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Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant, aka Ubisoft’s Expendables, will launch in May

Good news, people whose day-to-day lives are woefully short on blingy Clancified squad-murdering. Ubisoft's elusive free-to-play shooter XDefiant finally has a release date, 21st May 2024. Or at least, that's when the preseason launches, providing six weeks of access to the modes, maps and factions from last month's server test ...
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Nintendo Takedown Request Targets Over 8,500 Copies of Switch Emulator Yuzu

Nintendo has issued a takedown request for more than 8,500 copies of code of Switch emulator Yuzu, which was shut down in March 2024 as its owners paid out $2.4 million in a lawsuit settlement.As reported by PC Gamer, developer platform GitHub saw 8,535 repositories of Yuzu code removed after ...
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Sony Is Forcing All Helldivers 2 Steam Players to Connect to a PlayStation Network Account — and It’s Going Down About as Well as You’d Expect

Sony has sparked a backlash after announcing plans to force Helldivers 2 Steam players to connect to a PlayStation Network account.In a statement attributed to Sony Interactive Entertainment, the PlayStation maker said that due to “technical issues” at the launch of Helldivers 2, it allowed the linking requirements for Steam ...
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Sony Is Forcing All Helldivers 2 Steam Players to Connect to a PlayStation Network Account — and It’s Going Down About as Well as You’d Expect

Sony has sparked a backlash after announcing plans to force Helldivers 2 Steam players to connect to a PlayStation Network account.In a statement attributed to Sony Interactive Entertainment, the PlayStation maker said that due to “technical issues” at the launch of Helldivers 2, it allowed the linking requirements for Steam ...
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Nintendo Partner Paladin Studios Closes Its Doors After “Almost 19 Years”

"Our quest has ended".Netherlands indie developer Paladin, who worked with Nintendo in 2020 on the Switch eShop title Good Job!, has announced it has "closed the studio" after "almost 19 years".Apart from Nintendo, the 45-person studio (which began life in 2005 and peaked at 55 people at one stage) worked ...
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Xbox’s Survival Adventure Grounded Receives A New Update On Switch

Download it now.Grounded recently made its debut on the Nintendo Switch and although the team at Obsidian has technically rolled out the final major update, it's not done just yet.The developer has now rolled out a new patch, bumping the game up to Version 1.4.1. This latest patch comes with ...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons ‘Isabelle’ First 4 Figures Statue Now Available To Pre-Order

Two other Animal Crossing figures teased.Following its reveal, the First 4 Figures Animal Crossing: New Horizons 'Isabelle' exclusive edition statue is now on sale.You can pre-order this statue at the early bird price of US$89.99 (normally US$104.99) over the next 31 days and it's estimated to ship in the fourth ...
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Diablo 4 1.4.0 Update Reveals Changes From Public Test Realm Ahead of ‘Loot Reborn’ Season

Blizzard has finally delivered patch notes for Diablo 4 version 1.4.0 ahead of Season 4: Loot Reborn’s launch later this month.The full list of changes coming to the studio’s latest dungeon crawler arrives immediately after an in-depth developer update livestream. Following a tumultuous beginning for Diablo 4, Blizzard reported how ...
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Zelda Fans Are Going Wild After Rediscovering Link and Midna’s Surprise Kiss

The Legend of Zelda fans who have long pondered when Link would finally share a kiss with Zelda have discovered that the hero of Hyrule already smooched someone in an official manga. What’s more, it wasn’t with Zelda, but with his faithful Twilight Princess companion, Midna. The kiss in question ...
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