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Summer Games Done Quick Returns This July And The Full Schedule Features Speedruns For Balatro, Super Mario 64, And More

Games Done Quick (GDQ) has announced that its flagship speedrunning marathon, Summer Games Done Quick, will return to Minneapolis this July to benefit Doctors Without Borders. The full schedule has been released and will feature a wide range of speedruns from July 5 to July 11, including a game-breaking Balatro run, a unique tool-assisted Super…

PS5 Now Tells You Exactly How Many People Play GTA 5

Steam provides an unusual level of insight into what’s popular on the platform and how games are performing. While user reviews and charts of concurrent player counts can be weaponized to push toxic agendas, they also provide useful data points for tracking broader movements around which games are trending and why. Console storefronts on Xbox…

Daemons of the Shadow Realm stole it’s biggest twist from M. Night Shyamalan

Because the new anime Daemons of the Shadow Realm is based on a manga by Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa, you can easily assume it’s going to invest heavily in kinship between siblings, a yellow-haired older brother, and an obtuse but compelling system of magic. What I did not expect, however, was that it would…

Xbox Is Rebranding Itself, Sort Of

Earlier this week, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma put the following question to fans on social media: “Xbox” or “XBOX”? Out of the 19,176 votes cast, all caps XBOX was the clear winner with 64.8% of the total. Now, Microsoft has seemingly taken that to heart by rebranding the Xbox account on X with all-caps XBOX….

The Blood of Dawnwalker Exclusive Details & Forza Horizon 6 Review

In this week’s episode, we dive into the exclusive details of our Blood of Dawnwalker cover story, including an early look at romance options in the vampiric role-playing game from The Witcher 3’s former game director. The crew also discusses Forza Horizon 6 and where the racing game goes next, why Directive 8020 disappointed executive…

One Diablo 4 Bug Fix Just Completely Shifted The Game’s Meta

It wouldn’t be a proper new Diablo 4 expansion without some wild match glitches that completely break the game. Lord of Hatred is delivering on that front with a bizarre new exploit introduced after Blizzard actually attempted to patch a different bug. The result, at least for now, is players with god-like survivability as they…

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – May 15

As the follow-up to my favorite racing game of all-time, taking place in my favorite travel destination on the planet, Forza Horizon 6 has a lot of pieces in place to appeal directly to me. However, it goes beyond that, as this entry continues to make a case for being the best racing franchise around….

Donald Trump Satire RPG Arcade Cabinets Appear In D.C.

If the Trump administration keeps using video games to spread its propaganda online, I guess it’s fair that people use video games to make fun of him, as well. That’s what someone’s been doing by recently installing arcade cabinets in Washington D.C. for a satirical RPG called Operation Epic Furious: Strait To Hell. You can…

Pokémon Go Deino Community Day Classic event guide

Pokémon Go is bringing back this dark- and dragon-type Pokémon for Deino Community Day Classic, a replay of an event originally from June 2022. This rerun takes place on Saturday, May 16 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time. As expected with a Community Day event, Deino will spawn in huge numbers with a high…

Two NFL Teams Spoofed Halo And Street Fighter To Announce Season Schedules And You Gotta See Them

The NFL season will commence this September, but ahead of Week 1, all 32 teams in the league released their schedules today to let fans know the teams they’ll face. There are a lot of unique and funny ways the teams went about this, but nothing tops the Los Angeles Chargers spoofing Halo and the…