Last Epoch comes to PlayStation 5 with major Orobyss Expansion

The critically acclaimed action-RPG Last Epoch is bringing transformative skill trees, deterministic crafting, and community-driven development to PlayStation 5. The time-bending ARPG will launch alongside its first major expansion, Last Epoch: Oryboss – and with it will come genre-defining skill customization, a deep rewarding loot system, and all previous seasonal content. Play Video You’ll journey…

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How QR Codes Are Changing Gaming Experiences

Gaming communities are known for embracing quick and clever ways to connect. From event check-ins to exclusive content drops, QRcode technology has quietly become a common thread. With different types of QR codes, developers can link digital content to physical spaces or special campaigns, turning a simple scan into part of the gameplay. Linking Real-World…

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Why the Arcade Era Still Shapes Gaming Today

Even when arcade cabinets started showing up in malls, pizza shops, and corner stores, they didn’t just offer entertainment. They created little hubs of competition and excitement where people gathered with pockets full of change and the hope of making it further than the last time. You’d see strangers leaning in to watch someone tackle…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s collector’s edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don’t use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god

World of Warcraft: Midnight is on the horizon, and you know what that means: the time to throw money at an ostentatious collector’s edition is almost upon us. Conveniently, Blizzard has just revealed what Midnight’s fanciest edition contains, and while I’m not vibing with it as much as I did with The War Within’s, there’s…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs ‘straight up turned down’ skin deals with ‘big, big brands’ following Tactical Beavis backlash

In 2023, our Morgan Park wrote about the phenomenon of Cosmetic Uglification, in which shooters of the modern era are inevitably swallowed by a rancid mire of crossover skins until they’ve lost all semblance of a cohesive visual identity. In the years since, things have only become more dire, culminating in Black Ops 6 reaching…

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Pokemon Company says Homeland Security’s use of its property in disturbing promotional video was unauthorized, but DHS doesn’t seem to care: ‘To arrest them is our real test, to deport them is our cause’

The Pokémon Company says the US government did not have permission to use Pikachu and other Pokémon content promotional videos for the Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection agencies posted to X—but what it’s going to do about it, if anything, remains to be seen. The first video, a montage of ICE agents and…

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How to watch today’s Sony State of Play, which will feature ‘anticipated third-party and indie titles’ and updates from first-party studios—but probably not Marathon

Sony’s back with another State of Play stream today, and has promised “nearly five minutes of gameplay” from Saros, the upcoming follow-up to bullet hell roguelike Returnal. The State of Play stream starts Wednesday, September 24 at 2 pm Pacific (see when it starts in your time zone here) and you can watch in the…

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