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EGX Highlights: Pine Hearts is a cosy hiking holiday with the occasional nostalgia trip

Sometimes, the ability to push over a tree was inside you all along. Retrieving woodland traversal skills from the depths of memory is key to Pine Hearts, an easygoing adventure/exploration game that I've spent a very relaxing half-hour with in the EGX 2023 Rezzed Zone. Read more ...
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Professor Layton And The Unwound Future

What would a true gentleman do?We are back for yet another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to rank some covers?Before we introduce this week's challengers, let's take a look at what went down last time. We pitted two cover variants for the SNES classic ActRaiser against each ...
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EGX Highlights: Even with the horsepower of friendship, Resistor’s electric deathracing comes first

Pitched as "a racing game for people who don’t like racing games," Resistor shows an immediate disinterest in tracks, time trials, or even really the cars themselves. This racing game, I’m told as I sit down to play a demo in the EGX 2023’s Rezzed Zone, cares about the person ...
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Video: Masahiro Sakurai Shows Off His Retro Game Skills In “Special” YouTube Collab

Competing against Game Center CX.Earlier this week, the legendary game designer and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai teased a "special crossover" with Retro Game Master (known as Game Center CX in Japan).The first video, localised by 8-4, has now gone live and it has Sakurai facing off against ...
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week’s Release

Watch out for spoilers.Another anticipated Nintendo Switch exclusive has been leaked online. This time it's Super Mario Bros. Wonder, due out next week on 20th October.After the voice of the new Mario was confirmed on Friday, there are now multiple reports suggesting Mario Wonder's ROM file is being distributed online ...
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Mortal Kombat 1 Shares “First Look” At The Kombat Pack DLC Fighter Omni-Man

Early access starts next month.At New York Comic-Con this weekend, NetherRealm Studios shared a "first look" at the Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack fighter Omni-Man.He'll be available to anyone who purchases the Premium Edition or Kombat Pack and playable in early access starting November 2023. In the latest trailer, you ...
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Mortal Kombat 1: Invincible’s Omni-Man Gets a Gameplay Trailer and Release Window

Alongside confirming a November 2023 release window, NetherRealm has revealed the first gameplay trailer for Invincible's Omni-Man at NYCC 2023.Omni-Man will be the first playable character in Mortal Kombat's Kombat Pack 1 and will be available as a standalone fighter or as part of the Mortal Kombat 1 Premium Edition ...
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Lords of the Fallen’s Steam reviews improve as performance patch lands, devs advise players not to use graphics settings “their rigs cannot handle”

Lords Of The Fallen has issued a major performance patch for the technically troubled Soulslike, helping its Steam reviews to escape their early ‘Mostly Negative’ rating as developers Hexworks resolve a number of the biggest problems on PC. Read more ...
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Lords of the Fallen “does not, and will never” use anti-piracy tech Denuvo, devs promise

The makers of fresh Soulslike Lords Of The Fallen have taken a strong position against the use of digital rights management software Denuvo, promising players that the game will never dabble with the controversial anti-piracy tech. Read more ...
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Yes, Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck Verified when it hits Steam next week

Ahead of Diablo 4’s jump from Battlenet onto Steam in just a few days’ time, Blizzard has confirmed that its demon-slaying action-RPG will be fully Steam Deck Verified when it lands. Read more ...
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