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I murdered my way up a vertical city and snooped through environments in search of shiny quartz crystals in Styx: Blades of Greed, and I can’t wait to get my sneak on again

Styx: Blades of Greed might have been one of the most underrated games of Gamescom 2025.

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I spoke to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac’s producers about the two-way collaboration and what excites them most about the upcoming kart racer

I chatted with Sega’s Takashi Iizuka and Bandai Namco’s Yuji Yoshii at Gamescom 2025.

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I played Deadpool VR and its creative combat is excellent but I'm not sure it's good enough to make me tolerate the Merc with the Mouth's constant talking

Gamescom 2025 | The Meta Quest 3 game offers blades and bullets aplenty, and Neil Patrick Harris nails Deadpool's delivery

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword is becoming my most anticipated game of 2026 but Sekiro fans should know it's not a difficult game – and that's OK

Gamescom 2025 | The action-adventure game packs demonic enemies, but they're not FromSoftware-flavored

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Best of Gamescom Awards 2025 – our 11 favorite games and products from this year’s show

TechRadar Gaming presents our Best of Gamescom 2025 awards – our top picks across all the games and hardware we saw at the show

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I played Pokémon Legends Z-A at Gamescom 2025, and its semi-real-time battle system is giving vintage Final Fantasy

After a rough patch, Pokémon Legends Z-A might genuinely be the tonic the franchise needs.

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Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 are two of my favorite turn-based RPGs, but I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to them after falling in love with Octopath Traveler 0's town-building mode

Gamescom 2025 | A 45-minute taste of Octopath Traveler 0 showcased satisfying, strategic combat, and the addition of cozy town decoration is the cherry on top

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"We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse

Gamescom 2025 | Randy Pitchford tells us how Gearbox went from seeing the industry predict that Borderlands "would find no audience, to being one of the leading video game franchises in the world"

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Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me

Gamescom 2025 | From the publisher behind Manor Lords comes a long-awaited substitute for playing XCOM 2 over and over again

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Hell Let Loose: Vietnam devs say their new shooter isn't a replacement for the OG World War 2 game, and don't want fans to "feel like we've abandoned them in any way"

Gamescom 2025 | Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is all about giving players what they've been asking for when it launches in 2026

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'Cronos: The New Dawn' was by far my favorite experience at Gamescom 2025 — Bloober might have cooked an Xbox / PC horror masterpiece

'Cronos: The New Dawn' proves Bloober's ascendance to AAA, with its unnerving setting, haunted environments, and gruesome combat.

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I spoke with Final Fantasy 14’s Naoki Yoshida about Monster Hunter, Beastmaster, and the collaborations he’d love to do next – ‘I’m a maniac about One Piece’

We spoke with Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom 2025 about the game and its upcoming content.

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I can't get enough of the cute cat-like companion in this puzzle platformer, even if some block pushing is a little business as usual

Gamescom 2025 | 45 minutes with Planet of Lana 2 was an atmospheric delight, with puzzles that really made me think

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I’ve played Kirby Air Riders and, don’t tell anyone, I think I like it more than Mario Kart World

I played Kirby Air Riders at Gamescom 2025, and I’m mad I have to wait three months to play the full game.

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I button-mashed my way through 30 minutes of Scott Pilgrim EX, but I'm already longing to dive back in and learn each character's "very complex combos"

Gamescom 2025 | Scott Pilgrim EX's beat-em-up action is easy to pick up, but I want to be a pro

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'There Are No Ghosts At The Grand' looks glorious — I'm more excited than ever for this upcoming Xbox Game Pass release

During Gamescom 2025, I had the chance to see more of Friday Sundae's There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, coming to Xbox, Game Pass, and PC in 2026.

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Gamescom 2025's record-breaking attendance could mean it's an event that gamers can no longer afford to ignore

Gamescom has continued to grow year on year, and it's now arguably the most important international annual gaming event.

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Borderlands 4 has my favorite Vault Hunter since the second game, and it's not even close

I played Borderlands 4 at Gamescom 2025, and came away hopeful of its improvements over the last mainline entry.

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Keeper is quintessential Double Fine, a strange creative concept with a truly wondrous execution: "We wanted to make something that we could probably never have gotten signed and published"

Gamescom 2025 | Keeper is quickly becoming one of my most anticipated games of the year, even with Double Fine hesitant to show too much off in advance

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Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet

Gamescom 2025 | 17 years later, could a new zombie shooter claim the crown?

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I tried the new MSI Claw A8 at Gamescom 2025 and AMD’s Z2 Extreme chip was nothing but an extreme let down

MSI Claw A8 Z2 Extreme hands-on preview: marred by AMD’s ‘new’ chip.

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Best of Gamescom 2025: The top 7 gadgets and games we couldn’t stop playing

Gamescom 2025 gave us a taste of all the highly anticipated games and gadgets arriving soon, from the powerful ROG Xbox Ally to the amazingly horrifying Resident Evil Requiem. Here’s our top picks from the show.

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I love turn-based RPGs, but 20 minutes of Pokemon Legends: Z-A has convinced me that real-time combat could be the way forward for the series

Gamescom 2025 | Pokemon Legends Z-A is threatening to bring the dream of playing the anime to life

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Triangle Strategy shadow-drops on Xbox for Gamescom 2025 — a critically-acclaimed RPG to tide you over until Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles arrives

Square Enix has made a surprising Gamescom 2025 announcement — shadow-dropping Triangle Strategy, the hit Strategy-RPG from 2022, onto Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.

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JBL launches new Quantum 950, 650, and 250 gaming headsets featuring pro-grade audio

During Gamescom 2025 JBL unveiled three new models in its Quantum headset series.

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