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Modern Warfare 3 Reverses CoD’s Most Controversial Change

Image: Infinity Ward It looks like Call of Duty publisher Activision is going to reintroduce the first-person shooter series’ 16-year-old red dot mini-map, which developer Infinity Ward controversially removed for the 2022 game Modern Warfare II, in the upcoming Modern Warfare III. Earlier this month, developer Sledgehammer Games suggested that slide canceling (a sprint combo

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Trying To Compete With My Actual D&D Hobby

That Baldur’s Gate 3 so closely adapts a tabletop role-playing gaming (TTRPG) rule system I know reasonably well is both a relief in that I don’t need to learn something new and quite fun, given that I enjoy D&D role-playing mechanics. But as a game master (GM) of a regular Pathfinder second edition campaign, it’s

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Diablo IV Freezes Trading After Gold Exploit Crashes The Market

The second-hand market for trading gold and items in Diablo IV is currently on hold as Blizzard investigates the rise of new item duplication glitches and gold exploits. The unusual economic intervention comes as the action-RPG’s market gets flooded with gold, and some players reportedly trade gear that’s not even that great for billions of

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Success Kicks Off Fiery Game Dev Debate

It’s been an unusually good year for blockbuster games. Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 is the latest one, a sprawling fantasy adventure filled with an overwhelming number of choices that let you spark a civil war one moment and have sex with a bear the next. That scope and its subsequent success has

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Pokémon Battle Gimmicks, Ranked From Worst To Best

Image: The Pokémon Company / Bulbapedia The one thing Sun and Moon’s Z-Moves have on most other gimmicks is that they’re applicable to all Pokémon. These super-powered attacks are only usable once per battle, but they give any Pokémon, from the smallest Pikachu to the biggest Lunala, a chance to turn the tide of a

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Next Assassin’s Creed Game Launching A Week Early

Image: Ubisoft In recent years, Ubisoft has struggled to release games on schedule, with some titles like Skull & Bones being delayed over and over. But now, the company has announced something different. Instead of being delayed, it turns out Assassin’s Creed: Mirage will launch a week earlier than previously planned. The Yakuza Devs Should

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Starfield Predicts We’ll Get To Mars In 27 Years

Bethesda updated its wildly anticipated sci-fi RPG Starfield’s website with a canonical timeline on August 14. Aside from digging into three centuries of imagined interplanetary drama that lead to the events that kick off Starfield in 2330, Bethesda’s timeline also makes some ambitious predictions about our more tangible, immediate future, including when humanity might stick

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Armored Core 6’s PC Reqs Are Less Demanding Than Elden Ring’s

FromSoftware has finally revealed how hard your PC will have to work to be able to run its upcoming mecha video game, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon. Don’t worry, everything’s sounding pretty reasonable. Based on the newly released system requirements, if your trusty gaming PC had no problems running FromSoftware’s old hotness, Elden Ring,

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Fortnite Has An FFXIV-Style Raid Boss, And It Looks Pretty Wild

Fortnite isn’t the same battle royale it was when the game first introduced the mode in 2017, having gradually become home to a plethora of pop culture crossovers and empowering editing tools for creators. Now, one of those creators has transformed the mega-popular game into an MMO—like with serious Final Fantasy XIV vibes, complete with

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