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The Stoor hobbit Sméagol, corrupted into the twisted form of Gollum by the One Ring, is not the most obvious protagonist for a video game. But there is potential for the dual personalities of The Lord of the Rings’ sneakiest character to translate into fun gameplay. A battle between cowardice…

A PC mod that brings seamless, four-player co-op with shared game progression to Elden Ring is entering beta this week. While the game does support three-player co-op organically, its designed to be more of a fleeting experience generally intended for one-off boss fights. A mod from YouTube user LukeYui shows…

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had launched just a couple of months earlier, but the emails assaulting the inbox of CD Projekt Red community assistant Paweł Burza were about another game entirely. The community was fiercely hungry for a standalone version of the beloved in-world card game, Gwent. “We got…

Sony has officially revealed the required PC specs for its upcoming PlayStation Plus Premium plan, offering future plan owners a look at how powerful their computers will need to be compatible for streaming games. Luckily, the requirements aren’t strict. In a blog post today, the PlayStation team revealed more details…

A group of quality assurance employees at Raven Software have officially voted in favor of unionization with the National Labor Relations Board, with a final vote total of 19 for and three against. The vote count was announced today over an official webcast meeting. Approximately 28 employees were considered eligible…

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released almost 10 years ago, but it has recently been seeing an uptick of new players due to a related meme involving one of its characters, Jetstream Sam, stroking his chin and thinking. Samuel Rodrigues, or Jetstream Sam, is a character from PlatinumGames’ 2013 spinoff…

Today, AT&T announced that Control Ultimate Edition is now free to stream for its customers for a limited time. According to today’s announcement, “low latency of AT&T 5G paired with cloud streaming technology helps deliver virtually instant, high-fidelity gameplay to the devices you already own.” This means that Control can…

An Elden Ring modder has orchestrated the ultimate Battle Royale, pitting each of the game’s demigod bosses against one another. YouTube user Garden of Eyes – who’s previously modded legendary summon Let Me Solo Her into Elden Ring and pit Malenia against every other boss – uploaded a video of…

Developer The Dust has announced I, The Inquisitor, a story-based action-adventure based on the popular books by Jacek Piekara in which, in an alternate history, Jesus of Nazareth responds to his crucifixion with anger and rage rather than forgiveness and compassion. And in the centuries that follow His band of…

The Final Fantasy 9 animated series will be revealed at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo this week. Bruno Danzel d’Aumont, the vice president of international licensing and marketing at Cyber Group Studios – the animation studio that’s developing the series with Square Enix – revealed to Animation Magazine that the…