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Confirming a recent analyst estimate, Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios announced that the game has sold 12 million copies across all platforms since its launch on October 30, 2025. To celebrate this milestone, Embark is giving all players a golden raider tool. This reward was originally intended to celebrate 10 million players, but the holiday…

Lego Star Wars: Millennium Falcon (921 Pieces) $68 (was $85) See at Amazon See at Target Sold out at Walmart Backordered at Lego Store Lego Star Wars: The Dark Falcon (1,579 Pieces) $152 (was $180) See at Amazon See at Walmart After selling out at multiple major retailers over the holiday season, the Millennium Falcon…

Portal 2 isn’t perfect. Expanding and narrativizing this jewel-like game so it could assume the scope of a traditional video game blockbuster was always going to blunt its edges. It’s still very good, though, and still mordantly funny, with a script by Wolpaw, Faliszek, and Jay Pinkerton, and game vocal performances by Stephen Merchant and…

For stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to neither confirm nor deny their involvement in an upcoming project is practically second nature. One who recently put theirs into action during an interview was Tessa Thompson, who was asked whether we can expect to see her character, Valkyrie, in Avengers: Doomsday. Well, given that half of…

These are the best games for the Steam Deck – Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Ball X Pit, Blue Prince, Cult of the Lamb, Celeste, Cuphead, Dispatch, and more!

As X/Twitter owner Elon Musk moves Grok’s widely condemned AI image manipulation feature to paid-only and users flood the “town square” with thousands of sexualised images, Epic Games boss said that senators calling for the removal of X from the Apple and Google stores are trying to “censor all of their political opponents”. Read more

Skipping town and starting over somewhere new is never easy, and being immediately placed into indentured servitude and called annoying by all your neighbors certainly doesn’t help. But that’s exactly how 2002’sAnimal Crossing begins. Somehow, I find this to be one of the most charming introductions to a game series ever made, and, on a…

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Jan. 11, No. 679.