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Console Yourself
Sony’s $700 PlayStation 5 Pro Is Finally Coming in November
Sony’s PlayStation 5 mid-cycle upgrade, the PS5 Pro, is coming November 7. Lead PlayStation architect Mark Cerny revealed the console…
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‘The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’ Gives the Princess Powers That Link Never Got
Princess Zelda has to escape from jail. She was tossed into prison over her alleged involvement in the appearance of…
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‘Black Myth: Wukong’ Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired
Amid a long list of Twitch streams for Black Myth: Wukong, a new action role-playing game released this week, one…
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‘Crush House’ Is a Game For People Who Love Drama
Recently, while stuck inside sick with Covid-19’s new FLiRT variant, I honored its ridiculous name with a binge-watch of Love…
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How 'World of Warcraft' Devs Launched One of the Biggest Unions in Video Games
They started with fliers. The group of World of Warcraft developers at Activision Blizzard, determined to unionize, were testing the…
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Video Game Performers Are Going on Strike Over AI
Actors in the video game industry are going on strike. On Thursday, the union representing voice and motion-capture performers announced…
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A Chaotic History of Clickolding, the Year’s Most Disturbing Game
The man in the mask wants you to click the tally counter. So begins Strange Scaffold’s short, yet highly distressing…
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‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive
Necrosoft Games was running out of money. At the rate things were going, the video game studio’s director, Brandon Sheffield,…
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