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Grab 18 PC Games For $51 With Fanatical New February Deal
What better way to fight off that Valentine’s Day hangover than with a bunch of new games on Steam? Fanatical’s Platinum Collection Bundle for February includes 18 games to choose from--the more you add to your bundle, the deeper your discount gets. Add all 18, and you're picking up $376 of games for just $51. This month’s selection even includes 12 games that are making their
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Amazon's King Of Meat Is Shutting Down, Less Than A Year After Launch
It seems like more and more live-service games are dying or being put on life support within mere months of launch. The latest casualty is Amazon Game Studios and developer Glowmade's online multiplayer dungeon-crawler/party game King of Meat.
While King of Meat launched on October 7 of last year on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 in a massive marketing blitz--including prominent
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Future Diablo Games May Release Faster Than They Have In The Past
Diablo isn't a franchise known for frequent new releases, with only five games in 30 years, but that could change in the future.
In an interview with Variety, Diablo 4 executive producer and VP Gavian Whishaw teased Blizzard is looking to release
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New Arc Raiders Update Is The Hairiest One Yet
The upcoming Shrouded Sky update for Arc Raiders ushers in the next evolution of the game, and that includes facial hair. Developer Embark Studios has announced that the update, which releases on February 24, allows players to "become feared with a beard," as the studio put it.
Players will be able to deck out their solider with stubble when the update arrives at no extra cost, but to
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Xbox's Matt Booty Says "No Organizational Changes" Are Coming After Big Shakeup
Matt Booty, who just got promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer at Xbox, has signaled in a memo that the recent upheaval at Xbox may not lead to any layoffs at the company's collection of nearly 40 game development
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Bungie Pledges To Permanently Ban Marathon Cheaters
Marathon's official launch is just over a week away, and Bungie has a strong message for any would-be cheaters. Anyone caught cheating in the game will be immediately banned from Marathon by Bungie.
"Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances," wrote Bungie on X.
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007: First Light Aims To Channel Batman: Arkham Freeflow Combat With Uncharted Spectacle
James Bond has never been shy to get his knuckles bloody, and in IO Interactive's 007: First Light, the rookie MI6 agent will have the opportunity to get into several scraps. This makes for a big departure from IO's work on the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy--
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WoW Players Are Getting Banned From Pinterest For A Bizarre Reason
World of Warcraft players posting screenshots of their virtual homes on Pinterest as part of an official promotion are being banned from the social media site for spam.
Blizzard is hard at work promoting WoW's new player housing feature, and social media site Pinterest is another area where Blizzard is
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Paramount May Offer Even More Money For Warner Bros. Discovery
Last week, Netflix gave Warner Bros. Discovery a seven-day window to reopen talks with Paramount for a potential buyout. Netflix already has a deal in place to purchase WBD, but it appears that Paramount will dramatically increase its offer.
According to
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Golf Game That Lets You Run Down Friends With Carts Is Seeing Fast Success On Steam
Within two days, Super Battle Golf has already sold more than 100,000 copies on Steam. Developer Brimstone thanked players for the "absolutely amazing" milestone, while at the same time promising a content update for the online multiplayer game in the future.
Super Battle Golf launched
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