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Poker roguelike Balatro is one of the most engrossing games released in the last generation of video games, and most people who play it end up losing sleep or otherwise disassociating from reality for long periods of time. To wit, the deck-building game was crowned Polygon’s 2024 Game of the Year. Some hands are just hard to pass up, especially when you’ve got a good rotation of Jokers pumping up...
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Get over here! DC Comics is putting its heroes in a Mortal Kombat-esque tournament starting fall 2026. The publisher announced Wednesday that a new “slugfest event of the century” kicks off in October with the five-issue limited series DC K.O. Co-created by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snyder, DC K.O. pits 36 heroes a tournament with the fate of the universe on the line. “DC K.O. is a knock-down, drag-out fight...
CD Projekt confirmed today that Cyberpunk 2077's 2.3 update will arrive on July 17 with four new vehicles, an autonomous driving feature (including, finally, self-driving Delamain cabs), upgrades to the photo mode, and—the big one, to me at least—an option to kick Johnny out of the car if he starts to get on your nerves.Cyberpunk 2077's 2.3 update came as a genuine surprise when it was announced in early June,...
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CD Projekt Red revealed Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.3 update is slated to arrive on July 17 and that the patch focuses on vehicles and customizations. Update 2.3 will add three new cars and the first new customizable motorcycle in the game. Each new vehicle can be unlocked by completing quests, which Cyberpunk 2 Associate Game Director Paweł Sasko says will be triggered intuitively and will not count towards 100% completion. A...
Rejoice, for Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot Vision AI assistant with access to your entire desktop in Windows 11. Mercifully, this is an opt-in feature limited to preview builds of Windows 11, not something being rolled out compulsorily via Windows Update, for now. So our AI bot overlords haven't quite taken over the PC.Microsoft announced the move on the official Windows blog. "Now you can choose to share your whole...
Oops, looks like Reddit just went down. Or at least sorta down. A strange tech issue hit the site, which means it could no longer display any content. Not a single thread.The issue appears to affect most regions, as we've experienced it across the UK and US here at PC Gamer. Head to Reddit and you were shown the homepage and your subreddits in a list, but click on anything...
A review of Smurfs, aka ‘Randomized Free-Association of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies’
Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. A long montage of character introductions, with the names of each character splashed on the screen: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Sound Effects Smurf, Baker Smurf, and so on. Some of these characters barely appear again in the movie; many are visually indistinguishable Multiple musical numbers, with the Smurfs...
Netflix teased a very action-heavy final season of Stranger Things with its first teaser trailer. Set in the fall of 1987, more than a year after the events of season 4, the trailer reveals how Hawkins has been transformed by the rifts Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) opened. The town is under military quarantine, with soldiers using controlled burns to try to contain the influence of the Upside Down. That doesn’t...
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Over the past decade, Dungeons & Dragons has gone from a nerdy niche tangled up with a satanic panic to a mainstream IP where a bunch of nerds can sell out Madison Square Garden playing it. Stranger Things’ kids on bikes helped shed a positive, post-satanic-panic light on the game, and its popularity has only grown since. Plenty of folks, myself included, played it for the first time over Roll20,...
Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s Switch 2-exclusive platform game, has received glowing reviews that catapult it to the front of the race for Game of the Year. At the time of writing, shortly after the review embargo lifted, Bananza has a rating of 91 on review aggregation site OpenCritic and 90 on Metacritic. (Sadly, you’ll have to wait a while for Polygon’s own review, as Nintendo did not provide us with...