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Bluepoint Games has a job listing for a senior combat designer, which mentions "third person melee action experiences".

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 16h

Pokémon Legends: Z-A takes place five years after the events of X and Y.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 16h

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is now available on Steam.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 1d

They wanted to release all versions at once, but the Switch 2 is pretty new, and they wanted to make sure the game was optimized.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 1d

Battlefield 6 gives you the option to uninstall the single player campaign after finishing it to save up on hard drive space.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 2d

Changing the story of the 1st Danganronpa would be too impactful, because it's the "root" of the games. Remaking the second game means they can change things up without destroying the game world.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 2d

A new Dissidia Final Fantasy game is coming to android and iOS. More info coming on October 14.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 3d

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a Toad that lets you deposit starbits so you can transfer it across saves, but this NPC was changed for the Switch version to explain amiibos.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 3d

Battlefield 6 became Steam's fourteenth most-popular game of all time by concurrent user numbers within 24 hours of its launch. It peaked at 747,440 concurrent players.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 3d

RPG games dev veteran Josh Sawyer said that they stopped making Infinity Engine games, because retailers said that nobody is buying them. The retailers did not share any data with the devs.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 4d

A sequel to The Minecraft Movie is set to release on July 23, 2027.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 5d

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In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 5d

The staff credits of both Super Mario Galaxy games are always loaded into the Wii's RAM, even though it's not needed until at the end.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 5d

A Borderlands 4 mod allows you to skip dialogue, but the Borderlands 4 creative director said to be careful using it, because it could lead to unrecoverable broken mission states.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 6d

Version 1.0 of Tales of Rebirths English fan translation has been released.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 7d

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 takes place in the year 2035, which canonically doesn't have the tech for wall-running, but there still is wall-jumping.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 7d

Releases on 23rd October 2025.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 7d

Nintendo released an animated short starring a baby, which seems to tease something Pikmin-related as hinted by a musical cue and objects moving around by themselves. Something small and red can be seen moving under the bed.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks to scalpers and the companies that don't seem to care to fix the problem.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 8d

GTA 6 has been nominated at the Golden Joystick Awards for Most Wanted Game and Best Game Trailer.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 9d

Silent Hill 2's exclusivity contract ends on October 8, and it seems that the game's website was updated to have two more platform slots.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 9d

Blue Prince is only playable in English, which means that non-English publications may not vote for it to be a nominee at The Game Awards.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 9d

PS5 is the most successful Sony console in terms of profits, with $136 billion earned.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 9d

Indie developer IceSitruuna is making a spiritual successor to Parasite Eve called Parasite Mutant.

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Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 10d

Skill Damage influences damage done by all skills, while Action skills influences damage done specifically by Action Skills. All skills are skills, but not all skills are Action Skills.

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