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Revealed: the top new PC and console games of 2024
We’re here: last stop for 2024, everybody off, the GDCo newsletter is heading to the depot. Before we quit for the annum, massive love to our increasing band of colleagues at GDCo: Alejandro, Avi, Matt, Tomek and Strale – building our game data and info platform right, behind the scenes. (Some exciting news about that […]
Sonic 3 is a speedrun through the franchise scrapyard, yet it works
Though the three Sonic the Hedgehog movies have charms of their own, they’ve also clearly benefited from a confluence of lucky breaks in order to reach their rarefied beloved-franchise status. The generally poor track record of previous video game adaptations; the release of the first movie before COVID closed theaters and of the second one […]
This fan favorite class is getting D&D 2024’s first playtest
“It’s been a minute since we’ve done this,” says Todd Kenreck in Dungeons & Dragon’s latest YouTube video, “but we have a new Unearthed Arcana.” Sitting across from him is a smiling Jeremy Crawford, D&D’s lead rules designer, who says he is “so glad that the first Unearthed Arcana after the new Player’s Handbook and […]
How to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket
There are a number of ways to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket — you can get one type of Mew card from the Genetic Apex expansion, and five types in December 2024’s Mythical Island expansion. For the Genetic Apex version of Mew, you can’t simply pull the card from the expansion’s booster packs. Instead, […]
Fellow Helldivers 2 players, I think Super Earth might be fibbing about the Illuminate
It’s a tumultuous time to be a Helldiver. Not only are the cowardly Illuminate back after a century-long disappearance, but they’re kidnapping Super Earth citizens and turning them into horrifying monsters known as the Voteless. This doesn’t even begin to cover the schemes of the other two factions: the Automatons, who are creeping closer toward […]