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Capcom Finally Confirms Leon S. Kennedy Is In Resident Evil Requiem | The Game Awards 2025 - IGN

After months of speculation and a revealing leak earlier this week, Capcom has finally, officially confirmed what we all knew: Leon S. Kennedy is in Resident Evil Requiem, and he's here to kick butt. Tonight, at The Game Awards 2025, a fresh trailer for Resident Evil Requiem saw Leon fully revealed, swinging into action as the now-grizzled veteran zombie fighter we all know and love. We learned what many of us had expected, that Leon will feature as one of two playable characters, alongside the previously announced Grace Ashcroft. While Grace's campaign focuses on survival horror, Leon's separate antics will focus on action. Earlier this week, the reveal of new Resident Evil: Requiem cover art featuring Leon finally put to bed one...

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Warlock: Dungeons and Dragons Is a New Single-Player RPG That Leans Into 'Expressive Magic' | The Game Awards 2025

The Dungeons & Dragons franchise has been steadily making more attempts to expand into video games, and we're seeing that next effort with Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a new open-world single-player action-RPG that's all about wielding dark magic to battle foes. Just revealed at The Game Awards 2025, Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons is the next project from developer Invoke Studios, the creators of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. Set in the D&D universe, Warlock focuses on the adventures of the warrior Kaatri, who embraces newfound dark powers to unleash some otherworldly magic in her fight against the forces invading the land. "Warlock is a third-person action-adventure game built around immersive, expressive magic where you use...

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4:Loop Revealed as PlayStation's New Sci-Fi Co-Op Shooter from Bad Robot and Left 4 Dead Designer | The Game Awards 2025

J.J. Abrams and Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth took to The Game Awards 2025 to announce that their mysterious new co-op video game is a sci-fi third-person shooter called 4:Loop. A video for Bad Robot Games' PlayStation 5 and PC project was unveiled during today’s show, revealing a twisted new version of Earth filled with deadly creatures (and a lot of purple lights). The first 4:Loop trailer teases gameplay that requires players to form a world-saving team that will live and die by how it learns from its failures. For all of tonight’s biggest highlights, you can check out everything announced at The Game Awards 2025. You can also keep up with our running list of all of the winners. Developing… Michael Cripe is a freelance writer...

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Yup, That Weird Statue Was Teasing a New Divinity Game | The Game Awards 2025

After some unusual teases and a trademark inadvertently showing Larian Studios' hand, the Baldur's Gate 3 developer's next game has been officially revealed at The Game Awards with one heck of a disturbing trailer. It's Divinity. Just Divinity. We don't have any details on the game itself, but we can glean some from the very cinematic trailer. We saw a medieval-looking festival with all sorts of revelry, and a giant wicker man ready for burning. Inside the man, an actual man is chained and tortured as they burn the effigy down. But as he melts away (it's gross, okay?), his blood (?) drips into the soil, weird screaming plants come up, the wicker man goes nuts, there's a lot of screaming, and then we see the statue that's had everyone...

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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Announced From Former KOTOR and Mass Effect Director Casey Hudson | The Game Awards 2025

The Game Awards 2025 kicked off with a huge announcement: Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is led by Casey Hudson, former director of the much-loved Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy. The development studio is Edmonton, Alberta-based Arcanaut Studios. It's described as a narrative-driven, single-player RPG and spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic. Lucasfilm insisted Fate of the Old Republic is not a direct sequel or continuation of KOTOR, and will introduce new characters for an all-new story. It's said to be in the early stages of development. The teaser trailer is below. Here's the official blurb: “Working on Star Wars: Knights of the Old...

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Pragmata Gets Release Date, Demo, and Will Come to Nintendo Switch 2 | The Game Awards 2025

Capcom's upcoming space adventure Pragmata was back at The Game Awards today with some pretty significant news after years of delays. It has a release date at last: April 24, 2026. In addition, we learned today that a gameplay demo is now available today on Steam. And in addition to previously-announced platforms PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, it's also coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in a pretty significant get for the new console. Pragmata follows an astronaut named Hugh stranded in space, aided by a friendly artificial intelligence named DI0367, who he refers to as Diana. She takes the form of a little girl who rides on Hugh's back as he fights his way through hostile space alien-robot things, and hacks them so that they're vulnerable to...

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Former Xbox-exclusive South of Midnight Is Coming to PlayStation and Switch 2

The Game Awards don't start for another half hour, but video game announcements are still finding a way to sneak in anyway. Compulsion Games just revealed that South of Midnight is coming to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 in spring of 2026. This comes from a pair of tweets/X posts from the official Compulsion Games account, announcing each platform release respectively. Depending on what the final release date ends up being, this will likely time out to be roughly one year from South of Midnight's initial release, which was on April 8, 2025 of this year. This puts South of Midnight in good company with a number of other Xbox Game Studios games that have gone onto rival platforms, including Pentiment, Grounded, Sea of Thieves...

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Deadzone: Rogue - Zone 4 Apophis Release Date Exclusive

Roguelite FPS Deadzone: Rogue just got a release date for its newest free DLC, Zone 4 - Apophis. It will add new missions and story to the game, along with new enemies and encounters, more weapons, as well as adding extra systems, elements, perks, and augments. The Zone 4: Apophis Content Update for Deadzone: Rogue is launching on December 17, and as an added bonus that date also marks the start of a free-to-play access period if you haven't had a chance to jump in yet. Deadzone: Rogue was officially released in August this year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and is currently rocking a Very Positive ranking on Steam. You can play solo or with co-op team of up to 3 players, and puts you on board the colony ship ISS-X, which...

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The Game Awards 2025: Everything Announced So Far (Updating Live)

The Game Awards is back again to end this year with a celebration of the best games of 2025 and an exciting look into the future. While we may not know all the surprises in store for us this year, we do know we will be covering everything live and gathering it right here for you. This article will be the place to catch all the biggest reveals, trailers, gameplay, shocking moments, and more, and we'll be updating it as it happens, so be sure to keep checking back! You can also check how how you can watch the show with us and what to expect as well! How to Watch The Game Awards 2025 You can watch The Game Awards 2025 with us at any of the links below. The show will begin with a special pre-show, which will start at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm...

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Get Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Assassin’s Creed Shadows for Under $40 Each

Traditionally, the great holiday shopping deals would end after Cyber Monday. That is apparently no longer true. Case in point: today only, Best Buy is offering the console versions of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 for under $40 each. Specifically, you can get the PS5 or Xbox version of AC Shadows for $34.99, and Black Ops 7 for $39.99. Both deals go away at midnight, so grab them fast if you want them. Today's Best Game Deals The Black Ops 7 deal is particularly good, because it’s on the steelbook cross-gen bundle editions of the game. That means you get a free steelbook case for the game with your purchase. And regardless of whether you buy the PS4 or PS5 version, it’ll work on both systems natively. The...

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Battlefield 6 Devs Lay Out Game Plan After Winter Offensive Update Introduces Widespread Issues Across PC and Consoles

EA and Battlefield Studios have issued a lengthy statement after the Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive 1.1.3.0 update saw players reporting widespread issues related to the main menu UI, gameplay stuttering, Breakthrough, and much, much more. The message, posted both to Battlefield social media accounts and the FPS franchise’s website, functions both as an explanation and a game plan. BF Studios says hotfixes and updates will now roll out in the coming days as it attempts to iron out the numerous kinks that started making waves in the Battlefield 6 community earlier this week. Surprise Attack Winter Offensive was originally positioned to bring wintery new content hand-in-hand with audio fixes, more reliable hit registration, and...

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Surprise Lords of the Fallen 2.5 Update Available Now, Just Hours Ahead of Sequel's Big Game Awards Showing

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has just announced and released a surprise final update to its 2023 game — mere hours ahead of its sequel getting a fresh airing at tonight's Game Awards. Today's new Version 2.5 release caps off a lengthy journey for the action role-player, which launched to mixed reviews but has since turned around its player sentiment via a series of major post-launch patches. Lords of the Fallen's previous major 2.0 update was once believed to be its last — as was its 1.5 update before that. But, based on further fan feedback, CI Games has put together one final offering that reworks enemy and boss behavior and adds a new Veteran Mode for those seeking the game's toughest challenge. "We've prided ourselves...

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Humble Bundle Launches Award Nomination Bundle, Including Ghostrunner 2, Immortality, and More

To celebrate the season of video game awards, Humble has put together a special Award Nomination bundle of games where players can get 9 award-nominated games for only $14, regularly $205. Proceeds of the bundle will go to the charity, Take This, supporting mental health in the gaming community. The games included in the bundle are: Bright Memory Infinite: Nominated for Art Direction, Game, and Use of Sound, NAVGTR A Space for the Unbound: Nominated for Games for Impact, The Game Awards 2023 Cobalt Core: Nominate for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year, 27th D.I.C.E. Awards I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Nominated for Games for Impact, The Game Awards 2022 Ghostrunner 2: Nominated for Best Action Game, The Game Awards 2023...

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High on Life 2 Devs on the Art of Making a Comedy Game Sequel – IGN First

As part of our ongoing month-long exclusive coverage of High on Life 2, the upcoming first-person shooter, I sat down with Squanch Games Chief Creative Officer Mikey Spano and Chief Design Officer Erich Meyr to discuss the art of making a comedy game sequel. Is it any easier to pull off than the comedy movie sequel, which doesn't have a great overall track record. All that and more are covered in the interview you can watch in the video above or read in the transcript below. High on Life 2 will be released on February 13, 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S – including launching on day one into Xbox Game Pass. IGN: I've got a hundred questions here, not literally 100, but there's a lot I want to ask you guys. And I thought I'd kind...

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World of Warcraft Players Figured Out How to Make Flying Houses, and Blizzard Has Given Them Its Official Seal of Approval

World of Warcraft's new housing feature has been available for those who pre-purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion for over a week now, which naturally means folks have had plenty of time to get really, really creative with their new library of decor. One of the wildest player discoveries early on was finding a trick that would make houses float in the air, which a number of people have used to make wild flying creations. Better yet, instead of patching it out, Blizzard has surprisingly given its blessing for airborne abodes. Lofting one's house was discovered almost immediately after the housing feature dropped, with players initially using it simply to raise their homes in the air as a fun gimmick. Apparently, flying houses...

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Genshin Impact-Themed PS5 DualSense Controller Is Up for Preorder

Anyone looking to add some pizazz to their gaming setup doesn’t have to look far to find ways to do so. One of the best ways is to pick up a special edition controller. And fans of Genshin Impact can now preorder the great-looking PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller – Genshin Impact Limited Edition (see it on Amazon). It costs $84.99 and is set to release on February 25 in the U.S. DualSense Wireless Controller - Genshin Impact Limited Edition Get it at Amazon Get it at Best Buy Get it at GameStop Get it at PS Direct The new controller is coming in part to promote the recent release of Genshin Impact Version Luna III, “which features the new playable character Durin and fresh updates to the story in Nod-Krai.” Click the above link for...

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'This Honestly Might Be the Best Piece of Evidence We Have for a Release Date' — Fans Think The Elder Scrolls 6 Is Out in 2027 Because of a Speech Ski

As the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 goes on, some fans believe developer Bethesda teased its release year in a live-action Skyrim trailer. Earlier this week, Bethesda shadow-dropped Skyrim on Nintendo Switch 2, and in doing so released a live-action comedy trailer that saw a bad Santa enlist the help of two of his elves. The trailer, below, shows one of the elves raising their speech level to 27 after suggesting Skyrim launch on Switch 2, with their overall character level progress working towards 20. Why pick 20 and 27 specifically? Because The Elder Scrolls 6 is coming out in 2027, some fans are now saying. “This honestly might be the best piece of evidence we have for a release date,” one fan said. “Those are very specific...

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You'll Soon Be Able to Buy Kim Kardashian in Fortnite — Here's How She Looks

Kim Kardashian is joining Fortnite, and you'll be able to play as the TV and fashion icon beginning this weekend. Two Kim Kardashian skins will become available in Fortnite this Saturday, December 13, cementing the star as one of the game's highest-profile public figures to date. Leaning into the Kardashian's fashionable status, Kim's skins have been designed to be highly customisable. The Iconic Kim Kardashian skin features her in skin-tight attire with alterable colors, necklines and hairstyles. The regular Kim Kardashian skin, meanwhile, comes with a jacket you can toggle on and off. Accompanying these are a pair of emotes, including one where Kim shakes up a bottle of Slurp juice and uncorks it over her head, catching it in a...

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'Many of You Will Want to Hang Me' — Fake Shenmue 4 Trailer Creator Apologizes, Says It Was Not Made 'Out of Malice'

The culprit behind the recent viral but very much fake Shenmue 4 trailer has apologized for creating false AI footage of the franchise's fictional fourth game. In a post on fan forum ShenmueDojo, the creator, under the alias "JustAFan1," issued an apology for misleading the internet — just days after Shenmue developer Ys Net released its own statement that slammed the video for raising fan hopes and revealed it was now exploring legal action. In their statement, JustAFan1 explained that they had made the video not "out of malice, but love for Shenmue." Indeed, their statement ends with the suggestion that "all the media attention this has received will do something to convince investors" that Shenmue 4 should be made. "I just wanted...

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From Pick’ems to Holiday Themed Events, Delta Force’s December Is Stacked

Delta Force is kicking off its year-end festivities with a major splash. With the 2025 Delta Force Invitational: Warfare (DFIW) on the horizon and a jam-packed month of limited-time holiday content, players can dive into a slew of events. From pro-level missions to prediction brackets, exclusive cosmetic items, and chaotic game modes, there is a whole lot to explore this holiday season. 2025 Delta Force Invitational: Warfare Event Roadmap To coincide with the DFIW, which will see the world’s first 20 vs 20 Warfare World Championship, Delta Force is rolling out a roadmap of four interconnected events. Fans can tune into the 2025 DFIW starting December 11th at 05:00 UTC across X, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok. 1. Pick’em...

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Monster Hunter Wilds Sets Out Roadmap To Improve Performance on PC, Starting With Title Update 4

Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, which addresses a number of stability and performance issues, arrives on December 16, Capcom has announced. As part of this, Capcom has "committed" to improving stability and performance, detailing what changes are coming and when, including CPU/GPU improvements, load reduction, and the optimization of "PC-specific processes and addition of options and presets to reduce processing load." The commitment comes as Monster Hunter Wilds' impressive sales, especially on PC, were offset by its 'Mixed' Steam reviews at launch. Despite director Yuya Tokuda's commitment to stability and improvements, dissatisfaction persists, and even with new content and seasons, fans remain unhappy with the state of the...

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Arrowhead Boss Casually Reveals That a Helldivers 2 Roguelite Mode Is in the Works, and It 'Changes the Game Fundamentally'

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead is working on a roguelite mode, the studio’s boss has revealed, although there's no guarantee it will actually come out. Arrowhead CCO and Helldivers 2 creative director, Johan Pilestedt, responded to a fan on social media to say “we have a prototype of a roguelite mode — it changes the game fundamentally!” That casual reveal has already set fans of the explosive co-op action shooter into overdrive imagining how a roguelite mode would work in the game, which revolves around open and shut missions restricted by time limits. “Going to be us defending the Evac from endless patrols but the bird never shows up,” suggested one fan. “Wave complete. Choose a booster to add: Reinforcement budget, flexible...

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Bethesda 'Investigating' Skyrim Switch 2 Performance Issues, as Fans Brand Latest Port a 'Disaster'

Just a day after Bethesda announced and launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Nintendo Switch 2, the publisher has acknowledged the game has performance issues. In a lengthy thread on reddit that brands the port as a "disaster," there are widespread complaints about input lag and the game's locked 30 frames per second visuals. "There's like a whole second between me flicking the stick and my character moving its head," the post's author wrote, describing the experience as worse than "online Smash Bros." Many have compared Skyrim's Switch 2 port with that of the far more recent Cyberpunk 2077, which offers 40 frames per second on Nintendo's new hardware while rendering considerably more detailed environments. And there has been...

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Jim Ward, the Voice of Ratchet & Clank's Captain Qwark and Scores of Other Characters, Has Died Aged 66

Jim Ward, the voice of Ratchet & Clank's Captain Qwark, has died aged 66. The news was revealed by his former co-host at The Stephanie Miller Show, who wrote on X/Twitter: "One of the saddest messages I have ever received from the amazing Mrs Jim Ward: Our wonderful 'voice deity' as Steph anointed Jim Ward, passed away today at 10:45am." Ward co-hosted the show with Miller for 13 years until his departure in 2017. In 2021, it was revealed he had contracted a "severe case" of COVID-19 after being hospitalized for a mild cognitive memory issue, which "completely paralyzed" him for four months. He later developed Alzheimer's disease. It's for this reason that Ward did not feature in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. Ward was better known...

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007 First Light Leak Reveals Music Star Will Play New James Bond Villain — And You'll Never Guess Who It Is

Yet another leak ahead of tonight's The Game Awards 2025 has revealed a legendary music star as a new James Bond villain in 007 First Light. In a now-deleted social post from the official 007 social media account, Fly Away singer Lenny Kravitz was unmasked as playing a First Light character named Bawma, who shares Kravitz's likeness. And while the post may have been swiftly removed, the internet still took notice — seemingly letting a further secret out ahead of tonight's big gaming awards and announcement event. "He rose from nothing, broke free, and built his own Kindom of Aleph," the now-deleted post read. "Introducing Bawma, the largest black-market dealer in the Western Hemisphere who's as charismatic as he is unpredictable."...

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Eagle-Eyed Total War Fan Spots What Looks Like a Leak for Creative Assembly's Much-Rumored Total War: Warhammer 40,000, With The Game Awards Announcem

Creative Assembly has confirmed it has a new Total War video game set to be announced at The Game Awards, but what is it? Warhammer 40,000 fans think they know — and one eagle-eyed viewer even spotted what looks like concrete evidence. The Sega-owned strategy specialist behind Total War: Warhammer (the fantasy version of Games Workshop's much-loved tabletop setting) is rumored to be working on a Warhammer 40,000 and a Star Wars take on its long-running Total War series, and it looks like the Warhammer 40,000 game will finally get announced at The Game Awards tonight. Redditor Knavbot took to the Total War subreddit to point to a blink-and-you’ll miss it reference to 40K in Creative Assembly’s recent showcase livestream (the one where...

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Braid and The Witness Creator Jonathan Blow Teases The Game Awards Announcement

Jonathan Blow has just "announced an announcement," teasing he just may be getting on a plane today to join a "gaming industry event coming up." Blow — perhaps best known for 2008's Braid and 2016's The Witness — popped up on his YouTube channel with a brief video, revealing that a project that has likely taken "nine or 10 years to make" is "finally get[ting] out to people." And while it's probably not "a trailer for like an RPG where you fight monsters from hell" — "nothing wrong with that," he hastily added — whatever it is seems likely to be showing up at 2025's The Game Awards. "We've been working hard on projects for a very long time. We have a wide variety of things that we've been developing. They're very complicated. Sometimes...

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Bethesda Chief Todd Howard Says Fallout Is the Franchise 'That We're Doing the Most in Right Now,' Coy on Potential Return to New Vegas or a Fallout 3

The Elder Scrolls 6 may be the next big brand new video game announced by Bethesda to be in the works, but Fallout is the franchise the studio is doing the most in right now, Todd Howard has told IGN. Fallout Season 2 is set to hit Prime Video this month, and while Bethesda has a new Fallout: New Vegas bundle, there’s no word yet on a Fallout remaster or a Fallout: New Vegas 2 to capitalize on the surge of interest in the franchise. There was no mention made during the recent Fallout Day broadcast of a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, which some (including Danny Trejo!) had called on Bethesda to develop. Indeed, there were no new Fallout games announced at all. Find out everything announced during the Fallout Day broadcast here. But...

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The Game Awards Tomb Raider Reveal Leaks Online Just Hours Before the Show

Another day, another leak ahead of The Game Awards 2025 — which is set to feature a look at what's next for Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft. Ahead of time, cover artwork has leaked for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, what looks to be a full remake of the franchise's original game. There are stills from a new trailer, too, showing Lara Croft in action. Croft's design here appears to be a blend of the character's 'classic' design with her look from the franchise's more recent reboot trilogy, which showcased her origins. It's presumed that this remake will fully position the series' first Tomb Raider adventure as taking place after that trilogy, as had always been suggested. After the images leaked online last night via video game...

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AU Deals: The Retail Calendar Is A Lie And The Deals Just Keep Coming

Every retailer insists the big sales are done for the year. Yet every time I blink, another discount swan-dives into my feed like it never got the memo. That being said, I've gone and scooped up the best deals still lurking in the wild. Get 'em before they're goneski. Contents Retro Nintendo Xbox PlayStation PC PC Gear LEGO This Day in Gaming 🎂 In retro news, I'm using the chain-reaction detonation of a TNT crate to light a 16-candle cake baked for Angry Birds, the original poultry-flingin’ puzzler that created an empire. I still remember playing it on my original iPhone 1 during morning train rides; the addictive sling-and-smash gameplay loop grabbed me harder than my previous iOS obsession: Paper Toss. What really cracked me up...

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