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Palworld Reaches A Huge Player Milestone Ahead Of 1.0 Launch
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Palworld will remain $30 as it gears up for its 1.0 release
Pocketpair has confirmed that Palworld, its “Pokémon with guns” survival game, will keep its price at $29.99 when it leaves early access and launches as Version 1.0 on 10 July. This matters because, like many early access titles, the game had long carried the possibility of a price rise at full release, with its Steam…
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Valve’s magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
Valve has updated Proton, its compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux, by rebasing it onto a newer codebase and adding fresh fixes. The update matters because Proton underpins Linux gaming and the Steam Deck, so improvements widen the range of Windows titles that Linux users can play smoothly. Among the notable…
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The other Final Fantasy 7 Remake you might not know about is shutting down
Square Enix has announced that it will end service for the mobile game Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis on 6 October 2026, roughly three years after its 2023 launch. The closure matters because Ever Crisis is a separate remake of Final Fantasy 7, distinct from the studio’s big-budget remake trilogy, and it uniquely gathered the…
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Workers at MindsEye studio protesting controversial fan event this weekend after multiple rounds of layoffs
Staff at Build a Rocket Boy (BARB), the Edinburgh studio behind the poorly received game MindsEye, are due to picket outside the studio’s offices on Saturday 11th July. They are protesting against an “all-expenses-paid” fan event the developer is hosting the same weekend, at which community members will be flown in to play an updated…
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Become King Dracula’s personal vamp-assassin in Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon
Bithell Games — the studio behind Tron: Catalyst and John Wick Hex — is preparing to launch Vampirium: 1997, a vampire-themed immersive sim, into Steam early access soon. Players take on the role of a descendant of Dracula’s empire, working as an assassin tasked with eliminating the monarch’s enemies by infiltrating the lairs of rival…
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Gaming laptops are too expensive right now, but this one’s a good value
The Verge’s latest deals roundup argues that current gaming laptop prices are poor value, largely because of an unprecedented surge in the cost of RAM and, to a lesser degree, storage, which has pushed up prices for low-to-midrange machines. Against this backdrop, the article highlights MSI’s Katana 15 HX (2025) as a rare worthwhile buy,…
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Nintendo finally adds the first Wario Land to Switch Online, with almost every other game in the series already available
Nintendo has added the original Wario Land to its Switch Online subscription service, completing most of the classic platformer series on the platform. The move is notable because nearly every other game in the Wario Land lineage was already available to subscribers, leaving the debut entry as a conspicuous gap until now. The first Wario…
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M3GAN erotic thriller spin-off Soulm8te shares first trailer ahead of streaming release
Blumhouse and Universal have released the first trailer for Soulm8te, a straight-to-streaming erotic thriller spin-off set in the M3GAN universe, ahead of its digital release on 1 August. The film follows a grieving software engineer (David Rysdahl) who, after his wife’s death, is tasked by his tech-giant employer with “testing” an android designed to serve…