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Pokemon fan game turns Kanto into Megabonk in your browser
PokeBonk brings Megabonk-style survival to your browser for free, letting players battle Pokemon hordes, collect upgrades, and evolve their partners.
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New “FriendSLAP” game is all about keeping a balloon in the air
Keep It Up! puts a balloon-slapping twist on the friendslop genre, and its demo has already passed 500,000 downloads ahead of launch.
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Apex Legends star ImperialHal says the game “sucks” now and has lost its identity
Apex Legends star ImperialHal has hit out at the battle royale, claiming it has lost its “identity” over the last year.
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Addictive browser game turns Teamfight Tactics into Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball fans have created a new game that combines the characters of FighterZ with the strategic gameplay of Teamfight Tactics, and you can play it for free in your browser.
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Dev cancels ‘zombie shooter’ game after backlash over homeless people depiction
Developer Pierre-Louis Biojout removed his Tenderloin Night Shift zombie shooter after backlash over its depiction of homeless people as enemies.
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Fighting game legend SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art
The competitor was advertised as a special guest at Nexcon 2026, taking place November 14–15 in Norman, Oklahoma.
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The latest game event to fall afoul of US visa rules is a live concert for horse girl racer Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Umamusume: Pretty Derby has turned out to be one of the most popular games in the world, partly due to being a gacha game and partly due to making pretty girls out of very real Japanese racehorses (which introduces a unique mourning when the real horse passes away and the anime girl lives on). A new kind of mourning faces the Umamusume fanbase now, as an upcoming stop on the game's The Stage: World Tour at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater has been cancelled right before it was supposed to open this week. The apparent cause? The US visa system. Read more
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Phantom Blade Zero devs are happy they "didn't have to make everything 100% balanced"
We visited S-Game in Beijing to speak to Phantom Blade Zero's director about the game's 30 weapons and how they worked to balance them all.
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Half-Life inspired survival game Abiotic Factor has a packed year ahead, and it deserves even more love than it gets
The year two Abiotic Factor roadmap carries the survival game into 2027 with community-led improvements, free updates, and a DLC expansion.
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S-Game "already has some ideas" for Phantom Blade Zero sequels, expansions, and animations
During a trip to Beijing to visit S-Game and play Phantom Blade Zero, I spoke to the game's director about plans for the series beyond the game.
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A puzzle game where you must avoid doing the most awkward of things: facing someone while riding an elevator
You know when you follow someone into the elevator and when they turn around to face the doors, you choose to stand still and instead meet their eyes? No, of course you don't. Everyone knows that when you're in a lift you don't under any circumstances face other people in the lift unless you know them and you're already in a conversation. Just yesterday I got into the lift with someone I sit one desk over from in the office. I dutifully looked at my phone the entire time until we were safely out of the building. Well, in the puzzle game How To Ride Elevators Like A Human you play a helpful ali
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Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare's closure: 'it's utter bulls**t'
The recently retired producer of System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Deus Ex, and so many more wants to know why "the folks in suits" aren't losing their jobs.
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Epic announces game jam where you have to use AI, then walks back the requirement
The Unreal Engine and Fortnite company has extended the public a many-fingered invitation.
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Free Steam game only lets one person play at a time while everyone else watches
A free Steam platformer lets one stranger play at a time, and 540 players sent 85,000 chat messages in 17 days.
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Nintendo eShop game pulled after hacker uses it to jailbreak Switch 2 & put Hatsune Miku in Mario Kart
A researcher says he jailbroke the Switch 2 through a Switch 1 coding game, and SmileBASIC 4 has left the eShop.
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Game of the Week – Oops, The Witcher 3 Remastered is my Game of the Year
Here's why you should play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt now that the remaster has landed
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BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect game would've learned from Baldur's Gate 3 and The Witcher to deliver "a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has"
EA has closed its longtime studio partner BioWare, the iconic development house behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, impacting around 50 staff who were in pre-production on the next Mass Effect game. In the aftermath of EA's decision, one of those affected has shared a little about the project, claiming it would have featured unprecedented levels of player freedom and choice reactivity. Read more
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'I'm forever grateful to BioWare': 16 game developers share the moment a BioWare game inspired them to join the industry
BioWare was the catalyst for a generation of game development careers.
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It's our new daily game fixation and we all stink at it: Can you guess how much used cars cost?
Like Wordle, but it's about pricing used cars.