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But will it run Doom? Audi’s new in-car gaming platform aims to liven up...

Say goodbye to the nostalgia of I Spy on long road trips, but only if you have a selected Audi model. The car giant has teamed up with AirConsole to bring gaming into the cabin, albeit with a heap of...

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Check out Full Metal Schoolgirl – a new anime FPS that looks amazing (yes,...

Sometimes, at the end of a hard day at the office (well, sort of), families may sit down together and chat over dinner about what they did over the course of the day. How am I supposed to be taken...

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Mecha Break Twitch Drops – why play the game yourself when you can watch...

Mecha Break is out and is roaring to the top of the Steam charts. The world’s fascination with mech games seemingly knows no bounds, even if it is jam-packed with microtransactions to the point of...

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Your move, creep. More RoboCop fun incoming with standaline expansion

RoboCop: Rogue City took more than me by surprise when it came out. It was not only the RoboCop movie tie-in we always wanted, but it is easily one of the best “based on a movie character” games of all...

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Three Ubisoft chiefs guilty as #MeToo finally bites the gaming industry in...

Three former top executives at Ubisoft have each received a suspended prison sentence, handed down by a court in Paris, after “enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment in the...

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Gacha hit Solo Leveling: Arise gets the K-Pop tie in treatment but how do you...

Whatever your views on the behemoth gacha games such as Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact, there are countless others, such as Solo Leveling: Arise, that are worth squillions to their developers. If...

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Dragonbane minis coming to Kickstarter

Many of us like to dabble in the world of tabletop gaming as well as settling down with our favorite console or PC game. If that includes you, and you are a fan of the hugely popular Dragonbane TTRPG,...

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EA turning servers off all over the show as publisher culls some games less...

It’s becoming a habit for the gaming industry to take your money and then remove key functionality from your purchase just a little later down the track. On Friday, we asked if it was time for gamers...

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Rimworld Odyssey expansion DLC teases some details about what’s coming next week

If you have never played Rimworld, then you probably shouldn’t. Many of its players will tell you it is far and away the best game ever made, for anything, ever, and to succumb to its 2D charms is to...

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Ed McCaffrey Talks Youth Camps, Son Luke, Broncos and Andrew Luck

It’s been nearly 30 years since Ed McCaffrey started up his football camps, which began with his four sons running around in a park and has morphed into a major event. The three-time Super Bowl...

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Prime Day is here and no, we aren’t hawking you SD cards, but bringing news...

Ordinarily, we probably wouldn’t be bothered covering Prime Day or even some free game giveaway, but figure it is definitely worth pointing out as there is some good stuff available gratis, as long as...

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New Satisfactory Kickstarter brings new merch to my favorite game of the past...

Satisfactory from Coffee Stain has been one of the standout games of recent years. The factory/automation simulation has absorbed so many player hours since it first came out in Early Access five years...

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Star Trek Online’s Timeless Legacy starship bundle let’s you dress up your...

Star Trek has managed to retain its “cool” sci-fi tag, largely regardless of whatever iteration it has gone through, and there have been a lot. While many Star Trek games have come and gone, Star Trek...

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Even by gaming industry standards, this is quick. Steel Hunters get the...

I like the word Sunsetting. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t love a good sunset? People whose games are suddenly being whipped away from them, that’s who. Sunsetting as a verb is something that...

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It’s time to revisit Amiga emulation as famous emulator gets huge new update

It’s been a little over two years since the last full version update of the best-known and loved emulator for the Commodore Amiga landed, and now, with that amount of time passed, we have just got...

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Subnautica 2 delay saves Krafton potentially a cool $250 million in sweet...

Man, the games industry is a tiring place. On the one hand, we have really cool games I can’t put down, and on the other, it’s the just the drip-drip-drip of corporate money-making with a lack of...

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl heading for PS5 this year

PlayStation 5 owners will finally get to have a crack at Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl later this year, after the devs, GSC Game World, dropped a quick post on X and a short, less than a minute-long...

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Krafton hits back, big time, at suggestion Subnautica 2 was delayed to save...

Oh wow. The Subnautica 2 fallout is getting tasty. Yesterday, we reported on the news that publisher Krafton was being accused of delaying the Early Access launch of Subnautica 2, merely to avoid the...

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Three free games to grab quick off Steam in Slitherine’s 25th anniversary...

Long-established strategy game giant Slitherine is having a celebration of 25 years producing mind-taxing games, and alongside a Steam sale of its catalog, you can also grab three games totally free...

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Nintendo Switch piracy haven (mostly) nuked offline by FBI

It finally happened, after years in action, one of the most popular Nintendo Switch piracy websites has been taken out. NSW2U now only shows a “This website has been seized” message from the US Justice...

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