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Detective game makers tells us how they would murder Humpty Dumpty

You can't take a step on Steam this week without stumbling over a body. Step forward and you'll trip over a cold-to-the-touch mobster with a knife in their back. Step to the left and, oh God, it's a wizened academic clutching a poisoned apple in their rigor mortis grip. But ...
/ Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Palestine Skating Game takes Jet Set Radio’s rollerblades and spray paint to soldier-filled streets and towering concrete walls

I only have to skate a few meters before the piercing drum of rifle fire fills my ears. Armed with my trusty can of spray paint, I cover the hostile soldiers in splotches of bright colour while rollerblading circles around them. They stumble about, trying to keep me in their ...
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25 Years on From Super Smash Bros. Melee, Creator Masahiro Sakurai Finally Confirms The Secret Behind How Much Damage is Healed by Food

Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Super Smash Bros., has revealed the reason why the series' food various items each heal your character by a specific amount.Writing this week on Twitter/X, Sakurai simply dropped the detail out of nowhere — 25 years on from when food was first introduced to Nintendo's ...
/ IGN

Japanese Charts: Nintendo’s Dominance Continues As Switch 2 Flies Past 4 Million Units Sold

What will they think of next? FIVE million?The first two weeks' sales data of 2026 is in from Famitsu, and it'll come as a surprise to nobody to hear that the Switch 2 is still dominating the proceedings.It's yet another Switch 1/2 washout in the software chart to kick off ...
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How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2026 Next Thursday

January 15, 2026 How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2026 Next Thursday Developer_Direct returns next Thursday, January 22 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, and will kick off Xbox’s 25th anniversary year with a look at some of the incredible games ...
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Claim your place among motorcycle legends in Ride 6 career

Hello, fellow bikers, this is Paolo Bertoni, Game Director of Ride 6. As we rev things up ahead of the game’s release on PS5, planned for February 12, 2026, I’d like to take you behind the scenes to explore the brand-new career mode we’ve been crafting, and share how it ...
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Games Workshop Reveals Best-Selling Warhammer 40,000 Army Set of All-Time, Reinforcing Just How Popular This Space Marine Chapter Truly Is

Games Workshop has confirmed that a recently released Warhammer 40,000 army set a sales record for the company, reinforcing this Space Marine chapter as among the most popular in the setting.Delivering Games Workshop’s latest financial results, CEO Kevin Rountree confirmed that the Space Wolves secured a new record for army ...
/ IGN

Ecco The Dolphin Creator Confirms Multiple Games in Development, Says ‘Ecco Has Always Been More Than a Game About a Dolphin’ 

It's official: "several" new Ecco the Dolphin games are in development.Last summer, the creator of Ecco the Dolphin pleased many fans by announcing that not only were remakes of the original games underway, but a "third" instalment was also in development. Ed Annunziata — the original creator of the famed ...
/ IGN

The Elder Scrolls Online’s smaller expansions are “not in any way” a result of last year’s layoffs

"Last year was a hard year for the studio," Elder Scrolls Online's executive producer Susan Kath says. "It was a hard year for all of us." In 2025, as part of sweeping cuts made across all their businesses, Microsoft laid off a significant chunk of Zenimax Online Studios. They did ...
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Bully Online Mod Creators Insist Shutting the Project Down ‘Was Not Something We Wanted’

Cast your mind back to the end of last year, and you may remember we reported that a group of volunteer modders had united to develop an online mode for Rockstar's Bully (also known as Canis Canem Edit in some parts of the world). Fast-forward just a few short months ...
/ IGN