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I’ve Found the 10 Best Games for $20 or Less in the 2025 Black Friday Sales

Black Friday deals get messy fast, especially in the games world. Retailers love to hurl half-baked offers around in the run-up to what I like to call "Black Friday proper," the day after Thanksgiving. While there are some genuinely good deals already available, it can still get a little tricky ...
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 should have been called something else, agrees former creative director

The former creative director of The Chinese Room's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has finally said the quiet part loud and agreed that the game really shouldn't have been called Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Have you played Bloodlines 2? What would you have called it? I'm going ...
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25 Years of PS2: ‘It Was Really the Beginning of Narrative-Driven Gaming’

The PlayStation 2's meteoric journey to become the best-selling console of all time transformed not just gaming, but culture at large. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, God of War, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty started a new era of interactive stories – one where games competed with ...
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Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Kirby Air Riders?

Riding high?Kirby and his warp star are back in business thanks to Kirby Air Riders, and we imagine a lot of you have been racing through the sky (and the "city") to unlock absolutely everything this past weekend.The surprise sequel to the under-appreciated GameCube racer Kirby Air Ride has performed ...
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Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy Boosters Down To Lowest Price Ever for Black Friday

While the Magic: The Gathering community remains split over Wizards of the Coast’s big push for Universes Beyond, there’s no arguing that Final Fantasy’s set from June this year was a set done right - and it set big records for the three-decade-old franchise as a result.Now that cards are ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Suffers ‘Terrible’ Launch in Europe, With 63% Fewer Copies Sold Than Battlefield 6 — but There’s Important Context to Consider

The performance of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is starting to come into focus, with sales data suggesting it’s struggling not just against rival shooter Battlefield 6, but also last year’s Black Ops 6.The Game Business reported that Black Ops 7’s European launch saw opening week sales down 63% ...
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Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console

Right, time for some box news. The Steam Machine. Valve have confirmed, or reaffirmed, that its yet-to-be-revealed price will be in line with a regular PC built to similar specs, rather than subsidised in order to try and compete with consoles. Read more ...
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Ongoing MicroSD Shortages Could Have A Knock-On Effect For Switch 2 Storage Availability

Maybe it's time to ask Santa for MicroSD Express cards.Storage-hungry consumers in Japan have been jumping on available stocks of super-fast MicroSD cards as an ongoing memory shortage continues across the computer industry, with no signs of getting better in the immediate future.As reported by Tom's Hardware, a spiralling issue ...
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PlayStation Just Added a Load More PS5 Games to Its Incredible 2025 Black Friday Sale

PlayStation's 2025 Black Friday sale is well underway, running right through to December 1, and a fresh wave of newly added games has just dropped into the mix. A stack of strong PS5 titles are already discounted across every major retailer, including standouts like Astro Bot at $39.99, Battlefield 6 ...
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The Crew Unlimited devs have prevented the Ubisoft racer’s “3rd imminent death”, this time via a “Y29K” bug

Ubisoft racer The Crew has avoided yet another shutdown after being ressurected in server-emulated form by fans earlier this year. According to the modders behind its revival project, The Crew Unlimited, a bug would have seen the game stop working once 2029 rolled around. Thankfully, they say a solution's been ...
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