Valve has started to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act, by rolling out a requirement for all Brits to verify their age with a credit card to access “mature content” pages and games on Steam. UK users won’t even be able to access the community hubs of mature content games unless a valid credit card is stored on a …
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Hit the button! The big red one. Over there. Fine, I’ll hit it. *LOUD MUSIC STARTS* Folks, it’s Friday! We made it to the weekend. But first, before you go off and enjoy the last work day of the week, please read today’s Morning Checkpoint. Today, we’re talking about The Last of Us TV show, looking at the future of …
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Labor Day weekend is a great time to get together with the family, sure, but it’s also a nice little three-day window to get some serious gaming in. Assuming you don’t already have a massive backlog of PC games to play, now is actually a pretty good time of year to find some video game deals. If you’re looking to …
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Have you heard of a game called Hollow Knight Silksong? Silly question – the chances are you heard little else during Gamescom week. This near fabled sequel finally got a release date after several long years of development, and large parts of our gaming world erupted in response. The Gamescom queues to play Silksong were enormous. History had happened. The …
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There are few pleasures in video games that can contend with a quick, clean, silent kill. And there’s no better place to find that than in a stealth game. The sneakiest of all the genres, stealth can be quite a surgical thing – an experience that rewards considered, methodical planning. But with that comes the risk of mistakes, and a …
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You know when you’re friends with three people, then one of them suddenly pulls a Robbie Rotten and morphs into a real villain who terrorises your existence? No? Just me then, and also the protagonist of Ken Levine’s Judas, whose main foe you’ll get to dictate the identity of through your actions in the game. It happens via a villainy …
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On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you left off. The change, which first started testing with Insiders last month and is now …
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Out of the blue, Atari has announced that it’s acquired the rights to five Ubisoft games this week, and they’re all set to be re-released with the intent of expanding their reach, meaning we’re very likely going to see new Xbox releases for them! The five games are as follows: The vast majority of these have appeared on Xbox before, …
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In a surprising move, Ubisoft announced the re-release of its long-forgotten PS2 and PS3 games on “new platforms,” which you can expect to include the PS5. The company entered a “strategic agreement” with Atari to revive five of its dormant IP. Classic Ubisoft PS2, PS3 games getting new lease of life on PS5 The games in question are Cold Fear …
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The PlayStation 6 handheld specifications have leaked online, suggesting the yet-to-be-announced handheld should comfortably outperform the Xbox ROG Ally X and even the base PlayStation 5 in certain scenarios. In a new video shared earlier today on YouTube, Moore’s Law is Dead, who has recently proved to be quite reliable regarding PlayStation leaks, revealed some new information on the portable …
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