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Playing Mass Effect spiritual successor Exodus was the best kind of surprise

After 45 minutes hands-on time and a lengthy chat with the developer, the sci-fi RPG seems more promising than ever. Exodus, for a quick story refresher, takes place around 40,000 years from now, focusing on protagonist Jun Aslan – a sort of evolutionary bridge between humans and an advanced, genetically engineered form of humans known […]

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DLSS 5 is called ‘DLSS Neural Rendering’ in the NBA 2K27 graphics options, and I think I smell a rebrand of Nvidia’s controversial graphics tech

If you happen to pick up a copy of NBA 2K27, in your eagerness to try out the first official implementation of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI image tech, you won’t find it labelled as such in the settings menu. Instead, it appears as a simple on/off toggle under the label “DLSS Neural Rendering.” And while

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Something strange is happening to the Starcraft website, as BlizzCon inches ever closer

The website, which currently promotes Starcraft Remastered, is showing jittering text and background art the moment you click on it. Scrolling down, the same effect is causing distortion for embedded videos of Starcraft Remastered gameplay. Something is clearly going on, but given there’s no flashing ‘Starcraft 3’ or anything obvious like that, what this is

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No Law was one of the most exciting games I saw at Gamescom year: a cyberpunk immersive sim that solves one of Deus Ex’s biggest problems

But first, what is No Law? It’s a first person FPS set in a cyberpunk setting. That topline description does the game a disservice: it is an intelligently built immersive sim from Swedish developer Neon Giant that not only freshens up a setting that’s starting to feel a bit played out, but also offers solutions

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Xbox places monthly time limits to its paid cloud gaming service, insists only a fraction of players will be impacted

Once players run into these time limits, the blog post explains they’ll be able to buy more directly from the Xbox store. The exact pricing details have not yet been revealed, but it’s written that pricing may vary by market. Xbox justifies these incoming monthly limits in the blog by pointing to the fact that

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a physical version, but it will require an internet connection to download

“An internet connection is required to download additional game data in order to play the physical version of the game.” It is not yet clear whether the game will be partly on-disc, or whether the physical item will act as a license unlock, effectively, with the user needing to download all 100GB+ of the game

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World of Warcraft fans so eager to find confirmation of “Classic Plus”, they’ve dug “wow 2” evidence out of Blizzards’ backend

News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Sept. 2, 2026, 1:26 p.m. Follow World of Warcraft Classic Prioritise us on Google World of Warcraft fans are currently obsessing over colours, as dataminers pull hues from Blizzard’s website that are labelled under a curious “wow 2” tag. This, some believe, could be an indication of

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September’s first wave of Xbox Game Pass games revealed, and it brings RuneScape to console for the first time

Dragonwilds’ arrival is quietly a rather monumental moment for RuneScape, for it represents the first time a RuneScape game has appeared on console. But to be clear: this is not the age-old MMO, it’s a brand new open-world survival crafting game in the vein of Valheim or Enshrouded – that kind of thing. Dragonwilds has

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Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis isn’t even out yet, but already it feels like an old relic – in all the wrong ways

Unlike Chris’ “strangely double-A” hands-on time with Legacy of Atlantis earlier this year, its Gamescom showing was strictly hands-off; a “first look” at developer Flying Hog Games’ reinterpretation of Greece – a location that comes roughly a quarter of the way into the original game. And for this latest showing, Crystal Dynamics, which is overseeing

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