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Just one day after the launch of Season of the Wish, Bungie has removed a $15 “starter pack” microtransaction for Destiny 2 that quickly became the subject of criticism and backlash over pay-to-win concerns. Over the years, Bungie’s monetization model for their long-running live-service shooter has increasingly relied on DLC…

This is the best year ever for Xbox Cyber Monday deals, from the best Cyber Monday Xbox console deals we’ve ever seen, to the lowest-prices on Xbox Cyber Monday controller deals, ever. That’s on top of all the Black Friday deals on Xbox games, too. The Xbox Series X comes…

It’s a heck of a time, running through an abandoned bunker in the dark with nothing but a hazmat suit on your back and three of your closest buds at your side. Oh wait, that’s not your closest bud at all – it’s a grotesque, white-eyed monster eating their corpse…

During Capcom’s special Dragon’s Dogma 2 showcase yesterday, we not only learned the release date for the hotly anticipated sequel action role-playing game, but we also learned it will be the company’s first $70 game. The PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam standard editions of the game are all listed…

Sons of the Forest will officially leave Early Access and launch its v1.0 on February 22, 2024. Furthermore, X-Men and Quantum Break’s Shawn Ashmore will be joining the cast to voice Timmy as the team works to “expand his role in the game and story.” Sons of the Forest developer…

Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus games for December 2023 are LEGO 2K Drive (PS4 and PS5), Powerwash Simulator (PS4 and PS5), and Sable (PS5). As revealed on the PlayStation Blog, all three games will be made available at no extra cost to PlayStation Plus subscribers on December 5. LEGO…

Sonic Superstars launched on October 17. Super Mario Bros. Wonder launched three days later, on October 20. Both 2D platformers went up against each other in an old-school video game rumble that rekindled memories of the Sega versus Nintendo playground battles of the 90s. Well, it seems this time around,…

Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has appeared again, this time on Microsoft’s Xbox store. The unannounced game appeared on the Xbox store overnight with a raft of screenshots before Microsoft pulled the listing offline. The internet noticed and splurged the details online, of course, including Wario64 on X/Twitter…

Capcom just brought its latest Dragon’s Dogma 2 Showcase to a close, but it still made sure to show off towering new enemies like Talos, a new vocation in the form of the Trickster, and more immersive RPG gameplay. It was a short presentation that had its show stolen almost…

Zombies can be fun to mow down, but they also run the risk of being one of the least interesting monster enemy types around: a slow, lumbering, decaying husk that’s better off buried than occupying our attention. If nothing else, The Walking Dead: Destinies, based off the otherwise fantastic early…