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Spread The Balatro Love With This New Range Of Official Merchandise

We're all in.There was a time earlier this year where we had two states: playing Balatro, or thinking about playing Balatro. Our daily hours played may have begun to drop in the months since, but there's no denying that it has permanently set up shop in our minds. And guess ...
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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for May 6 to 10

Next Week on Xbox: New Games for May 6 to 10 Published May 3, 2024 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, ...
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IGN UK Podcast 747: A Great Time for Sweaty Films

Cardy, Emma, and Mat are here to talk about a right ol' mixture of games, movies, and TV shows this week. We tell you why Another Crab's Treasure is seabed-based souls-like you should give a bash. How Challengers and Love Lies Bleeding are two of the sweatiest films you could ...
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Carceri is a “chaotic Art-toy” from a former Metroid Prime 4 dev, inspired by Piranesi

Carceri is a fizzy and kaleidoscopic, first-person "chaotic Art-toy" in which you explore/hallucinate an island resort that's also a concentration camp ("carceri" is Italian for prison) for sentient computer programs. Out sometime in May, it's the work of James Beech, who describes himself as "an on-again, off-again AAA veteran" with ...
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Valiant infantry rejoice: Earth Defense Force 6 has a new launch date trailer

The kids today might be all about their Helldivers 2 premium warbonds and tactical strikes, but back when me and the boys were defending earth against giant insects, all we had were massive riot shields and miniguns, and by jove, we made do. Never speak to me about Terminids. If ...
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‘Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition’ For Switch Rated By ESRB

NES Remix, but not NES Remix.Following a rather blatant tease from reliable leaker Pyoro, a rating has appeared via the ESRB for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for the Nintendo Switch (thanks, Stealth).Described as "a collection of 2D challenges and platformer games", it's also noted that the game will likely ...
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Gets Final Update This Month

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will receive its final update this month as developer ArtPlay finally adds all the additional features promised in its Kickstarter Campaign from 2015.ArtPlay shared its final development roadmap for Bloodstained on its website which confirmed the update would arrive May 9, 2024 for PlayStation 4, ...
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Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant, aka Ubisoft’s Expendables, will launch in May

Good news, people whose day-to-day lives are woefully short on blingy Clancified squad-murdering. Ubisoft's elusive free-to-play shooter XDefiant finally has a release date, 21st May 2024. Or at least, that's when the preseason launches, providing six weeks of access to the modes, maps and factions from last month's server test ...
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Nintendo Takedown Request Targets Over 8,500 Copies of Switch Emulator Yuzu

Nintendo has issued a takedown request for more than 8,500 copies of code of Switch emulator Yuzu, which was shut down in March 2024 as its owners paid out $2.4 million in a lawsuit settlement.As reported by PC Gamer, developer platform GitHub saw 8,535 repositories of Yuzu code removed after ...
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Sony Is Forcing All Helldivers 2 Steam Players to Connect to a PlayStation Network Account — and It’s Going Down About as Well as You’d Expect

Sony has sparked a backlash after announcing plans to force Helldivers 2 Steam players to connect to a PlayStation Network account.In a statement attributed to Sony Interactive Entertainment, the PlayStation maker said that due to “technical issues” at the launch of Helldivers 2, it allowed the linking requirements for Steam ...
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