A scorching critique of Square Enix (and what Square did next)

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Who killed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II’s 'Restored Content DLC' for Switch? Disney lawyers.

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A note on Netflix, which may see its game studio count go way up

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Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its founders

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Nintendo's acquisition streak

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One of my old Xbox interviews hits different in 2025

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A new video game that's all fake TV shows

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Speculation around Ubisoft earnings delay proves unfounded

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Microsoft won’t publish a diversity and inclusion report this year

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My new surprise obsession: A game about running a 1930s newspaper

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Two tantalizing hours with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

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Valve is making a game cube

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The six-month timeline of EA’s $55 billion Saudi-backed offer

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How Obsidian writes

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Finally, a great new idea for Katamari Damacy

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Ball x Pit x Interview

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In an unusual video in Paris, Ubisoft documents Assassin's Creed: Shadows' messy culture war saga

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2025 is the gaming year Microsoft long promised its players

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EA says it will retain “creative control,” should it sell to Saudi-backed consortium

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Video game Halloween costume report

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Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick”

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Did you know that Spooky Express is a Game of the Year contender?

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Microsoft’s Xbox team snaps a four-year losing streak on key target tied to CEO's pay

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The next* publicly traded gaming company will be a bit different

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A catchy game full of playable jokes

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The ROG Xbox Ally X is a Wii U (Complimentary, hopefully)

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63 1/2 hours with Ghost of Yotei

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EA’s Battlefield apology streak might finally be over

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

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Nintendo’s mystery baby

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There used to be game console price cut wars

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An unprecedented tally: 8 game industry price hikes in 6 months

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One of the world’s biggest video game companies plans to sell to some of the world’s most powerful people

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"He looks different"

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Tencent: Maybe Sony should sue Tencent over that alleged Horizon “clone” in China, not the U.S.

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A rare c-suite reality check on AI in game development, as Embracer CEO warns of potentially 'soulless' results

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Quick correction

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The Sucker Punch interview

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7 new charts that help explain Capcom

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Another 46 hours with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which I was sort of playing wrong

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Nintendo revives the Virtual Boy, its most infamous flop, at a luxury price on the Switch

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Ubisoft’s curiously low-key Assassin’s Creed announcement in Saudi Arabia

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My twins’ unexpected Switch 2 favorites

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PlayStation's year-long war on counterfeiters

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Google’s search AI repeatedly doled out false gaming tips

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Naughty Dog vs. Naughty Cat

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"To do nothing is to support Microsoft's actions”

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Surprise: Nintendo's big 2025 game appears to be on track (and it's a Kirby game)

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Blizzard’s approach to Diablo IV’s game credits: The more names, the better

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How to explain a bad game launch

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Microsoft game workers call out company over Israeli military ties

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Palworld's special approach to game credits

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Hunting for the staff credits in 2025’s top video games

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The story behind Wildlife, EA's unreleased multiplayer animal combat game

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Breaking: Microsoft stops development on Contraband

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SALE TIME! 20% off annual Game File subscriptions!

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A clever game about flies and brief lives encounters the limits of statistics

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A buffalo at the Met, and a video game about stealing African art held by western museums

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The big shock from Nintendo’s Switch showcase today was a campfire game (that's pretty good!)

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Krafton plans for PUBG to be more than a battle royale, says Subnautica 2 drama proves its quality control is working

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Sony sues Tencent over "slavish clone" of Horizon games

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Crackdown on sex video games goes wide, alarming developers and impacting award-winning titles

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The three times my life intersected with Hulk Hogan’s

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Even $85 Switch 2 controllers just flew off store shelves

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The makers of notoriously hard puzzle games have released a fantastic easier one

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Ubisoft chief confronted in-person with questions about “woke” content and “stop killing games”

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Subnautica founders say game got "high marks" from early players before Krafton "orchestrated" a delay to avoid a big payout

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Sega may let some Roblox users make Like a Dragon spin-off games and split the revenue

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The intensifying $250 million Subnautica 2 drama involves a developer known for radical transparency

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Mobile gaming's most outspoken CEO wants to take more risks

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Comparing pay for Microsoft's boss and the company's workers

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Nintendo plans to make (some) games more quickly

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About Grounded 2 and all the people helping to make it

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Microsoft slashes workforce, as scores of game-makers and major games are cut

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Donkey Kong enters the Nintendo-craft Era

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A sci-fi cleaning game about death? Here’s to Ambrosia Sky, a game from a team that’s taking a big risk

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EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops

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Sony is all-in on PlayStation Plus, says its most expensive tier is thriving

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Aspiring game developers in Fortnite and Roblox keep suing each other

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The best new feature in Capcom’s new Onimusha is not entirely obvious

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Cloning game The Alters is very good. Cloning video game The Alters is something special. The Alters, a cloning game, is really good.

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The best interview I’ve ever done about Pac-Man

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Game publisher laments spoilers, sues man for $150,000 over stream of leaked game character

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PlayStation’s annual headcount has declined for the first time since Sony began reporting it

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Five unforgettable days in Los Angeles

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I tried Microsoft’s newly revealed Xbox gaming handheld

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James Bond is 26 in Io Interactive's upcoming 007 adventure

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Quick thoughts about a lot of new(ish) games

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Ubisoft CEO spent an hour defending his company’s tax breaks to French lawmakers

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10 things I learned from playing Switch 2 for a day last week

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An unexpected and possibly ground-breaking Switch 2 launch game

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The unlikely path to Microsoft's landmark deal with ZeniMax workers

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Nintendo’s most useful news, statistically speaking

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Back on Thursday

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You may have missed a terrific, new Katamari Damacy

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Take Two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report, scrubs diversity references

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A new Roblox gardening game is hotter than anything on Steam

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Interview: Star Wars Outlaws' setbacks made its new expansion more interesting

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AI Darth Vader curses in Fortnite, prompting Epic to rush some clean-up

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Wait a minute. EA’s headcount rose significantly last year?!

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Tariffs may increase PS5 prices, but unlikely to result in U.S.-made consoles, Sony says

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How a Nintendo lawsuit changed Palworld… and what might come next

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A plan for more writers at Game File

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Nintendo warns it may brick Switch systems whose users “bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with” their games and services

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Some very short origin stories for some excellent video game names

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Remedy's next big game is being made for less money, but can still be great, CEO says

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385 days to go...Rockstar shows GTA VI for the first time since December 2023

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$80 video games are about to become the new normal

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Tim Sweeney wants the Epic Games Store on consoles, but isn't going to sue over it

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Epic offers Fortnite 'peace proposal' to Apple, after searing court ruling against iPhone maker

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Nintendo told me (14 years ago) why their new system doesn't use achievements

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Ziff Davis lawsuit alleges (among other things) that OpenAI is wrong about Red Dead Redemption 2 cheat codes

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How Cyberpunk 2077 is taking shape on Nintendo's Switch 2

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Nintendo wants an unrepentant streamer to pay up for his pre-release Paper Mario stream

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Frostpunk 2, a radical sequel, is ready for an update

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A Brazilian solo dev is trying something different for his next horror game: making it funny

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Behind the scenes of Avowed's beautiful world

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The Game File chain interview: Featuring Riot, Blizzard, Shuhei Yoshida and more…

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A bleak stat about new video games is, upon further review, slightly less bad

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30 years of playing PlayStation games early

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‘It wasn’t overly challenging’ - Three Switch 2 developers on making games for Nintendo’s new console

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Video game industry group expects Trump tariffs to have dire effects

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My Switch 2 hands-on impressions

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Nintendo Switch 2 details: June 5 launch, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, From Software exclusive and more [UPDATE]

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Netflix’s ambitious gaming boss wants to “make history,” says recent cuts weren’t to save money

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PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history

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Nintendo’s weird news day

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Pronunciation guide: How to say "Balatro"

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Hasbro preps an edgy Snake Eyes adventure, hires a Dragon Age dev, and teases Transformers, as it ramps up its games strategy

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Ubisoft took an unconventional approach for Assassin's Creed Shadows reviews. So did I.

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A union yell, a Baldur's Gate tease, Star Wars feelings and a man who definitely did not make Balatro

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47 hours with the astounding Assassin’s Creed Shadows

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The inside story of Saber, Embracer and a scuttled Saudi deal that changed everything

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Some easy questions for Insomniac's Ted Price, and some hard ones

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Scoop: Netflix’s first gaming boss exits, following 2024 leadership shift

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Three thumbs up for Split Fiction

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Indiana Jones and the illusion of creating an even bigger game

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Blizzard feels the pressure to keep Diablo players happy

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Monster Hunter Wilds is not great for newcomers, though it seems pretty cool

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You interviewed the world’s best video game designers (Well, at least some of you did!)

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Let’s close some tabs, including one about Dino Crisis

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Microsoft’s divisive new gaming AI uses years of players’ gameplay data

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In an industry earthquake, NetEase plans to cut more all-star game studios

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Sony pushes back hard against Bungie veteran's wrongful termination lawsuit

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Interview: Riot Games still wants to make an MMO (and just a few other things)

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The game industry's 52 problems, and one amazing ruler

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How Saber got so big

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"They disagree that we are making things better for Americans, so they’re trying to end it.”

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The developer of a game called Blue Prince knew exactly what to say to me

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The brand-new Civilization VII could be a lot better, and probably eventually will be

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My surprise trip on a gaming CEO's private jet

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The PS4 generation isn’t over quite yet–but it’s finally getting close.

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My favorite game of 2025 (so far) lets you climb monsters, but that's not the best part

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Trump’s newest tariff threat could hit gaming hard, if it's for real

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200 minutes with Assassin's Creed Shadows, including 11 extra-important ones

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New Doom dropped multiplayer so developers could make a deeper solo game

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U.S. agency that goes after banks also wants to protect gamers from theft and fraud

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Marvel Snap goes offline in the U.S., following TikTok removal

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My kids’ first meeting with Nintendo

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Switch 2 to release in 2025, bigger Mario Kart en route

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“You are not good at gaming”: My very silly meeting with Keita Takahashi

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Game File, one year in...

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The games that help us remember

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The fate of Ubisoft is one of 2025’s biggest video game stories

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Call Of Duty on trial: Activision's remarkably detailed defense to a school shooting lawsuit

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Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War

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The 23 Games I Played With My Kids Last Year (And The 87 I Played Without Them)

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Exclusive: How Sony improved the PS5 dashboard

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Exclusive: PlayStation Portal usage peaks at night, an hour after the PS5's does

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Give the gift of Game File (or these six video games)

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Psst. Ubisoft just released a new game. (It has Rayman and NFTs)

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Microsoft’s CEO: Being an Xbox fan means playing Xbox games on “all your devices”

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Fired Bungie developer who is suing Sony could have made $84 million from Bungie-Sony deal

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The best speech at The Game Awards

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Three red flags for the game industry after Ubisoft’s latest shutdown

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Review: Indiana Jones' excellent new video game

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Monument Valley 3 was designed to (maybe) improve the world

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What they made last time: Twin sisters fighting Nazis

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A wildly popular pandemic video game gets a surprise sequel

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A win for U.S. gamers with disabilities was just reversed

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It was tricky to write about video games this week

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A horse game went viral, and a horse game expert feels vindicated

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Oh, my kids actually like PlayStation's new Lego game

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Interview: Phil Spencer is big on Indiana Jones, but is wary of overdoing it with licensed games

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How Nintendo found a possible pirate

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Interview: Microsoft's Phil Spencer has a lot to say about Xbox's game line-up

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The Wii U gets the last laugh

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The PS5 Pro doesn't feel $200 better right now

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Calls to boycott Wordle, Connections show where game industry strikes could go

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American kids are playing fewer video games, survey says

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Scoop: PlayStation's Wolverine creative director is now leading Xbox’s Perfect Dark

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New law could help gaming industry by clarifying what video games are

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Microsoft CEO's pay will be tied to Xbox more than ever in 2025

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Why Animal Well is 10x bigger on Xbox (and 3x on PlayStation)

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Scoop: Netflix shuts down 'AAA' Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up

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The best new PC game demos I played from Steam Next Fest

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A top game streamer’s apology hits some familiar (and unfamiliar) notes

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It's a tricky time for Destiny to come to cell phones

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My chat with Jason Schreier, who just wrote the book on Blizzard

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Mario's last big Switch adventure?

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Nintendo's new $100 clock is the welcome return of weird Nintendo

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Paradox Interactive's leaders think you deserve an explanation

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In our house, the new Zelda is a great multiplayer game

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An ambitious competitor to The Sims is in the works, for some personal reasons

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Ubisoft in crisis mode (again)

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Valve tells judge, not the public, why it dropped Steam’s forced arbitration clause

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How Astro Bot's iconic PlayStation bots were made

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New law will change how always-online games are sold, at least in California

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A brief Star Wars Outlaws Endgame Q&A [Spoilers]

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What they're fixing in Star Wars Outlaws, and why

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The perfect video game for 2024

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The divisive return of Flappy Bird, and the untold, decade-long chase to claim the game's name

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Nintendo and the Pokémon Company sue Palworld maker Pocketpair [Update]

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A new game publisher is all about brain-breaking PC strategy games (and making them easier to get into)

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EA isn't making The Sims 5, as it 'disrupts the sequel model'

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My kids’ first PlayStation game

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Microsoft to cut 650 more gaming jobs [Update]

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Sony PlayStation’s headcount was flat this year, snapping three years of growth

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Sony to sell a more powerful $700 version of the PS5

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Hands-on with Nintendo’s next bold Zelda game

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Star Wars Outlaws really clicked for me in hour 11, or maybe it was hour 17

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How the hideous beauty of an unusual Capcom game came to be

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What's new is old, as remakes fill Nintendo's newest showcase

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Sony’s new game Concord has an unexpectedly lovely map

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New Madden’s lack of launch week review scores was partially by EA’s design

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Microsoft's Indiana Jones twist: It's back to being a PlayStation game, too

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Fighting Apple and Google has cost Epic about $1 billion

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I'm really enjoying Arco, a gorgeous pixel-art western

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It’s video game delay season. And release date season, too.

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The surprises that followed Animal Well’s near-perfect launch

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A cat role-playing game, reviewed by my twins (age 7 1/2)

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This fall's push for a video game industry code of ethics

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Saving Game Informer: The effort to protect gaming history after GameStop's shutdown

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Two video game previews that almost got away

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Bungie's deep job cuts were in the works prior to Destiny's most recent release, sources say

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Playing Pokémon by ear

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Arranger is a smart new puzzle game that’s free, if you have Netflix

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Video game actors to go on strike over AI

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Kamala Harris’ weird video game cameo

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The average age of video game makers keeps going up

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This was 2024’s best week of new video games

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Take Two warns investors that review bombings can hurt profits

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Nintendo puts more women in charge in Japan, but is not chasing a 'specific target'

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Ubisoft fine print reveals small CEO pay bump, a nixed Driver show and more

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What to make of Microsoft’s Game Pass overhaul

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A former Fallout artist on life after the game industry

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My kids’ favorite games of 2024, so far

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How PlayStation engineered its next great game

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A few things I learned about Star Wars Outlaws

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In New York, experts wonder how games can help save the world

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An extraordinary Netflix-backed game turns sign language into gameplay

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Exclusive: Palworld’s lead creator on his wild 2024, biggest dream for the game, and more

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Playing Elden Ring, two years late

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One of 2024’s coolest gaming secrets has been hiding in plain sight

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Nintendo's Next Zelda Game Lets You Play As Zelda [Update]

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Some Made-Up Summer Game Fest Awards

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Two (or is that 51?) fascinating new video games about...video games

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows developers talk Animus, Yasuke backlash and more

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New Gears of War game will be somber, linear and very detailed

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Xbox focuses on impressive games, not the elephants in the room

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The story behind a head-turning billboard mourning game studio shutdowns

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Five Nights At Freddy’s creator made $26 million in series’ first two years, records show

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