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There are a few gooduns in August’s Xbox Game Pass line-up, including a surprisingly sexy, and funny, furniture dating sim

Elsewhere, the surprisingly entertaining dating game Date Everything! arrives on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass. This is the game made by Critical Role alumni Robbie Daymond’s studio Sassy Chap, so it involves a lot of the Critical Role voice cast and their friends. The idea is brilliantly bizarre: you date items of

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Resident Evil Veronica remake already proving popular for Capcom, as wishlists reach an impressive milestone

Capcom revealed the news in a post on X, thanking players for their enthusiasm, and casually dropping links for the game’s store pages across the different platforms. Though far from having a one-to-one ratio with sales, wishlists are increasingly becoming an important metric. It helps publishers gauge interest, and on platforms like Steam, boosts the

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You can try the newly-launched Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 14 for free, right now, if you have a spare 117GB

Perhaps the best news is that the game arrives on Nintendo’s hybrid console with a free trial, which includes quite a bit of content: the base game and three pretty sizeable expansions in Heavensward, Stormblood and Shadowbringers. You can download this now, and play today, at absolutely no cost. You will, however, have to set

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Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced now

The long war is over. Justice is done. The revolution, the necessity of which Assassin’s Creed players have discussed for a long time, has taken place. Edward’s hateful blowpipe is vanquished. In a new patch for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft proudly declares that “The Blowpipe Can Now Be Hidden.” Players, it turns out,

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Don’t be alarmed if you get an ‘account banned’ message in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PS4 or PS5, you may not actually be banned

Though the ports have many technical shortcomings, one issue in particular has been a sticking point, and it is related to the game’s server security. Immediately at launch, players were exposed to the hacks and cheats plaguing the PS3 and Xbox 360 originals, but Activision has been making headway into preventing those exploits from ruining

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Stellar Blade boss completely misses the point of why people are upset with Blood Rain’s AI slop video: ‘The AI is not creating [Evie] from scratch’

Last week, developer ShiftUp released a video marketing its upcoming sequel Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. A so-called “music video” which was riddled with generative AI, from Evie’s harrowing grin to a very rubbish song with cringeworthy robotic vocals. The video has garnered a whole bunch of backlash—from myself included—as people wondered why on earth a

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The team behind our favorite PS2 emulator for Android just released a PS1 emulator

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. ARMSX2 is our new favorite PS2 emulator on Android, owing to its breakneck update pace, continuous performance improvements, and growing array of options. The team behind the app isn’t resting here, as it’s just released a PS1 emulator. Say hello to ARMSX1. ARMSX1

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s bad guy has ‘an edge of eroticism’, confirms Capcom dev — he’s ‘very alluring in the way that he moves’

As you can see in the above video, I recently travelled to Osaka, Japan, to go inside Capcom’s headquarters and play its upcoming action game, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, as well as talk to many of the lead devs who have worked on it. And, as part of my developer interviews, I spoke with

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Fake Roblox Xeno script launcher pushes infostealer, RAT malware

Fake Xeno Executor installers are infecting unsuspecting Roblox players with malware that provides remote access and steals sensitive information. Xeno Executor is a popular Roblox utility for running scripts that players can use to automate actions or run custom code on the platform, including cheats. The tool isn’t an official part of the game, so

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Communication is the biggest puzzle piece in chill co-op game Big Walk, so don’t take any shortcuts by using Discord

I played first-person co-op puzzle game Big Walk with strangers back in March and had an absolute gas. Naturally, it’s even better with friends: in two long sessions with my PC Gamer pals Tyler and Morgan, we’ve solved over a dozen puzzles, had twice as many laughs, and as you might expect, done a heck

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