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Steam Next Fest’s growing demo catalogue and rising AI-generated content are making discovery harder for players and visibility tougher for independent developers.
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Project Helix could make Microsoft’s next Xbox its most expensive console yet, with reported costs of $1,200 to $1,800 before any subsidy.
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Magic: The Gathering is powering Hasbro’s latest results, with new expansions, licensed crossovers and strong player spending driving remarkable growth.
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DC’s Green Lantern: Doomed Cosmos turns Hal Jordan and the Corps into battered cosmic soldiers in a grim six-issue Elseworlds war story.
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Microsoft reportedly wants a new Xbox handheld by the 2027 holiday season, but disagreements over Windows could shape its final software experience.
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Fallout 4: FEVer Dreams is an official Bethesda-backed Creation featuring FEV lore, puzzles, returning protagonists and a new adventure across PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC.
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Microsoft may restructure Xbox Game Pass into a more flexible service with optional cloud, multiplayer and console-game add-ons.
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A Blade Runner 2049 crossover in Love and Deepspace has reignited debate over Valko’s removal, with fans questioning the event’s timing and themes.
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Kingdom Hearts’ early chapters gave Final Fantasy characters room to matter, creating a crossover balance that later entries rarely matched.
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Microsoft’s Project Helix Xbox could reportedly cost up to $1,800, while a new handheld remains planned for 2027 amid internal software disagreements.
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The strong PlayStation return of Black Ops 1 and 2 has revived debate about crunch, residuals and whether developers should share in legacy game revenue.
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Modern Warfare 4 combines polished shooting and blockbuster set pieces with a parry mechanic that disrupts the campaign’s momentum.
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From classic destruction to selective exile and graveyard tricks, these Magic: The Gathering board wipes can completely reshape a crowded battlefield.
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Fallbearers turns Victorian coffin carrying into a chaotic physics challenge, blending QWOP-style controls, co-op comedy and hazards into Steam Next Fest’s standout demo.
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Henry Cavill and Mike Flanagan’s Warhammer 40,000 series faces a daunting adaptation, with decades of lore and thousands of years of fictional history to navigate.
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Shrek 2 Remastered arrives on modern consoles and PC on 10 November, adding visual upgrades, online co-op, Photo Mode and a playful GTA 6-style trailer.
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Emerald City Games is adapting the Red Rising board game for digital platforms in 2027, with solo AI, six-player multiplayer and all 112 cards.
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Midnight Mass turns vampire horror into a searching drama about grief, faith, guilt and mortality, making it Mike Flanagan’s strongest Netflix miniseries.
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VisionQuest episode 4 introduces Jocasta, a ruthless synthezoid with a new origin tied to Tony Stark, Ultron and a dangerous Marvel Comics legacy.
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VisionQuest introduces JIM, Marvel’s original Human Torch, connecting the MCU’s Vision story with a forgotten synthetic hero from the 1939 comics.
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VisionQuest reveals that F.R.I.D.A.Y. ran a quintillion calculations to save Tony Stark, adding a heartbreaking new layer to his Endgame sacrifice.
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IDW’s Star Trek: The Kelvin Era collection revisits the alternate timeline with the 2009 film adaptation, Countdown and Nero’s backstory.
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Find every “Stranded” keypad location and code in Modern Warfare 4, including the clues, routes and rewards hidden across the open-world section.
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A bizarre escape plan in Critical Role Campaign 3 pushed Matthew Mercer and Bells Hells into one of the show’s funniest improvised encounters.
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A chain of haystack-game releases has exposed difficult questions about AI-assisted cloning, code reuse and the growing pressure on independent developers.
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A reported PlayStation 6 memory bill exceeding US$680 could push Sony’s next console beyond US$1,000 as component costs continue rising.
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Penguin Colony turns Lovecraftian cosmic horror into a sharply funny Antarctic adventure about adorable birds, Nazi hubris and the limits of human curiosity.
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Decomp.dev has closed after AI tools accelerated video game decompilation and, in its view, weakened the collaborative culture behind the work.
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Pinball Expo 2026 showcased major new releases, boutique tables, homebrew projects, seminars and a surprise Stern announcement for pinball fans worldwide.
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MrBeast has invested $250,000 for 55% of Ball 2, an AI-powered sensor ball pitched on Shark Tank by cousins Andrew Brown and Kevin Langdon.
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From Gravity Rush 2 to Concrete Genie, these underrated PS4 games deliver inventive worlds, unusual mechanics and memorable experiences still worth discovering.
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From alien conspiracies to zombie outbreaks, these nine DLC expansions took bold creative risks and delivered experiences that rivalled or surpassed their base games.
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Aardman’s Pokémon stop-motion series follows Sirfetch’d and Pichu through Galar, arriving on Disney XD and Disney Plus sometime in 2027.
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A rare Halloween reread reveals why one 1994 Calvin and Hobbes superhero parody remains the strip’s most unsettling and controversial comic.
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Years before the famous television special, Charles Schulz developed the Great Pumpkin through comic strips that made Linus’ belief even funnier.
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The supernatural drama Angel is free to stream on Tubi, offering five seasons of darker detective stories, horror, comedy and unforgettable character arcs.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II delivers spectacular animation and brutal action, but its scattered stories struggle to recreate the emotional force of the first season.
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Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai remains a powerful historical epic about redemption, cultural change and the cost of modernisation before it leaves HBO Max.
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Apu returns to The Simpsons after almost nine years, with Sunil Malhotra taking over the role in a self-aware season 38 episode.
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island revived a fading franchise by introducing genuine monsters, sympathetic zombies and a clever supernatural mystery in 1998.
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