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The 15 Most Cinematic Video Games, Ranked

  • Collider ranks the 15 most cinematic video games ever made.
  • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice placed 15th for its motion capture.
  • Horizon Zero Dawn placed 14th for its visual detail.

Collider has published a ranked list of the 15 most cinematic video games of all time, praising titles that combine strong visuals, motion capture and immersive storytelling. The list highlights how graphics and presentation, while not essential to a good game, can significantly elevate the experience when combined…

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‘Babylon Berlin’ Sets Finale Date, Unveils Video Game, Documentary, Audio Spinoffs

  • Babylon Berlin's final season premieres 10 September on ARD.
  • Spinoffs include a video game, documentary and audio drama.
  • Series ends with Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

German noir series Babylon Berlin has confirmed the release date for its final season, bringing to a close one of the most acclaimed and expensive non-English-language dramas ever made. The eight-episode farewell will be accompanied by a suite of spinoffs, including a video game, a making-of documentary and…

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was reportedly being turned into a 2.5D brawler by CD Projekt Red and Shantae studio WayForward, but its fate is uncertain

  • CD Projekt Red and WayForward reportedly worked on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners brawler "Gemini"
  • Project's current status and future remain unconfirmed
  • Report surfaced via a former WayForward developer's portfolio

CD Projekt Red and Shantae developer WayForward reportedly collaborated on an unannounced side project based on Cyberpunk 2077's anime spin-off, Edgerunners, according to a report from MP1st. Codenamed Gemini, the game was conceived as a small-scale 2.5D brawler, though it remains unclear whether the project is still active…

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Marvel’s ten best video games ranked, from Midnight Suns to Snap

  • Polygon ranks the ten best Marvel video games ever made
  • List spans genres from tactics to mobile card games
  • Midnight Suns and Marvel Snap top the countdown

Polygon has published a ranked feature naming the ten best Marvel video games available to play today, drawing on four decades of adaptations since Spider-Man first appeared on the Atari 2600 in 1982. The list is framed against Marvel's continued dominance in entertainment, including recent Comic-Con announcements and…

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Nioh 3’s Hell Rising DLC will sword thrust the soulslike’s yokai-battling action into decimated Keian era Edo when it arrives next month

  • Nioh 3's Hell Rising DLC launches 19 August 2026.
  • Sets story in a ruined Keian-era Edo (1648-1652).
  • Adds new weapon combo, difficulty mode and custom battle scrolls.

Nioh 3 is set to receive its first major DLC, called Hell Rising, on 19 August, developer Koei Tecmo has announced. The expansion begins a two-part story arc that takes players to a devastated version of Edo (now Tokyo) during the Keian era of 1648-1652, continuing the soulslike's…

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Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70%

  • Memory-chip supply could fall by 70% next year.
  • Electronics makers already feared shortages.
  • Device availability and prices may be affected.

Consumer electronics manufacturers are reportedly facing a much sharper shortage of memory chips next year, with available supply forecast to fall by as much as 70%. This matters because memory is essential to products ranging from PCs and smartphones to consoles and other devices, so a severe shortage…

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Xbox is back online, tech lead pledges “we’ll do better” so similar failures “can’t ruin your night again” after outage stopped fans playing digital and physical games

  • Xbox outage blocked both digital and physical game access.
  • Services have now been fully restored.
  • Xbox tech lead vowed fixes to prevent repeat disruptions.

Xbox's online services have been restored following an outage that prevented players from accessing both digital and physical games, with a senior Xbox technical lead publicly pledging improvements so that "similar failures can't ruin your night again." The disruption highlighted how reliant modern consoles are on a stable…

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Microsoft’s Chaotic Server Outage Was Down To A Single Service Failure

  • Microsoft linked the outage to one failed service.
  • A single fault disrupted wider connected systems.
  • Further technical details were not provided.

Microsoft said a chaotic server outage was traced to the failure of a single service. The incident matters because a fault in one component was able to disrupt wider systems, highlighting the dependence of online services on interconnected infrastructure. The available article text does not provide further details…

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I Stopped Playing Palworld For This Creature-Collector Game

  • The article’s full content is inaccessible.
  • It compares creature-collector games.
  • Key details cannot be verified.

The article is unavailable beyond its title and opening sentence, so it cannot be summarised reliably without inventing details. It appears to be a personal games feature about switching from Palworld to another creature-collection game, rather than a report of an industry event. The accessible text frames Pokémon…

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Toxic yuri story Kaschei is a marvelous free visual novel that turns your Downloads folder into a little labyrinth of mirrors

  • Kaschei is a free experimental visual novel from a "toxic yuri" game jam.
  • Story unfolds via linked files across your Downloads folder, not one interface.
  • Reviewer praises its inventiveness but notes an abrupt ending.

Rock Paper Shotgun has reviewed Kaschei, a free experimental visual novel made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2, praising it as an inventive piece of interactive fiction that deliberately fragments its story across multiple linked files and interfaces rather than presenting a single, unified game. The piece…

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