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The ‘Phunky Physics’ bundle is cooler than it sounds, with 9 great games including Hardspace: Shipbreaker and What the Golf? for just $13

“Phunky Physics” is a terrible name for a game bundle, and if I told you that Humble Bundle was offering just such a thing without elaborating, you’d be forgiven for closing this tab immediately. But if I told you that you can score the excellent Hardspace: Shipbreaker, along with What the Golf?, Totally Accurate Battle…

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Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare’s doomed live action shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: ‘It’s Anthem’s worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren’t adequately taken into account’

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah just released the second two-hour video in his tell-all Anthem trilogy, in which he’s chronicling his recollections about the production of the infamous BioWare live action shooter that’s due to go offline for good when its lifetime of development turmoil ends in January. Darrah’s first video covered Anthem’s earliest years…

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The US government is ‘looking at’ the connection between videogames and gun violence, because what else could it possibly be

Like a dog gnawing on a particularly tasty bone, the US government is once again trying to link violent videogames to violence in the real world. In a press conference following the release of the Make Our Children Healthy Again report conducted by the Make America Healthy Again commission—MAHA, of course—US secretary of health and…

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Feature: “The Bigger A Fan You Are…The More Averse You Are To Making Changes” – Final Fantasy Tactics Interview

We speak with Kazutoyo Maehiro and Hiroshi Minagawa. Boy, Square-Enix really wants us to party on our Switches like it’s… 1997. Because over the last few years, they’ve made three separate titles in a newly minted, old-school RPG franchise Octopath Traveler, and then there’s the upcoming Switch 2 release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the…

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9 metroidvanias to play if you’ve realized Hollow Knight: Silksong just isn’t for you

Everyone’s talking about Hollow Knight Silksong, and that’s understandable. It’s one of the most obsessively anticipated sequels in recent memory, and it’s a really fun metroidvania. It’s also a brilliant excuse to re-open the reliably polarising difficulty in games debate. I can’t remember there ever being this much buzz for an exploration platformer before, but…

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While we wait for Borderlands 4 to unlock, let’s make a definitive ranking of the series’ many musical cinematic intros

As synonymous with the Borderlands series as its trillions of guns, masked psychos, and dodgy vehicle controls are its iconic musical intro cinematics. Serving to acquaint us with four new Vault Hunters and the setting they’ll be gunning through, they’ve taken us everywhere from a bus driving across Pandora to a rocket hurtling through space….

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