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Sony reportedly battling to keep PlayStation 5 price down
Sam Byford//41 views
Sony is struggling to land on a price for its upcoming PlayStation 5 console, according to a new report by Bloomberg, with component shortages potentially pushi...
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Burnout developer Criterion Games takes over Need for Speed development
Taylor Lyles//37 views/1 comments
EA says that future games in the Need for Speed series will be developed by Criterion Games, while the series’s previous developer Ghost Games will be rebranded...
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Half-Life: Alyx will launch on March 23rd
Andrew Webster//35 views/1 comments
The long-awaited next Half-Life is coming very soon. Half-Life: Alyx, a VR spinoff that was revealed last year, will launch on March 23rd. Valve previously said...
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This recommendation system will help you decide which Steam games to play next
Megan Farokhmanesh//28 views/1 comments
Deciding what video game to play next can be a daunting task, especially on a huge platform like Steam. But Valve is working to soothe those anxieties with a ne...
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IRS backtracks on whether video game currencies are taxable
Jay Peters//28 views
On Wednesday, the IRS quietly changed a provision on its website that said transactions of virtual currency like Fortnite’s V-bucks were taxable and may have to...
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Sonic the Hedgehog movie review: fast casual
Dami Lee//39 views/2 comments
When the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog was released in 2019, fans were horrified by CGI Sonic’s beady little eyes and human teeth — an uncanny valley hor...
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A new wave of indies are using games to explore climate change
Cian Maher//35 views/1 comments
Nature isn’t exactly new territory for games. From the loathsome lusus naturae of behemoth horror series to the sprawling cosmopolis of complex management simul...
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How to use Pokémon Home to move your pokédex between games
Cameron Faulkner//34 views
Pokémon Home is a new cloud-based storage service available as an app for Android and iOS phones and tablets, as well as the Nintendo Switch. One of its most al...
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks games can be political, but gaming companies should stay out of politics
Chaim Gartenberg//29 views/1 comments
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is one of the biggest names in video games these days, thanks to the seemingly unstoppable success of Fortnite. And with the spotligh...
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Pokémon Home is out now on the Switch, iPhone, and Android
Megan Farokhmanesh//38 views
The Pokémon Company International released its cloud service, Pokémon Home, for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. For the next month, Pokémon Bank and Pok...
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Industry vet Geoff Keighley is skipping E3 for the first time in 25 years
Andrew Webster//39 views/1 comments
Yet another big name has dropped out of E3 2020. Today, veteran broadcaster Geoff Keighley, who has hosted and produced the E3 Coliseum for the last few years a...
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Coffee Talk review: a chill game about coffee and vampires
Andrew Webster//32 views
There’s something supremely satisfying about the ritual of making coffee: the smell, the heat, the way all of the tiny details eventually become second nature. ...
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Marvel United card game was designed specifically for Kickstarter
Jacob Kastrenakes//26 views
Board games that hit Kickstarter are often small-scale passion projects, but the latest is something much bigger — and much less in need of crowdfunding. It’s a...
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The haunting art behind Death Stranding’s gear and ghouls
Andrew Webster//47 views
That shouldn’t be too surprising, though. Hideo Kojima and his teams are known for their robust world-building and almost fanatical attention to detail, both of...
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now is losing all Activision Blizzard games, a bad sign for cloud gaming
Sean Hollister//56 views/2 comments
Nvidia’s GeForce Now feels like one of the very best ways to get a free taste of cloud gaming, but it’s got a gigantic catch — it lets you play PC games you alr...