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bad hunter | Thymesia reviews round-up - all the scores
If you're done with Elden Ring, Thymesia might be the homage to a different flavour of FromSoft game you need.
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Yharnam town | Thymesia review: A bargain bin Bloodborne, for better and for worse
There’s something special about Thymesia, but don’t expect greatness.
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Ragnarok Is Coming | God of War's story recap reminds you why everyone’s so excited about this year’s biggest PlayStation game
Felicia Day refreshes us on what everyone loved about the first game.
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Intolerance | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.12: Best game that you hated for a very specific reason
We can't help it when something rubs us the wrong way.
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block and load | Dragon Quest Builders 2 showed us the potential of Minecraft clones – so where's Dragon Quest Builders 3?
It's been four years since the best Minecraft clone hit the market, and the genre still goes largely unloved. What gives?
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commitment made easy | Elden Ring patch 1.06 brings gifts for heavy weapon users, and White Mask Varre fans who don't care for PvP
It's been a while since Elden Ring has been updated, and this new one is good.
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This Land's Finished | This Elden Ring mod understands that a hunter must hunt with Bloodborne-style gun parries
Plus, a mod for some new Torrent skins, and another that reimagines some weapons.
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MONSTEROUS NEWS | Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak stream to provide news on Title Update 1 next week
Tune in to find out more on the August update.
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KRAFTON WANTS YOU | Krafton's on a hiring spree for its game based on Korean fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears
The firm is aggressively recruiting the world’s top development talent to help create the game.
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Diablo Immortal: How to solve the 9 Lamps and Mirror Puzzles in the Lost Runes quest
Light the way to a perfect reflection
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Teenage dirt bag | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.11: Best game that you were ridiculously hyped for as a teen
Teenage independence brought with it the chance to shape our own gaming futures.
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Too much butter | This Lord of the Rings Unreal Engine 5 game trailer is outstanding
While just a concept trailer, it gets the imagination working!
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Cut It Out | Elden Ring's Malenia used to slice and dice you a whole lot more
The infamous boss used to be a lot tougher in the 1.0 version of the game.
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bad times | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.10: Best game that is really bad
We all love things we shouldn't love. Video games are no different.
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hell and high profit | Like it or not, Diablo Immortal has raked in $100 million in 8 weeks
Blizzard may be a hotbed of controversy right now, but its latest mobile game, Diablo Immortal, is raking it in.
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yorda one i want | Ico is awkward, unsettling, and weird – but it's still an essential PS Plus game everyone needs to play
Before Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, there was Ico – and it's still essential, some 21 years later.
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where the sneks? | I can't decide if Indiana Jones is loving or hating the world of Elden Ring
Indiana Jones in Elden Ring is the crossover you didn't know you needed.
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survey the land | Atlus knows how badly you want to see Persona 2 and Persona 3 remakes
The Atlus Survey 2022 Special Program livestream made it clear that the publisher understands what its fans want to see: old games on new platforms.
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comfortably platinum | I hated Elden Ring, but in trying to find something to love I accidentally platinumed it
Completing Elden Ring entirely – mostly by accident – probably should have taught me something about myself. But I think it just wasted my time.
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REALLY FEELING IT | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 review: A slow burn, but the best in the series so far
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a confident, self-assured RPG – and possibly Monolith Soft’s best game to date.
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V-juvenile-247 | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.9: Best game with balls that isn't a sports game
When this topic was decided, we overestimated our ability to ignore the obvious crude options.
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Loot Lotto | Tiny Tina's Wonderlands player gets lucky, finds rare item with one in 85 billion drop rate
The drop rate is even lower than our chances of winning the lottery.
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SPACEBALLS | Star Ocean turns 26 today, and I’m so glad Square Enix’s spacefaring B-movie RPG is still going strong
Star Ocean isn’t Final Fantasy, nor is it Dragon Quest. But it still has that ambition, with a vastly smaller budget. That’s what makes it brilliant.
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duality | Elden Ring's stone gargoyles are actually made of people
Gargoyles are pretty much a staple in FromSoftware games, but Elden Ring had to make them more grotesque.
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Praise the dog | Elden Ring player receives thoughtful gift inspired by dog meme
The only gift I got out of Elden Ring was sleepless nights.
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Wait Your Turn | Final Fantasy 16 stuck with action combat over turn-based to appeal to a younger crowd
Producer Naoki Yoshida explains why Final Fantasy 16 didn't go back to its turn-based roots.
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Is this just fantasy | Digital Extremes announces Soulframe and indie publishing during TennoCon 2022
A new fantasy MMO is in the works, as well as another MMO from Airship Syndicate
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bag of hoarding | Please, FromSoftware, don’t let Elden Ring 2 exacerbate the hoarding problem that you created
Having an infinite inventory is all well and good until you spend all of Elden Ring hoarding every single item you collect until the end of the game.
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im-press-ive | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.8: Best game that journos love but most people think is a bit naff
Look, we know this is pushing the term "most," but just go with it.
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You don’t know, Jack | Stranger of Paradise DLC trailer asks that you embrace chaos with Bahamut and The Warrior of Light
Final Fantasy Origin is getting more content soon, and it's all a lovely throwback to the first Final Fantasy game.
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HEY HEY HEY GOODBYE | Most Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC is now free on PC through Origin
So long, BioWare Points.
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you tried | Elden Ring's roaming cavalry is an enemy design FromSoft has been trying to make happen since Demon's Souls
For over 13 years, FromSoftware has been refining a particular idea it had all the way back in Demon's Souls, and Elden Ring contains the latest iteration.
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horny jail | Elden Ring players turn in-game quotes into "sexy" pillow talk and it's... something
In the absence of any real Elden Ring news, the community is making... liberal use of certain parts of the game.
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Elden Ring-A-Ding | Elden Ring player makes improvisational jazz by beating the game with a piano
There's more than one way to beat FromSoftware's latest.
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Eye Like This | It sure looks like MultiVersus is teasing something from The Lord of the Rings
A suspicious tweet has people wondering if they've spotted the Eye of Sauron.
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Of Valour and Lore | Baldur's Gate 3 update lets you become a Gnome Bard with fabulous hair
Sing a song of sixpence.
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Stealthy Stoor | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum gameplay trailer shows how stealth will keep you safe
Stealth your way through the world and find your Precious.
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Toys out the pram | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.7: Best game you wanted as a child but never got
It's hard being a kid. There are so many games but rarely do you have the cash to get them all.
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a cutlass above | Elden Ring chad Let Me Solo Her gets an actual sword for being a bro
The legend of Let Me Solo Her has been recognised by the makers of Elden Ring.
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guess who's back? | God of War: Ragnarok release date finally confirmed, coming November 9
The highly-anticipated sequel to God of War's 2018 reboot arrives this November
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grape expectations | Following Xbox Game Pass July games announcement, another game is sneaking out
Garden Story is coming to Game Pass for Xbox and PC on July 12 – even though it wasn't announced in the big monthly update.
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color before the sun | 20% of Monster Hunter Rise players have already bought Sunbreak DLC
Capcom's latest Monster Hunter expansion proves that there's endless appetite for one of gaming's most enduring series.
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breaking the lore | Elden Ring: The Convergence is a massive overhaul mod that “doesn’t want to feel like a mod”
Elden Ring: The Convergence mod aims to “honour” and expand FromSoftware’s open-world title.
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You've got some gaul | The best bit of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is a hilarious, throwaway side quest
CD Projekt Red hates bureaucracy as much as the rest of us, and made sure to include that in Blood and Wine by honoring a side-splitting animated film.
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Light me up | You get to body the Warrior of Light in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s first DLC
Fight Bahamut and the Warrior of Light in the upcoming Stranger of Paradise DLC.
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Leonard the snitch | Radahn's scrawny horse is the key to how this boss lands on your ass every time in Elden Ring
Radahn's bombastic meteor attack in Elden Ring is effective, in part, because a homing beacon is involved.
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Leyndell meld | Elden Ring's Leyndell looked unusually different before the day one patch
The Leyndell that shipped on Elden Ring's disc is different from the one we have today.
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ride or die | Elden Ring modder mounts Blaidd the Half-Wolf to demonstrate cut rider content
FromSoftware has evidently envisioned a more ambitious rider and mount system for Elden Ring during development.
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Malcolm as you are | Bloodborne a focus in creepy Easter-egg-laden PS Plus Premium ad from Sony
Mr Malcolm comes home to a house filled with PlayStation goodies – but one stands out.
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Clash of Classes | Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Best Class: All Classes Ranked and Explained
No more Assassin versus Gunzerker, instead, it’s Stabbomancer versus Brr-Zerker.