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Feel the Burn Today with the Fire Vapor Special Edition Controller

Feel the Burn Today with the Fire Vapor Special Edition Controller Published May 7, 2024 Introducing the Xbox Wireless Controller – Fire Vapor Special Edition, the latest and boldest addition to our Vapor Series alongside Stormcloud Vapor, Dream Vapor, ...
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Hades 2 Early Access More Than Doubles Original Game’s Steam Concurrents in a Day

Hades 2 is now available through Steam Early Access and in just a single day it's more than doubled the original game's lifetime concurrent player count.As reported by VGC, the May 6 Early Access launch of Hades 2 reached a peak of 79,276 concurrent players within 24 hours, according to ...
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Leila is a dreamy puzzle adventure with shades of Gorogoa

I'm not sure how to classify Leila, a hand drawn, sort of point and click, sort of puzzle adventure out this summer. I'd say it's maybe a Gorogoa-like, but the demo is also a series of little vignettes that sort of reminded me of Edith Finch, but way less in ...
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V Rising Review

The true test of a vampire game isn't so much in the ways it lets you do the cool things vampires do – it's in how it portrays the classic vampire weaknesses, forcing you to live a vampire lifestyle. V Rising does a pretty good job of this, with banes ...
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Broken Roads: The NPCs We Love to Hate

Broken Roads: The NPCs We Love to Hate Published May 7, 2024 Summary
  • Broken Roads was released on April 10.
  • This party-based RPG takes place in a post-apocalyptic Australian setting.
  • Come and meet the most controversial characters in the game.
Broken Roads ...
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With Switch 2 Waiting in the Wings, Nintendo Believes the OG Switch Has Plenty of Sales Left in It

Nintendo still believes the Switch has plenty of life left even amid steeply declining sales and the console nearing its eight-year anniversary.The Switch, which launched in March 2017, sold 15.7 million units during the last financial year ending March 31, 2024, a decline of 12.6% on the previous year. However, ...
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Alan Wake and Control Developer Remedy Entertainment Cancels Mysterious Multiplayer Game Kestrel

Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy Entertainment has cancelled its mysterious multiplayer project Kestrel to focus on already established franchises.Kestrel was "a premium game with a strong cooperative multiplayer component" in development with Chinese publisher Tencent. Remedy said its other projects — which include remakes of Max Payne 1 and ...
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This bodycam mech shooter has a slick rainy day look and Zelda-like vehicle construction

Got some nice rain for you today. Second-Loop is an upcoming sci-fi shooter featuring mechs, physics puzzles, and at least one freaky umbilical-corded being struggling against the confines of a horrific laboratory womb. Video games! All of that sounds interesting. But it's the moody reflections on the rain-slick surfaces and ...
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Nintendo Confirms June Direct To Boost An Otherwise Quiet Year For Switch

Currently only two first-party games confirmed.Nintendo has confirmed that a Direct showcase will take place in June 2024, focusing on softeware for the Nintendo Switch during the latter half of 2024.This will hopefully offset what is looking to be a fairly quiet year for the Switch, with only two first-party ...
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Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console ‘Within This Fiscal Year’

Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console “within this fiscal year”, so at some point before March 31, 2025.In a statement published to X / Twitter, Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, confirmed the new console as Nintendo published its financial report for the fiscal year ending ...
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