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Toto’s Journey is a cozy adventure game inspired by The Wizard of Oz where you play as the loyal dog swept into a magical realm while searching for Dorothy and a path home.

In Toto’s Journey you explore enchanted locations ranging from dense forests sheltering the Lion to mechanical ruins once inhabited by the Tin Woodman, with each area presenting unique environmental challenges and storytelling. … Read More

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The Blood of Dawnwalker is, if done well, a game that might not land with everybody. For one, there's the lack of a traditional main story quest, and then there's the fact that you only have 30 in-game days and nights to beat it. Neither are necessarily massively novel, the brilliant Unsighted, for example, also forces a timer upon you, but this is still a notable AAA game taking a risk. This thing likely won't have been cheap to make, and crafting a scenario where not everyone is going to experience the entirety of what it offers, on purpose, is certainly a touch bold at the very least. So it's a good thing its director is happy with people missing things.

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Film director Peter Berg revealed today at @FanaticsFest the Call of Duty movie is set in the Modern Warfare universe.

At Fanatics Fest in New York, Berg talked a bit about the @callofdutymovie Movie coming from Paramount Pictures and Activision.

During the Call of Duty in Culture panel, director and co-writer Berg revealed that the film will be set in the Modern Warfare universe. It’s part of the ongoing trend of making movies out of games to not only spread gaming culture into mass culture but to also ensure that movies have a built-in audience of gamers when they debut at the box office.

The Call of Duty movie is coming June 30, 2028.

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