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Hideo Kojima Reviews Resident Evil Movie, Says Cregger Captured Playing the Game
Hideo Kojima Reviews Resident Evil Movie, Says Cregger Captured Playing the Game
Hideo Kojima has given Zach Cregger's Resident Evil a glowing review, writing on X on 12 October that the film is less an adaptation of Capcom's games than a recreation of what...
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Golden Joysticks 2026: PC Game of the Year Shortlist Is Out, Voting Closes October 23
Golden Joysticks 2026: PC Game of the Year Shortlist Is Out, Voting Closes October 23
There are ten games on the ballot and one PC trophy to hand out, and you've got 11 days left to vote. The 44th Golden Joystick Awards have revealed this year's nominees,...
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IShowSpeed’s Net Worth: How the Viral Star Cashes In
IShowSpeed’s Net Worth: How the Viral Star Cashes In
IShowSpeed, the stage name of Darren Jason Watkins Jr., is one of the most-watched entertainers on the planet, with an audience that now runs well past 170 million followers across YouTube, TikTok...
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GTA 6 Leaker Cyberleek Threatens Full Story Build Leak Unless Take-Two Ships Discs
GTA 6 Leaker Cyberleek Threatens Full Story Build Leak Unless Take-Two Ships Discs
Five weeks before launch, the person who's spent two months dumping Grand Theft Auto VI footage now says they'll release the whole thing. It's a build you can supposedly play through the...
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Stage Fright Wants to Fix What Overcooked Broke, Devs Say Ahead of Spring 2027 Launch
Stage Fright Wants to Fix What Overcooked Broke, Devs Say Ahead of Spring 2027 Launch
The pan's on fire. Your partner's yelling about clean plates, and someone's just dropped the onions off the side of a moving truck. For a lot of players, that's Overcooked in a...
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Phantom Blade Zero’s Childhood Wooden Sword Can Theoretically Clear the Whole Game
Phantom Blade Zero’s Childhood Wooden Sword Can Theoretically Clear the Whole Game
Phantom Blade Zero gives you 30 weapons to pick from. One of them is basically a stick. S-Game director Soulframe Liang says the game includes a childhood wooden sword as a challenge...
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League of Legends Replay Changes Delayed to Patch 26.21
League of Legends Replay Changes Delayed to Patch 26.21
The League of Legends replay changes that would have stopped players downloading anyone else's games are on hold until Patch 26.21, which is scheduled for 21 October. Riot Games pushed the restriction...
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Fortnite Player Arrested by FBI Over Alleged Voice Chat Threats Reported by Epic
Fortnite Player Arrested by FBI Over Alleged Voice Chat Threats Reported by Epic
A Fortnite player in Alabama was arrested by the FBI after Epic Games reported threats he allegedly made over voice chat, including a remark about whether federal agents would come to his...
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Unity Announces Unity Spark, a No-Code Game Maker for Google Playground
Unity Announces Unity Spark, a No-Code Game Maker for Google Playground
Unity Spark is Unity's new browser-based game maker, built to let people create a game, work on it with others, and publish it without writing code. Finished games go straight into Playground,...
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Razer Wolverine V4 Pro and Tournament Edition Launch for Xbox With Capacitive Thumbsticks
Razer Wolverine V4 Pro and Tournament Edition Launch for Xbox With Capacitive Thumbsticks
Razer's Xbox pad just got a full rebuild. The company announced the Wolverine V4 line today, made up of the wireless Wolverine V4 Pro at $199.99 and the wired Wolverine V4 Tournament...
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Ludwig’s Net Worth: From Twitch Subs to YouTube Empire
Ludwig’s Net Worth: From Twitch Subs to YouTube Empire
Ludwig Ahgren is one of the most financially scrutinised figures in modern streaming, a creator who leveraged a record-breaking Twitch subathon into an exclusive YouTube deal, a media company and an esports...
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Overwatch Season 5 Adds Doctrine, Watchpoint: Grímsvötn and a Halloween Battle Pass
Overwatch Season 5 Adds Doctrine, Watchpoint: Grímsvötn and a Halloween Battle Pass
Doomfist broke a vampire out of prison, and now he's your new Support. Overwatch Season 5, A Grim Doctrine, goes live on 6 October in the US and 7 October in Australia...
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Red Bull Wings Cup Wildcard Tournament at PAX Aus Offers Two EA SPORTS FC 27 National Final Spots
Red Bull Wings Cup Wildcard Tournament at PAX Aus Offers Two EA SPORTS FC 27 National Final Spots
Seven minutes, one leaderboard, and a shot at Miami. Red Bull is running the first Australian Red Bull Wings Cup Wildcard Tournament at PAX Aus this weekend, and two EA SPORTS FC...
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Gates of Olympus 2500: Pragmatic’s Zeus Sequel Is Live With 25,000x Max Win
Gates of Olympus 2500: Pragmatic’s Zeus Sequel Is Live With 25,000x Max Win
Status: live. Gates of Olympus 2500 went live on 28 September 2026. Release details checked 6 October 2026. Zeus is back. Pragmatic Play's newest entry in its biggest slot series launched on...
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Marvel Project Comet Trailer Allegedly Leaks, Showing Four-Player Co-Op
Marvel Project Comet Trailer Allegedly Leaks, Showing Four-Player Co-Op
A Marvel Project Comet trailer has allegedly leaked on Chinese video site Bilibili, showing Scarlet Witch, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and other heroes fighting through large open environments in four-player co-op. Project...
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GTA 6’s Deleted PEGI Page Says Cocaine Can Be Snorted “At Any Time”
GTA 6’s Deleted PEGI Page Says Cocaine Can Be Snorted “At Any Time”
Jason or Lucia reaches into the inventory, pulls out a bag of cocaine and snorts it straight off the back of a hand. No safehouse, no cutscene, no mission trigger. Europe's ratings...
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Pokimane’s Net Worth: Twitch, YouTube and Brand Deals
Pokimane’s Net Worth: Twitch, YouTube and Brand Deals
Imane "Pokimane" Anys is one of the most-recognised figures in livestreaming, and the question of her net worth is a perennial search magnet, yet the honest answer is that public estimates vary...
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s&box Will Ditch the Citizen for Human Models Within a Month, Garry Newman Says
s&box Will Ditch the Citizen for Human Models Within a Month, Garry Newman Says
You launch s&box and the face looking back at you is the citizen, the round, sausage-shaped mascot Facepunch built its platform around. It's going away. Facepunch founder Garry Newman has said the...
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Kai Cenat’s Net Worth: How the Twitch King Earns
Kai Cenat’s Net Worth: How the Twitch King Earns
Kai Cenat has gone from a Bronx teenager posting comedy clips to arguably the most dominant live streamer on the internet, rewriting Twitch's record books three times and turning month-long subathons into...
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Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Mini 8KHz Brings 8000 Hz Polling to a 60% Keyboard
Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Mini 8KHz Brings 8000 Hz Polling to a 60% Keyboard
Razer just squeezed its best keyboard tech into a 60% board. The Huntsman V3 Pro Mini 8KHz launched on 1 October with true 8000 Hz HyperPolling, analog optical switches and the full...
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No More Room in Hell 2 Passes 1 Million Units Sold, 25% Off on Steam and Epic in October
No More Room in Hell 2 Passes 1 Million Units Sold, 25% Off on Steam and Epic in October
No More Room in Hell 2 has crossed 1 million units sold. Torn Banner Studios and publisher Green Man Gaming confirmed the milestone on 1 October, counting sales since the game's 1.0...
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Crimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown DLC Delayed Two Weeks to October 29
Crimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown DLC Delayed Two Weeks to October 29
You were supposed to be sailing out past Pywel's coastline on October 15. Now you've got two more weeks on dry land. Pearl Abyss says it's hard at work on Crimson Desert...
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Brazil’s Betting Ban Puts FURIA and Brazilian Esports Sponsorships on the Clock
Brazil’s Betting Ban Puts FURIA and Brazilian Esports Sponsorships on the Clock
Brazil's online betting ban is about to hit esports hard. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Provisional Measure 1,394 on 25 September, banning fixed-odds betting and online gaming across the country....
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Game of Thrones Slot Goes Live at BetMGM in Four US States After Big Canadian Run
Game of Thrones Slot Goes Live at BetMGM in Four US States After Big Canadian Run
Status: live in four US states as of 2 October 2026. Westeros has made it to US casino lobbies. Blueprint Gaming and BetMGM have launched the Game of Thrones online slot in...
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FF7 Revelation Director Hamaguchi Says He Fought Square Enix to Keep a Physical Edition
FF7 Revelation Director Hamaguchi Says He Fought Square Enix to Keep a Physical Edition
Picture it: you rip the shrink-wrap off Final Fantasy VII Revelation on April 8, slide the disc in, and get through the opening. Then the game asks you to download the rest....
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Ghost of Yotei Most Wanted Is Live, and Jin Sakai Sits Behind Roughly 30,000 Mon
Ghost of Yotei Most Wanted Is Live, and Jin Sakai Sits Behind Roughly 30,000 Mon
You load into the bounty board as Atsu, and most of the upgrades you earned in the campaign are gone. Sucker Punch confirmed that Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara and Most...
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