CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'

First reported by GamesRadar, CD Projekt Red has thanked thousands of fans for doing something exceedingly rare in today's entertainment space: Not spoiling a hotly anticipated new show even though they got advance access.

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Rare Pokémon 'god pack' looks too astonishing to believe

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Published Jul 6, 2026, 4:21 PM EDT

A Canadian youth is the first to find a fully golden 'God Pack'

This kid might've just pulled the rarest Pokémon 'god pack' you've ever seen

A youth from Alberta holds up 10 golden Mega Darkrai cards from a Pitch Black pre-release event. Image: Amazing Wonders Emporium

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Major Pokémon Go 10th Anniversary Broadcast Announced

Pokémon Go will hold a very special 10th anniversary broadcast this Thursday, July 9 — with details on what it will contain currently top secret.

It's now been a decade since Pokémon Go first launched and became a global phenomenon. Remember that first trailer where players were shown catching, trading and then battling a giant Mewtwo in Times Square? Well, 10 years on, millions of players still log on every day: catching, trading and battling with the app's ever-expanding menagerie that now stretches to almost 1,000 creatures.

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Microsoft's latest Game Pass numbers are officially a disaster

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Published Jul 6, 2026, 3:58 PM EDT

Microsoft's subscription service has fallen well short of expectations

Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that

Key art for Xbox Game Pass featuring art from Age of Empires, Grounded, Psychonauts 2, and Microsoft Flight Simulator Image: Microsoft

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Watch Night of the Living Dead and other public domain horror movies inside this creepy dollfest

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Isla de las Muñecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who've gone missing in a particularly cursed location.

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Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first 'dopamine site', so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

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Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It's hardly a classic, but it's not terrible either. At one cent per 10 minutes of content, how can you resist? It's only five pleasantly tactile mouse clicks away.

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One of our favorite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth game prequel where you're a Combine assassin preying on the human resistance

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The cult classic Half-Life 2 mod series Entropy: Zero has another entry in the works, and speaking as a fan of Thief, Deus Ex, and all things immersive sim, Entropy: Zero 2 - Progenitors may be the most exciting one yet.

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Brigador devs think it's crucial that their abrasive, hardcore mech sims aren't for everyone: 'I think we make boy slop, but that's okay'

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When I recently spoke to Stellar Jockeys lead artist Jack Monahan and lead designer Hugh Monahan about Brigador Killers, a big focus for me was approachability versus depth. Most of my favorite games are super-crusty and complex RPGs or immersive sims, and the studios that made them⁠—Troika, Looking Glass, Obsidian, to name a few⁠—often found sustained financial success difficult or impossible.

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Marvel Tokon Blocked in 132 Countries 2 Years After Helldivers 2's PSN Requirement Controversy

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PlayStation and Arc System Works' Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has been blocked in 132 countries in what appears to be another example of Sony's PSN requirements barring players from access on Steam.

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'I Find it Really Sad' — Hideo Kojima Warns of 'Frightening' Digital Future After PlayStation Reveals Plan to End Physical Disc Production

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Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has warned of a "frightening" digital future just days after Sony announced it would soon end production for physical PlayStation discs.

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