The video game industry has lately had to face a difficult truth: hardware and software prices are going up.

In the last year, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Xbox, and Sony all formally announced a bump in game prices from $60 to $70, and other AAA publishers such as Activision Blizzard, EA, Square Enix, and Warner Bros. have quietly followed suit with games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Final

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As the NFL community awaits more updates on Damar Hamlin and prays for a speedy recovery, the league is also actively working on what to do with the remainder of the regular season and ensuing postseason.

There is no precedent for what the NFL is facing right now. Never before has an NFL game started, been postponed and never resumed, according to CBS Sports research. And not since 1935 has the league had a season

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Last night was a movie for the Brooklyn Nets. Not only did the team win their 12th consecutive game, but they appear to finally be reaching their full potential after years of underachieving.

Brooklyn is the place to be right now, and it’s unsurprising to see some of the world’s biggest stars sitting courtside. During last night’s game, Paris Saint-Germain players Kylian Mbappe and Achraf Hakimi made a special trip to Barclays Center to watch

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Image: Game Freak

At the start of December 2022, we reported that a trademark for ‘Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!‘ had been filed by Game Freak. At the time, we weren’t quite sure what this would be in reference to, but now we have our answer (thanks, VGC).

We’ve got good news and bad news, folks. The good news is that the cult classic 3DS title Pocket Card Jockey is getting a

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The latest free game on the Epic Games Store is an underrated Metroidvania game that first launched a little over a year ago. Even though Christmas has now come and gone, Epic Games is still in the process of giving out a number of free titles to close out 2022. And while today’s free offer likely doesn’t match up to yesterday’s giveaway, which was Death Stranding, it’s still a title that Epic Games Store

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A screenshot shows some chop goblins in a dark hallway.

Screenshot: David Szymanski

Are you feeling a bit tired of all the big games this year or all the online service games that seemingly never end? Looking for something weird, fun, and only about an hour long? Well, then stop reading this (Editor’s note: Don’t do that.) and go play the recently released Chop Goblins, one of the year’s coolest little gems on Steam.

Launched last week, Chop Goblins is a

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Here’s a little holiday-season inspired advice for the NBA, which, it seems, can clearly use it: You’re entering a transition from one era of stars that defined the game to another, and you better start embracing and supporting that crop of young players that will define the next decade of basketball.

Enter, as example No. 1, Ja Morant and his absurd ejection over the weekend.

On Saturday, Morant, one of the game’s most exciting players

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The Epic Games Store’s next daily free game has been revealed early.

Wolfenstein: The New Order will be the next free game, according to Dealabs user billbil-kun, who has been accurately leaking Epic Games Store, PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass promotions for over a year.

MachineGames‘ first-person shooter will replace Them’s Fightin’ Herds, which is currently available free of charge on the Epic Games Store.

Update

Wolfenstein: The

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Concept art for Horizon Forbidden West shows Aloy fighting robots on her way to San Francisco.

Image: Guerrilla Games / Sony

While a Horizon multiplayer game felt all but inevitable, Guerrilla Games finally made the news official on Friday by way of a new job advertisement. The Sony studio behind the open world RPG series wants to take the post-apocalyptic robot combat online with an upcoming project featuring new characters and a different art-style.

“A new internal team is developing a separate Online Project set in Horizon’s universe,” Guerrilla

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Hideo Kojima is hoping to provide more information on a completely new game he’s making next year.

On Friday the Kojima Productions boss provided a brief update on what the studio is working on in a video message released to coincide with its seventh anniversary.

The company announced Death Stranding 2 at The Game Awards last week, and on Thursday it revealed that a Death Stranding film is in the works too.

Kojima Productions 7th

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