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Giuseppe Nelva

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About Giuseppe Nelva

News Editor at TechRaptor since January 2023 following over 20 years of professional experience in gaming journalism both on print media and on the web.

Giuseppe is a veteran of the industry and a proud weeb and gamer since the era of the Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. RPGs, MMORPGs, visual novels, and Microsoft Flight Simulator are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently strategy, sandbox, simulation, and survival games. 

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The main character kisses Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur's Gate 3 "Hefty" Patch 6 Coming Next Week Improving Kisses and Much More

Baldur's Gate 3 is getting ready for Valentine's Day with a big patch coming next week, likely with the most appropriate content possible on the menu.

February 10, 2024 | 04:10 EST

The ships flyable during the Free Fly Event in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Is Now Free to Play For a Week as New Video Features in-Game Branding

Star Citizen is now free to play for a week thanks to the latest Free Fly event celebrating Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year. 

February 9, 2024 | 05:30 EST

Abu Dhabi Airport and Tecnam P2006T for Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Abu Dhabi Airport Releasing Today, Free Yas Island Scenery Available Now

Third-party developers shared plenty of reveals about upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons, on top of releasing new aircraft and scenery. 

February 9, 2024 | 04:51 EST

Sega Logo and Total War: Pharaoh
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Sega Gaming Profits Drop Sharply Due to "Weak" Sales of Some New Games

Sega published its financial results for the 9 months that ended on December 31, 2023, and at least part of them wasn't really great. 

February 8, 2024 | 11:45 EST

Artwork of Ed from Street Fighter 6
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Next Street Fighter 6 DLC Character Ed Gets Release Date and Gameplay Reveal

Capcom has revealed the release date of Street Fighter 6's next DLC character, Ed, alongside a first look at his explosive psychic boxing gameplay. 

February 8, 2024 | 07:04 EST

Grand Theft Auto 6 Art and Screenshot
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GTA6 Publisher Senses "Much Higher" Anticipation Compared to GTA5, Discusses Ominous Cost Reduction

During Take-Two's financial conference call, CEO Strauss Zelnick and CFO Lainie Goldstein talked about Grand Theft Auto 6, but also about a much more ominous topic.

February 8, 2024 | 06:02 EST

Art of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption
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Grand Theft Auto V Has Sold Over 195 Million Units, Red Dead Redemption 2 at 61 Million Units

Take-Two announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year on top of an update to sales figures of Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and more.

February 8, 2024 | 04:24 EST

Lost Hellden Key Art featuring the cast
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Astria Ascending Developers and Veteran Japanese Creators Team Up for Lost Hellden

Today Artisan Studios of Super Neptunia RPG and Astria Ascending Fame announced a new upcoming action RPG titled Lost Hellden, coming in 2025.

February 8, 2024 | 03:23 EST

Ubisoft Logo and Grand Theft Auto 6
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Ubisoft CEO Expects GTA6 Release to Benefit His Own Games as Well, Comments on Microsoft Rumors

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot commented on Grand Theft Auto 6, the future of Xbox, and Skull and Bones' pricing during the company's financial conference call.

February 8, 2024 | 01:52 EST

Assassin's Creed Codename Red and Ubisoft Logo
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Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Codename Red Release By March 2025, Announces Financial Results

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year 2023-2024 and confirmed a release window for Assassin’s Creed Codename Red.

February 8, 2024 | 12:55 EST

Microosft and FTC Bicker as Ace attorney Characters
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Microsoft Fires Back at FTC's Accusation on Layoffs in Activision Blizzard Legal Battle

Microsoft's legal counsel has responded to the accusations leveled yesterday by the FTC within the legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

February 8, 2024 | 12:00 EST

Saytang the Watcher in Total War: Warhammer 3
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Total War: Warhammer 3 Developers Add Content Aplenty to Latest & Next DLC Following Backlash

Creative Assembly announced relevant changes to be made to Total War: Warhammer 3's latest DLC Shadows of Change. The same will apply to the next.  

February 8, 2024 | 11:12 EST

Honkai: Star Rail Lunar New Year Animation Guinaifen and Sushang
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Honkai: Star Rail Celebrates Lunar New Year With Gorgeous Anime Short

Honkai: Star Rail developer HoYoverse is a Chinese company, so it's not surprising that it pulled all the stops to celebrate the Lunar New Year with an anime short.

February 7, 2024 | 11:54 EST

Persona 3 Reload 1 Million Celebration Image
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Persona 3 Reload Has Sold Over 1 Million Copies, Fastest in Atlus' History

Today Atlus announced that its recently released JRPG Persona 3 Reload achieved a big sales milestone, having sold over 1 million copies in a week.

February 7, 2024 | 08:31 EST

Disney X Epic Games
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Disney to Invest $1.5 Billion in Epic Games to Create Persistent Universe Connected to Fortnite

Disney and Epic Games announced an agreement for the creation of a persistent universe connected to the developer's ultra-popular game Fortnite. 

February 7, 2024 | 05:04 EST

Sarah Morgan in Starfield
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New Starfield Beta Update Available Now on Steam, Adding AMD FSR3, Intel XeSS, and More

Bethesda released the beta version of a new update for its sci-fi RPG Starfield on Steam to test it before it gets unleashed into the wild for all platforms.

February 7, 2024 | 04:25 EST

The key art of Marvel's Spider-Man 2
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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Update With New Game+ Gets Release Date

Today Insomniac Games announced the release date of the next major update for its popular open-world action adventure game Marvel's Spider-Man 2. 

February 7, 2024 | 02:17 EST

Microsoft and FTC arguie in Activision Blizzard case represented by Ace Attorney characters
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FTC and "Gamers' Lawsuit" Lawyers Denounce Microsoft's Layoffs in Activision Blizzard Legal Battle

The FTC and the lawyers behind the "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition of Activision are leveraging the layoffs to further their cases.

February 7, 2024 | 12:25 EST

 Jianxin in Wuthering Waves holding trays
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Genshin Impact Competitor Wuthering Waves Introduces Jianxin, Closed Beta Date Announced

Kuro Games released a new trailer of Wuthering Wavesm, introducing a new character named Jianxin, and announced the start date of the next closed beta.

February 7, 2024 | 04:53 EST

A screenshot of Palworld with a working Pengullet
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Palworld Update v0.1.4.1 Available Now, Fixes Crashing Save Data and More

Pocketpair released a brand new update of its popular open-world crafting survival game Palworld, fixing save data that caused the game to crash.

February 7, 2024 | 12:15 EST

Angry Cloud in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Demo Available Now, Gorgeous Gameplay Revealed

Today, during a PlayStation State of Play broadcast, Square Enix announced the release of a demo of its upcoming JRPG Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. 

February 6, 2024 | 07:02 EST

Key Art of Cities: Skylines 2
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Cities: Skylines 2 Sold Over 1 Million Copies Despite Issues as Paradox Has 9 Games in Development

Paradox Interactive shared its Q4 2023 financial results on top of the overall results for the full year 2023, including a sales milestone for Cities: Skylines 2.

February 6, 2024 | 05:40 EST

Phoenix Wright and Edgeworth object in representation of the legal battle betweet the FTC and Microsoft
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Microsoft Allowed to Probe Sony and Ubisoft in Legal Battle Against FTC, but Regulator Fires Back

The legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the Activision Blizzard acquisition continues. Xbox just scored a point and the FTC is firing back. 

February 6, 2024 | 02:42 EST

The map table in Crusader Kings 3
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Crusader Kings III Reveals New $44 Expansion Pass Including the Terrifying Black Death

Today Paradox Interactive revealed a new expansion pass coming to its popular grand strategy game Crusader Kings III, including new expansions and DLC.

February 6, 2024 | 01:07 EST