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You can play Candy Crush with free, unlimited lives this week
Adi Robertson//36 views/1 comments
Mobile developer King is adding free, unlimited lives to Candy Crush Saga and a swath of other games this week, removing the timers that make players wait or pa...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been remastered and is out today
Taylor Lyles//30 views/1 comments
After years of speculation, a remastered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s single-player campaign is finally here, bringing an enhanced version of one...
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Persona 5 Royal review: the definitive version of an already brilliant RPG
Megan Farokhmanesh//29 views/2 comments
Jumping back into a 100-hour game is a hard sell. Atlus released Persona 5 — a JRPG about teenage vigilantes with supernatural powers living in Japan — in 2017....
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The Outer Worlds is now coming to Nintendo Switch in June
Taylor Lyles//36 views/1 comments
The Outer Worlds’ Switch port will launch on June 5th, bringing the popular space RPG to Nintendo’s hybrid console. The Outer Worlds’ physical release will incl...
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Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft
Pearse Anderson//24 views
Quickly, “Penncraft” students began to recreate dormitories, food trucks, and local sculptures in-game. Makarios Chung, an early builder, measured buildings’ di...
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QuakeCon canceled for the first time in 25-year-history over coronavirus
Nick Statt//33 views/1 comments
QuakeCon, the annual fan convention and tournament dedicated to the legendary first-person shooter game, has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandem...
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Riot’s shooter Valorant goes into beta on April 7th
Andrew Webster//29 views/2 comments
Fans will get an opportunity to play Riot’s Overwatch-meets-Counter-Strike game Valorant very soon: today, the developer announced that a closed beta will be la...
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Good Job! lets you chaotically smash through your office complex from home
Chaim Gartenberg//35 views/1 comments
Good Job! was one of the multiple titles Nintendo surprise-dropped in its Nintendo Direct Mini presentation last week, and it arguably couldn’t have come out at...
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Valve will delay some Steam auto-updates to preserve bandwidth
Jay Peters//37 views
Valve announced today that it won’t automatically update games in customers’ libraries as regularly as before to help preserve bandwidth during the novel corona...
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules
Monica Chin//38 views
But the age of the ultraportable is here. There’s now a 2.01-pound laptop with six cores, there’s a 3.3-pound laptop with a discrete GPU, and a 5-pound laptop i...
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Kana Quest is a great puzzle game that just so happens to also teach you Japanese
Michael Moore//25 views/1 comments
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest v...
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Sony is now slowing down PlayStation downloads in the US
Megan Farokhmanesh//38 views/1 comments
Sony is working with internet service providers in the US to slow game download speeds in an effort to preserve internet capacity for users overall, the company...
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Nvidia adds Control to GeForce Now and promises new games every week
Nick Statt//38 views
Nvidia says its GeForce Now cloud gaming service will start getting new games every Thursday, starting with Remedy Entertainment’s sci-fi action title Control. ...
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How the biggest gaming leagues are adapting to an online-only world
Andrew Webster//43 views/4 comments
Almost every single major professional sports league across the globe is on indefinite hiatus due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. There’s no NBA, no ...
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Games Done Quick is holding a speedrunning marathon to raise money for coronavirus relief
Megan Farokhmanesh//24 views
Games Done Quick, an organization that holds speedrunning marathons for charity, will hold a special event to raise donations for those affected by the COVID-19...