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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls looks to have sold almost half a million copies in a week

These figures come from Rhys Elliott, the head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics. He posted Alinea’s findings on social media, claiming that around 485,000 copies have been sold between PlayStation 5 and PC. In terms of the split between platforms, Elliott says that PS5 players make up 74 percent of those sales, with Steam

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After this week’s Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they’ve figured out its full name – and it was hidden in Starfield all along

Earlier this week, Sharma – whose recent visit to developer Bethesda was met with a giant inflatable rat outside its offices as protests against Xbox’s devastating layoffs continue – teased that she’d just had a “live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6: ******** this morning.” The eight asterisks in her post naturally inspired players to

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Abandon single-player, move development to Saudi Arabia, “reduce labour”? Experts on what EA’s huge buyout debt could really mean

"The main goal then becomes paying back this debt." This on its own would likely be a major milestone in the company’s history. However, perhaps what is most important was not the fact EA was bought, but how it was bought. Rather than pay the full sum, EA was acquired through a leveraged buyout. Roughly

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OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming

I’ve only recently upgraded to an OLED monitor, but let me tell ya, I wish I’d done it sooner. This thing is gorgeous. Though it’s only recently we’ve seen prices really plummet for these excellent panels, which might go some way to explaining why sales are through the roof right now. According to analyst firm

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Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype for unreleased Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark

It’s been nearly seven years since the release of the Xbox Elite Series 2, which means we’re well overdue for a new one. It sure looks like that’s set to happen soon, as one Redditor just posted the motherlode of information on the unreleased pad—then their account mysteriously vanished and the thread was partially wiped

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Bethesda finally “looking into” patching Oblivion Remastered on PC, PS5 and Xbox amid praise for Switch 2 release

"We've heard your feedback asking for an additional patch for Oblivion Remastered". Those versions of the game continue to suffer from frame pacing and stuttering issues, as well as various bugs the developer never fixed. Oblivion Remastered’s initial release in April last year didn’t receive the post-launch support many expected for such a high-profile title,

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‘I would frankly have been happy to replace her with AI’ – extraordinary public spat between Saber CEO and writer “replaced with ChatGPT” intensifies

"That statement is remarkably pathetic for the CEO of any company to be making." Overnight, Saber Interactive co-founder and CEO Matthew Karch said to This Week in Videogames: “I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI. At least we would be dealing with someone programmed to be honest.” To which

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“The most offensive thing we see every time we boot up the game” Halo co-creator takes shots Campaign Evolved art direction

The latest criticism for Campaign Evolved comes from Halo co-creator and ‘father of Master Chief’ Marcus Lehto, who seems irritated by the changes developer Halo Studios has made to the ancient Forerunner technology that so much of the game is based on. Quick primer: the Halo ring you land on is actually one massive technological

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Twitch is training AI on livestreams, says it’s an opt out feature as “nobody would opt in”

This was immediately faced with pushback from the community of streamers and their communities. On the Twitch uservoice page, request to make these AI features optional is far-and-away the most popular request. One of the major demands following the announcement was why this feature was on by default, forcing users to manually go into the

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