Pokemon TCG Pocket’s next expansion is Space-Time Smackdown, and apparently Dialga and Palkia are straight-up breaking the universe to get to your deck

Pokemon TCG Pocket’s next expansion is Space-Time Smackdown, and apparently Dialga and Palkia are straight-up breaking the universe to get to your deck

Desperate for more cards to drop in Pokemon TCG Pocket, because your army of cute soldiers can never be large enough? Well, good news, another new expansion is dropping for it next week, featuring new packs that’ll give you a chance to pull Dialga and Palkia, who’ve apparently been messing with the fabric of the…

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Nvidia RTX 5090 review: face-meltingly good top-flight performance and gorgeous industrial design – but beware the electrical bill

Nvidia RTX 5090 review: face-meltingly good top-flight performance and gorgeous industrial design – but beware the electrical bill

It’s that most exciting time in the world of PC gaming once again: graphics card generational shift o’clock! As always, Nvidia leads with its flagship, most expensive card, intended only for the most dedicated nutters with the deepest pockets: the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. The headline? It’s bloody good stuff – but one has to…

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The long-gestating West African-inspired fantasy epic Children of Blood and Bone has set an all-star cast at Paramount

The long-gestating West African-inspired fantasy epic Children of Blood and Bone has set an all-star cast at Paramount

Folks who have been keeping tabs on everything Lucasfilm might remember there once was a Children of Blood and Bone adaptation in the works at the studio. The fantasy epic would’ve marked the company’s first non-Star Wars project (though we’ve had Willow and Indy 5 since) since it was acquired by Disney. However, the rights…

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Benedict Cumberbatch says Doctor Strange will be elsewhere when the Avengers face Doctor Doom, but expect a big role in Secret Wars and a third solo movie

Benedict Cumberbatch says Doctor Strange will be elsewhere when the Avengers face Doctor Doom, but expect a big role in Secret Wars and a third solo movie

We don’t really know whether Marvel Studios is out of the woods just yet or still spiraling downward. Regardless, the next two Avengers movies are prepping to shoot later this year, which means we’ll be getting huge casting updates sooner rather than later. Of course, Doctor Strange is a major player in the Marvel Cinematic…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t do as well as EA hoped, but EA Sports FC 25’s struggles to score big financial numbers were an even bigger factor in it revising expectations

Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t do as well as EA hoped, but EA Sports FC 25’s struggles to score big financial numbers were an even bigger factor in it revising expectations

EA has revealed that both Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA Sports FC 25 have both “underperformed” its expectations, though it’s the latter of the two that it cites as “accounting for the majority of the change” it’s had to make in its financial projections. Read more

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The Witcher 4’s all about Ciri and even Geralt’s fully aboard her hype train, but he won’t fully explain why he’s so excited, because he’s pro-reading

The Witcher 4’s all about Ciri and even Geralt’s fully aboard her hype train, but he won’t fully explain why he’s so excited, because he’s pro-reading

Well, if you’re one of the five idiots on Earth still unhappy about Ciri being tapped to be The Witcher 4’s protagonist, your job just got a bit harder. Doug Cockle, Geralt’s iconic voice actor has now given his two cents on the change, and he thinks it’s “a really, really interesting move”. Read more

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Bloodborne PC emulation is now good enough that even everyone’s favourite tech nerds think it “demonstrates the direction we’d want an official remaster to move in”

Bloodborne PC emulation is now good enough that even everyone’s favourite tech nerds think it “demonstrates the direction we’d want an official remaster to move in”

Something, something, Bloodborne remaster/PC port. Everyone and their FromSoft-loving grandmother wants one, but we’ve nopt gotten one yet, for reasons numerous people – including Miyazaki – have alluded to or suggested. The good news is that DIY efforts to bring the game to personal computers in a fashion that doesn’t crash more often than a…

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Diablo 4’s first free trial of 2025 is here just in time for the new season; and you can even try the definitely-not-nerfed new class

Diablo 4’s first free trial of 2025 is here just in time for the new season; and you can even try the definitely-not-nerfed new class

Diablo 4’s seventh season, Season of Witchcraft, went live Tuesday alongside another major gameplay update. New seasons in Diablo 4, much like they can in other live service games, represent new beginnings for players, and since everyone has to create a new character to take part in the new content, everyone is (roughly) on the…

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Helldivers 2’s latest mission has had a big Illuminate invasion sting in the tail, leaving some players freaking out, while others reckon it’s J.O.E.L helping out again

Helldivers 2’s latest mission has had a big Illuminate invasion sting in the tail, leaving some players freaking out, while others reckon it’s J.O.E.L helping out again

Helldivers 2’s latest Major Order has packed a final twist into its tail. As things were looking pretty bleak in terms of Super Earth’s chances of pulling out a victory by fending off enough Illuminate attacks, the squids have launched a bunch more of them, meaning players may have an admittedly dwindling shot of winning…

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How do you remaster an overlooked cult classic like Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles? By leaning into how “fun and quirky” it is, says the developer

How do you remaster an overlooked cult classic like Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles? By leaning into how “fun and quirky” it is, says the developer

The surprise remaster of Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is right around the corner. I and other retro Star Wars gaming sickos are celebrating already, but before its January 23 release across all modern platforms, I had the opportunity to shoot Aspyr some burning questions about the process of revisiting such an overlooked…

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Big Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod about an all-new adventure to Minthara’s terrifying home town is aiming to release a demo pretty soon

Big Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod about an all-new adventure to Minthara’s terrifying home town is aiming to release a demo pretty soon

Back when Baldur’s Gate 3 first got its official modding tools last year, one of the big questions folks were immediately asking was whether it’d be possible to create any big custom campaigns, and whether many modders would actually take on the daunting and time-consuming task of delivering such a thing. Read more

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Marvel Rivals newbies are drawing up handwritten playbooks to help teach themselves the ideal Venom strategy: arrive, do damage, then yeet yourself off a ledge

It can be hard getting into a game like Marvel Rivals when everyone else has already had a full season to get up to speed, pick which heroes fit their playstyle, and learn how to best deploy the attacks at their disposal. It’s ok, though, one newbie with a buddy on Reddit has seemingly found…

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