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Fortnite's next crossover: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria becomes a map location, with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy as bosses.
Fortnitemares starts Oct 1.
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Double Fine's first game since leaving Xbox: a bus sim where you slap passengers who clip their toenails mid-route. "Crazy Taxi meets Papers, Please" — Thank You Bus Driver hits Oct 14, built in weeks.
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Kojima quoted Sony $400M for Physint.
Sony pulled funding when it blew budget and missed deadlines.
Xbox reportedly picked it up for a "fraction" of that.
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The writer behind The Witcher 3's Bloody Baron just quietly returned to CD Projekt Red after a decade.
Karolina Stachyra also wrote Hearts of Stone.
Her next project isn't confirmed — but Witcher 4 is the obvious hope.
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A fan rotated Pokémon Emerald's whole map 90° to match real Kyushu — turns out Hoenn was sideways all along.
Two decades of muscle memory now fight you. "I hate this so much.
I need to play it now."
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Platinum was so brutal only 2.6% unlocked it.
Director Naoki Hamaguchi says Revelation's will be easier—he expects 20%+ of players to earn it.
Out April 8, 2027.
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Bryan is now playable in Resident Evil 2 Remake — a fan mod swaps Leon's '98 costume for a full low-poly PSX version, with ray-traced or non-RT options.
It's the only Bryan mod for any RE game so far.
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17 years in, Minecraft still pulls 300,000 first-time players every single day. 425M copies sold and counting — Xbox's new boss says it's still finding new players.
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Wordle #1,926: one vowel, used twice.
It's a noun, and it's a type of boat.
Easier than yesterday — that's your streak-saver before you peek.
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Sony patented a controller that takes payments by tapping your phone or gift card on it — buy a game mid-demo, funds added, receipt emailed.
Filed March 2025, likely for PS6.
The next console's killer feature might just be removing friction from spending.
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Minecraft just announced its first new dimension in nearly 16 years.
The Sift: pink, bright, a squishy rabbit-like mob — basically The End's opposite.
No release date, but you can try it first in Minecraft Dungeons 2.
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Satya Nadella calls Xbox's cuts 'great to see' — 268 layoffs days earlier, Ninja Theory facing closure, and 3,200 jobs gone since July.
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Wardogs' lead says the fix for game economics is charging more — he wanted GTA 6 to break the $70 ceiling.
Counterpoint: Silksong shipped under $20 and Clair Obscur cost less than $40M.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on kids forgetting basic math to AI: "Does it matter?
I don't think it does." One study: ChatGPT users scored 48% better — then 17% worse without it.
Nvidia's data center revenue: $193.7B vs $16B gaming.
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A 72-year-old Pokémon collector GPS-tracked a delivery driver's van to hunt fresh card stock.
His sentence: 90 days wearing a GPS monitor himself, 12 months probation, $500 fine.
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