November 1, 2025

Geralt returns for another “blood soaked tale” in The Witcher: Blood Stone, a new comic that’ll send him monster-hunting in deadly dwarven mines

by on September 18, 2025 0

(Image credit: Dark Horse Comics) Between the original books, the beloved RPG series, and the hit Netflix show, Geralt of Rivia is by now a multimedia superstar, and his journeys in the world of comics aren’t stopping anytime soon, either. A new, four-issue miniseries called The Witcher: Blood Stone is set to kick off in

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Brave dev vows to keep making games for freaks like me even as daddy Steam decides to crack down on NSFW content: “I’ll just create the things I find interesting”

by on September 18, 2025 0

(Image credit: Nitroplus) If you expect me to apologize for having inappropriate thoughts about Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre and his dirty bat claws, or for quoting the part in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession where Isabelle Adjani says about the quivering mass of pus and tentacles in her bed, “He made love to me all night,”

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Palworld dev says a Dark Souls 3 mod invalidates Nintendo’s Pokeball patent, Nintendo says mods don’t count as real games, and an expert worries prior art precedents could see a modder’s work “used against them”

by on September 18, 2025 0

(Image credit: Pocket Pair) Nintendo’s lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair is still ongoing and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, but a new look at the case files suggests a pretty striking stance from the Nintendo legal team: in essence, they’re arguing that mods don’t count as real games. In 2021, shortly before the release

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Right after Silksong, a day before Borderlands 4, and just ahead of Hades 2, a new dev’s co-op roguelike threaded the needle to become a top 10 seller on Steam with 100k copies sold in a day

by on September 18, 2025 0

(Image credit: Lizard Smoothie / Neowiz) I was quite taken with MOBA-style action roguelike Shape of Dreams when it dropped a demo during the first Steam Next Fest of the year, and it seems a lot of other people are also loving it now that it’s out. Within 24 hours of its Steam launch on

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Gearbox Shares Some Funny Borderlands 4 Opening Weekend Stats

by on September 18, 2025 0

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Borderlands 4 arrived last week, and planet Kairos is ripe for the looting. Gearbox Studios has released a handful of stats from Borderlands 4 that reveal just how far some players are willing to go to find

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 2 Will Add New Graphics Setting On Xbox

by on September 17, 2025 0

Coming to Game Pass soon by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 6pm Team Cherry has detailed Patch 2 for its Xbox Game Pass hit Hollow Knight: Silksong, which arrives shortly after Patch 1 delivered some difficulty tweaks recently across all platforms. While Patch 2 doesn’t make any more balance adjustments, it does add a new visual setting,

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Xbox’s Super-Popular The Witcher 3 Controllers Are Back In Stock

by on September 17, 2025 0

Now on Xbox Design Lab by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 5pm You may remember that earlier this year, Microsoft released standard and elite versions of its limited-edition The Witcher 3 controller – and to use the term limited would be an understatement. The pair of gamepads sold out instantly, but they’re now back thanks to the

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Another Three Titles Are Joining Xbox Game Pass Core This October

by on September 17, 2025 0

Our first proper Core update since March by Fraser Gilbert Yesterday, 4:15pm Microsoft has today announced a new batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass Core in October, which marks the first time the “Core” service has added some new console games since March! These are three excellent games as well, with the always-popular

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Instead of a Splinter Cell Game, What About a Netflix Anime?

by on September 17, 2025 0

Deathwatch debuts on 14th October by Liam Croft Yesterday, 8:30pm There’s a remake of the original Splinter Cell game in development at Ubisoft, but almost four years after its reveal, who knows if you’ll ever actually get to play it. So, instead, how about a Splinter Cell anime? Still determined to have Sam Fisher appear

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Review: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter (PS5)

by on September 17, 2025 0

The Trails franchise presents one of the biggest time commitments in modern gaming. Spread across a total of 13 (thirteen!) interconnected games at the time of writing this review, the series’ density is both its greatest strength and its most talked-about curse. And so it makes a lot of sense for developer Falcom to revisit

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Mini Review: Henry Halfhead (PS5)

by on September 17, 2025 0

Half life Version Reviewed: PS5 (Standard) / European review by Stephen Tailby Yesterday, 5pm Henry Halfhead spells it out in the name, really; you play a character named Henry, and he’s the top half of a head. In this fun little biographical adventure, you take control of this guy, following his life all the way

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Turbo Overkill: Ultimate Edition Gets A Surprise Release On Switch

by on September 17, 2025 0

The chainsaw leg returns! by PJ O’Reilly Yesterday, 4:30pm We love ourselves a bit of Apogee Entertainment’s Turbo Overkill, going so far as to award it an 8/10 in our review back in February of this year, where we concluded that “Johnny Turbo’s chainsaw-sliding, wall-running and grappling combine with slo-mo silliness to provide a whole

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