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Now Diablo 4 Is Out in the Wild, the True Horror of Its Costly Microtransactions Has Revealed Itself

Diablo 4 launched proper yesterday, June 6, and now all players can see just how pricey its microtransactions are.Blizzard’s $70 action role-playing game leans heavily on in-game monetisation, with plans for various battle passes post-launch.Available now, however, is the in-game shop, which has become a bone of contention among fans.Diablo ...
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Get your meaty hands on the Tetris Super Meat Boy spinoff on June 22nd

Tetris is grand, but it could do with more chainsaws. Thus (presumably) went the thought process of the developers behind Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine, a Super Meat Boy spinoff about lining up colourful meaty blobs while dodging buzzsaws and other grizzly hazards. Think Tetris meets match 4 meets Meat ...
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Square Enix Celebrates As Octopath Traveler II Ships 1 Million Units

"Thank you for your continued support".It's incredible to think that Octopath Traveler II came out almost four months ago — how are we this far into the year already? But Square Enix is celebrating its HD-2D sequel today as it's announced that the game has shipped over 1 million units ...
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Counter-Strike 2 Lets Players Refund Weapons

Counter-Strike 2 now lets players refund their weapons.Developer Valve confirmed the feature, which Counter-Strike players have long-called for, in the tweet below.Bought the wrong thing? Meant to buy a different weapon, armor, or grenade? Sell your purchase back and buy again (during buy time). pic.twitter.com/7KJ4WN82XU— CS2 (@CounterStrike) June 6, 2023 ...
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Winnie-the-Pooh mutates into a meaty abomination in Ring Of Pain studio’s next game

Everyone's favourite hunny-yellow bear will mutate into a fleshy horror bristling with extra arms and eyeballs and glands in Winnie's Hole, the next roguelikelike dungeon crawler from Ring Of Pain developers Twice Different. The earliest Winnie-the-Pooh stories are no longer under copyright in the US, see, meaning people can do ...
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Wildfrost’s first big update makes life easier for players old and new

Out of all the roguelike deckbuilders that have followed in Slay The Spire's footsteps, Wildfrost is my second favourite. The cardplay never quite reaches the dizzy heights of Spire or Monster Train, but it's far cuter than either of them and still absolutely splendid. Now's a great time to pick ...
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Ding ding: Diablo 4 has its first Level 100 Hardcore player

Former Starcraft and Dota pro "cArn" has won the race to hit level 100 on a Diablo 4 Hardcore character, thus earning him a letter from the king and a nap. This is Diablo's permadeath mode, where one death is enough to wipe your progress. He dinged his final ding ...
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Sifu’s Free Arenas Expansion Update Expected To Arrive On Switch Soon

Will launch alongside content update 3.The martial arts-inspired brawler Sifu will be getting will be getting a major update on the Nintendo Switch next week.It's the Arenas Expansion, which was previously released on other platforms in March of this year. According to Nintendo Everything, it will launch on 15th June ...
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Sifu’s Free Arena Expansion Update Expected To Arrive On Switch Soon

Will launch alongside content update 3.The martial arts-inspired brawler Sifu will be getting will be getting a major update on the Nintendo Switch next week.It's the Arenas Expansion, which was previously released on other platforms in March of this year. According to Nintendo Everything, it will launch on 15th June ...
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Summer Game Fest 2023: How to Watch and What to Expect

IGN's Summer of Gaming is officially on, and the events keep rolling with Summer Game Fest 2023 on Thursday, June 8. With E3 being cancelled, Summer Game Fest promises to be one of the biggest events of the season. Jeff Keighley's show debuted some heavy hitters last year, like The ...
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