will it ruin how your games look, but it'll then run them half as fast!

CEO Steps Down At Saudi Arabia’s $38 Billion Gaming Fund That Owns Pokémon Go

Brian Ward is leaving after five years and a mountain of acquisitions

Sony Institutes New Customer Anti-Harassment Policy, Which May Result In Legal Or Criminal Action If Broken

PlayStation has been receiving an uptick in online complaints after announcing it would stop manufacturing discs in 2028

CD Projekt Promises The Witcher 4 For PlayStation Will Release In A Box, Even If It Can’t Contain A Disc

The Polish studio is determined that gaming will remain touchy-feely

Halloween: The Game No Longer Releasing On PS5 In Japan Due To Violence, Nudity

Planned releases on Xbox and PC to proceed as planned despite failure to receive age rating from ratings organization CERO

Halloween: The Game No Longer Releasing On PS5 In Japan Due To Violence And Nudity

Planned releases on Xbox and PC to proceed as planned despite failure to receive age rating from ratings organization CERO

Every Valve Game Discovery So Far In The Colossal Steam Leak

It's been just 48 hours since the 13TB 'Steam2' depot leak dropped, and fans are unearthing a small treasure trove of previously undiscovered content

Sony Argues No One’s Dumb Enough To Think They Actually Own A Digital Game

A new legal filing defends the lack of licensing disclosures on the PlayStation Store

Modders Have Been Playing Around With DLSS 5 And—Oh God, What The Hell Is That?!

It 'works' for games with realistic graphics but anything stylized looks horrific

Pokémon TCG Debacle Is Getting So Bad Walmart Is Resorting To A Lottery

It's a better system than gouging your customers, but far less than ideal

PS5 Is Getting Free Live TV

Players will have a bunch of channels they can flip to at no extra charge

Intergalactic Has Finished Shooting And Naughty Dog Can’t Wait To Show You More ‘When The Time Is Right’

The PS5 exclusive has been MIA since its original reveal in 2024

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Pokémon’s World Champion Made History By Dethroning Charizard

Dragonite helped pull off a Championship win for the first time in the series’ 30 years

Fans Think Ubisoft Just Accidentally Revealed The Date Of The Next Nintendo Direct

If true, I guess we already know one game we'll be seeing

Pokémon Knows Its Worlds Lottery System Sucks, But Doesn’t Have A Better Idea: ‘The Public Is Unaware Of The Level Of Demand’

Hopeful attendees had to sign up for a lottery and cross their fingers they’d get a ticket

Another PlayStation Studio Cofounder Steps Down: ‘Housemarque’s Strategy And Creative Vision Are In Exceptional Hands’

Ilari Kuittinen leaves Housemarque after 33 years

September State Of Play PlayStation Showcase Has Been Revealed With Fans Hoping Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Makes An Appearence

Back-to-back broadcasts will kick off September

Everything Pokémon Announced At The World Championships’ Closing Ceremony

The biggest Pokémon event of the year came to a close

Pokémon Worlds Pin Rally Reportedly Shut Down By Fire Marshal After Immense Overcrowding

While attendees initially assumed the official Pokémon event ran out of enamel pins, the truth had to do with the flip side of high turnout

Colossal 13TB Steam Leak Reportedly Includes Beta Builds Of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, And Much More

The alleged Steam depot data reportedly spans from 2003 to 2013, and contains pre-release builds of potentially thousands of first and third-party games

Xbox Calls Next-Gen Project Helix A ‘Family Of Devices,’ But Isn’t Ready To Say If Elder Scrolls 6 Will Be Exclusive

Microsoft's gaming division was tight-lipped at Gamescom

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26 GTA 6 Screenshot Comparisons Showing How Much Things Have Changed Since Vice City

Let's compare Vice City on the PS2 with GTA 6 on the PS5

Ex-Pokémon World Champion Banned From Competing At World Championships After Cutting In Merch Line: ‘I Believe This To Be Extremely Unjust’

Luca Ceribelli, Ruben Gianzini, and Luca Lussignoli were told they'd be banned from the Pokémon Center, but ended up barred from the event itself

The Wallace & Gromit Studio’s Pokémon Stop Motion Show Looks Delightful

The MIsadventures of Sirfetch'd and Pichu is coming next year

The Biggest Pokémon Event Of The Year Is Off To An Incredible Start And I Think I Might Die Of FOMO

Congrats to the Pokémon fans at the World Championships and XP convention, I guess

Fans At Pokémon World Championships 2026 Battle ‘Scalper Alley’ For Exclusive Merch

Another Pokémon merchandise release gets hampered by resellers

Steam’s Decision To Brand His Open-World Adventure About A Cranky Old Boomer Pornography Is ‘Humiliating And Surreal,’ Developer Says

Valve's decision to slap the PEGI 12-rated indie game Future? No Thanks! with an adults-only rating on Steam has led its developer to seek support from 'top German regulators'

Life Hack: Commissioning Artists Will Fix You

The Pokémon fan art community has done more for my mental health than SSRIs

Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos

Modders have started applying the leaked version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 filter to games and, yep, it's pure nightmare fuel

Pokémon Promotes Memecoin Ahead Of World Championships After Hack: ‘Those Posts Were Not Created Or Approved By Pokémon’

That's either a hack or Pikachu is looking into new ventures

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GTA 6 Running On A PS5 Looks So Good Its Hard To Believe

Yeah, we expected Rockstar's big open world to look great, but holy crap

GTA 6‘s Netflix Special Is Over 20 Minutes Long And Was Captured On A PS5

The Extended Look at Grand Theft Auto 6 will be available to watch later today

Danganronpa 2×2 Switch 2 Pre-Orders Canceled After It’s Forced To Be A Game-Key Card For ‘Unavoidable Reasons’

Pre-orders for a game-key version are going up today

Xbox CEO Won’t Say If Project Helix Has A Disc Drive: ‘We Have To Be Thinking About Efficiency And Affordability’

Asha Sharma dodged the biggest question around next-generation consoles at the moment

Xbox Reveals Plan To Save Fans’ Physical Game Collections In A Digital Future: ‘Even As Technology Changes, Your Library Shouldn’t’

This comes as the future of physical games has never been more uncertain

I Tested Elden Ring On Switch 2 In A Cozy Cafe And It Ran Just Fine, Which Is Great News For A Remarkable Game

You shouldn't play it in the rain/but you can play it on a train

Ubisoft Charges Steam Players $10 For ’90s Classic Heroes Of Might And Magic 3 And Forgets To Actually Give Them The Game

How does that happen?

I Tried To Play Steam’s Newest Hit Friendslop Game And Immediately Got Murdered By A Spider Crab

I probably should have, you know, brought friends

Genshin Impact Studio Trades Zelda: Breath Of The Wild For Elden Ring In Its New Action-RPG

Nodus Fall takes place in a world where 'divine authority has crumbled'—sound familiar?

hardware

Nintendo Switch 2 To Receive Two Bundle Options, But Only After The Base Price Gets Hiked

The Mario Kart World bundle returns, later to be joined by Nintendo Switch Sports Resort

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Watch Newly Returning Pokémon Artist Perfectly Explain How To Design A Critter

James Turner is back after leaving Game Freak in 2022

hardware

New OLED ROG Xbox Ally X Almost Feels Like A Bargain In The Current RAMpocalypse

The premium PC gaming handheld just got more premium

Companies Back Off Multiplatform Messaging As Xbox Pulls PS5 Mentions And Sony Doubles Down On Console Exclusivity

The logos are disappearing

Marvel Tōkon Devs Say Botched PC Launch Will Make Regaining Player Trust ‘Extremely Challenging’

The new Marvel fighter has been doing alright on PlayStation, but PC has struggled since beta

Game About Finding A Needle In A 5-Million-Piece Haystack Is Either Serene Or Stressful Depending On Who You Ask

The unnamed game will have a Steam page later this week

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Vampire RPG Blood Of Dawnwalker Will Rush Out A 60FPS Mode After After Backlash: ‘We Heard Your Feedback’

The game was previously set to launch without one even on PS5 Pro

PlayStation Chooses The Worst Possible Time To Blast Players With Reminders That They Don’t Own Their Digital Games

Someone Cleared All 1,000 Levels Of Splatoon Raiders’ ‘Bottomless Buffet’ And Got Nothing For It

The bottomless pit has a bottom after all