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Battlefield 2042 Won’t Have A Campaign

And that long-rumored battle royale mode was just a rumor after all

By Ari Notis Published June 9, 2021

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Futuristic Battlefield 2042 Out In October, Supports 128 Players

But PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game will only support 64 players

By Ari Notis Published June 9, 2021

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Wholesome Games Respond To Backlash In The Classiest Way

75 uplifting games to be shown in the hour-long Wholesome Direct this weekend.

By John Walker Published June 9, 2021

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Devs Say It Was Created Without Crunch

There's no good reason AAA game development should be inhumane.

By John Walker Published June 9, 2021

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Len’s Island Has Building And Farming, But Also Fighting

Upcoming Steam game looks like a (mostly) chill adventure

By Luke Plunkett Published June 9, 2021

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Palestinian Aid Games Bundle Raises $500,000

There's still plenty of time left to get it to $1 million

By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021

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Golf Club Wasteland Is A Post-Apocalyptic Golf Platformer

Earth is now just a golf club for space billionaires.

By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021

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Lost Judgment Producer Says Worldwide Release Tripled His Team’s ‘Struggles’

And it’s not just a matter of English localization

By Ian Walker Published June 8, 2021

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Playdate Handheld Gets Price, Pre-Order Date, And 24 Free Games

Pre-orders open in July, so start checkin’ those piggy banks

By Ian Walker Published June 8, 2021

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Superman, Rick And Morty Headline Fortnite‘s New Battle Pass

Fortnite Season 7 brings new landmarks, vehicles, and the return of battle stars

By Riley MacLeod Published June 8, 2021

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Resident Evil Village Topped PlayStation Downloads In May

Lady Dimitrescu stood head and shoulders above the competition.

By Ash Parrish Published June 8, 2021

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Tonight, The Internet Broke

It’s not just you or the sites you visit. A huge part of the internet went down earlier tonight, and everything from entertainment providers to video services to news sites were impacted. It appears (though this hasn’t been 100% confirmed) that an outage at Fastly, the CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider that powers…well, a huge…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021

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Antoine Griezmann Is Playing Football Manager The Hard Way

Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is currently getting ready to try to win Euro 2020 with his national side, but on the way to the tournament he’s been showing off his skills in a different game: Football Manager, where he’s been doing very well indeed. Here’s Griezman, laptop out in mid-air, boasting that his…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021

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Huge Fallout 2 Mod Finally Translated From Russian Into English

Olympus 2027, a famous Fallout 2 mod that completely replaces the original game with a new setting and storyline, is now finally available to play for those of us who can’t read a word of Russian. Olympus is centred around…Olympus, an enormous tower in Silicon Valley that becomes a fortified haven for surviving billionaires. It…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021

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Homeworld 3’s Weird Fan Investor Scheme Has Been Cancelled

It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange investment-based crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher. It wasn’t a traditional…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021

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Terra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment

While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit. It’s still got green grass, of course, but your job…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021

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Ex-Giant Bomb Duders’ New Project Is Already Blowing Up On Patreon

Vinny Caravella, Alex Navarro, and Brad Shoemaker strike gold with new venture

By Ian Walker Published June 7, 2021

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Dying Light, A 6-Year-Old Game, Just Got Free DLC

Developer Techland just released a free add-on for Dying Light.

By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021

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Rainbow Six Quarantine Officially Renamed Extraction

The next Rainbow Six game is no longer named Quarantine, Ubisoft announced today Instead, the upcoming co-op shooter is now called Rainbow Six Extraction. Rainbow Six Quarantine was first revealedduring E3 2019,prior to the covid-19 pandemic. During an earnings call with investors in February 2021, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the publisher was considering…

By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021

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Super Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor

Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis. Nearly a year later, the leak is still bearing fruit. As VGC reports,…

By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021