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PUBG Update 18.2 releases next week with the new map Deston

PUGB Battlegrounds is ready to unveil its first new map since the battle royale went free-to-play (opens in new tab) at the beginning of the year: Deston. “The wait is over. Our ninth new map we’ve been teasing about all this time is finally here this update,” developer Krafton said …

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Nintendo Direct for third-party games may be coming next week

Another Nintendo Direct presentation is reportedly on the way. That’s according to Nacho Requena, the editor of the Spanish games magazine, Manual (opens in new tab). Addressing viewers in a recent Twitch stream (opens in new tab), Requena hinted that another Nintendo Direct – this time designed to showcase third-party …

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Hayley Atwell addresses Captain Carters future in the MCU

Captain Carter actor Hayley Atwell has addressed her character’s future in the MCU – and she wants Peggy to have “more to do”.  “Well… I have no news for you. Sorry,” she said at Awesome Con in Washington D.C. (via Fandom Spotlite (opens in new tab)). “But I share your enthusiasm. …

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Win a Blu-ray of X!

Leatherface lovers should enjoy Ti West’s latest horror film X, as it has very strong echoes of the original 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Set in rural Texas, it follows a group of big city types surreptitiously trying to shoot a porno called The Farmer’s Daughters; unfortunately …

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Ukrainian Xbox players are getting a storefront and native accounts

Xbox will roll out a Ukrainian storefront and native accounts, the country’s Vice Prime Minister has confirmed. Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Myhailo Fedorov, has revealed that he’s spoken to Microsoft president Brad Smith in Davos, Switzerland. Fedorov shares that Microsoft will collaborate with …

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Lego Star Wars player discovers The Witcher 3 easter egg

A Witcher fan has spotted a reference to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. In a recent post on the Witcher subreddit, user sleepyralphiee said they’d spotted an apparent take on a long-running Witcher 3 joke. One part of the picture shows artwork from …

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A Fortnite and Fall Guys crossover event may be on the way

It looks like a Fortnite and Fall Guys crossover event is on the way. As spotted by PCGN (opens in new tab), Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey recently noticed that two new mysterious URLs had been registered – Epic Fallguys Extension and Epic Fallguyz Ektenzion – both of which, until recently, anyway, …

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