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Resident Evil Requiem Blows Past Disney Cory in the House and Metal Gear Solid to Join Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as the Highest User Rated Game on Metacritic

Resident Evil Requiem looks like a smash hit for Capcom, with record-breaking Steam concurrent player numbers suggesting big sales. But it’s also a hit on Metacritic, where it has the joint highest user score of all time.Requiem has a user score of 9.5 on Metacritic, which is the same score ...
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Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons “game preservation service” Myrient is shutting down this month

ROM distribution site and self-described "video game preservation service" Myrient is set to close down at the end of March, with its operator citing the current rise in RAM prices amid the tech being hoovered up for AI datacenters as part of the the reason they're reaching for the shutters ...
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Pokémon Fan Claims World First Completion of Resident Evil Requiem Final Puzzle — But Insists They’re Unsure Exactly How They Did It

Resident Evil Requiem players have spent the weekend trying to solve the game's cryptic Final Puzzle, and now a Pokémon fan has provided video evidence they have completed the challenge — despite being uncertain exactly how they did so.Pokémon trading card fan Gengar Collects has posted numerous screenshots and video ...
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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was “humanly possible”

Here, put on this pair of reflective sunglasses. Now regard the 21st century so far. Doesn’t it look as if the ideas of Deus Ex have spread into the mainstream? Like fire propagating across a dry hillside, the prevalence of emergent action with cascading consequences has spread throughout the gaming ...
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BIT.TRIP Runner Dev Needs Your Help To Bring Remake To Switch 2

Kickstarter now live.BIT.TRIP developer Choice Provisions (once known as Gaijin Games back in the day) has a Kickstarter campaign in progress to bring BIT.TRIP Rerunner to the Switch 2. First released on Steam in 2023 and PS5/Xbox in 2024, it's a complete remake of the original BIT.TRIP RUNNER for the ...
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There Are Just 50 Copies Worldwide of the Extremely Rare Tsukihime Trial Edition, And U.S. Customs Allegedly Just Cut One Up

An extraordinarily rare floppy disk — one of just 50 copies of Tsukihime Trial Edition ever produced — was allegedly destroyed coming through U.S. Customs.Collector Keripo shared a video of themselves opening the demo floppy disk delivery on X/Twitter, only to discover the disk had been damaged in such a ...
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Nearly a year on from release, Stardew Valley Baldur’s Gate 3 modders provide a rare update on their Halsin romance

The creators of Baldur's Village, a Stardew Valley mod revolving around a community of characters from Baldur's Gate 3, have been pretty quiet since their work escaped being "mistakenly" zapped out of existence by Wizards of the Coast last April. Now, ahead of Baldur's Village's first birthday, they've provided a ...
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Ex-Highguard Dev Says The Shooter ‘Leaned Too Far Into the Competitive Scene,’ And That ‘Turned a Lot of Players Off’

Highguard, the free-to-play PvP raid shooter announced at The Game Awards last year and released only for most of its developers to be laid off just weeks after launch, may have failed because it "leaned too far into the competitive scene."That's according to former Wildlight developer and level designer Alex ...
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Bungie share top feedback from Marathon’s playtest, including PC performance, UI issues and ammo shortages

DANGER DANGER, you now have 30 minutes till the RPS Monday morning meeting. 30 minutes till Julian asks us what we got up to this weekend, with the deceptively cuddly air of King Lear asking his daughters which of them doth love him most. What can I get written and ...
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The Best Deals Today: Twin Peaks Blu-ray, Super Mario RPG, Fantasion Neo Dimension, and More

Another month has ended, and we are now officially in March! Today, there are quite a few solid discounts across the board, including savings on the Twin Peaks Blu-ray, Super Mario RPG, Death Stranding 2, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, March 1, below.Twin Peaks: From Z ...
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