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Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV show is about assassins roaming Ancient Rome and its hero might meet Nero

It's been a while since Ubisoft and Netflix announced they were doing an Assassin's Creed TV show. The good news is that filming's now kicked off on it, with Ubisoft taking the opportunity to confirm that Ancient Rome's the setting for this stabby story.
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New Slay The Spire 2 patch will "make infinites harder to achieve" by letting the Doormaker eat your cards, amongst other surprises

Slay The Spire 2's first actual proper major update is upon us, an avalanche of balancing tweaks and fixes for the roguelite deckbuilder that has approximately two goals: making some of those insectile cards less appalling, care of the ...

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US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents

Last week, the folks behind PEGI (Pan European Game Information) - the age rating system used for games in Europe outside of Germany - announced plans to update their age rating criteria with four new categories. Games which feature ...

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Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO

Well, it was never going to wrap up that neatly, was it? It turns out that the emergence of an internal memo revealing that Subnautica 2 is aiming for an early access release in May won't be the moment that the messy ...

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Crimson Desert can perform well on PC, but you’ll need to win its crash lottery first

The words "consensus" and "RPS treehouse" are normally alien to one another, as is apparent from all the blood splatter on every new RPS 100. Yet among those of us who’ve been playing open world everything-'em-up Crimson Desert, an agreement has formed that its vastness – its 150-odd ...

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Marathon's Cryo Archive drops tomorrow and it sounds like almost every aspect of it will be a pain in the shell

Well, you all did it, Cryo Archive has been unlocked in Marathon. Bungie detailed the new mode in a blog post earlier today, where it shared an important thing to keep in mind with the new map: it's only available to attempt on weekends. Aye, you'll need to forgo ...

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Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features

Is it fair to say Cities: Skylines 2's development has been incredibly messy? I'd say it's fair, after all, the game has completely shifted developers in the past few months, that doesn't sound like smooth sailing to me. In the nearly three years since it was released, ...

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Shenmue 3 Enhanced is a shinier version of Yu Suzuki's opus with a new camera option that harkens back to the original

Shenmue is a game that will just always be there, I can't quite imagine a world without it. Just hanging around in the background, waiting for you patiently, maybe even coming into the foreground to say hello again because it missed you. That time of saying ...

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Former Mount & Blade modders are making Kinstrife, a medieval mosh pitter set in 13th century Germany

Arrrrrrrrrghhhh. Slash. Thunk. Well, we're a man down. It's a good thing that in the genre of strategy sandboxes built on massive medieval melees, there's always someone else about to wander into the frey. Cue the entrance of Kinstrife, a Mount & Bladey game built by former ...

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Our favourite, huge power bank for the Steam Deck is down to £52/$80 from Amazon

The Ugreen Nexode Retractable is our most favouritest Steam Deck power bank, as James decreed with his testing, and by spending his hard-earned money on it – and if it's good enough to earn a top recommendation here, then it's worth you giving it a look over. £52 is a good price for this unit ...

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