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Following rumoured talks, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista has reportedly now signed as Kratos in Amazon’s God of War

Variety ran a story ‘confirming’ the news overnight, saying it had learnt this would be the case. It was also Variety that ran a story earlier in the month suggesting Bautista was in talks with Amazon to replace original Kratos actor Ryan Hurst, who tore his bicep while filming and couldn’t continue. The God of […]

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I’ve just finished reviewing AMD’s latest gaming CPU and I would genuinely considering switching back to Intel

I’ll get it clear right out of the gate: I think the AMD 3D V-Cache chips are absolutely the best choice for a PC gamer wanting to get the absolute most out of their system when it comes purely to silky gaming frame rates. They’re great CPUs, which use a hefty dollop of extra L3

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Mortal Shell 2 review

It starts with your character being woken up by a whisper, before a talking crow with a human skull (Souslikes!) sets up the mystery: telling you you’re not from this world, and that the people you’re about to meet aren’t like you. You walk through what initially seems to be a normal village festival. The

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Riot Games to end LoL fighting game 2XK0’s development and issue refunds, less than a year since launch

Announced on social media and through a lengthy blog post, the final patch for the game will be released in October. All in-game purchases made before the 20th August will be refunded by November, and servers will be kept online for the foreseeable future. All announced major additions – such as the new characters Lux

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Hardware spending in the US was so low in July that it nearly matched the 2020 Pandemic days when everything was out of stock

Over the course of the month, all console platforms sold fewer units than they did in July last year. Hardware spending dropped by 29 percent as a result. That decline is even more shocking than it appears. According to the report, overall spending on hardware in July dropped to a low that’s close to July

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15 minutes of Black Myth: Zhong Kui gameplay footage provide our first proper look at Wukong’s successor yet

What stands out to me in the footage – having played Wukong – is a larger focus on fighting non-boss enemies. Wukong had battles in between bosses, of course, but its world was sparsely populated, focusing almost entirely on boss fights. This may still be the case here, but from the footage, at least, there

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The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders’ developer has a quick workaround

If your games started unexpectedly crashing after getting a Windows update on or after August 11, you aren’t alone. And Microsoft says it’s looking into the problem. Microsoft reports the following “symptoms” popped up for “a limited number of games”: Microsoft has only confirmed crashes in Arc Raiders, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals

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“I don’t know if they will keep funding that one” – Former EA manager doesn’t believe the next Mass Effect will survive Saudi takeover

News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on Aug. 20, 2026, 8:30 a.m. Follow Mass Effect 5 Inside and outside Electronic Arts, everyone is bracing for what’s sure to be a very different company now that it’s fully owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. But the fate of one game in particular may be

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