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Last month, a Steam listing emerged for Pickmon, an upcoming creature-collecting survival game that gained immediate attention through the Olympian ballsiness of its visual knockoffery. Pickmon’s trailers and marketing imagery featured designs with near-identical similarity to characters, creatures, and objects from Pokémon, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Overwatch, and even Palworld—which, infamously, had sparked its own controversy…

What is it? A cyberpunk action game with more spills than thrills. Expect to pay $40/£35 Developer One More Level Publisher 505 Games Reviewed on GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 3750H, 16GB RAM Multiplayer No Link Official site The heart of the first game is still here, beating fast and loud. You still…

Microsoft’s tireless push to insert its Copilot AI functionality into almost everything continues this week with Copilot Mode for its Edge browser. For now, it’s an “experimental” feature that’s free to use or disable. By default it seems the feature won’t be turned on. “If you choose not to turn on Copilot Mode, you can…

Bungie released Marathon’s big mid-season update just a few days ago, and it’s packed full of heavily-requested changes (plus a bunch of new things we didn’t even know we wanted). There are more unique weapons to find outside of Cryo Archive, the CARRI event designed to incentivise cooperation, an experimental pseudo-battle royale mode that’s a…

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Published a preview of Borderlands 4 (it seems alright!) and listened to classic Debbie Deb single “Lookout Weekend” several times. Rocket League released July 7, 2015, and with its big 10th birthday around the corner, Psyonix has dedicated the latest season to celebrating the milestone. Has…

There’s more bad news out of struggling gaming conglomerate Embracer: The company has confirmed that approximately 50 employees are being laid off from Chorus developer Fishlabs, and is also reportedly looking at closing TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design completely. Fishlabs is best known for the well-received “sentient starfighter” sim Chorus, but it’s also had a…

I see my quarry across the laundry room: two armed guards ready to put this whole place on high alert if they see me. I slip behind the out-of-order soap dispenser and unscrew the back. There’s four bars of soap. Jackpot. Along the first patrol route, I slide a bar of soap. He slips and…