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10 Near-Perfect Xbox 360 Games Nobody Played
Xbox 360 had a large library of hits, but some of its exclusive hidden gems didn't get the attention they deserved.
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New Steam Game Is Like Balatro Meets Newgrounds-Era Flash Games
Kaz, a new Steam roguelike that's like Balatro combined with a Flash game from the Newgrounds era of the internet, is Steam's coolest new roguelike.
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The 10 Best Marvel Video Games Of All Time
Spanning a variety of genres and eras, these 10 Marvel video games provide compelling gameplay loops that make them the best of their type.
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Nintendo Opens the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Pre-orders Fans Were Waiting For
The Switch 2 accessory was conspicuously missing from Nintendo's official Zelda gameplay reveal, but now it's back with a date, price, and more..
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Sega and Netflix partner for a "cute yet cool" Sonic TV Show, a Crazy Taxi film, and a "badass action" Stranger Than Heaven adaptation
Netflix is binge-producing video game adaptations faster than a certain Blue Blur can chow down a chilli dog.
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Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
We are not trying to fight those big bosses.
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"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label
Disclosure: Nighthawks writer Richard Cobbett has contributed articles to RPS, with his most recent as of writing being a Fable-themed feature from 2018.
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Roblox plan to grow their absurd gaming empire even further by letting devs release games as "standalone apps", potentially via Steam, Epic, and GOG
They are calling the new initiative "Roblox Everywhere", two words that can surely only ever be uttered in the form of a Machiavellian giggle or a scream of purest terror.
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World of Warcraft Forever Officially Brings Gamepad Controls Blizzard's MMO
World of Warcraft is usually played with a keyboard and mouse, but the new "Classic Plus" WoW release can be fully played with a gamepad.
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Blizzard Has No Plans To Turn Battle.net Into A Steam Competitor
Even though The Witcher 3 Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 are coming to Battle.net, Blizzard tells Polygon not to expect a flood of third-party games..
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Diablo 5 Has A Surprising Connection To Dragon Age
Former BioWare dev Jennifer Hepler tells Polygon, "My experience with traditional RPGs has definitely been a strength" during Diablo 5's development..
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Starcraft Learning More Details About the Game | Interview
We talk to Starcraft GM and Creative Director Dan Hay and Anna Lee Hertling the Associate Manager of Development Operations to learn more about the big reveal from Blizzcon 2026.
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2026’s Best Puzzle Game Is an Even Trippier Take On Portal
He Who Watches is an excellent new game that keeps the spirit of Portal alive with mind-bending puzzles.
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The Greatest Video Game Franchises of the 20th Century, Ranked
Without some key video game franchises livening up the 20th century, it wouldn't have been nearly as memorable.
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Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'
The label "immediately makes the game persona non grata in several important countries like Germany".
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The Blood of Dawnwalker PC Performance Review - Great Game Marred By Tech Issues
Digital Foundry is now fully independent!
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Diablo 4's new season brings back Deckard Cain and all three Prime Evils as the game arrives on Switch 2
Diablo 4 's next season, Season of Hell's Legacy, will go live on 15th September to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary and Nintendo Switch 2 debut.
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StarCraft is back, but it's not the RTS you remember - it's an open-world shooter coming spring 2030
Blizzard's next StarCraft game will be an original open-world shooter and it's coming spring 2030.
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The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games
Going through Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games.
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The 10 Best Tomb Raider Levels of All Time
Francis' Folly's four-god gauntlet to Paititi's sprawling jungle hub, these are the 10 Tomb Raider levels worth remembering..
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Diablo 4 Season 15 Belial, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal and Moophisto Gameplay | Blizzcon 2026
We got our hand on Season 15 of Diablo 4 early and take on the 3 prime evils as well as a new Moophisto boss!
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Stranger Things Officially Returns Next Week With 10 New Episodes
Netflix is bringing back Stranger Things with a second 10-episode season of Stranger Things: Tales from 85 on Sept.
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Diablo 4 On Switch 2: A Very Impressive Port That Supports Mouse Controls
Blizzard confirmed to Polygon that the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Diablo 4 that we played at BlizzCon will support mouse controls..
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10 Near-Perfect Nintendo 3DS Games Nobody Played
The 3DS came and went, leaving behind 10 near-perfect games most players overlooked, but shouldn't have.
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Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style loot
Blizzard has offered up a surprising amount of detail about the action RPG sequel, which won't be out until 2029.
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Blue Lock Director Reveals Why Crunchyroll’s New Action Series Goes Old-School
The Vermilion Mask director Tetsuaki Watanabe looked to the ’90s and early 2000s to make its supernatural battles easy to follow.
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Diablo 5 Shows Off Its Brand New Plague Knight Class
The Plague Knight and more new Diablo 5 classes are on the way in the 2029 sequel, Blizzard confirmed during a BlizzCon panel..
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World of Warcraft Midnight: Eclipse Reveal Trailer | Blizzcon 2026
Midnight falls as the Void breaches the heart of Azeroth.
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UK studio Bulkhead's Wardogs sells over a million copies and tops 350,000 concurrent players on launch day
Wardogs, the new tactical shooter from Derby-based studio Bulkhead, has sold more than a million copies and passed 350,000 concurrent players within hours of launching into Steam early access.
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Scalpers are already reselling the sold-out Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 for £700+
Nintendo's new Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 sold out within hours of preorders opening, and scalpers are already scalping, with dozens of orders popping up on eBay for close to double its retail price.
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Nightdive confirms Thief Remastered's leaked new campaign, The Tarnished Mirror, with a November reveal date
Nightdive Studios has officially confirmed The Tarnished Mirror, a new campaign for its upcoming Thief: The Dark Project Remastered, days after the name leaked through a mass Steam achievements leak .
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What we've been playing - "I don't think this is this game's biggest problem"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing.
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Blizzcon Opening Ceremony Livestream 2026
Tune in at 10:30am PT on September 12th to learn more about the next chapter of Blizzard. #blizzcon #blizzard #gaming Follow our curator page on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6861411-GameSpot-Official/..
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One of Nintendo's Greatest '80s Games Is Still the Perfect Weekend Obsession
For a weekend retro gaming session, one of the best games from the 1980s isn't what some players originally expected at all.
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After Sony tells fans they don't own digital games, one Consumer Rights group is tracking all the times PlayStation said the opposite
Last month, Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for .
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More than 40% of people cancelling Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions blame rising costs
Players cancelling their subscriptions to video game services like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus are more likely to blame costs today than they were at the start of the year.
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PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales
Earlier this week, Hideo Kojima-helmed action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox , a leap across the console divide which might make it more likely to get a PC port.
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EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Games
The result would be an ubermegacorp to serve as a vehicle for all of the Saudi wealth fund's future video game-related biz.
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What's Free on Steam This Weekend (Sept. 11-14)
Play Borderlands 4 and four other games for free on Steam this weekend, with discounts of up to 90% if you decide to buy them.
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PS5 Heist Shooter Fairgames Makes Surprising Return Under New Name
Project Espresso looks to be the PlayStation 5 and PC multiplayer game Fairgames, which was announced in 2023.
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Marvel's Wolverine - PlayStation 5/PS5 Pro - Digital Foundry Tech Review
Digital Foundry is now fully independent!
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Metroid Dread studio MercurySteam appears to confirm it's making Metroid Ravenous, addressing a lingering question from yesterday's Nintendo Direct
Spanish studio MercurySteam - the developer of Metroid Dread - seems to be the studio behind yesterday's Nintendo Direct showcase stopper, Metroid Ravenous .
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Ubisoft Steam games to no longer require the Connect launcher, in "initial step toward a smoother and more streamlined launch experience"
In a surprise move, Ubisoft announced its intention to remove the need for Ubisoft Connect to start each time you launch one of its games on Steam.
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Bargain with demons and boat with the dead in joyful RPG heist quest anthology Thousand Hells
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic.
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Until Dawn 2 is notably cheaper than most first-party PlayStation games, but is this anything to be worried about?
Choice-and-consequence horror game Until Dawn 2, which only just got a release date , has also gone up for pre-ordering on the PlayStation Store.
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If you thought Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was bloated, you're not going to like Revelation - but I'd much rather have too much to do than too little
Settling into my demo of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, I was slightly appalled by how many tutorial pop-ups I had to click through in order to just play the damn game.
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Here are our PS Plus Premium and Extra games for September
Sony has revealed the games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra in September and there's some decent stuff, although it lacks a glitzy headliner like, say, Big Walk last month.
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Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint switches publishing allegiance from PlayStation to Xbox, probably increasing the chances it'll hit PC
Physint , the action espionage game Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions announced a couple of years ago , will no longer be published by initial backers PlayStation.
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Nintendo adds VRR support to docked Nintendo Switch 2 in latest console update
A new update for the Nintendo Switch 2 has added VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) support while the console is docked.
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Hideo Kojima's Physint now being published by Xbox, as PlayStation severs ties with Kojima Productions and Microsoft steps in to take over
It looks like Hideo Kojima has made some big changes behind-the-scenes with his upcoming "action espionage" title, Physint.
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PlayStation tried to cancel Hideo Kojima's Physint, now Xbox is publishing it
The console war factions sure know how to fight.
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The 25 Best Games on Xbox Game Pass in 2026
The best games on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential across Xbox console and PC..
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Xbox Gets Exclusive Call of Duty Gun Skin PlayStation Players Can't See
The latest battle in the console wars is happening in Call of Duty, where Xbox players are getting a gun skin that looks different on every other plat..
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New Professor Layton Game Finally Gets a Release Date After Years of Delays
The release date for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam has finally been announced at the September Nintendo Direct.
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Nintendo Direct Just Proved Fans Will Be Eating Good in 2027
Metroid Ravenous, Kirby and the World Beyond, and Ondeh Ondeh: Kaya's Tasty Tale hint at an emerging trend of food-oriented games coming next year..
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After 43 years, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is making a surprise sequel to his NES murder mystery game
This week's dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games.
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Valheim 1.0's Steam player count soars to a huge 5-year high, but it's not enough to beat the viral survival game's early access peak
The five-year wait for Valheim 1.0 doesn't seem to have hurt the survival game behemoth's popularity all that much.
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Kirby and the World Beyond coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in Spring 2027
A reveal trailer for a brand-new Kirby game has been revealed in today's Nintendo Direct .
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Kirby and the World Beyond - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer
Kirby and the World Beyond, the latest game in the Kirby series, releases spring 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2!
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