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New Tekken 8 character Azucena is the "Coffee Queen"
Freshly brewed.
An all-new character will join Tekken 8: Azucena, a Peruvian MMA fighter.
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Street Fighter 6 reveals new character A.K.I. who poisons her opponents to death
Plus a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collaboration.
Capcom made two Street Fighter 6 announcements this weekend at Evo 2023.
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Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
Blames slow adoption of PS5.
Sales of Final Fantasy 16 did not meet Square Enix's high expectations, said president Takashi Kiryu.
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Feature | A weekend with Clash Mini
Knight and day.
I've been excited about Clash Mini since it was announced. The idea's simple: the Clash universe, with all the units and concepts I already understand, but this time instead of the streamlined tower-defence battles of Clash Royale, it's something closer to a brisk spin on the auto battler genre. This is a sort of game I'd always wanted to get into but struggled with. All of that combined with the fact that Supercell squishes a lot of games before they get to an actual release, I was doubly intrigued. Clash Mini would be the first new Supercell game in an age. What would a game the publisher deemed fit for actual release look like after all this time?
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Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra has confirmed that the team hopes to have "fixed" the bug that's preventing some Diablo 4 players from progressing and collecting their rewards in the new season by 15th August.
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Magic: The Gathering confirms Assassin's Creed, Fallout, and Final Fantasy expansions are coming
Spell the tea.
Wizards of the Coast has revealed what new crossover expansions Magic: The Gathering fans can expect to see next year, including new sets based upon Final Fantasy, Fallout, and the Assassin's Creed series.
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Digital Foundry | Pikmin 4 delivers an Unreal improvement over its predecessors
How Nintendo exploits Epic's engine for its latest first-party showcase.
Hot off the heels of the Pikmin 1 and 2 HD remasters on Switch, we have a completely new series entry in Pikmin 4. It's been a decade-long wait, but in that time Nintendo has jettisoned its in-house engine in favour of Unreal Engine 4, which provides some of the most striking visuals seen on Switch to date. But how much of a graphical leap is it over the Wii U release of Pikmin 3, what new visual features have been added and how does performance hold up?
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Killer Instinct celebrates 10th anniversary with a free update
"The band is back together again."
10-year-old fighting game Killer Instinct is getting a "free anniversary update" later this year.
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Overwatch 2's mysterious "Enigma" is John Cena
"Sometimes a face you can't see is just what the world needs."
Surprise! Turns out that the hooded figure that's recently been stalking the Overwatch community lately is none other than John Cena.
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Thieves steal $300k worth of TCG cards from Gen Con 2023
"The alleged theft took place while vendors were setting up their displays."
Thieves have stolen over $300,000 (£235.3K) worth of trading cards from Gen Con 2023.
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Baldur's Gate 3 already has one of Steam's highest concurrent player counts ever
And it has eclipsed the concurrent peaks of games like Valheim and Apex Legends.
We already knew that highly-anticipated D&D role-player Baldur's Gate 3 was doing well on Steam – it had racked up an impressive player peak of more than 472,000 people in its first day on sale – but it's now one of Steam's most-successful games ever.
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Feature | After 23 years, Starfield's ancestor Noctis is still a vision of the future
Drift apart.
Over the decades I've been playing video games, I've flown spaceships made of futuristic alloys and bubbles of energy, and I've flown spaceships hammered together from wooden planks, chunky metal bolts and flapping sailcloth. I've flown ships that extrapolate believably from the design of the International Space Station, and I've flown ships that are basically steam trains with an attitude problem. But not till Noctis, somehow, have I flown a spaceship made of glass. In this "dreamable space simulator" from Italian developer Alessandro Ghignola, released in 2000, you explore a galaxy's worth of solar systems in a Stardrifter - a chunk of polarised quartz that harbours a single, square room, more of a conservatory than a cockpit, with Centerparcs-style viewing domes protruding above and below.
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The Metal Gear series has topped 60 million sales.
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Destiny 2 is "heading into creative territories Bungie has never explored before"
"We're changing some things up in a big way with an all-new mechanic."
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has revealed plans to shake up how players progress in its upcoming expansion, The Final Shape.
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Bandai Namco Europe itself leaks two unannounced Tekken 8 characters
"It's kinda funny."
Bandai Namco Europe has seemingly let slip about two more characters coming to Tekken 8's roster.
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Blizzard is banning players who use the "seasonal exploit" in Diablo 4.
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Last week, players using Cheat Engine in Tekken 8's network test leaked part of Tekken 8's roster. And this week, Bandai Namco is banning people from making videos about it.
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"There's stakes to that. There's weight to that. There's risk."
Gran Turismo movie star David Harbour has revealed that by filming "real" racing sequences rather than relying on "green screen boxes" in the upcoming movie has enhanced his performance.
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Feature | Are you still playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?
Fears of my Undone.
I love Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's new Hyrule Field theme, with the warmth of its full chords and then that gorgeous single synth note that always feels like it's just emerging, like the first rays of morning but sustained. It's not exactly a melody, but a held note that colours your gameplay with something lovely and almost lyrical, without leaving you stranded in lonely super-silence between piano notes.
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Baldur's Gate 3's first post-launch patch brings a fix for that pesky save bug
Plus 150+ other issues.
Baldur's Gate 3 is already off to a spectacular start, having now sailed passed the half a million concurrent players mark on Steam after a huge first day, but developer Larian isn't resting on its laurians; the studio has just released its first hotfix for the wildly ambitious RPG which, among other things, takes aim at that nasty save-preventing bug.
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Remnant 2's first major patch targets performance, stability, and more
Out now on PC with consoles to follow.
Developer Gunfire Games' procedurally generated fantasy shooter Remnant 2 has been a hit, garnering positive reviews and selling over 1m copies in the space of the week. And amid all that excitement (not to mention some cheeky sneakery) Gunfire has been preparing its first major patch for Remnant 2, targeting performance, stability, and various quality of life improvements. It's out now on PC and the developer says a console release should follow "very soon", once the update has cleared Sony and Microsoft's approval process.
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Sifu's last-ever content update comes to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC in September
Switch version arrives "at a later date".
Acclaimed martial arts adventure Sifu is nearing the end of its journey; developer Sloclap has announced the game will be getting its last-ever content update on 7th September.
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Feature | RuneScape's new Necromancy skill reinvents combat once again, 22 years on
Dead promising.
Do you have the power to raise and control the undead? This is the question RuneScape 3’s new Necromancy skill asks its players.
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The Gran Turismo car will soon be available in Gran Turismo
From film to game.
An update to Gran Turismo 7 will add in the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 '18 car as seen in the forthcoming Gran Turismo film.
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Pokémon Presents livestream due next week
Will we see Scarlet and Violet DLC release dates?
The next Pokémon Presents will take place next week.
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Supporters | Game of the Week: The blossoming fruits of a crowdfunding revolution
Mind flayed.
It's hard to ignore this week's big release because everyone's talking about it. And before I talk about it, I want to quickly flag up the wonderful Venba, a game that tells a story through cooking, and makes me very hungry just reading about it. Emad was really taken with it in his Venba review.
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Call of Duty will now notify players of cheaters in real time
Kill feed engage.
Call of Duty will now alert players in real time if a cheater is removed from the game.
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Beware, Baldur's Gate 3 has a save-preventing bug
Larian provides solutions.
If you're just starting out in Baldur's Gate 3, then beware there's a bug that might prevent you from saving.
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Animal Crossing Lego sets reportedly on the way
Take my Bells.
It looks like Animal Crossing Lego sets are reportedly on the way.
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Baldur's Gate 3 is off to a good start on Steam
Roll of a lifetime.
Highly-anticipated D&D role-player Baldur's Gate 3 is doing well on Steam, where it has racked up an impressive player peak of more than 472,000 people in its first day on sale.
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