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Marvel’s Spider-Man Mary Jane Model Calls Out Fans Who ‘Crossed Boundaries’

Stephanie Tyler Jones, who provided her likeness for the Mary Jane character in Insomniac Games' Spider-Man series of video games, has called out fans who recently “crossed boundaries”.Taking to Instagram, Jones said one fan in particular had left multiple voicemails "wanting to speak with me and requesting I call back" ...
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Original Xbox’s Controller S Remade as a Modern Gamepad Called the DuchesS

Video game accessory maker Hyperkin has remade the original Xbox's Controller S, which was a slimmer version of the infamous Duke, calling it The DuchesS.As reported by The Verge, the DuchesS takes the original gamepad's design and updates it with modern features like hall effect joysticks. These use magnets and ...
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New RPG Archaelund is Elder Scrolls with its foot stuck in Final Fantasy Tactics

I have a sneaking affection for slightly jarring genre hybrids - games like the relatively recent Disintegration and the much older Battlezone 2, which smush action mechanics together with real-time strategy, or the rather more elegant Puzzle Quest, in which you roll around a parchment landscape fighting wizards using the ...
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Sony CEO Drums Up Hype For Nintendo’s Zelda Movie

Action AND discovery? In this economy?Whether you agree with the form or not, a live-action Zelda movie is in the works at Nintendo. What's more, it's being produced by none other than Sony Pictures. Yes, Sony. The PlayStation guys. Nintendo was the first to mention the project's existence, but now ...
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Larian Kicks Off 2024 With a Beefy Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix That Makes Quest Items Easier to Access

Larian Studios has kicked off 2024 with a beefy Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix that tackles multiple bugs and blockers, and makes accessing trinkets much easier.“Have your party members been hoarding trinkets?” Larian wrote with typical flair in the Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes published on Steam.“Did you accidentally send Minthara’s ...
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Unity ring in the new year by firing 1,800 people in the name of “long-term and profitable growth”

The quest to appease the immortal share price continues as game engine provider Unity announce that they're laying off another 1,800 people, or around 25% of their current workforce, in a bid to "position" the company "for long-term and profitable growth". Read more ...
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Where To Buy The PlayStation Portal in the UK (Updated)

While the winds of Christmas and New Year are behind us, there's another name on the lips of PlayStation fans in 2024: PlayStation Portal. While the initial reaction to the 'play PS5 on your sofa' device was mild, stock levels have proved extremely limited, and now everyone wants one. We ...
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Unity To Axe 25% Of Its Workforce As Part Of “Company Reset”

Following last year's policy debacle.Last year, the video game software provider Unity copped a lot of backlash when it announced plans to impose a "runtime fee" pricing policy. Now, following the departure of the CEO and president, the latest update reveals Unity will cut "25% of its workforce, or 1,800 ...
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Watch as Sony Seemingly Drives a Car With a DualSense

Sony Honda Mobility not only showed the latest version of its Afeela EV at Sony's CES 2024 press conference, but the car itself was driven on the stage by a PlayStation DualSense controller. Don't get too excited yet, however, as it was billed as only a tech demo.The latest Afeela ...
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‘The Spy Who Shot Me’ Brings ’90s-Inspired FPS Action To Switch eShop

Become "super spy Agent7".If you're looking for another GoldenEye 007-style game to play on the Nintendo Switch, you might want to check out The spy who shot me, which arrived on the eShop last week for just $7.99 / £7.19.It's a parody of James Bond-inspired and the "classic shooters" of ...
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