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Playing Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Takes Me Back to the LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth Days in the Very Best of Ways IGN har prøvet en tidlig version af Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, et realtidsstrategispil fra PlaySide. Forhåndsvisningen omfattede 1-mod-1-kampe med Stark- og Lannister-husene, hvor fraktionerne har forskellige enheder, helte og økonomiske systemer. Spillet gengiver seriens visuelle stil overbevisende, men kameraet gav problemer i testversionen, og kampagneindhold samt flere fraktioner er endnu ikke vist.

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'God I Hate This Timeline' — Fans Slam Battlefield 6 for Skins With Way Too Many Pistols and Spelling Errors Battlefield 6-fans kritiserer nye skins fra spillets seneste battle pass for bizarre detaljer, blandt andet en soldat med fem pistoler og en stavefejl på et mærke. Fejlene har fået nogle spillere til at mistænke, at skins er skabt med generativ AI, men det er ikke bekræftet. EA er blevet bedt om en kommentar, mens fans også peger på, at de fjollede kosmetiske genstande strider mod tidligere løfter fra DICE.

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GTA 6 Developer Rockstar's Next Game Won't Take Another 8 Years to Make, It Has Promised — but What Will It Be? Rockstar Games forventer, at det næste spil efter GTA 6 kan udkomme hurtigere end de otte år, udviklingen af GTA 6 har taget. Ledelsen peger på, at motoren, værktøjerne og holdet allerede er opbygget og kan genbruges i fremtidige projekter. Studiet har ikke afsløret, hvad det næste spil bliver, selv om mange fans håber på Red Dead Redemption 3.

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Pokémon TCG: Delta Reign Booster Bundle Preorders Have Already Gotten a $25 Price Drop at Walmart — Now $55 for Six Packs Walmart sælger i øjeblikket en forudbestilling af Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution – Delta Reign Booster Bundle til 54,49 dollar for seks pakker. Det er omkring 32 procent under den oprindelige pris og billigere end tilsvarende tilbud hos Amazon og TCGplayer. Salget foregår via tredjepartssælgeren Cataclysm Games, som ifølge IGN har en høj brugervurdering.

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Here's When You Can Play and Preload All the Different Parts of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Where You Live Activision har bekræftet udgivelsesplanen for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Spillere med digital forudbestilling får adgang til kampagnen 16. oktober 2026, mens DMZ åbner 20. oktober og hele spillet lanceres 23. oktober. Forudindlæsningen begynder 14. oktober, og pc-versionen kræver 115 GB ledig SSD-plads.

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Ubisoft Cuts 70 Staff From Skull and Bones Dev, Shuts Down Trials Studio RedLynx Ubisoft nedlægger det finske studie RedLynx, som blandt andet stod bag Trials-serien, og afskediger op til 52 medarbejdere. Samtidig mister Ubisoft Singapore, udvikleren af Skull and Bones, 70 ansatte, svarende til omkring en femtedel af studiets medarbejdere. Tiltagene er en del af Ubisofts fortsatte omstrukturering og omkostningsbesparelser med fokus på færre spil.

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Beloved Steam Co-Op Game Peak Appears to Be Coming to PS5 ESRB har tilsyneladende lækket en PS5-version af co-op-spillet Peak, som allerede har solgt over 10 millioner eksemplarer på Steam. En officiel annoncering ventes snart, da aldersklassificeringer normalt gives tæt på udgivelsen. Det er endnu uklart, hvornår konsolversionen udkommer, om den også kommer til Xbox og Nintendo Switch 2, og om prisen forbliver lige så lav som på PC.

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GTA 6 Is Finally Releasing Next Month: Are You Taking Off Work or School? GTA 6 udkommer 19. november 2026 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S, og spillets lancering ventes at få mange fans til at tage fri fra arbejde eller uddannelse. Artiklen omtaler økonomiske estimater om et muligt produktionstab på omkring én milliard dollar i lanceringsugen samt virksomheder, der allerede planlægger efter den forventede efterspørgsel. En pc-version er rygtet til første kvartal 2027.

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Send in the Clown Gameplay Trailer Focuses On Its Hilarious, One-and-Only Turn-Based RPG Battle IGN har vist en ny gameplay-trailer for komediespillet Send in the Clown under IGN Fan Fest 2026. Det korte RPG lader spilleren følge klovnen Pockets, som skal redde en 12-årigs fødselsdag ved at rekruttere figurer og samle genstande. Spillet bygger op til én særlig turbaseret kamp og udkommer senere i år til PC via Steam, hvor en demo allerede kan prøves.

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K/DA Reactivates Social Accounts, Fueling Rumors of the Virtual K-pop Group’s Comeback During Worlds 2026 K/DA’s officielle sociale konti er blevet opdateret for første gang i seks år, og tidligere opslag er fjernet. Ændringerne har sat gang i spekulationer om et comeback for den virtuelle K-pop-gruppe, blandt andet i forbindelse med League of Legends’ verdensmesterskab. Riot Games har dog ikke bekræftet nye sange, optrædener eller gruppens nuværende besætning.

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The Fallout Series Is Getting a New Set of Bookends, Now Available to Preorder for a Whopping $325 Officielt licenserede Fallout-bogstøtter kan nu forudbestilles hos Sideshow for 325 dollar. De er fremstillet i polyresin, vejer omkring fire pund hver og håndmales med et antikt metaludtryk inspireret af spilserien. Levering ventes mellem november 2026 og januar 2027, mens købere har 30 dages returret efter modtagelsen.

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Xbox Labs Announced With Goal of Getting New Games and Old Playable in Regular Web Browsers Microsoft lancerer Xbox Labs, et lille team, der skal undersøge nye måder at distribuere og skabe spil på. Initiativet fokuserer blandt andet på at få ældre Xbox- og Xbox 360-spil til at fungere i webbrowsere ved hjælp af teknologier som WebAssembly og WebGPU. Xbox Labs skal udvikle produkter åbent og give flere adgang til spil, men Microsoft har endnu ikke oplyst, hvordan tilbuddene skal finansieres.

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EA Sports' College Football Franchise Reportedly in Jeopardy Amidst Rising Costs and Declining Sales Udviklere omkring EA Sports College Football frygter angiveligt, at serien kan forsvinde inden 2030, selv om spillene fortsat sælger godt. Stigende udgifter til spilleres NIL-rettigheder, licenser og udvikling presser økonomien, mens salget er faldet fra udgivelse til udgivelse siden 2024. EA har også mødt kritik for mikrotransaktioner i singleplayer-indhold, hvilket kan gøre det sværere at fastholde spillerne.

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Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight: War for Roshar Kickstarter Campaign Has Already Crossed $1 Million on Its First Day, Reaching Its Stretch Goals Kickstarter-kampagnen for strategibrætspillet War for Roshar fra Brandon Sanderson og Brotherwise Games har indsamlet over én million dollar på sin første dag. Spillet bygger på Sandersons Stormlight Archive-univers og udkommer efter planen i november 2027. Kampagnen tilbyder flere støttepakker, hvor den dyreste til 295 dollar inkluderer udvidelser, ekstra komponenter og figurer.

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Metro 2039 Is Now Available for Preorder – Here’s What Comes in Each Edition, Including Bonuses Forudbestillingerne til Metro 2039 er åbnet, og spillet udkommer til PlayStation 5, Xbox og pc den 4. februar 2027. Det postapokalyptiske first-person shooter fås i standard-, deluxe- og samlerudgaver med blandt andet udvidelsesindhold, kunstbøger og en Spartan-hjelm i den dyreste udgave. Alle forudbestillinger inkluderer desuden Specialist Pack med opgraderinger til spillerens udstyr.

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Nvidia Brings DLSS 5 to Hogwarts Legacy, But Some Fans Can't Tell The Difference Nvidia bringer DLSS 5 til Hogwarts Legacy i november sammen med en ny model, som ifølge selskabet er dobbelt så hurtig som den tidligere version. Teknologien bruger AI til at tegne dele af spilbilledet på ny, men de synlige forbedringer i Hogwarts Legacy ser ud til at være begrænsede. Samtidig kan DLSS 5 fortsat have en mærkbar påvirkning af billedhastigheden.

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From a Chess-Themed Shooter to Twisted Swamp Horror, Here Are 9 Newly Announced Games From IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition You Need to Wishlist IGN har præsenteret ni nye spil under Fan Fest: Fall Edition, som kan føjes til ønskelister på Steam. Udvalget spænder fra afslappede overlevelsesspil og kooperative eventyr til horror, detektivhistorier, strategispil og et skakbaseret tredjepersonsskydespil. Blandt titlerne er Akiiwan, Aquamorta, Silk & Sorrow og The Forge: Steel Frontier, mens flere af spillene endnu ikke har en fast udgivelsesdato.

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The Wolf Among Us Remastered Leads the ID@Xbox October 2026 Showcase: Here Is Everything You Need to Know to Watch IGN's Massive Indie Livestream IGN og Xbox afholder et nyt ID@Xbox Showcase den 20. oktober 2026 med trailere, gameplay og annonceringer fra 18 spil til Xbox og PC. The Wolf Among Us Remastered er blandt de bekræftede titler, og der vises også gameplay fra Critical Reflex Games. Showet kan blandt andet ses på IGN, YouTube, Twitch og X.

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Over 1 Million Characters Have Been Made in WoW Forever Beta, and Surprisingly Few of Them are Skyborne World of Warcraft Forever-betaen har rundet over én million oprettede figurer, selv om adgangen primært kræver køb af en Skyborne-pakke til 30 dollar. Betaen har et niveau-loft på 30, begrænset indhold, og alle figurer slettes ved lanceringen 4. november. Tallene tyder på stor interesse for Blizzards kommende Classic Plus-spil, som allerede har været genstand for kontroverser om navne og guldsalg.

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God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game Sony har afsløret en collector box til God of War Laufey til 149,99 dollar. Den indeholder blandt andet en oplyst statue af Faye, et orakelkortspil med 51 kort og en fysisk mini-kunstbog, men hverken spillet, en disk eller en digital kode følger med. Forudbestillinger åbner 13. oktober, mens den begrænsede udgave udkommer 16. februar 2027 via PlayStation Direct.

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'I Feel Really Uncomfortable With This Whole Thing' — Miami Officials Express Concern Over Rockstar's GTA 6 Takeover Rockstar Games udvider sin omfattende markedsføring af GTA 6 i Miami frem mod lanceringen 19. november 2026. Kampagnen omfatter blandt andet reklamer ved sportsbegivenheder, Vice City-branding på et luftskib og planer om en transformation af Miami Beach til omkring fire millioner dollar. Nogle lokale politikere støtter initiativerne, mens andre kritiserer forbindelsen mellem byen og spillets kriminelle fremstilling af Miami.

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AI Couldn’t Have Made Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s Biddy Blas – Only Humans Could Have Come Up With the Phrase “Scrib Doon” and Made It Actually Funny IGNs Mat Jones argumenterer for, at AI næppe ville have skabt den særprægede figur Biddy Blas fra Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Kommentaren sætter figuren og spillets menneskelige kreative detaljer i kontrast til Epic Games’ rapporterede "AI first"-strategi for kommende spil. Pointen er, at originale karakterer og komiske præstationer udspringer af menneskelige valg, samarbejde og intuition.

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GTA 6 Will Hit PC Just a Few Months After Consoles, According to a New Report GTA 6 skulle ifølge en ny rapport udkomme til PC i første kvartal af 2027, få måneder efter konsollanceringen den 19. november 2026. Oplysningerne stammer fra fire anonyme kilder til GamesBeat, og hverken Rockstar Games eller Take-Two har bekræftet dem. PC-udgivelsen kan muligvis falde sammen med lanceringen af spillets endnu ikke officielt annoncerede multiplayerdel.

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Pokémon TCG Delta Reign ETB Hits New Low at Walmart — Even Below Market Price Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Delta Reign Elite Trainer Box kan forudbestilles hos Walmart for 119,99 dollar. Det er cirka 20 dollar mindre end Amazons pris og under den aktuelle markedspris på TCGplayer. Æsken indeholder blandt andet ni boosterpakker, et eksklusivt Kyogre-promokort og tilbehør, men Walmart oplyser først levering 19. november.

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25 Years Later, Dan Houser Recalls How GTA’s Iconic Cover Art Style Only Exists Because of 9/11 Dan Houser fortæller, at det ikoniske, mosaiklignende coverdesign til GTA 3 blev skabt i hast efter terrorangrebene 11. september 2001. Rockstar ændrede også enkelte missioner, replikker, politibiler og et flys bane, fordi spillet foregår i en fiktiv udgave af New York. Ændringerne forsinkede udgivelsen få uger, men GTA 3 blev efterfølgende en enorm succes.

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‘I Think We Have to Kill Him’ — Dan Houser Reveals How Red Dead Redemption’s Iconic Ending Was Made and How Surprised He Was That People Were Angry At It Dan Houser fortæller, at Rockstar blev overrasket over, hvor vrede nogle spillere blev over slutningen på Red Dead Redemption. John Marstons død var et bevidst valg, men skabte tekniske og narrative udfordringer, fordi spilleren skulle kunne fortsætte i den åbne verden. Houser mener stadig, at beslutningen var rigtig, fordi den gav historien større vægt og skabte stærke reaktioner.

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Playing Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Takes Me Back to the LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth Days in the Very Best of Ways

IGN har prøvet en tidlig version af Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, et realtidsstrategispil fra PlaySide. Forhåndsvisningen omfattede 1-mod-1-kampe med Stark- og Lannister-husene, hvor fraktionerne har forskellige enheder, helte og økonomiske systemer. Spillet gengiver seriens visuelle stil overbevisende, men kameraet gav problemer i testversionen, og kampagneindhold samt flere fraktioner er endnu ikke vist.

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Key Preview Takeaways:

I only got to try the 1v1 Skirmish mode on two different maps.
Visually, War for Westeros adopts the look and feel from the show, with heroes like Jon Snow and Tywin Lannister both looking like their respective actors.
The camera was problematic in my preview build.

Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the wave of nostalgia washes over me, and I take notice. That’s exactly what happened when PlaySide announced the upcoming Game of Thrones: War for Westeros RTS back at Summer Game Fest 2025. Recently, I had a chance to ride into battle waving the banner of House Stark and Lannister in an early build of the game, coming away knowing a bit more now than Jon Snow.

Set in the era of the mainline series of A Song of Ice and Fire as opposed to the prequels of House of the Dragon or A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, War for Westeros has players hoist the banners and take command of some of their favorite Great Houses. These include the likes of the Starks from the North, the lions of the Lannisters, Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons, or even the frozen hordes of the Whitewalkers themselves. The build that I had a chance to check out was a bit less grand, consisting of 1v1 online and offline skirmish modes with the choices of fielding the armies of either Stark or Lannister, with two smallish maps to pick from.

Visually, War for Westeros adopts the look and feel from the show, with heroes like Jon Snow and Tywin Lannister both looking like their respective actors — Kit Harington and Charles Dance — and drops them onto an already impressive-looking battlefield. Even in this Alpha state, I was impressed with just how good War for Westeros is looking. Watching flaming arrows rain down on Lannister structures and set them on fire as they crumble, or the brilliant emerald flames of Wildfire engulfing poor Robb Stark as the pyromancers hurl their precarious projectiles, were always delights to watch.

Even though only two of the factions were playable, I got the sense that PlaySide is putting great care into making sure the aesthetics of the various houses look distinct.

The rest of the game, outside of the death and destruction, is already looking pretty damn good too, and even though only two of the factions were playable, I got the sense that PlaySide is putting great care into making sure the aesthetics of the various houses look distinct. You could zoom in and see the Stark units, adorned with fur capes and the armor that living in the north would require, their structures built from sturdy lumber and grey stone, while the Lannisters fielded soldiers in gold-and-crimson armor, their buildings draped with the lion’s banner.

The distinction between Stark and Lannister is far deeper than simply “one side has wolves and the other lions” (just to be clear, the Lannisters don’t have lion units as far as I know). Both armies can unleash all sorts of unique units with varying abilities and strengths, which I eagerly took advantage of, with both armies requiring their own strategy and build order to take advantage of.

Starting off first with House Stark, these northerners are powerhouses, with some fantastic cavalry options to run straight through the lines of much of what the Lannisters can put out there. In a bit of a surprising twist, the Stark faction is able to recruit and train not only powerful Night’s Watch Brothers, with both melee and ranged options to pick from, but also Wildlings and some of the beasts that call the realm beyond the walls home.

Helping to lead the north’s forces, the likes of Robb Stark, Jon Snow, and their respective dire wolves served as the faction’s hero units. These special hero units will level up as they take out enemy forces, learning more and more powerful abilities as they go, at the expense of longer recruit times and higher cost to do so, should they unfortunately fall in battle. Jon Snow, for instance, will inspire those around him, making his nearby troops deal more damage and imparting some damage resistance while having another ability that lets him deliver a savaging sword strike and causing a bleed effect.

“Lannisters always repay their debts,” and that is thanks largely to them being stinkin' rich, a fact that PlaySide has used to help define the faction. The Lannisters’ gold production structures produce more of the given resource per structure, granting them a faster rate of getting gold and can make their builders work faster by lining their pockets with a bit of extra coin. Coupled with the ability at any time to turn their gold into influence, and vice versa - influence being the other resources used for building and training your more advanced structures and units- this house had a vastly easier and faster early game compared to the folks from the North. While the Starks gain all their allies through more traditional training methods, the Lannisters can purchase contracts for a variety of mercenary companies to hire their fighters, each with different strengths.

Jaime and Tywin serve as the Lannisters’ heroes, with the younger of the lions serving best on the front lines, while Tywin leads from atop his horse. Tywin can negate debuffs on his troops while strengthening his own cavalry. Jaime, being a master swordsman, can deliver some devastating strikes on single targets while also taunting enemies to target him instead. Alternatively, using his menacing history as a Kingslayer can slow and damage enemies near him over time.

Right out of the gate, sides will only have access to a small plot of land, where they can start expanding and building out their bases. You have your seat of power, your home base you have to protect from being destroyed (thus losing you the game), but then you will also need to expand your reach by constructing barracks, archery rangers, and resource-generating buildings. Some of these are locked until others have been constructed first. Anyone who grew up with the likes of StarCraft, Command and Conquer, or more recently the Age of Empires series with their remakes will have the general gist of how Westeros plays out.

To expand your workable land, War for Westeros breaks the overall map into captureable regions, with a tower that can be held to allow your workers to start building in that region. In the small 1v1-tailored battlefields that I had access to, these regions would also feature resource-rich points that can allow you to build advanced versions of your production buildings like the Lannisters' Mine Shafts or Stark's Windmills, which allow you to really bump up your production line. A few of these regions’ spaces, though, had something I found to be even cooler, and in some respects, that I found to be more impactful and important to getting that W – camps.

These camps spawn neutral hostile mobs that you can kill and will net you some gold as a reward. Rushing to get a squad of soldiers built and sent out to kill these mobs quickly became my go-to strategy during the early game. Its injection of resources saved my butt more than once by allowing me to quickly start training another unit to protect my new expansion into the region or allow me to start constructing the next building in my tree. And the fact that they would respawn every couple of minutes meant I could park some knights and archers nearby and use them as another source of income. It’s a trick that I used in another similar sort of game years ago, and one I hadn't thought of much until now.

War for Westeros kept reminding me of another amazing RTS game based on an epic fantasy book series: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2.

With each match I played, War for Westeros kept reminding me of another amazing RTS game based on an epic fantasy book series: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2. (Side note: It is, depressingly, a game that is unavailable digitally anywhere, at least officially.) From how heroes behave to the more spread-out building placement and of course the random mobs you would want to kill, playing War for Westeros takes me back to leading the forces of Gondor against my friend and his annoying army of Dwarves.

Even in this small snippet, War for Westeros is already presenting itself as an RTS that can be fun regardless of whether you consider yourself a seasoned battlefield general or just someone wanting to get vengeance for Ned Stark by slaughtering a whole host of Lions. Against easier CPU adversaries in earlier games, I would just click and train whatever units looked cool just to see what the armies were all about and did just fine, but the more time I spent and the harder the foes got, using the hotkeys to assign orders to specific groups, playing to a unit’s strength to counter specific enemies, and knowing when best to use my heroes’ abilities became critical to avoid getting crushed. And this was only with two of the factions; I can't wait to see how the wild clashes and strategies will evolve once the rest of the armies are introduced.

But, as a game still in development, there are certainly some areas that I hope get tweaked or adjusted prior to the final release. Tooltips are a bit sparse, such as giving you specifics on what the bonuses are when you garrison a worker inside a building, and the marker showing what direction your units will face is pretty tiny and easily obscured by details on the map, like trees and grass. Perhaps my bigger request, however, is with the camera. Buildings are big, armies can get equally imposing, and I frequently would find myself scrolling my mouse wheel down in a futile attempt to pull back my view even farther. Give me a high-up, bird's-eye- or in this case, a Three-eyed Raven’s eye view, of the battlefield, and let me see the whole of these epic clashes.

Game of Thrones: War of Westeros is shaping up to be an impressive RTS, especially for folks that are looking to scratch that base-building fantasy itch. Still, from the other three launch factions, to the campaign mode, to even how larger matches will play out, all remain as much of a mystery as the release date for Winds of Winter. But for fans that have been hungry for some base-building, PlaySide looks poised to deliver quite the feast.

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Scott White is a freelance contributor to IGN, assisting with tabletop games and guide coverage. Follow him on X/Twitter or Bluesky.

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