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Dragon’s Dogma 2 NPCs Might Fight Each Other Over the Player’s Affections

Dragon's Dogma 2 is right around the corner, and our month-long IGN First covering the game has revealed tons of new details about its incredible new monsters, systems, and vocations. In our conversations with creator Hideaki Itsuno, we also learned about a number of new features of the NPC systems ...
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Last Epoch continues to look like a worthy Diablo challenger ahead of next month’s full release

Last Epoch is gunning for the action-RPG crown long held by Diablo (and recently contested by the likes of Path of Exile and Grim Dawn). With the power of time travel - and a flash-looking launch trailer - on its side, the indie hopeful certainly looks set to put up ...
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One-Third Of Game Developers Impacted By Layoffs In 2023, GDC Reports

And it's not getting much better.GDC's annual State of the Game Industry report has been released in the past 24 hours, and it's not pretty reading. 2023 was a pretty awful year for game developers, with mass industry layoffs and studio closures — from Vanpool, Volition Studios, Brace Yourself Games, ...
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Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha (2402.240117-2200)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, ...
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Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 477: Tomb Of Time

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS, or download here Hey y’all! This week the team discusses The Last of Us Part II Remastered, as well as the upcoming Tomb Raider I-III Remastered release. Plus a listener letter led a discussion on some of the team’s ...
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Diablo 4 Update 1.3.0 Includes Class Changes, New Legendary Aspects and Uniques, and More

Blizzard Entertainment has posted Diablo 4’s update 1.3.0 patch notes in preparation for its upcoming third seasonal update, Season of the Construct.It’s a meaty update with changes and tweaks for players across PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S. These include new items that ...
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Genshin Impact 4.4 ends January with a Lantern Rite, lets you transform into a fish to explore its new area

Genshin Impact’s next update, version 4.4, will drop on January 31st. As well as bringing back the game’s Lantern Festival with rewards including a new outfit, Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze will bring the usual additions of new characters, quests and a boss. There’ll also be a new area ...
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Pokémon-with-guns game Palworld is so popular its servers are struggling to keep up

Palworld was obviously destined for success the moment a million games journalists and Twitter users wrote “Pokémon with machine guns”. (Acceptable alternate nicknames include “Eevees with uzis” and “Abras who’ll stab-ya”.) Having finally launched into Early Access on Steam and Game Pass this week, that prophecy has rung true as ...
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Indiana Jones in First-Person Just Makes Sense

So, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a first-person game. This has come as a bit of a surprise to some people, who likely were expecting a third-person perspective thanks to not just the Great Circle’s movie roots but also Indiana Jones’ influence on the video game industry. But ...
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Back Page: ‘DO NOT MENTION SWITCH 2’ – We Infiltrate Nintendo And Sneak A Peek At Its 2024 Calendar

Stealth mission.In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you'd find all the weird goofs that we couldn't fit in anywhere else. Some may call it "filler"; we prefer "a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag". We don't have ...
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