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fromGadgets 360
1 hour ago

Arc Raiders is Getting a New 'Headwinds' Update This Week

Arc Raiders Headwinds update launches January 27, adding solo-vs-squads matchmaking, a Trophy Display progression, Bird City map condition, and the Sandwalker cosmetic set.
fromGadgets 360
4 hours ago

GTA 6 May Not Get Physical Version at Launch to Avoid Leaks

Grand Theft Auto 6 may not get a physical version at launch and instead stick to a digital release initially. Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games are said to be planning on holding off on GTA 6's physical release to avoid early leaks and spoilers. The open world crime title is set to come out on November 19, 2026, but Take-Two has not yet detailed the editions and versions that will be available at launch.
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fromQueerty
11 hours ago

1348 Ex Voto puts a lesbian knight in the jousting seat & she's kicking all the boys' asses - Queerty

A medieval action game centers a lesbian knight's quest and lesbian romance, offering cinematic combat, strong representation, and major early interest.
fromEngadget
4 days ago

Double Fine announces delightful-looking multiplayer pottery game Kiln

Double Fine has been on a tear with its smaller projects lately. The popular indie game developer is following up last year's atmospheric adventure game with a new title in a totally different direction. As its Double Fine founder Tim Schaefer attempted to say five times fast during today's Xbox Developer Direct, is an "online multiplayer pottery party brawler" that boasts exactly the sort of colorful, clever fun that fans have come to expect from the studio.
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#super-mario-bros-wonder
fromVG247
18 hours ago
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New Super Mario Bros. Wonder amiibo are up for preorder at Amazon, and you won't believe how incredible they look

fromVG247
18 hours ago
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New Super Mario Bros. Wonder amiibo are up for preorder at Amazon, and you won't believe how incredible they look

fromKotaku
15 hours ago

TR-49: The Kotaku Review

TR-49 is analogy rendered in four dimensions. On a surface level, it's a game about sorting through an archive of written works and commentary that has you identifying dozens of excerpts and documents, all with the aim of destroying a particular work. Beneath the surface, however, this is a piece of art that speaks viciously and satirically to so much of our reality.
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fromEngadget
17 hours ago

Ball x Pit's first update brings an endless mode and much more to the chaos

Ball x Pit's major free update adds two characters, eight special balls, passives, endless mode, and language support, expanding gameplay and customization.
#forza-horizon-6
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Forza Horizon 6: Everything We Know About The Open-World Racing Game Set In Japan

Forza Horizon 6 relocates the open-world racing series to Japan, featuring the largest map, Tokyo as the biggest city, and a tourist protagonist.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Fable, Forza, And More: Everything At Xbox's Developer Direct

Xbox revealed Forza Horizon 6 in Japan with 550 cars launching May 19, Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation releasing summer, plus a look at Fable.
fromKotaku
4 days ago
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Forza Horizon 6: Everything We Know About The Open-World Racing Game Set In Japan

#fable
fromKotaku
4 days ago
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Fable Reboot Features 'Seamless' Open World And Is Launching This Fall

fromKotaku
4 days ago
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Fable Reboot Features 'Seamless' Open World And Is Launching This Fall

#mario-kart-world
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fromEngadget
18 hours ago

Blizzard lines up WoW, Overwatch, Hearthstone and Diablo showcases

Blizzard will host developer-led showcases for its 35th anniversary, promising major game announcements and roadmaps for WoW, Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, and Hearthstone.
fromEngadget
4 days ago

GeForce Now adds support for flight controllers

It only seems right that cloud gaming should welcome virtual pilots, and that's definitely now the case if GeForce Now is your streaming platform of choice. One of the most frequently requested features from its community according to NVIDIA, flight control support has now been added to its GeForce Now offering, meaning you can live your Top Gun fantasies without worrying about your rig buckling under the pressure.
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#final-fantasy-vii-remake
#resident-evil-requiem
fromVG247
1 day ago

Arc Raiders finally reveals early 2026 roadmap, but we're not getting a new map for a while

After weeks of waiting, Arc Raiders developer Embark has officially unveiled the first few months of the game's 2026 roadmap. The plan is split into four months, covering January to April, collectively dubbed Escalation. We're expecting a content update each month, with the majority of the biggest additions happening on the game's existing maps. There is, however, at least one new map in the works, but it won't be here until sometime in April.
fromKotaku
17 hours ago

PokePark Kanto Theme Park Looks Like A Fan's Dream

If you've grown up with Pokémon , you have no doubt dreamt of waking up in the universe. That's a pipe dream, but if you can make it to Tokyo, you can get a facsimile of this experience at PokéPark Kanto, a new theme park opening on February 5. In the months since The Pokémon Company announced the attraction, we've mostly only seen mock-ups of what the park was going to look like .
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#highguard
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fromKotaku
19 hours ago

Resident Evil Requiem Preview: Two Styles Of Horror In One

Resident Evil Requiem blends classic survival-horror tension with over-the-top action by alternating distinct gameplay tones between Leon and newcomer Grace.
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fromKotaku
19 hours ago

Warhammer-Inspired FTL-Like Taken Down By Weird DMCA Notice

Void War, an FTL-style Warhammer 40K indie game, was delisted from Steam after a DMCA notice submitted under the fictional name 'Mal Reynolds'.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
23 hours ago

Why I'm launching a feminist video games website in 2026

A worker-owned, subscriber-funded gaming publication named Mothership will center gender, identity, and feminist-focused reporting, criticism, investigations, and historical coverage.
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fromKotaku
16 hours ago

Highguard From Titanfall 2 And Apex Devs Deserves Your Attention

A PvP hero shooter focused on defending and assaulting customizable Keeps with Wardens, short reinforcement windows, and varied, strategic map layouts.
#ubisoft
fromKotaku
3 days ago
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Frustration Inside Ubisoft: 'This Is Probably The Most Embarrassed I Have Felt Working Somewhere' - Kotaku

fromKotaku
3 days ago
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Frustration Inside Ubisoft: 'This Is Probably The Most Embarrassed I Have Felt Working Somewhere' - Kotaku

fromKotaku
16 hours ago

The Highguard Devs Explain That Terrible Game Awards Reveal

Look, we always planned for a, you know, a surprise release,
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fromKotaku
13 hours ago

DrDisrespect Lies About Being Invited To Highguard Preview Event - Kotaku

Dr Disrespect posted a Highguard media badge claiming attendance, but attendees and the game's manager say he wasn't invited and the photo may be faked.
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fromWGB
2 days ago

Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Rated In Australia

A Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition has been rated in Australia, with Atari listed as developer/publisher and U&I involved, suggesting a Switch and PS5 physical release.
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fromEngadget
1 day ago

Outside Parties is the creepiest Playdate game yet, and I'm kind of obsessed

Outside Parties is a Playdate horror scavenger-hunt that builds intense atmosphere using a massive gigapixel panoramic image and eerie audio-driven narrative.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Pong inventor's Feb. 9 talk to cover early history of Atari, video games

Al Alcorn's invention Pong launched the video game industry, and Sunnyvale School District joined a Digital Promise cohort to improve outcomes for newcomer students.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Pong inventor's Feb. 9 talk to cover early history of Atari, video games

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari's first engineer and the inventor of Pong, will talk about the early history of Atari and how Pong launched the video game industry at a Feb. 9 Speaker Night at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum.
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#indie-games
fromEngadget
2 days ago
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More Cult of the Lamb, a World War II computer mystery and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie gaming this week includes significant releases like Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven expansion amid reflections on more practical portable gaming choices while traveling.
fromPolygon
5 months ago
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Time Flies when you're thinking about dying

Time Flies is a minimalist insect life sim where players control a fly with seconds determined by a country's life expectancy to complete a bucket list.
fromEngadget
2 days ago
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More Cult of the Lamb, a World War II computer mystery and other new indie games worth checking out

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fromThe Verge
2 days ago

Gaming's most fun sales data is full of old and obscure games

A number of retail game copies, including many retro titles, sold only a single physical unit in given periods, tracked via retailer point-of-sale data.
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fromPolygon
5 months ago

A new Nintendo Direct is coming on July 31

Nintendo will host a third-party-focused Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase on July 31 highlighting upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch titles from publishing partners.
fromPolygon
5 months ago

A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4

From the trailer alone, there are quite a few other noticeable differences from the previous games, like the lack of character names on the combat screen, as well as the whopping eight party members in combat at once. In previous games, while you have a full party of eight as the name would imply, you'd only select four of them to actually fight at once.
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fromWGB
3 days ago

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Ranks as 5th Best-Selling Game Of 2025, A Big Drop For The Series As Battlefield Takes The Win

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ranked fifth in 2025 premium game dollar sales, marking the franchise's lowest year-end placement since 2008.
fromThe Verge
2 days ago

This coming-of-age adventure game made me feel a little too seen

There's a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station 's Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she's recently moved to a place simply called "the City" from the middle of nowhere, and like me, she's an avid writer. But these biographical details aren't the important thing; it's the way she's painted by the game's incredibly sharp writing where I start to feel uncomfortably seen.
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fromPolygon
5 months ago

Monster Hunter Stories 3 revealed for Nintendo Switch 2

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection will be released on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
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fromPolygon
5 months ago

A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch

Once Upon A Katamari returns as the first original console entry in 14 years, featuring time-travel levels, a new KatamariBall mode, and cross-platform release.
fromEngadget
2 days ago

US Congress members call for 'thorough review' of EA's $55 billion sale

Democratic members of the US Congress, as part of the Congressional Labor Caucus, penned a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to "thoroughly review" the $55 billion acquisition of EA. EA confirmed the sale to the Public Investment Fund, or the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners in September, but the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027. Before the official change of ownership, the 46 House Democrats who signed the letter to the FTC are calling for more scrutiny into the impacts of the deal.
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fromKotaku
3 days ago

Palworld Studio Reviews Steam History To Only Hire 'True' Gamers

Pocketpair requires applicants to show Steam playtime and explain favorite game mechanics; Monster Hunter Wilds gets PC performance patches; BioWare hires for Mass Effect 5.
#beyond-good--evil-2
#xbox
fromEngadget
4 days ago
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Xbox Developer Direct 2026: How to watch and what we expect to see from Fable, Forza Horizon 6 and Beast of Reincarnation

fromEngadget
4 days ago
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Xbox Developer Direct 2026: How to watch and what we expect to see from Fable, Forza Horizon 6 and Beast of Reincarnation

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fromKotaku
3 days ago

Final Fantasy 7 Remake 3 Is Bringing Back Queen's Blood

Queen's Blood will return in the third Final Fantasy VII installment as an expanded, 'powered-up' card minigame, and the snowboarding segment will be reintegrated and expanded.
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fromKotaku
3 days ago

It's Not Too Late To Save Beloved Gaming Franchises

License dormant AAA franchises to proven mid-size AA teams and allow development without publisher interference to revive them affordably.
fromVG247
4 days ago

Battlefield 6's first big map in months is coming to Labs soon, but I'm more excited about BF4's Golmud Railway making its way to BF6

Now, the developer has revealed how it plans to use some of that time, and the first port of call is Battlefield Labs. As discussed in the initial delay message, BF Studios wants the community's involvement earlier and more consistently in the development of future content. This includes Season 2, of course, and a big component of what it's bringing to the game is headed to Labs.
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fromKotaku
3 days ago

Fable Abandons The Series' Defining Mechanic, Fans Aren't Happy

Playground Games replaces binary good/evil morality with subjective NPC reactions, removing appearance changes tied to moral choices.
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fromBusiness Matters
5 days ago

What Balloon Master 3D Is and Why Players Love It

Balloon Master 3D delivers accessible color-matching gameplay with increasing speed, clear visuals, and short-session-friendly progression that balances relaxation and challenge.
fromKotaku
3 days ago

Cyberpunk 2077 VR Modder Locks Out Subscribers After New DMCA: 'People On The Web Are Thirsty For Blood' - Kotaku

In light of the above facts, I'm being forced to take immediate action. I'm making unavailable all versions of the mods and also all the posts related to the wonderful work we have done here together for years, so that there will be no ground for further claims,
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fromKotaku
3 days ago

Sims 4 Sex Mod Used Hundreds Of Thousands Of Times A Day

WickedWhims is a widely used Sims 4 mod that adds explicit sexual animations, expanded relationships, and reproductive features, attracting hundreds of thousands of daily uses.
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fromKotaku
3 days ago

World Of Warcraft Transmog Changes Spark Fan Backlash

Blizzard halved World of Warcraft transmog outfit creation prices after player backlash over an overly complex, prohibitively expensive transmog overhaul.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Metroid Prime's 40-Year Veteran Of Nintendo Is Reportedly Retiring

Longtime Nintendo producer Kensuke Tanabe is stepping away from Metroid Prime 4 production, creating a leadership transition and uncertainty about future sequels.
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fromEngadget
4 days ago

Double Fine announces delightful-looking multiplayer pottery game Kiln

Kiln is an online multiplayer pottery brawler where players craft customized ceramic vessels and use them in team-based capture-the-flag matches that combine creation and destruction.
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fromGadgets 360
5 days ago

Ubisoft's Franchises Will be Handled by 5 New Units as Part of 'Major Reset'

Ubisoft reorganises into five decentralised creative houses, cancels six games, delays seven projects, and focuses on open-world and GaaS to restore creative leadership.
#vr
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

It Took An Xbox Showcase To Get A Rare Look Inside The Makers Of Pokemon

Game Freak's Tokyo Kanda Square office features Kanto-themed decor, including a Viridian Forest room, shown during an Xbox showcase for Beast of Reincarnation.
fromGadgets 360
5 days ago

Ubisoft Cancels Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, Delays 7 Games

The troubled and protracted development of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake has finally come to an end. Ubisoft announced it was cancelling the remake, along with five other unannounced games, as part of a major organisational and portfolio reset that will see the company distribute its franchises among five new business units. The Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, which was set to launch in 2026, wasn't able to reach the desired level of quality, Ubisoft said.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

It's the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design': welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam

Quake Brutalist Jam is a community game-mapping event that produced 77 brutalist-themed Quake maps with new enemies and weapons during a six-week session.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Game Freak Addresses Concern About How Its Non-Pokemon RPG Runs

Game Freak prioritizes delivering a specific gameplay experience, focusing on optimization and bug fixing to ensure performance rather than maximum graphical fidelity.
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fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Here's a new look at Beast of Reincarnation, from the team behind Pokemon

Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation launches summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox, and PC as a one-person, one-dog action RPG set in post-apocalyptic Japan.
fromEngadget
4 days ago

GeForce Now adds support for flight controllers

It only seems right that cloud gaming should welcome virtual pilots, and that's definitely now the case if GeForce Now is your streaming platform of choice. One of the most frequently requested features from its community according to NVIDIA, flight control support has now been added to its GeForce Now offering, meaning you can live your Top Gun fantasies without worrying about your rig buckling under the pressure.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

007 First Light: Everything We Know About The Hitman Devs' James Bond Game

It's been over a decade since the last major 007 video game, and longer still since the last good one. So there's a lot of buzz around IO Interactive's upcoming 007 First Light. But this isn't another first-person shooter trying to chase after the beloved N64 GoldenEye. Instead, IOI is making something very different than most other Bond games, and that has many fans, myself included, intrigued. Could this be the first Bond game to truly nail the vibe? Hopefully so.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Yakuza 3 Remake Ugly Alleyway Has Fans Concerned

Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio recently released a new demo for Yakuza 3 Kiwami, an upcoming remake of the original PS3-era Yakuza 3. And a single alleyway in the demo has become the center of an online debate about whether Yakuza 3 Kiwami is a visual downgrade when compared to the OG game. On January 21, Sega released a demo for Yakuza 3 Kiwami for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Arknights: Endfield Shuts Off PayPal After Random Charges Bug

A PayPal glitch on Arknights: Endfield charged players thousands of dollars; developer disabled PayPal purchases and will handle erroneous transactions.
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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Casual $40,000 Marvel Rivals Creator Tournament Sparks A Ton Of Online Drama - Kotaku

Content creator Kingsman265 was removed from the Deadpool Creator Cup after arguing insistently about team composition and leaving practice, prompting the host to disqualify him.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Animal Crossing's new update has revived my pandemic sanctuary

Animal Crossing: New Horizons preserves islands across long absences and receives visual and performance improvements on newer Switch hardware.
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fromGadgets 360
5 days ago

Death Stranding Director's Cut and Space Marine 2 Join Game Pass in January

Death Stranding Director's Cut and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 join Xbox Game Pass in late January, alongside several additional titles across PC, cloud, and Xbox platforms.
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fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Detective games get extra cryptic with TR-49's code-breaking mystery

TR-49 is a detective game by Inkle that uses a bizarre WWII-era code-breaking computer and an amnesiac protagonist to drive investigation in a dystopian setting.
fromKotaku
5 days ago

New Donkey Kong Update Shows Nintendo Is All Over The Place

The Donkey Kong Country Returns HD free update is out today and adds Dixie Kong as a playable character along with her helicopter hair spin. It also adds a Turbo Attack mode which essentially turns every level into a speedrun challenge. Finally, a free Switch 2 upgrade will give the game better resolution, improved visuals, and faster load times. It'll also include support for GameShare so two players can play local coop on separate devices using only one copy of the game.
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fromKotaku
5 days ago

Marathon Pre-Order Bug Forces Players To Download Destiny 2

Pre-ordering Marathon on Steam briefly triggered Destiny 2 to auto-install on players' PCs due to a backend bug, and the issue has been resolved.
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fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Ubisoft cancels Prince of Persia remake as part of major reorganization

Ubisoft reorganized development into five studios, each focused on specific genres and brand groups to grow, revive, or operate major franchises and live experiences.
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fromWGB
6 days ago

Two More Far Cry Games Are Getting A 60FPS Update

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Far Cry: Primal receive current-gen updates enabling 60FPS on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X on January 21st.
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