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Gaming Spend Will Continue to Decline in US as Living Costs
It doesn't come as a huge surprise, but the trend of people spending less and less money on all things gaming is set to continue for the rest of the year. This is according to the US-based NPD group, which points the finger at increased living costs, and the fact that people are becoming more active again now that pandemic restrictions have lessened. The NPD group has reported serial declines ...read more
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Take-Two Issues Copyright Takedown Of VR Mods For GTA 5
Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar, 2K Games, and Hangar 13, has issued a DMCA takedown request to LukeRoss, a mod maker specializing in bringing virtual reality support to modern games. LukeRoss has created VR mods for Cyberpunk 2077, GTA 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2, and is in the process of creating a VR mod for Elden Ring. However, some of those mods are now in jeopardy. ...read more
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Nintendo Switch OLED gets a Splatoon 3 edition in August
Splatoon 3 is getting its very own Nintendo Switch OLED model just in time for the sequel’s launch. Earlier today, Nintendo announced(opens in new tab) that it is launching a Splatoon 3-themed Nintendo Switch OLED console. The special edition console features a set of green and purple Joy-Cons, both of which are decorated with Splatoon artwork, and a paint-splatter-stained dock to go with ...read more
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The Division 2 is gearing up for Year 5 after its abrupt revival
The Division 2 Year 5 will follow additional seasons planned for Year 4 as Ubisoft builds on the game's unexpected revival. The folks at Ubisoft Massive, who are collaborating with Ubisoft's Bucharest, Toronto, and Shanghai studios to support ongoing work on The Division 2, outlined the game's roadmap in a recent post(opens in new tab). This comes just two months after the launch of Season 9: ...read more
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V Rising Update Adds "Highly Requested" Feature
V Rising developer Stunlock Studios put out a new update this week for the game that added what the creators themselves called a "highly requested feature." That feature is server wipes, an optional addition to the game that should help keep servers fresh with new players and more things to do. Stunlock announced this feature alongside the release of a full set of patch notes detailing everything ...read more
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Biomutant Launches for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 6
Biomutant launched for PC and last-gen consoles last year after many years of anticipation, but as recent reports had suggested, it’ll soon be making its way over to current-gen consoles as well. Developer Experiment 101 and publisher THQ Nordic have announced that the action RPG is headed to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 6. Check out the announcement trailer below. Anyone who already ...read more
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PUBG Rolls Out New Deston Map On Public Test Servers
PUBG's ninth new map has arrived in the test servers—Deston, codename Kiki, is a flooded downtown metropolis reminiscent of Warzone's own cityscape, with skyscrapers, swamps, mountains, and islands ripe for exploring as you gun down other players. There are a few new features that come with the map to make the skyscrapers more versatile (thanks, PCGamesN). For instance, there's the ascender ...read more
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The Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop are back online after 4 months
The Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop are back online after being inaccessible for almost four months. The online marketplaces went offline without prior warning in mid-March. A week later, Nintendo told Eurogamer the online marketplaces were “undergoing maintenance” and said it would “provide an update at a later date”. While further explanation for the downtime hasn’t been ...read more
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Forspoken Delayed Again to 2023
Square Enix and Luminous Productions' upcoming action RPG Forspoken has been delayed once again to 2023. Originally, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 and PC title was slated to launch in May 2022 before Square Enix revealed that the release date would be shifted to October. And while it seemed likely that the game would see the light of day at this time, it looks like it instead needs just a bit ...read more
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Sony Patents Gameplay Replay System
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented an interesting PS5 gameplay replay system that presents “what if” scenarios to players who are interested in finding out what the outcome of their actions would have been had they chosen to do something different. The patent, which was spotted by OPAttack, doesn’t mention competitive gaming but the examples provided in the application seems to ...read more
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