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  OpinionImpressions

  Hell Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 Makes It Easy To Do Fatalities

  Difficult, ultra-complicated finishing moves seem to be a thing of the past

  By Kevin Wong Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Free-To-Play Shooter Shuts Down For Good Due To Cheaters

  The PvPvE survival shooter The Cycle: Frontier will get taken offline in late September

  By Levi Winslow Published June 29, 2023
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  OpinionCommentary

  Final Fantasy XVI’s Gay Romance Disappoints

  Dion and Terence’s relationship is lovely, but falls victim to video games’ continued hesitance to spotlight queer men

  By Kenneth Shepard Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Shooter Dev Threatens To Ban Anyone For Sharing Game Secrets

  You wouldn’t datamine and share info about an Escape From Tarkov car, would you?

  By Claire Jackson Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Avatar Is Getting A New Action-Adventure Game And It Looks A Bit Mid

  Avatar: Quest For Balance lets you relive Aang's adventures in single-player and co-op modes

  By Isaiah Colbert Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Silent Hill 2 Remake Dev Says It’s Done With Psychological Horror—Good

  The Bloober Team is leaning fully into 'mass-market horror' instead

  By Ashley Bardhan Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Pokémon Go Dev Lays Off 230 Employees, Cancels Upcoming Marvel Game

  Pokémon Go will remain one of Niantic's top priorities moving forward

  Kenneth Shepard & Ethan Gach Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  It’s Sony’s Fault We Have Console Exclusives, Says Microsoft CEO

  CEO Satya Nadella would love to 'get rid' of console exclusives entirely

  By Levi Winslow Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Hyped RPG Baldur’s Gate III Took Six Years To Make Because It’s Scary-Big

  The Dungeons & Dragons -based RPG keeps revealing more content

  By Ethan Gach Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Coming To PC Early To Avoid Games Like Starfield, Cyberpunk DLC

  The PC version is coming out a few weeks early, but PS5 owners will have to wait a little longer

  Kenneth Shepard & Ethan Gach Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Steam Might Be Banning Games Made With AI Art

  A Reddit post suggests publisher Valve is cracking down on AI-generated assets

  By Ashley Bardhan Published June 29, 2023
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  Opinion

  10 Things You Should Never Say To A PC Gamer

  Tread carefully, console owners, it's time for some gaming hardware snobbery

  By Joshua Chu Published June 29, 2023
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  CultureOdds and Ends

  The Password Game Is A Perfect Recreation Of An Online Disaster

  Your security measures are not helping, they are driving us mad

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Report: Disney Really Did Turn A Hillary Robot Into Donald Trump

  'I remember seeing the facial designs for the Hillary animatronic at least six months before the election'

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Minecraft Subreddit Loses Support From Devs Who Disapprove Of Reddit Changes

  Mojang's official support is bailing in the wake of sitewide protests

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Another Final Fantasy Character Is Finally As Powerful As Donald Duck

  Kingdom Hearts' best mage might finally have a worthy challenger since the release of Final Fantasy XVI

  By Zack Zwiezen Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureOdds and Ends

  Final Fantasy XVI‘s Clive Actor Has Read Your Thirsty Fan Fiction

  Ben Starr, the voice of Clive, tweeted that he’d ventured into the unpredictable realm of fan fiction

  By Isaiah Colbert Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureOdds and Ends

  The Video Game Characters That Made Us Gay

  Some Mass Effect folks, a Final Fantasy baddie, and an Overwatch gamer girl are just a few that helped awaken our queer identities

  By Alyssa Mercante Published June 28, 2023
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  OpinionCommentary

  Final Fantasy XVI’s Jill Should Be More Than Pretty

  Square Enix’s heroine embodies an age-old issue developers have with women in video games

  By Ashley Bardhan Published June 28, 2023
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  CultureNews

  Oh Snap, The Sims 5 Looks Like It’s Going To Be Free-To-Play

  A job listing for ‘Project Rene’ basically confirms the highly anticipated life-sim will be free-to-play

  By Isaiah Colbert Published June 28, 2023