6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025

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January 3, 2025 · 15 min · 3043 words · Amy Berger

8 bold gaming predictions for 2025

Games8 bold gaming predictions for 2025When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Games8 bold gaming predictions for 2025When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Valve) On one hand, it feels like gaming is speeding up....

January 3, 2025 · 14 min · 2810 words · Roy Brown

A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line

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January 3, 2025 · 14 min · 2858 words · Lauren Powell

AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made

Gaming IndustryEvents & ConferencesAGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an ‘All Romances’ run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever madeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Gaming IndustryEvents & ConferencesAGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an ‘All Romances’ run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever madeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission....

January 3, 2025 · 11 min · 2282 words · Natalie Price

Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Ghost Story Games) Ken Levine, creator of the Bioshock series—and now the head of Ghost Story Games, who’re working onBioshock-like “narrative legos” game Judas—isn’t all that worried about AI’s impact on the games industry yet, even if it’s got its uses. That’s according to a recent interview withGamesindustry.biz, who asked him for his take on the subject....

January 3, 2025 · 12 min · 2517 words · Christopher Walsh

Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'

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January 3, 2025 · 12 min · 2544 words · Donna Baker

Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'

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January 3, 2025 · 13 min · 2758 words · David Mcdonald

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'

GamesRPGFallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: ‘Companies don’t make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell’When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. GamesRPGFallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: ‘Companies don’t make them because they feel like it....

January 3, 2025 · 13 min · 2606 words · Jenna Cole

Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban

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January 3, 2025 · 11 min · 2301 words · Kevin Rollins

Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive

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January 3, 2025 · 11 min · 2302 words · Kathryn Carter

Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: PlayStation Publishing LLC) Pilestedt’s initial statement came in response to a user on X who urged him to “never add DEI”—an acronym for diversity, equity, and inclusion that’s become a high-profile bugbear for the anti-woke crowd—in future Arrowhead games. “If it doesn’t add to the game experience, it detracts,” Pilestedtwrote. “And games should be a pure pursuit of amazing moments....

January 3, 2025 · 11 min · 2278 words · Mary Hunter

Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU

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January 3, 2025 · 13 min · 2603 words · Wendy Smith

LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for

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January 3, 2025 · 12 min · 2516 words · Christine Smith