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Q9 Crowned Winners At The 2025 Delta Force Invitational

After three days of competition, Q9 has emerged victorious at the 2025 Delta Force Invitational. The inaugural event, held at the Hangzhou Esports Center in China, brought together twelve of the world’s best Delta Force teams. But it was Q9 who ultimately stood above the rest and took home the ...
/ IGN

I’m happy to report that Menace feels just as deadly and uncaring as Battle Brothers

Unlike Battle Brothers, there's no hoofing it across an overworld map in the hoo-rah space marine tactics of Menace. Instead, you'll build your squad and deploy them across strings of missions on what I assume at this point are multiple different planets. I'd love to be able to tell you ...
/ Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Switch 2 Gets Its Flowers At The Japan Game Awards 2025

As if there was any doubt.Switch 2 has been a huge deal since it launched, and at last night's Japan Game Awards, the console was recognised for its monumental achievements so far.Nintendo's latest hardware took home the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the 2025 ceremony. It's a ...
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How a Traditional Blacksmith Created Ninja Gaiden 4’s Swords in Real Life

September 23, 2025 How a Traditional Blacksmith Created Ninja Gaiden 4’s Swords in Real Life
  • Tom LeeCreative Director, Team Ninja
When we set out to launch Ninja Gaiden 4, we asked ourselves: what if the blades of legend weren’t confined to the game? What if Ryu Hayabusa’s iconic ...
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Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.63 available today

Super limited, top-down track terror? Check. European concept car from the future paying homage to its past? Yep. Timeless off-roader that took both the sport and utility mad seriously in SUV? That part. This month’s free update from the Polyphony fam has a vehicular something for everyone, and adds two ...
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‘We Lost PlayStation Stars for This?’ Sony Announces Franchise Rewards, a Time-Limited Physical Merch Program With Items Locked Behind Trophies

Sony has announced Franchise Rewards, a new program that grants players the ability to buy physical PlayStation merchandise — if you unlock specific in-game trophies by a certain date. The scheme kicks off with Ghost Rewards, unlocked by earning specific trophies in Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima before December 31, ...
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Borderlands 4 YouTuber Tries to Nerf Proof Their Character, Instead Stumbles Upon What Is Almost Certainly an ‘Unintended Interaction’ That Does So Much Damage It Causes Bosses ‘Total Existence Failure’

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage, even to the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most infamous of these is 'the knife,' which Gearbox has said it’s aware of but won’t nerf just ...
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The Palworld devs are making their very own Pal-filled Stardew Valley

Palworld developers Pocketpair have revealed Palfarm, a new farming spin-off whose cheeky compound title implies the possibility of countless other Palspin-offs, from Paltrain Simulator to Palnetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant. It appears to be a Palworld version of Stardew Valley, with players alternating between tending crops, mining the caves, battling wildlife, and bonding with ...
/ Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Classic Mech Anime And Tactical Card Combat Collide In ‘Battle Chef Brigade’ Dev’s New RPG

Arriving on Switch next month.If you cast your mind back to the early days of the Switch eShop, before the storefront was swamped by slop and rip-offs, you might recall Battle Chef Brigade — a weird fusion of cooking sim and action RPG all wrapped up in a sweet anime-inspired ...
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