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Switch 2 | Donkey Kong Bananza breaks Nintendo tradition with a rare discount, not that long after release
If you've been waiting for a discount, the time is now.
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Amazon drops an outrageously good 3 for $33 deal on 4K UHD Blu-rays, including Superman and more
Look up! Cheap films!
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Nintendo Switch 2's best memory card drops to an all-time low in the New Year sales
Switch 2 storage just got a whole lot cheaper, thankfully.
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Sponsored | After Five Hearts Under One Roof's successful launch, Storytaco has plans for even more FMV games
In Five Hearts Under One Roof you'll navigate relationships with a mix of new residents and returning friends.
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Sponsored | Mario Kart World: Knockout Tour Streamer Showdown – how to watch
Start your engines, and may the best streamer win!
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Class in Session | Battlefield Studios on bringing squad play to the Battlefield 6 campaign, fulfilling class fantasies with missions, and whether we can expect a Warzone-like ongoing narrative
Battlefield Studios set out to make a Battlefield 6 campaign that’s informed a lot more by the series’ own multiplayer than it is about other games’ campaigns.
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Callbacks | I played three missions of the Battlefield 6 campaign, and I wasn’t ready for how much Battlefield-y it is
The Battlefield 6 campaign is not trying to compete with Call of Duty’s spectacle, but it does try to find a place for the Battlefield formula within a linear mode.
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Pokemon Legends Z-A's new structure and battles have the power to make a Pikachu terrifying - hands-on
Pokemon's caretakers take a characteristically large swing, with equally characteristic restraint.
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Net A Good One | The best Netflix games to play in 2025
All of these essential games are included as part of your Netflix subscription, and they're all great.
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Enchanting By Design | Sims 4 YouTuber Eva Rotky talks what's desperately missing in build/buy and the eco-friendly fairytale of Enchanted by Nature
"Being outdoors is so much more fun in The Sims than just being in your house."
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What would Ren do? | Quantum Witch shows the endless possibilities of what cults, coercion, and ultimately, the right support can do
A touching tale that'll have you cry laughing, or just crying in general, Quantum Witch is one of this year's best indie games.
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Crossing the Border | Borderlands 4 is a bold departure for the series, but 2K may have carved off some of its soul in the pursuit of killing cringe - preview
Borderlands 4 is drastically different in a lot of ways, not all of which I'm sold on.
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Friendly Fire | The sinister secret that Mario Kart World is hiding: where do those Dash Foods come from?
I’ve crashed into enough Cheep Cheeps and consumed enough sushi in Mario Kart World to know that something fishy is going on here.
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PERFORMANCE ART | With technical improvements, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are utterly transformed on Nintendo Switch 2
What a difference a frame rate makes. On more powerful hardware, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are practically different games
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Throwing Pot Feast | Want to improve your Elden Ring Nightreign runs? You should really stop sleeping on your consumable items
From leaving Warming Stones and Boiled Prawns to waste away in my inventory to using them at every possible opportunity: consumables in Nightreign are just great, and here’s why.
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BUTTPEACH | Quantum Witch is a story of religious oppression, queer emancipation, and a dancing skeleton that hopes to popularise the ‘plotformer’ genre
We spoke to Quantum Witch’s lone developer – NikkiJay – about how her experiences as part of a religious cult shaped the development of her game, an 80s-style ‘plotformer’ about finding your lost flock of faer.
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Oi Lads, rad. | Dune Awakening's creative director speaks on the end game, and how the Landsraad will give key roles to crafter and killer alike
The Landsraad system is more like the Gates of Ahn' Qiraj than standard weekly quests, which should excite you.
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Back At It | "We are aiming to do it all over again!" Warhammer 40K: Boltgun 2 principal designer chats what's new with the sequel, and the team's love of Malum Caedo kitbashes
Boltgun 2 brings us back into the fray, with more dangers in store for Malum Caedo.
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Davidoff The Track | F1 25's Braking Point 3 delivers more Butler drama than a Downton Abbey battle royale, but I wish it had pumped the brakes a bit more often
It’s very Tory racing family Jeremy Kyle, and there’s also some actual driving going on sometimes.
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Bad To The Bravil | “What if I was the bad guy?” Oblivion Remastered’s best new faction quests so far exist because a modder was doing evil stuff, and they’re now teasing “a secret project”
Also, it’ll take some work for the remaster’s modding scene to get to the next level without Bethesda helping "grease the wheels".
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Legend of Goro | Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut Red Light Raid Mode is baffling, totally on-brand, and a weirdly good fit as part of a Nintendo Switch 2 launch game
Here me out, this tacked-on multiplayer mode might actually justify some of the Switch 2’s more controversial features.
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Soul Trader | Following the breakout success of Metaphor Refantazio, Atlus’ only action-RPG gets a second lease of life on Switch 2 (and it’s pretty good, too)
Nearly 20 years later, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army proves that there’s a bit of life left in the peculiar spin-off series yet.
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BUDGET BALANCED | Nvidia wants the RTX 5060 to be your new 1080p daily driver GPU thanks to big frame-generation boosts
Nvidia’s newest entry-level card promises high frame rates and great performance on new games for $300 - but only if you turn on all of the performance-enhancing extras.
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Isn't It Wonderful? | However many Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering cards they release, it’ll never be enough
I wonder how the people behind the aggressively-mid FF Trading Card Game from Square Enix must be feeling.
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Duvaling Deeper | GTA 6 trailer 2 is here, so when‘s GTA 6 trailer 3 gonna drop? Don't worry, we've been rubbing our hot braincells together
Forget all that new info, I’ll never put away my diagram of lunar phases.
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Unreal Cool | The 00s is back, baby: EVE Vanguard, CCP Games' ambitious MMOFPS, channels some of the best bits of Quake, Unreal Tournament and classic Halo
A Flak Cannon, a Beam Rifle, and a charge pistol… why players of a certain age are going to lose their minds over Vanguard’s throwback weaponry.
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Mass Marketing | Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti finally brings a desirable new-generation GPU to the masses, but price remains a sticking point
Nvidia’s 5060 Ti is probably the best graphics card for those feeling an upgrade itch on a tighter budget - but only if you go for the 16 GB model.
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Good Stuff Bruma-ing | Oblivion Remastered has the potential to show us “the pinnacle of Elder Scrolls modding”, reckons the pioneer behind the first mod to edit its worldspace
“The bed showed up, floating, but the docks were nowhere to be found, and I realised the game was afoot.”
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Hot Ship | “Staying beautiful isn’t about chasing trends” Eve Online developer CCP explains why looking good is more than just skin deep for a ‘forever game’ in 2025
It’s all change in the world of GPU and graphics, these days. That’s why CCP Games is preparing “the foundations of Eve for the next decade of graphical tech”
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Also Van | EVE Vanguard, the MMOFPS that promises to “truly respect your time”, finally has a release date (of sorts): it’s coming to Steam Early Access next summer
Taking cues from Helldivers 2 and other persistent-world shooters, EVE Vanguard will finally show you its chops in 2026.
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DON’T WATCH | BrokenLore: Don’t Watch is a surreal indie horror that offers an intriguing and visceral tale about the effects of social withdrawal
Don’t Watch is the latest for indie horror anthology, BrokenLore, which deals with very real, grounded topics in a terrifying manner.
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New Lands | Borderlands 4 looks like the Destiny 3 we'll probably never get, and that shift is the best move Gearbox could have possibly made
It's a bold shift in a new direction, done at the perfect time.
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Arc Battlegrounds | Arc Raiders does so much to remind me of classic PUBG, and I can’t possibly think of a more flattering compliment
I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.
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Ayrton Simcade-a | Formula Legends is simcade racer aiming to outpace its competitors in a tough field with its unique take on classic F1 - preview
3DClouds’s next game is bringing back those V10s - and all the other engine sizes we love.
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Between the Lines | Do Borderlands 4 and Ghost of Yotei’s launch dates actually tell us anything about the GTA 6 release date? Here’s what we think
It's no secret the gaming world is trying to navigate around GTA 6, but recent news could help us narrow down that release window.
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Iron Sights | Arc Raiders is already one of the most polished and immediately satisfying extraction shooters, and it’s not even out yet
There’s a lot to love about Arc Raiders, but more than anything, I admire how well thought-out many of its mechanics are.
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Elephant in the Room | In preparation for Borderlands 4 I played through Borderlands 3, and I'm torn on how to deal with the Ava problem
Years late to the party? Absolutely. But wow, what on Earth do you do about Ava?
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Play in the Sandbox | Dune Awakening preview: a loving recreation of a beloved sci-fi property that offers more questions than answers, but it's a good start
Dune Awakening is about as loving an adaptation of the Herbert's universe as you could get, to a fault.
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The best co-op games to play in 2025
Whether you simply want some quick co-op fun or a lengthy campaign to embark on, we've got you and your friends covered with these co-op games.
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Racinema | F1 25 hands-on preview, part three: Braking Point 3 brings more Drive To Survive-ish drama, this time out front
Dom Toretto might not be an F1 driver, but this time it’s all about family.
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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are actually going live in the US today
Not even tariffs can stop gamers now.
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Bring Them Back | An innovative 'merge' system, decisions galore, and the branch into survival horror: Bloober Team on breaking new ground in Cronos The New Dawn
We sat down with Bloober Team to talk about what to expect from the upcoming sci-fi survival horror, Cronos: The New Dawn.
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One Last Run | Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a glorious send-off following its final update on PC, as players wonder “what’s next for Larian?”
One last hurrah for Baldur's Gate 3, as Larian moves onto to new ventures.
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Lilith Fans Assembly | Diablo 4 will help you pretend you have way more friends than you actually do with its bold, new... WhatsApp group?
Am I imagining things, or have we all just woken up to this bizarre trend of major brands now having their own WhatsApp groups?
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Shot in the Dark | As someone who hates extraction shooters, there's actually a very good reason I'm willing to give Marathon a shot
Bungie has been through a lot, but I still trust that those developers still working at the studio can make a killer new game, extraction shooter or no.
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Sim-ply Lovleh | F1 25 hands-on preview, part two: Drifting when you give it a bootful, but not spinning out as much
No more being dredged from the harbour: I can finally manage a lap of Monaco without full traction control on.
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Sweet Oblivion | Quick, come to the Meat Harbor: The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered is real, and it better have brought back the original’s best feature
Forget everything else, we need Mehrunes Dagon’s ludicrously-named corridors.
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Bloody Action | Hands-on: Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is NES-inspired, retro ninja action done right, and the perfect entrée to whet your appetite for Ninja Gaiden 4
In a preview of The Game Kitchen's next title, Ninja Gaiden loses a dimension, but keeps the quality.
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As Long As It Takes | Dune Awakening's delay sucks, but if the past few years of live service launches have taught me anything, it's that it's probably a good call
There's nothing that cripples the launch of an MMO than a bad first impression.