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Mecha BREAK Update Notice: MAY 26 Patch Notes (25th May 2026)
Season 4: Rising Embers is live, bringing a new wave-based survival mode, a complete shop restructure, and free gear for every pilot who logs in.
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PoE 2 Nearly Killed Divine Orbs as a Troll Move
Grinding Gear Games considered nuking Divine Orbs from Path of Exile 2 entirely, just to stop players comparing loot between leagues. They went the other direction instead.
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14 Years and $1 Billion Later, Star Citizen Isn't Done
Cloud Imperium Games' space sim has officially crossed $1 billion in crowdfunding. The game still doesn't have a release date.
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7 Sequels, 6 Remakes, Zero Names: Take-Two's 2029
Take-Two's fiscal earnings call confirmed a massive slate of sequels, remakes, and new IPs through 2029. The catch? Not a single title was named.
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A Yoshi Game Just Outsold Pokemon Two Weeks Running
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book has topped the Switch 2 eShop charts for two consecutive weeks, beating Pokemon Pokopia even after its full launch. When was the last time a Yoshi game did that to anything?
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007 First Light Leaked Early, So IO Dropped the Opening Itse
Physical copies of 007 First Light got into players' hands early, so IO Interactive beat the leakers to the punch by uploading the opening mission itself.
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One Forza Horizon 6 Griefer Terrorizes Japan on a Tricycle
A single Forza Horizon 6 player has become the game's first community villain, with their AI drivatar beating supercars in a tricycle and terrorizing races across Japan.
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Still on a 360-Era Engine, Rocket League Jumps to UE6
Rocket League has been running on Xbox 360-era tech this entire time. Epic just announced it's leapfrogging straight to Unreal Engine 6.
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Fatal Fury Scores a DLC Fighter and a 468-Page Book
SNK's fighting franchise is having a week: a new DLC fighter drops May 27 and a massive retrospective book is up for pre-order.
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Microsoft Drops $250M to Kill Activision Merger Lawsuit
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FF7 Remake's Most Annoying NPC Survives to Part 3
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8 Games Deep and June's Game Pass Lineup Isn't Done
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Kingdom Come Creator Roasts Ubisoft's 16,600 Staff
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22-Year-Old Pokemon Games Outsell Everything on Switch
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, originally released for the Game Boy Advance, are the top two download-only games on the Switch eShop this week.
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A 20-Year Wait? Insider Pegs Elder Scrolls 6 for 2028-2029
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Ex-Brazzers Owners Now Pay Game Writers by the Click
Valnet's new contracts at TheGamer mean writers earn nothing if their articles don't hit a minimum view count. The company was founded by the former owners of Brazzers and Pornhub.
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Too Bad at Dark Souls? Phantom Blade Zero Was Built for You
Phantom Blade Zero keeps the dark fantasy atmosphere and boss fights but ditches the punishing difficulty loop that pushes so many players away from the Souls genre.
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Nothing Can Knock Tomodachi Life Off Switch's #1 Spot
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74% of Fans Want Destiny 3. Bungie Isn't Building It
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A Kiss-Powered RPG Trapped in Japan for 13 Years
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McDonald's Revived a 19-Year-Old Mega Man Meme to Sell Coffe
McDonald's Japan brought back the original creators of "Can't Beat Air Man", a Mega Man 2 fan song from 2007, to make an iced coffee commercial. Corporate meme archaeology has peaked.
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Dawn of War IV Won't Fight Total War for 40K Fans
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13 Hours of Staring at a Cabin for One DBD Reveal
Behaviour Interactive revealed Jason Voorhees as Dead by Daylight's next killer after a nearly 13-hour livestream of a cabin in the woods. The reveal lands June 16, but the format left fans frustrated.
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Factorio [2.0.76] Logitech RGB keyboard G512 lighting (23rd May 2026)
Factorio 2.0.76 is a crash-fix heavy update with a notable rocket silo correction and a new scripting property for mod authors.
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