Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brings nothing to the table

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How To Get Fate Fabric In Hades 2

Hades 2 tasks you an array of bite-sized crafting mechanics. As we mentioned in our tips guide , these tasks don’t demand as much busywork as you might think. That said, you’re bound to find certain materials, like Fate Fabric, to be frustratingly elusive if you don’t know

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One prospective Prey 2 fan has broken a 2,556-day streak of posting daily updates after the recent studio closure

It's over. (Day 2,559).

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New Twitter Trend Highlights Incredible Indie Games And Their Inspirations

The first step to a video game becoming a success is finding the right audience. And while that’s easier for AAA games backed by big companies with equally big marketing budgets, indie games have a harder time getting the word out to the right players. This is why a new trend

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Apple’s New iPad Ad Sparks Loud, Immediate Backlash

Sometimes, you get blatant reminders of how much disregard big tech has for, well, everything. Whether that’s exorbitant spending on acquisitions , layoffs of hundreds to thousands of people , and refusing to release or delist its employees’ hard work for a tax write-off. But

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The Best Tarot Arcana Cards To Unlock First In Hades 2

Hades 2 has an array of additions to discover, from incantations to new bosses to take down. Tarot Arcana cards are part of this wave of features, basically repurposing the Mirror of Night from the first game into an entirely new system. Read more...

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Dishonored Developer Shares The Personal Pain Of Microsoft's Studio Closures

Harvey Smith, the now-former studio director at Arkane Austin, has taken to X/Twitter to express his feelings about Microsoft’s sudden and shocking closure of the beloved developer, alongside three other Bethesda-adjacent studios, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and

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Tekken 8's newest cash shop skin commits the cardinal sin of forgetting Lili's skirt lace, Harada reassures fans he'll 'request a fix from the costume team' for his wrongdoings

The Tekken cash shop is not beating the lazy allegations.

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Hades 2 has a mean surprise tucked away in one of its boss battles—a sucker punch that shows Supergiant isn't afraid to go all Psycho Mantis on you

Hold it in for Hades.

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ROG Ally mod adds an extra touchscreen for more Windows real estate and works as a handy stand

Plus it gives the added feeling of some serious Nintendo DS vibes.

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Where to watch all the Planet of the Apes movies on streaming

Image: Oddball Entertainment/20th Century Studios Go ape and catch up before seeing Wes Ball’s latest sci-fi adventure Continue reading…

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Super Nintendo Prototype Is Up For Auction And Getting Ridiculously High Bids [Update: The Auction's Been Wiped]

An original prototype of Nintendo’s Super Famicom, Japan’s ( superior ) version of the SNES, was up for auction with recent bids pushing the grey piece of gaming history north of $3.2 million. Then, earlier today, the auction was abruptly pulled offline, potentially over

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Why you shouldn't expect Apple's new uber-bright 1000-nit 'Tandem' OLED screen tech to hit the PC any time soon

1,000 nits sustained full screen sounds incredible, but it's actually pretty pointless for the PC.

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ARM-based processors are coming for traditional PC gaming so we've tested Apple's ARM-y MacBook silicon to see how well it plays games in 2024

It's Mac gaming in the era of the M3.

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The video game movie and TV adaptations that actually work

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Helldivers 2 players' new battle: A petition for the reinstatement and 'canonization' of community manager fired for supporting review bombing and refunds

Almost 2,000 have signed so far.

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A Rare Piece Of Batman: Arkham History Is Back On Streaming

In 2011, Warner Bros. and WaterTower Music put together a compilation album for Rocksteady’s open-world superhero game Batman: Arkham City. The album featured some pretty big names like Panic! at the Disco, Blaqk Audio, and Serj Tankian, all contributing original songs meant to

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Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where no Trek has gone before by saying religion is... OK, actually

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One artist is adding Fortnite into thrift shop paintings, and his latest masterpiece involves the Battle Bus and Peely

The Loot Llama has never looked so good.

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Hades 2's forget-me-not mechanic is so good that I think any game with a billion resources should be taking notes

Who needs a binder when you've got magic.

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Helldivers 2 patch sneaks out the revelation that when we killed 2 billion bugs in a day, that was actually a bug

It's also nixed a persistent crash issue that I've had a bunch.

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One boutique keyboard maker spent years engineering the ultimate stabilizer by "recklessly training a personal cash bazooka on the question"

John Wick level of focus, commitment, and sheer will just to get the perfect keyboard clack.

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18 Hades 2 Character Portraits That Are Hot As Hell

Hades 2 is now available in Early Access on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store and let me tell you folks, it’s great to be back in Hell . The highly anticipated title is just as fun as the first game—maybe even more so—and it has an intriguing story that I can’t wait to

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Redfall's devs were reportedly building out its massively delayed Hero Pass content 'very recently'—before Microsoft closed Arkane Austin for good

Don't (in fact, can't) call it a comeback.

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Crow Country review

Lean and grungy, Crow Country evokes the simple pleasures of early survival horror.

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The best indie games of 2024 so far

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Crow Country: The Kotaku Review

Playing retro-inspired games is like returning to a beloved theme park as an adult. Instinctively knowing where to go first, remembering what it was like to be there as a child —it plays to a very specific kind of nostalgia. Retro-inspired games often include familiar

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