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It’s Helldivers 2’s Liberty Day, so break out your shovels and play Arrowhead’s patriotic new Whack-a-Terminid browser game before it’s gone

It’s Oct. 26—the day Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out, and also Helldivers 2’s in-universe holiday Liberty Day, celebrating all the times we spent together splattering the stars with blood and burying any dissent beneath busted-up robot parts. It’s enough to make a man shed a tear into his liber-tea, and if you can…

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Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur’s Gate-inspired RPG doomed by ‘bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay’

Paradox has always dabbled in a smorgasbord of styles, especially when you consider all its published games, but its in-house efforts are almost all grand strategy games where you paint real-world provinces your favorite color. But before it had solidified that reputation, it was trying to make a name in other genres. Trying, and failing…

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The Outer Worlds 2’s weirdest weapon is a flashing rainbow sword that turns combat into a rhythm game I’m terrible at

It’s fair to say that The Outer Worlds 2 loves its weird weapons. From the first moment you step foot on Paradise Island, you’ll start discovering all sorts of strange murder contraptions, from a sniper rifle that fires sneaky explosive bolts you detonate when you reload, to a pistol that infects enemies with a contagious…

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Darktide’s narrative will be expanded as part of future updates: ‘We are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game’

When Darktide’s Arbites Class DLC arrived, it came alongside a free update called The Battle for Tertium, which added a campaign mode at long last. Rather than the story coming to a halt once the prologue ended, players had the option to be guided through missions with bespoke voiceover, cutscenes, even unique enemy spawns to…

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