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Orbitals review

This habit is, first and foremost, a nice little character touch. We first meet this pair as wide-eyed tots, in a sumptuous hand-animated cinematic. Jumping forward 15 years on, not much seems to have changed. They’re still running around their starship home, taunting one another as they race: “You’re the slowest slowpoke ever!” This is […]

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As the legal hunt for the GTA 6 leaker continues, Take-Two reportedly tries another more secretive Discord subpoena, this time specifying individuals

"It now seeks more targeted information." The subpoena request, as reported by TorrentFreak, is the second one aimed at Discord. Take-Two previously filed subpoena requests targeting multiple companies whose products were used to store and disseminate the leaked GTA 6 footage, including Discord, Microsoft, and X. Following these filings, Discord said it had yet to

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Fable’s story will be ’15-20 hours’ long, according to its game director, although the game’s life systems are ‘limitless’

Throughout all of Fable’s showcases and demonstrations this year, one aspect of it has proved difficult to figure out—how big it’s going to be. The original Fable games were decently-sized, but not massive, and monster roleplaying games like Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3 have dramatically shifted expectations on what an RPG’s scope should be.

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With GTA 6 leaker hunt ‘rapidly evolving,’ Take-Two asks court to keep latest subpoena request sealed to avoid tipping off leakers

The Grand Theft Auto 6 leak party is presumably over: The Netflix showcase has wrapped, and Cyberleek has made off with more than $200,000 in a perfectly predictable yet somehow still very lucrative rug pull. I imagine the leaker is now looking for a good hole to hide in, and for their sake it better

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Some of WoW’s hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that’s on purpose, developers say

World of Warcraft’s developers are making some subtle shifts in dungeons and raids to help players with its more-difficult content, in the hopes that a variety of knock-on effects result, including increased participation in the game overall and a better balance of tanks, healers and damage dealers. In the case of WoW’s timed-dungeon Mythic Plus

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Haunted Chocolatier’s development has been ‘very productive’ in recent months, Eric Barone says: ‘Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do’

We find ourselves at the end of another month, and as ever, the passing phases of the moon leave us asking the same question: What’s going on with Haunted Chocolatier? Knowing all too well how the hungry masses clamor for details about his next game, Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has posted another of

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I added player-seeking hit squads to GTA 5, though the billion other mods I have installed keep getting in their way

It is high time I paid for my crimes. There are things I’ve done that can’t be forgiven, mostly relating to that time I drove a Chinese anti-air missile truck into Beverly Hills, and someone should make me face consequences for that. Alas, in GTA 5, no one will unless I make them. So I

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Blizzard doing ‘a thorough scrub’ of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come

Blizzard is scrubbing through its new World of Warcraft Mythic Plus Dungeon top-1% rankings for people who paid for carries, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas says. The timed dungeon mode offered its first-ever rewards at that level this past season in the Midnight expansion, which ended August 11. Unlike similar high-end rewards in

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