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Witcher Remake devs’ promising paranormal detective RPG The Thaumaturge slides back to a 2024 release

Mystical dark-fantasy RPG The Thaumaturge has been delayed into next year, as its developers say they’ll need until February to polish up the story-driven game to the standards they’re aiming for. Read more ...
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Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Super Mario RPG

Is it RP-Great?At the end of the week, Nintendo will release the very last of its 2023 first-party Switch line-up with Super Mario RPG, a faithful remake of the 1996 SNES classic.Judging from our own review, it looks like Nintendo is closing out the year with a bang, as we've ...
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Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha (2402.231113-2200)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. 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 continue to post these release notes, even when ...
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How Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League taps into PS5’s immersive power

Suit up, Task Force X. On February 2, our band of misfits will dive headfirst into Metropolis in Rocksteady Studios’ most ambitious game yet – Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. At Rocksteady, storytelling and character depth are core to our games. With Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, we ...
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Metropolis Is Twice The Size of Arkham Knight’s Gotham

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is going big. Rocksteady confirmed that its version of Metropolis will be twice the size of the Gotham City depicted in Batman: Arkham Knight, giving players a substantial playground to explore.In a video uploaded as part of the game's new developer diary series, Rocksteady ...
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A former EverQuest producer, WoW vets and Elden Ring devs are making an MMO filled with AI-generated NPCs

A bunch of MMO veterans led by one of the original producers of genre granddaddy EverQuest are working on a new online game that will use AI tools to create characters and have them interact with players. There's also mention of blockchain-like asset ownership and ambitions of being the next ...
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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog Additions for November 2023 Revealed

Sony has revealed the full line-up of PlayStation Plus Games Catalog additions for November 2023, which includes Teardown, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, and PaRappa the Rapper 2.Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 14 games are joining the library: nine in the Games Catalog available to Extra and Premium ...
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What’s better: double-jumping or limitless inventory capacity?

Last time, you decided that auto-detect graphics settings is better than auto-level up. While it was a conclusive loss, I was still surprised and glad to see a fair few people rooting for the underdog. Always more interesting when it's not a complete drubbing. This week, I need you to ...
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The Last Faith Review

The Last Faith feels like a good cover of a song you love, or a solid genre movie that isn’t going to push any boundaries, but will scratch an itch for digestible, reliable entertainment. If you like 2D platforming through big, non-linear maps that open up as you unlock new ...
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Strategy games are no longer limited by the “stigma” of being “Smart Man’s Games”, says Ara developer

It's a good time to be a strategy game developer, according to Oxide Games, developers of Ara: History Untold, which happens to be a strategy game. Speaking to me during a showing of Ara - which is notable among turn-based 4X games for playing out every player's turn simultaneously - ...
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