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Samantha Nelson

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 hits the mark by putting characters before plot

From the beginning of its 2022 launch, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds offered a different approach compared to previous entries in the franchise. Tapping into nostalgia with a prequel to the original ’60s Star Trek, Goldsman and his co-showrunner, Henry Alonso Myers, provided fresh spins on the original show’s most famous characters and minor players […]

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Patricia Hernandez

The Bell Bearing Hunter boss fight is terrorizing Elden Ring Nightreign players

Everyone’s on edge the moment that long HP bar appears and Elden Ring Nightreign’s choir rises into a crescendo. Even with a group of three people, boss fights are meant to be challenging in a Souls game. Yet few enemy encounters fill the community with as much dread as the Bell Bearing Hunter. It’s gotten […]

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Eddie Makuch

Red Dead Actor's Next Role Is Totally Unexpected

Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption II, has revealed his newest project--and it's out soon. It's not another western, but instead a game about cats.

Clark is lending his voice to Ultra Mega Cats, a PvE co-op shooter "where badass cats battle waves of enemies in explosive arenas." Clark is voicing the feline Clint, and he described his work on the game as "another wild ride in the gaming world." Clint is a cowboy cat who dual-wields pistols, so while this role is...

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Jason Fanelli

Towa And The Guardians Of The Sacred Tree Is A Whimsical Roguelite Bursting With Personality

When I heard I'd only be getting 15 minutes to try Bandai Namco's newly announced roguelite Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree, I was slightly perturbed. Fifteen minutes, after all, isn't a lot of time to fully evaluate a game, especially at an event with demos scattered in every direction.

Some genres, however, are able to show off their best attributes in a short amount of time, and as I've now learned, roguelites are chief among them. In just a quarter of an hour, Towa and her...

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Alex Newhouse

Iconic Narrator Of Dark Souls 1 and 3 Has Passed Away

Pik-Sen Lim, the narrator of the opening cinematics for Dark Souls and Dark Souls III, has passed away. Known for her appearances in British television series in addition to her role in Dark Souls, she was 80 years old.

Lim's role as the Dark Souls narrator is iconic in the gaming community. With an ethereal and ominous intonation, Lim introduced players to the enigmatic Dark Souls lore and set the tone for the creepiness of the game's universe. Check out the opening cinematic for Dark Souls...

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Cameron Koch

Nexus Mods Changing Owners After Two Decades But Will Remain "Community-First," Founder Says

Nexus Mods, PC gaming's premier destination for mods, is changing hands after almost 24 years. Site founder Robin Scott, aka DarkOne, announced the change in ownership but didn't make clear who the new owners are.

In a post on Nexus Mods, Scott doesn't explicitly state who the site's new owners are, only that it took many months of meetings and face-to-face talks to find a new owner that would "respect the myriad intricacies of both Nexus Mods as a business and the wider modding community."...

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Blair Marnell

This Seemingly Abandoned 2023 Shooter Is Getting A New Update

Two years ago, BattleBit Remastered caught on after its early-access release and it was briefly one of the most popular shooters online. BattleBit's player count had dramatically dropped since 2023 and the game was seemingly abandoned. Now, however, it appears the game could find a new lease on life with a forthcoming update.

A very short teaser for BattleBit Remastered's Operation Overhaul has been shared by the game's publisher and co-developer, SgtOkiDoki. There's not much to go in the...

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Darryn Bonthuys

Avatar: The Last Airbender And Korra Blu-Ray Box Set Is Only $33 At Amazon

One of the best animated epics of the 2000s, Nickelodeon's Avatar anime series, is now available at a steal of a price on Amazon. This collector's edition Blu-ray set contains the complete runs of The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. It's up for grabs for only $33.18, which is well over 50% off its original $98 list price.

See at Amazon Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra Blu-ray collection

This is an 18-disc collection that includes all episodes of the two...

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Alex Newhouse

Shadow Cloud-Gaming Service Launches New High-End Neo Cloud PC Today

The cloud-gaming service Shadow, which provides cloud computational resources for gamers as well as professionals, has launched a new high-end machine. Called Neo, this new machine runs the equivalent of an Nvidia 4060 GPU and is a free upgrade for users who already subscribe to Shadow's high-end service.

The company states that this new cloud PC will facilitate "up to 150%" more performance in gaming-related tasks, alongside a 200% boost in "pro software" performance. Its new components...

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Michael McWhertor

Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast

Christopher Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, previously the creative director and the game director respectively for Dungeons & Dragons, have joined forces with Critical Role, the company announced Monday. Perkins and Crawford are joining Critical Role’s tabletop games-publishing arm Darrington Press to develop new game concepts, innovative mechanics, and future iterations of expansions across the publisher’s […]

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Patricia Hernandez

Nexus Mods is being sold after 24 years by burned-out owner

If you’re a PC gamer who has ever altered a single-player game, you’ve probably ventured into Nexus Mods, the largest repository of user-made mods on the internet. Even if you haven’t, the website’s impact on the industry is undeniable: Enormous games and franchises, from Skyrim to The Witcher, have tapped users for their own modding […]

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Claire Lewis

The Witcher 4 is being developed with a ‘console-first’ mindset, CDPR devs say

CD Projekt RED is taking a “console-first” approach to The Witcher 4‘s development in the hopes of avoiding another buggy, Cyberpunk-esque launch disaster, according to a recent interview with Digital Foundry.  In a tech demo shown earlier this month at the State of Unreal showcase, the studio showed off the game, playing the demo on […]

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Marc Griffin

Borderlands 4 will be sold at $70 after all

Borderlands 4 is now up for pre-order, and the price is $69.99, not the once-declared $79.99. Publisher 2K Games revealed the news on Monday, finally putting to rest the tired conversation surrounding Borderlands 4‘s potential retail price. In a press release, 2K disclosed what players will receive as a pre-order bonus of the game’s standard […]

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Steven Petite

Amazon Carries Nintendo Games Again, Including New Switch 2 Exclusives

Nintendo Games at Amazon

New and upcoming Switch 2...

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Eddie Makuch

79% Of Switch 2 Buyers In The US Also Bought Mario Kart World

The Switch 2 launched on June 5 and sold 3.5 million units worldwide out of the gate, but how did it perform in the US specifically? Mat Piscatella of Circana shared that the system is projected to have sold 1.3 million-1.35 million units during its first week in the US. That's only Circana's initial projection of sales, but Piscatella said it represents a "helluva great start" for the console.

Piscatella shared other statistics like how 79% of people who bought a Switch 2 also obtained a...

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Eddie Makuch

Borderlands 4's Price Has Been Announced, And It's Lower Than Some Expected

2K Games has officially announced the price point for Borderlands 4, and it's not $80. In a blog post, the publisher confirmed that preorders are now available, and the game's standard edition is $70.

Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but with Mario Kart World going for $80 and The Outer Worlds launching later this year at $80, many are wondering how many other games will follow suit. The pricing discussion for Borderlands 4 was further elevated by Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford, who...

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Blair Marnell

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Exploring More Localization Options, New Content

Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been one of 2025's most intriguing success stories, with more than 3.3 million copies sold to date. Thus far, Sandfall's Clair Obscur updates have been focused on bug fixes and quality-of-life adjustments, but the dev team also wants players to know that it's considering adding "a wide range of future improvements" including "new content."

In a message shared on Blusky, Sandfall writes that it is "actively assessing" what to put in the...

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Darryn Bonthuys

Borderlands 4 Post-Launch Plans Include New Vault Hunters, But They Won't Be Free

Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has outlined its post-launch plans for the game, which include new Vault Hunters. These new additions to the roster won't be free, however, as they'll be added to the game through the $130 Super Deluxe Edition. Gearbox has not yet revealed if they'll be available as standalone purchases, but it's likely that the new Story Packs or an upgrade can be purchased for the Standard or Deluxe Edition of Borderlands 4.

In addition to the new Story Packs adding more...

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Isaac Rouse

First My Hero Academia season 8 trailer teases the end of an era

My Hero Academia season 8 will be the final season of the series, and as such, the latest trailer that has just been released marks the end of an era for the popular anime based on the manga by Kohei Horikoshi. The trailer above teases a few final conflicts, including the end of the battle […]

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Demi Williams

Here's Why The Witcher 4 Is Being Developed With A Console-First Approach

Following the reveal of The Witcher 4 tech demo earlier this month, CD Projekt Red has shared why it has decided to focus on developing the game for consoles first, rather than for PC.

In case you missed it, the State of Unreal showcase offered us the first in-engine look at The Witcher 4 by highlighting the new, explorable region of Kovir, a brand-new look at the game's protagonist, Ciri, while also showing off the many features of Unreal Engine 5, which the game will utilize rather than the...

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