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Street Fighter 6 Punches Through 3 Million Copies Sold

Street Fighter 6 has sold three million copies in seven months, publisher Capcom has announced.The fighting game hit the milestone on January 3, 2024, and comes seven months after it went on sale on June 2, 2023. Street Fighter 6 got off to a strong start with one million sold ...
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This spec ops haunted house shooter got me thinking about unexpected scares in Call Of Duty

Here's a pitch for you: a spec ops shooter, except it's haunted. Well, that's exactly what early access co-op FPS Contain is going for, where four of you gear up in tactical clobber and clear corners of military chumps and anomalous… rumps? It's a mixture of Rainbow Six, a bit ...
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Turn-Based Strategy Goes Medieval In ‘Rising Lords’, Marching Onto Switch This Month

Knight and day.Publisher Deck13 Spotlight and developer Argonwood have announced that the medieval-inspired turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will be bringing the battle to Switch on 18th January.Taking place in the fictional kingdom of Aubelin, Rising Lords will see you playing as a Lord who is attempting to rise (shocking ...
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Dawnwalker is the “revolutionary” dark fantasy RPG from former Witcher devs Rebel Wolves

Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by a few of the CD Projekt folk behind The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, have officially titled their forthcoming dark fantasy RPG. That title is… Dawnwalker. They’ve also shared a new teaser image, which I think could depict one of two things: a) a ...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Hotfix 17 Makes Gale Chill Out About Magic Items

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has released yet another hotfix for its phenomenally successful Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, this time taking on everyone’s favourite magic item-gobbling wizard, Gale.Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 follow.Baldur’s Gate 3 players will know that in the early game, Gale is in desperate need of ...
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Home Safety Hotline review: thoughtful weirdness that left me wanting more

I worked on the phones when I was in pension admin, years ago, and I fielded some weird ones, but nothing quite as weird as the calls in Home Safety Hotline. It's, technically, I suppose, a horror game about manning a call line through a 90s CRT-screen PC, where people ...
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Koei Tecmo Releases Fate/Samurai Remnant Demo On Switch Ahead Of “DLC Vol. 1” Launch

Save data will carry over.Ahead of the Fate/Samurai Remnant DLC release next month, Koei Tecmo has now made a demo of the action role-playing game available on the Switch eShop.The demo will allow you to test out the earlier stages of the game and save data will carry over to ...
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Nintendo Donating 50 Million Yen To Aid Japan’s Earthquake Victims

It's also offering free product repairs.Following in the footsteps of The Pokémon Company, Nintendo has announced it will donate 50 million yen to the Red Cross Society after a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country's Noto Peninsula earlier this month.As part of this, Nintendo has announced it will also ...
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GAME Apparently Ending Physical Trade-Ins From Next Month (UK)

Trade-off.UK retailer GAME will reportedly be refusing physical video game trade-ins from February 2024. This news comes from Eurogamer, which has spoken to numerous staff across multiple branches of the county's largest video game retailer.GAME has yet to make an official announcement to the public, but multiple staff working for ...
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This week’s Games Done Quick 2024 includes Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3 and the world’s first speedrunning dog

Charity speedrunning extravaganza Games Done Quick has kicked off its first week-long event for 2024. Among the highlights are speedy plays of 2023 highlights including Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Lies of P, along with a marathon from the world’s first canine speedrunner. Read more ...
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