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Blood of Dawnwalker impresses in early hands-on as a 2026 RPG contender
Eurogamer has published a hands-on preview of The Blood of Dawnwalker, the debut game from Rebel Wolves, a studio led by former Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz alongside several ex-CD Projekt Red developers. After four hours with the vampire-themed role-playing game, the writer judges it a promising contender to become 2026’s breakout RPG, praising its…
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Age of Umbra: Sallowlands trailer revealed by Critical Role
Critical Role has revealed the trailer for Age of Umbra: Sallowlands, its latest tabletop role-playing miniseries, exclusively to Polygon. The gothic, horror-tinged series continues the previous Age of Umbra storyline and uses the Daggerheart system, marking another notable release from the popular actual-play company ahead of its debut. The miniseries follows five adventurers — Sister,…
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Star Trek Online revives and remakes one of its oldest storylines
Star Trek Online, the long-running massively multiplayer online game that is now 16 years old, has returned to its roots by digging up and remaking one of its earliest storylines. Rather than pushing solely forward with new content, the developers have chosen to revisit and modernise older material, and the reworked storyline is available for…
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Sony responds publicly to backlash over PlayStation physical disc concerns
PlayStation and several other Sony brands went largely quiet on social media from 1 July, the day the company announced it would cease production of physical game discs from 2028. The decision triggered immediate and widespread backlash that spilled across nearly all of Sony’s social media accounts, including those unrelated to gaming, making it a…
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls gains a tie-in comic book series
Marvel is dedicating its entire August comic lineup to Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the tag-team fighting game from developer Arc System Works, timed to coincide with the title’s release on 6 August. Marvel announced two comic-based celebrations of the game, headlined by a dedicated tie-in one-shot that aims to flesh out the game’s story world,…
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The Furious lands early on streaming in a surprise release
Polygon reports that The Furious, an action film directed by fight choreographer Kenji Tanigaki, has received a surprise early streaming release, arriving at home on Tuesday after opening in US cinemas on 12 June. The piece is an enthusiastic rave, with the writer declaring it the best action movie of the year and possibly of…
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Age-verification failures found among platforms covered by Australia’s under-16 social media ban
A study has found that several social media platforms covered by Australia’s forthcoming under-16 social media ban are failing to verify the ages of their users, with researchers reporting they were never once asked to confirm how old they were while setting up accounts. The findings matter because the ban is intended to keep younger…
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Street Fighter And Fire Emblem Voice Actors Lead Orbitals’ English Cast
Publisher Kepler Interactive has revealed the voice cast for Orbitals, Shapefarm’s forthcoming anime sci-fi co-op adventure, which launches exclusively on Switch 2 on 3rd September. The reveal serves as a promotional push ahead of release, arriving alongside Nintendo Life’s positive early hands-on impressions of the game’s opening sections. The announcement highlights that the cast is…
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Doom developer id Software reportedly cut in half after Xbox layoffs
Following Microsoft’s announcement that it is cutting 3,200 jobs across Xbox, the legendary studio id Software — the developer behind Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake and Rage — has reportedly seen roughly half of its workforce laid off. Multiple anonymous sources told Game Developer that over 90 of its approximately 200 staff were let go, with concerns…
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Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader gets major Switch 2 patch with all DLC now free
Owlcat Games is rolling out a “massive update” for the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, following a launch that was widely panned earlier in the year — Nintendo Life had described the port as a “borderline disaster” and one of the console’s worst titles. The patch, revealed exclusively to Nintendo Life…