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The producer of the new Mortal Kombat film is annoyed that film reviewers are appraising it as a film

Mortal Kombat 2—the film, not the game—released earlier this week and reviews were mixed: games outlets like GamesRadar and IGN were generally favorable, but it copped a flogging in most other quarters. AV Club called it “dreck”, The Hollywood Reporter called it “tacky”, and Vulture called it “depressingly rizzless”. It’s a familiar story where game-to-film…

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Indie publisher New Blood has listened to over 1,000 voicemails left on its old-school tip line, including suggestions like ‘you ever think about making a game where you fight bugs?’

Back on April 1, cult indie studio New Blood unveiled a tip line for fans to call in and say, well, whatever. A month on, I’m happy to confirm it was no fleeting April Fools gag: The tip line is still up for whatever you might want to tell the creators of Dusk, Faith, Ultrakill,…

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GameStop-eBay saga gets weirder: CEO says he was suspended from eBay for selling stuff on eBay ‘to pay for eBay’

The strange tale of the GameStop CEO who wants to buy eBay took a turn for the weirder overnight. Just hours after putting up a pile of stuff up for auction, purportedly to help finance the acquisition—a fundamentally preposterous claim and one he’s clearly not making seriously, but we’ll get into that later—Ryan Cohen said…

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Path of Exile 2’s massive Return of the Ancients expansion will be its last major update before it leaves early access later this year: ‘I want to get this game finished, I really, really do’

Jonathan Rogers, game director of Path of Exile 2, is eager for all the questions about when the game will leave early access to finally stop. Its next update, Return of the Ancients, reworks the entire post-campaign grind into a guided experience with quests and boss fights, a huge overhaul that Rogers says will be…

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