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An Exclusive Castlevania Game Is Shutting Down
The Apple Arcade-exclusive Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls won’t be playable for much longer, developer Konami has announced. In a post on social media and the game’s official website, Konami confirmed Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will be removed from Apple’s gaming subscription service on August 20. Despite Konami stating the game has “continued to be supported…
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Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine
Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn’t illegal.
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Bethesda Warns Skyrim & Fallout 4 Players of Mod-breaking Update
Steam players on PC will be especially affected once Bethesda releases the patches for its RPGs on August 18.
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Kingdom Hearts 4 Lets You Play As The Final Fantasy Universe’s Most Powerful Black Mage
For good reason, developers often don’t let playable characters in video games get too overpowered, lest they make a game too easy to plow through. But Kingdom Hearts 4 seems to be straying from that principle, as Donald Duck was revealed to be a fully playable character in last weekend’s extended D23 trailer. In a…
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Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the…
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‘It’s Incredibly Well-Made, But…’ — Former PlayStation Boss Warned Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Devs It Would Be ‘Overlooked’ if They Called It a Turn-Based RPG
Former PlayStation lead Shuhei Yoshida warned the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 about calling it a “turn-based RPG” because “that alone might cause players to overlook it.
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Sonos put speaker controls on your iPhone’s lock screen (again)
Sonos released an app update that takes advantage of Apple’s Live Activities system.
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Someone Finally Made Another Game For People Who Miss Peggle
We’re closing in on the 20th anniversary of Peggle, and since then, nothing has come quite as close to matching the pure, joyous sensory overload of Popcap’s little peg-clearing masterpiece. Can Hyperdrop fill that gap for juggling skill and luck to clear stages? Maybe! Coming soon to PC, Hyperdrop is the debut game from developer Dark…
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Instagram Head of Product Design Explains Thinking Behind That New Logo and Responds to Critics: ‘It’s Important for Us to Embrace the Future’
Instagram rolled out a new logo last week — which instantly drew jeers from some users. One of the top criticisms was that the cursive-style “s” in the updated wordmark confusingly looks like a “z,” leading to a flood of jokes about the new “Instagzam.” Instagram director of product design Jasmine Probst, who was one…