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Luke Skywalker not a top 10 Star Wars character 'according to fans'

I shouldn't be upset but I'm a little upset

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Sorry Control, Quantum Break is secretly Remedy’s best game

Remedy's unsung time travel game was too innovative for its own good

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Logan Paul pictured on a private plane reading One Piece manga.
Logan Paul doesn’t understand manga

You can’t slab the soul out of the artform

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Anne Hathaway, as pop star Mother Mary in the movie of the same name, clasps her hands over her mouth in horror, with stylized lights blurred in the background
The man behind The Green Knight has delivered a ghost story like no other

In Mother Mary, David Lowery seems fixated on the less horrific dimension to ghost-like entities

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A screenshot of an angry pot in Kiln by Double Fine
Xbox’s new multiplayer game is a blast, no matter how many people play it

Kiln may not be lighting up the SteamDB charts, but it's a refreshing multiplayer game nonetheless

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Cats sit in a pile in art from Mewgenics.
The violent truth about Mewgenics that no one is talking about

Cats constantly dying isn't just a roguelike gameplay mechanic

A fight between Kril and two crabs in Another Crab's Treasure
Two years ago, the developer of Peak released an underrated Soulslike

Another Crab's Treasure deserves appreciation on its two-year anniversary

A cel-shaded Lancia Delta powerslides past windmills in Super Woden: Rally Edge
I have discovered the best game soundtrack of 2026 so far and it is Super Woden: Rally Edge

Nobody's going to a symphonic concert of this

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A red Xbox Wireless Controller sits on display.
Now's the time to bring back the $1 Xbox Game Pass Ultimate trial

None of this 14-day nonsense, give us the whole month

A Ragnarok Online screenshot showing my character, an assassin
I played this 24-year-old MMO every day for a month. Here's what it taught me about modern games

A nostalgic trip that showed me what I have been missing in online games

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Sega Game Gear
35 years ago, the Game Gear walked so the Steam Deck could run

With loads of weird accessories and ‘90s attitude to spare, Sega's console pushed the boundaries of handheld gaming

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Darth Vader points his red lightsaber at Luke Skywalker during their fight in Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back
The latest Star Wars comic really, really wants you to visit Galaxy's Edge

And it's not afraid to use Glup Shittos to do it

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Detail from the cover of Octavia Butler's Wild Seed, showing a black woman in a headdress that incorporates melded bits of body parts from various animals — a monarch's wing, a zebra's eras, a rhino's eye, a cheetah's face, and more
The long-lost 'Star Trek novel' that Octavia Butler disavowed is returning to print 40 years later

Butler disavowed the book and kept it from being reprinted — but here's why it's worth reading anyway

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A woman in a white bathing suit poses by a pool in the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer
Will we get a new GTA Online with GTA 6? Here's what we know

Thanks to a recent leak, we have a clearer picture about what Rockstar could do with its always-on sandbox

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Cassian Andor gets ready to pilot a TIE Fighter in a still from Andor season 2
Star Wars’ pivot from the Skywalker Saga to genre stories is great for the franchise

A new horror novel, Hiding from the Dark, is the latest spin on Star Wars' new direction

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A futuristic soldier contemplates Game Pass while standing on a space station in Call of Duty Infinite Warfare
Please just put the entire Call of Duty series on Game Pass

I'm not buying Infinite Warfare just for Infinite Warfare to be 'free' the next week

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Gyro rapidly spins his steel balls to gain momentum during the race in Steel Ball Run
Did Netflix drop the ball with JoJo: Steel Ball Run?

A lack of transparency fueled frustrations surrounding a vague release window

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Kit Connor's Elden Ring casting makes perfect sense if you've seen his underrated war movie

Alex Garland may be completing an surprising trilogy with Elden Ring

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Dragon Ball Super's spectacular new trailer still doesn't justify a remake of the Beerus arc

All the hype in the world for a return of Frieza still doesn’t have me jazzed for Dragon Ball Super: Beerus

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Annual E3 Gaming Industry Conference Held In Los Angeles
I miss the taste of E3 hype

CinemaCon makes me feel the lack of video gaming's own meaningless hype fest

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