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Hogwarts Legacy Discussion Banned From ResetEra Forum Site Over J.K. Rowling Controversy

Discussion of Hogwarts Legacy has been banned from popular forum website ResetEra due to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.As reported by PC Gamer, ResetEra general manager B-Dubs has released a statement from the moderation team that bans all mention of the Harry Potter-universe video game on their ...
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This forgotten point-and-click adventure is getting an “official” sequel 35 years later

Back in the days of 1987, fantasy point-and-click adventure Shadowgate was notoriously deadly. The type of thing that fell very much into the 'touch anything and you're dead' bracket of early adventure games. Getting eaten by sharks, burned to death by a dragon, and the awkward fate of being dragged ...
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Wanted: Dead – Exclusive Hands-On With This Bonkers PS2-Era Throwback

I didn’t know that I wanted to be a katana-wielding police officer in a cyberpunk version of Hong Kong who fights a giant spider tank and then eats five bowls of ramen, but that’s what I got with upcoming slasher/shooter Wanted: Dead, and I haven’t been able to put it ...
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Random: Zeldathon Runner Beats Ocarina Of Time Ganon By Throwing Ruto At Him

Fin-ish him.The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is probably one of the most popular games for speedrunning. One of the many well-known tricks in the game is that Ruto, the Zora princess you need to rescue from inside Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly, has a hitbox if you throw her. As ...
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New Nvidia GeForce driver preps for Forspoken, Dead Space remake, and DLSS 3 upgrades

There’s a new Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver out, and for once it sounds pretty interesting – especially if you’re lucky/rich/unhinged enough to have dropped megabucks on one of Nvidia’s megabucks RTX 40 series GPUs. The 528.24 WHQL driver is mainly aimed at tuning up GeForce graphics cards for imminent ...
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The Lord of the Rings Returns to Netflix Next Month

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally coming back to Netflix in the U.S. on February 1.As reported by GameSpot, Netflix announced the return of all three films on Twitter (below), meaning The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King will ...
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Psst hey, delightful puzzle game Windosill is now on Android too

After almost 14 years, I am still delighted by Windosill. It's still a joy to poke and prod at the wee indie puzzle game, tugging on orbs, spinning carousels, and jabbing at the many beaks and eyeballs and mouths and noises emerging from an ever-shifting box. It's such a reward ...
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After huge layoffs last week, Microsoft are now chucking billions of dollars into OpenAI

It’s only been a week since Microsoft announced they were laying off 10,000 human staff across their various divisions (including their games studios), but they've now revealed they’ll be investing billions of dollars into driving breakthroughs in AI. Microsoft will be pumping the money into futuristic tech firm OpenAI, which ...
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Random: Pocket Card Jockey Director Is ‘Sad’ About The 3DS eShop Closure

Aren't we all..?As we all know by now (we hope), the 3DS and Wii U eShops will unfortunately be shutting down on March 27th, 2023.This of course means that in just a couple of months time, you'll no longer be able to purchase or download new games onto your 3DS ...
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Dead Space’s USG Ishimura is believable because it sucks

Even before the monsters arrived, the USG Ishimura was a nightmare. I mean, yes, the hulking spaceship where Dead Space takes place isn’t exactly a floating Hilton once its crew have been turned inside out by a bunch of drooling flesh moths, but there is ample evidence that the Ishimura ...
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