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Samson, a gritty driveabrawler about duffing up dudes and drifting to defeat daily debt spikes, drops in 2026

If you're a fan of gruff blokes punching goons and putting the pedal to the metal in muscle cars, Samson looks like it'll be up your alley. It's the debut game of Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio founded by former Just Cause and Mad Max developer Christofer Sundberg, and mirrors ...
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Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Adding Free Fan-Designed Costume “Mid-December”

The Switch 2 Edition will follow in early 2026.Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP players can look forward to a free update in "mid-December" which will see the release of the fan-designed "Cutie Zombie Hunter" costume for Juliet.This costume won a special costume design contest and will be followed by additional winning designs ...
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Metacritic Shares Updated List Of “Every Metroid Game, Ranked”

Now including Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.It's not every day there's a new Metroid release, and after an 18-year wait since the last major entry in the Prime series, the fourth adventure is finally here.To mark this occasion, Metacritic has now rounded up every Metroid game in its database to share ...
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Switch Indie Title ‘Crypt Of The NecroDancer’ Receives A Switch 2 Fix

"Happy gaming!".Many Switch games have been receiving compatibility updates for the Switch 2, and following an update to one of Square Enix's games earlier this week, it seems the indie developer Brace Yourself Games has now rolled out a fix for Crypt of the NecroDancer.If you've been experiencing any crashes ...
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World of Warcraft’s Housing Feature Is Now Live, and Horde Players Are Desperately Trying to Reinvent Their Spiky Huts

World of Warcraft's housing feature launched this week for everyone who purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion early. Though the feature is still in its early stages, players (including yours truly) are already losing hours upon hours creating elaborate homes with the decor available. But Horde players in particular are really ...
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Years after toxic workplace allegations, Fullbright’s next game asks you to chat it up in a hot spring

There's a new game from Fullbright on the way, revealed tonight at the PC Gaming Show, called Springs, Eternal. The studio's obviously best known for narrative focused games like Gone Home and Tacoma, and Springs, Eternal unsurprisingly looks like more of that, albeit with more of a lo-fi, not-quite PS1 ...
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Hooded Horse reveal Substructure, a factory sim from a top Factorio modder in which you excavate the layers of a rogue planet

If you were Senior Floor Manager of Earth, and a weird planet innocently appeared on the fringe of our solar system, what would you do? I would probably not zip out there and plant a factory on that planet, in much the same way that I wouldn’t high-five a bear-shaped ...
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Shuten Order Is Getting A Full Physical Release On Switch 1 & 2

And it's all on the cartridge, too.DMM Games, Tookyo Games and Spike Chunsoft are releasing a physical version of SHUTEN ORDER on both Switch 1 and Switch 2 in Spring 2026, the companies have announced.Both the Switch 1 and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will be getting a physical in the ...
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Cairn: the climb of a lifetime starts January 29 2026

Hi, this is Emeric Thoa, creative director at The Game Bakers, and I’m joined by Art Director and Writer Mathieu Bablet. Today, we’d like to tell you a bit about the story of Cairn and its main character, Aava. Play Video So far, we’ve been highlighting the ultra-realistic ...
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Carmageddon: Rogue Shift puts a roguelitey twist on the series’ classic wheeled warfare, will start bending fenders in early 2026

Crank up the pounding metal riffs and make sure you're covered in spikes. Carmageddon: Rogue Shift, a roguelite-infused take on the old school automotive murder-battler from Redout devs 34BigThings, has just been revealed and is set to smash onto the scene early next year. Read more ...
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