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Mecha Break review

In Mecha Break you play as a booby anime statuette. She is the one driving the mech. This is a leery game of lasers and ass shots, and sometimes even manages to elicit moments of exciting robo-a-robo combat. You fight other players across a splatter of multiplayer modes, and may ...
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A hero for our times: Elden Ring Nightreign boss becomes unbeatable by refusing to show up

"I am going to screw on my happy cap and try to find some upbeat/quirky news, because I feel like we could do with a bit," I declared to the RPS Slack just now, after writing our eighth layoff/cancellation post this week. The very next thing I click is a ...
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The Elder Scrolls Online studio’s canned Blackbird game was a nimble, high-flying shooter, claims report

The new MMO from the Elder Scrolls Online developers would reportedly have been a sci-fi noir affair in which players swing around tall buildings on grappling lines, and do aerial dashes while shooting and looting. Call it Blade Runner Spider-Man. Call it Destiny 2077. Call it whatever you like, frankly, ...
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Switch 2 Dock Supports VRR After All, But It Doesn’t Actually Work With Console

What the 4K?Remember all of the confusion around whether the Switch 2 supports VRR? One moment, it did both docked and handheld, before Nintendo started removing wording surrounding docked VRR from websites and then apologised "for the error".Well, The Verge (paywalled) has made an interesting discovery — the Switch 2's ...
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Next Week on Xbox – New Games for July 7-11

Next Week on Xbox – New Games for July 7-11 Published July 4, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on ...
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Nintendo Finally Reveals Developer Behind Switch 2 Launch Title Welcome Tour, Which Many Said Should Have Been Included for Free

Nintendo fans now know who developed Switch 2 launch title Welcome Tour — the mini-game collection that also acts as an interactive instruction manual for the new console, which many have suggested should have been included for free.While Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour doesn't state it within the game itself, ...
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How Much Of Kojima’s Games Are Actually Cutscenes? We Did the Maths

There’s no doubting Hideo Kojima’s devotion to the art of video games. But one question that has followed the Metal Gear master around for much of his career is “Why doesn’t he just make a movie?”. This sentiment no doubt stems from the perception that his work at both Konami ...
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Heist game Relooted takes playful, political revenge on both museums and looting sims

Room 17 of the British Museum contains an entire tomb - a two-thousand-year-old burial site framed by featureless lavenderbox walls, like an asset conjured up in a video game editor. Known as the "Nereid Monument" for the presence of sea nymphs among the pillars, it is thought to have been ...
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Perfect Dark Developer Says Eye-Catching 2024 Gameplay Demo ‘Had Some Fakery but Quite a Lot of It Was Legit’

A developer who worked on Microsoft's now-cancelled Perfect Dark reboot has addressed the claim that last year's gameplay demo was "fake," and said the glimpse was a vertical slice of the project running "in-engine."Perfect Dark was one of several projects canned by Microsoft this week as part of the company's ...
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Subnautica 2 creators offer no explanation for sudden regime change, instead promise “no loot boxes”

The studio making underwater survival game Subnautica 2 have promised fans that "nothing has changed" despite a recent drastic change in leadership at the company. The game is still planned to be a single player survival adventure with optional co-op. "Nothing has changed with how the game is structured," said ...
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