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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga leads Xbox Game Pass’ December lineup

Get nine Lego-fied movies in one chuckle-inducing package

By Owen S. Good

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Amnesia: The Bunker gives the player a gun — but at what cost?

A World War I bunker full of mysteries and the macabre

By Cass Marshall

D&D rule change replaces ‘race’ with ‘species’

By Owen S. Good December 1

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s 6-star raids have some of the toughest fights in the game

By Nicole Carpenter December 1

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s tech problems may soon get a solution from Nintendo

By Austen Goslin December 1

The roguelite management sim that’s impossible to put down

By Nicole Clark December 1

League of Legends has a multiverse too, and it’s packed with mysteries

By Cass Marshall December 1

Amazon’s Fallout TV series starts a new plot in the same universe as the games

By Austen Goslin November 30

Take a first look at Magic: The Gathering’s reskinned Secret Lair Transformers cards

By Nicole Carpenter November 30

Indiana Jones game is a ‘bucket list’ dream for Bethesda director

By Owen S. Good November 30

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet players are on the hunt for the awful Dudunsparce

By Ana Diaz November 30

Sonic Frontiers looks like a live service game with all its free updates

By Ana Diaz November 30

Castle Panic is a gateway to co-op board games, now it’s even better

In a time before crowdfunding, one couple rolled the dice on an unproven concept

By Charlie Hall November 30

Marvel Snap’s new card nerfs mean it’s time to rethink some decks

By Michael McWhertor November 30

Warhammer 40K: Darktide is off to a hell of a start

By Ewan Wilson November 30

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s final DLC sets up the story of the next game

By Owen S. Good November 30

PlayStation Plus’ December games are Mass Effect and a new multiplayer brawler

By Owen S. Good November 30

Smash World Tour organizers blame Nintendo for championship’s sudden shutdown

By Nicole Carpenter November 30

Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s new boss recalls Left 4 Dead’s scariest enemy

By Cass Marshall November 30

Marvel’s Midnight Suns isn’t just XCOM with superheroes (and that’s a great thing)

By Charles Theel November 30

Marvel’s Avengers gets its promised endgame content, 2 years later

By Owen S. Good November 29

Does the redesigned Donkey Kong smoke weed?

By Joshua Rivera November 29

New Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer gives us our first look at Peach and Donkey Kong

By Michael McWhertor November 29

Overwatch 2 season 2 trailer reveals new Battle for Olympus mode, holiday skins

By Michael McWhertor November 29

Xbox’s Games With Gold for December are... well, we’ve never heard of them either

By Owen S. Good November 29

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are rife with dupe glitches

By Nicole Carpenter November 29

Fae Farm looks like a chill, co-op spin on Stardew Valley

By Ana Diaz November 29

Elite Dangerous’ aliens are pissed and they’re not gonna take it anymore

By Charlie Hall November 29

Feature

How choosing ‘Girl’ in early RPGs inspired today’s game designers

From Pokémon Crystal to today, gender representation has come a long way

By Juno Stump November 29

The Witcher Remake will feature an open world, CD Projekt says

By Austen Goslin November 28

Genshin Impact gets in on the biggest trend of this (or any) year: card games

By Joshua Rivera November 28

Competitive Pokémon community bans 4 powerful Pokémon

By Nicole Carpenter and Kallie Plagge November 28

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