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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 11/22/2016

War rides again. An apocalyptic action game makes its return on PS4 in Darksiders: Warmastered Edition. Prepare for a battle that will rend the Earth. Remastered for PS4, Darksiders: Warmastered Edition tells the story of the first Horseman of the Apocalypse. Accused of breaking sacred law, War is stripped of his great power and cast…

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Valve doesn’t sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: ‘We don’t think Steam should be pay-to-win’

As spotted by GamesRadar, the Steamworks Development channel posted a video earlier this month explaining the ins and outs of how games snowball into surprise hits like Dave the Diver—which we gave a smashing 91 back in July.  The talk’s given by Erik Peterson of Steam’s business team, and it’s an enlightening little journey through…

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‘Who planned this garbage?’ Streamers unite in slamming the official Twitch Marvel Rivals tournament for last-minute rule changes and unbalanced chaos

Over the weekend, Marvel Rivals put on one of the first tournaments that the new hero shooter has seen in conjunction with Twitch, and while it was certainly set out to be a big success, some of the streamers involved had some not-so-nice things to say about it. Marvel Rivals tier list: Best characters for…

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WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14’s dated furniture placement into the dirt

World of Warcraft’s getting its own player housing, which’ll be dropping either on—or just a little before—the release of its next expansion, Midnight. Blizzard’s been drip-feeding details over the past few months, mostly by subtly elbowing Final Fantasy 14 for the woes of its own system. The styling-on-Square Enix is proceeding apace. In a blog…

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‘We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping’—Dune: Awakening’s PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies

Dune: Awakening’s PvP meta has evolved—on the sand-blasted lands of Arrakis, one weapon has been dominating all others. That weapon is ‘let’s repeatedly try and squish someone with our ornithopters like we’re the world’s most inefficient flock of seagulls fighting over a single chip’. As observed by Bombe18 on the game’s subreddit, vehicles in Dune:…

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