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Black Friday is approaching fast, with the sales event formally starting on November 24. As in past years, however, plenty of retailers have begun already putting up some fantastic Black Friday gaming deals early.

If you're gearing up to dive into the Modern Warfare 3 single-player campaign, which is available to download and play right now, then chances are that you might be wondering what the Call of Duty story in the Modern Warfare sub-series is all about.

Ubisoft is shutting down online services for 10 of their older games early next year. This includes a few older Assassin’s Creed games on platforms like PC and Xbox 360, as well as Trials Evolution‘s PC servers.

Ubisoft is shutting down more online services for its older games like Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood in January 2024.

Ubisoft has announced plans to close the online services for more of its “older games” on January 25, 2024.

Crytek have no plans to make a sequel to sweaty monster-culling FPS Hunt: Showdown, and will thus hopefully avoid the publicity problems currently faced by Activision-Blizzard's Overwatch 2 and Valve's Counter-Strike 2 - both presented as sequels with fancier technology, but in practice, more like service-game content seasons arbitrarily upgraded into replacements, with the 'previous' games, Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, being taken offline to avoid splitting the playerbase.

Withstarting to look toward its next mainline game generation, one aspect of the series could do with a big shakeup — the starter Pokémon. As approaches the end of its DLC cycle with the impending release of, the mainline series of games will be moving onto its tenth generation — presumably introducing a new region, new characters, and a new collection of Pokémon to capture. However, while is a series that holds strongly onto many of its traditions, changing some of the franchise's long-held conventions could help the gameplay stay fresh.

Having just spent a few nights away with the wife, I don’t want to think what the hotel staff think of us right now, but you can find out about hotel guests and all their secrets in This Bed We Made, a third-person narrative mystery game that allows you to indulge your curiosity about the hidden lives of others.

Nestled in a cozy backstreet in the heart of Central London, the compact headquarters of British esports group EXCEL forms the unlikely backdrop for the launch of a new hardware brand.

As Polygon’s resident physical media obsessive, I sift through press releases for hundreds of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K discs each year. A majority of marketing materials prop up horror movies, the staple of home video, and therefore the hardest for promoters to separate from the pack.

iBUYPOWER Slate 5 MR 310a | Ryzen 7 7700X | RTX 4080 | 32GB DDR5-5200 | 1TB SSD | 2TB HDD | 800W PSU | $2599.99 $2249.00 at B&H Photo (save $350.99)With Alan Wake 2 nearer release and promising some of the most spectacular visuals seen in gaming, what better time to get yourself a new gaming PC that easily meets all of the game's hardware requirements. The Ryzen 7 7700X is a great all-round CPU and that RTX 4080 is ridiculously powerful. The amount of RAM is decent, though it is a little on the slow side. Alan Wake 2 also needs to be installed on a SSD, so you could always swap out the HDD for a cheap, large capacity solid state drive.

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