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It would be easy to dismiss Raft as a poor man’s Subnautica. Both games are first-person survival adventures at sea, but Raft mostly happens on…

Diablo Immortal is the game people love to hate. The sweet irony is that a solid majority of those haters will end up playing it….

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If your mental well-being suffers from the absence of neon-punk retro tactical extravaganza involving giant movie monsters, Kaiju Wars is here to help. Non-trademarked equivalents…

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