Sega just accidentally leaked its own sales numbers, and somehow Sonic Frontiers sold more than the last two mainline Yakuzas combined, but Persona 5’s putting the rest of the stable to shame

First reported by VGC, Sega Sammy Holdings⁠—Sega’s delightfully-named parent company⁠—mistakenly uploaded sales numbers for 11 major games to a public page on the company website. ResetEra user –R uploaded the full table to the forum, allowing us to still peep those numbies after Sega took the original page down. The original table charts earnings by…

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Digital Foundry Is “Happy” With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is “Problematic”

Display has “blurring characteristics that are easily worse than the 2017 Switch’s display”. The tech boffins over at Digital Foundry have delivered their final verdict on Switch 2, and it’s mostly positive—but the console’s LCD screen has been found wanting. In his review, Digital Foundry boss and games media veteran Richard Leadbetter says that, overall,…

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Elden Ring Nightreign modders are already going ham with custom skins, including Optimus Prime, Stellar Blade’s Eve, and my #1 most-wanted outfit from Dark Souls

User Orange on YouTube caught my eye with a 12-minute showcase of some of the most impressive modded skins players have cranked out for Elden Ring Nightreign, which include characters from other franchises, as well as yet more Dark Souls throwbacks. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, they’re effectively inaccessible. All the skin replacement mods…

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A criminally underrated action game with a soundtrack I’m still listening to 9 years later is on sale for just 2 bucks on Steam, and I already bought it again

Ahead of Steam’s Summer Sale next week, The Game Bakers’ excellent 2016 bullet hell dueling game Furi is having a little sale of its own. The normally $20 game can be had for just $2, and I’m taking the opportunity to buy the dang thing again myself. Former PC Gamer editor James Davenport gave Furi…

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Back Page: Every Game Should Have A Cow

No bull. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on the internet,…

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Pathologic 3’s time travel system will let players ‘explore the unknown boldly and without fearing permanent ruin’ and that makes me way more inclined to play it

Sorry Pathologic 2 fans, but I am one of those people, the ones who say how much they like the look of Ice-Pick Lodge’s pestilent immersive sim, but wish it was more willing to meet them halfway on the challenge front. It’s not simply that Pathologic 2 is hard. I don’t mind a game kicking…

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