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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: dual-wielding katanas and duel-wielding fruit

Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter's #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by a pleasing assortment of zippy and dramatic movements—hoverboards, airdashes, grappling hooks—but also some cute, weird, interesting, and ...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake: World Exclusive Deep Dive Interview

After years of speculation, it was finally announced on October’s Silent Hill Transmission livestream that the Silent Hill series will get a multi-project reboot. While the showcase revealed several games and even a new movie, it began with the news that the first title in the return of the series ...
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 raised more than $2.6 million for charity

Wintry speedrunning festival Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 finished yesterday, with runners managing to land $2,642,493 (£2,162,774) of donations in aid of Prevent Cancer. GDQ announced the $2.6 million figure on Twitter after the event concluded, and thanked all the runners and those who’d donated. A number of speedruns throughout ...
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Check Out These Sublime Soundtrack Samples From Octopath Traveler II

42 song previews are available.Can you believe we're only just over a month away from Octopath Traveler II's release? Well, ahead of the game's launch on 24th February, Square Enix has shared some previews of the game's soundtrack over on its Japanese site (via NoisyPixel). And my goodness, if there's ...
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Black Myth: WuKong Launches Summer 2024

Developer Game Science has announced that its Chinese folklore RPG Black Myth: WuKong will be released during summer 2024 in a wild new trailer.The bizarre two-minute short film (below) shows a young rabbit trying to install the game on an out of date PC before it finally falls apart and ...
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The Last of Us premieres today on HBO

Here’s a sentence that I never thought I’d type: The Last of Us airs its first episode tonight on HBO and HBO Max.  It’s a surreal feeling. Just think: In a few short hours, Joel and Ellie will be introduced to the entire world in a whole new medium. I’m ...
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Guide: Best Zombie Games On Nintendo Switch

Undead and docked.Every decade or so, something big happens to bring zombies back into our lives. Whether it was the release of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead in 1978, the publication and subsequent adaptation of The Walking Dead, the hugely popular 'Zombies' mode in the Call of Duty ...
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 Raises Over $2.6 Million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation

Awesome Games Done Quick, the week-long 24-hour video game speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity, has just raised over $2.6 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.According to Game Done Quick's official website, AGDQ 2023 featured 150 speedruns and raised a total of $2,644,770.41 from 39,857 donations from 21,519 donors ...
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Digimon World: Next Order Frame Rate, Resolution And File Size For Switch Revealed

Out next month.Digimon fans will want to make some space on their Switch with the arrival of Digimon World: Next Order next month. This new version of the 2016 PlayStation Vita release comes with a brand new 'Beginner' mode on Switch and also other features like the ability to run ...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge

Revenge is sweet.Hello folks, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!Last time, we took a look at Metroid Prime: Hunters on the Nintendo DS and the end result was pretty unanimous. The vast majority of you prefered the western design over Japan's, with North America and Europe winning with ...
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