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Arc Raiders rats are cheating the matchmaking system by throwing themselves in front of friendly fire

Embark has been on a bit of a matchmaking kick recently. It announced some weeks ago that Arc Raiders would be getting a more thorough system which takes into account specific player behaviour across solo, duo, and trio lobbies as well as a more nuanced look at self-defence. Both are solid updates to the game […]

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You can now play Pokemon Blue, Red, and Yellow directly on Android (unofficially)

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Pokémon games are among the most popular titles to emulate on Android, as the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance entries in particular can run on just about any device. That hasn’t stopped someone from unofficially porting the first few Pokémon games to

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Marvel Tōkon devs vow to fix performance issues for launch day next week: ‘To our PC players, message received’

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls held a beta the past weekend, finally giving PC players a chance to play Sony’s superhero tag fighter before launch (and a second opportunity for those on PS5). It was short but sweet, reaching an all-time peak of 33,233 concurrent players on Steam alone—just beating out Street Fighter 6’s beta player

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Soulslike game Wuchang is officially getting a sequel developed by its creator’s new studio after the original team reportedly disbanded

While we weren’t too hot on the 2025 soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, it was a hit for Chinese developer Leenzee and publisher 505 Games, reaching five million players across all platforms. However, a report from the Chinese publication Gamersky earlier this year claimed that the game’s director and producer, Xia Siyuan, had been fired from

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FF14’s new zone has a creepy backrooms void tucked just underneath it, filled with horrible milky ruins and what I deem to be far too many arms

Final Fantasy 14’s latest patch has dropped, and it’s introduced the North Horn—the next and final step in this expansion’s “exploration zone”, which has been a much-needed boon to the feeling of jolly cooperation I’m trying to get out of an MMO. This expansion is an entirely new map, filled with new Phantom Jobs to

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The next game on GOG’s preservation list would be your favourite ARPG if it hadn’t released the same year as Diablo 2, and it’s on sale now

Ah, NOX. Poor NOX. Westwood’s 2000 ARPG last graced our pages three years ago, as one of eight PC gaming classics that are still worth playing today, where Russell Adderson wrote that it “might have been everyone’s favorite ARPG” had it not, you know, come out in the year 2000—just a few months before Diablo

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The Last of Us multiplayer mod has hit a ‘big milestone’ as it prepares for launch in September

One of the greatest tragedies in Sony’s live-service culls was the cancellation of The Last of Us Factions, the standalone sequel to the surprisingly great multiplayer mode from the original PS3 game. While Sony is still sending live-service games over the top despite the 180 in philosophy, this beloved multiplayer component is officially dead in

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WoW Classic’s latest patch is terrorizing hardcore players with bugged piles of underground enemies, and it’s likely due to a decades-old quirk of Blizzard programming

If you’re a WoW Classic player, you might want to tread carefully if you’re leveling in certain parts of Kalimdor. As reported by players over on Reddit (via WoWHead), the latest patch seems to have caused piles of bugged enemies to spawn beneath the ground in a specific spot in the Stonetalon Mountains, posing a

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Silent Hill: Townfall takes place in ‘the perfect storm’—a remote Scottish town that stands on the edge of the age of the internet

What a fantastic time to be a horror fan. We’ve got the most amazing films coming every which-way, countless new indie games to enjoy, and the revitalisation of some of the best horror series gaming has, one of which being Silent Hill with its upcoming game Silent Hill: Townfall. Part of Silent Hill’s revitalisation is

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