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NewsUnreasonably good Xbox FPS featuring Vin Diesel was so under the radar, not even the studio noticed when it got canceled: "They basically forced the publisher to restart the game"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs denied DLC plans, but now the French JRPG's director admits that may have changed: "We may be cooking"
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NewsKen Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"
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NewsOh good, Resident Evil Requiem director says "there are similarities" to the scariest scene in Resident Evil history, but on "another level" of "claustrophobic, unarmed" tension
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newsA gacha RPG is cutting all the gacha garbage so it can just be a better game: "We're completely removing all character and weapon banners"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 9 translator admits some references to older games "slipped by us completely," and he'd love to see "a new team" tackle the JRPG: "I wish we'd been sharper about the nostalgia"
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NewsAfter their Black Panther game got killed, 14 EA devs are fleeing to D&D house Wizards of the Coast to "incubate a new game" under Monolith vet and Shadow of Mordor boss
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newsMarvel's Spider-Man officially has its first working multiplayer mod, and it's probably the closest thing we've got to Insomniac's canceled Great Web project
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NewsGears of War: Reloaded hammered in Steam reviews for missing splitscreen co-op and Microsoft accounts seemingly crashing everyone's fun, including mine
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NewsRed Dead Redemption 2 modder discovers the strongest weapon in the Wild West: 4-year-old Jack Marston, who packs a surprising punch as a thrown weapon
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Hands-onI button-mashed my way through 30 minutes of Scott Pilgrim EX, but I'm already longing to dive back in and learn each character's "very complex combos"
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NewsRPG veteran behind Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma wants his next game to combine "the best of everything he’s worked on," but does not want it to be a Soulslike
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NewsAtari has picked up five Ubisoft games to bring to modern platforms, including its attempt at Resident Evil's crown
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GuideGears of War: E-Day – Everything we know about the upcoming shooter
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NewsRockstar veteran says GTA 4 PS5 port wouldn't "be easy," but the effort "would be tiny compared to building a new game"
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Now PlayingI can finally share meat-tastic cover shooting bliss with my PS5 friends thanks to Gears of War Reloaded
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A gacha RPG is cutting all the gacha garbage so it can just be a better game: "We're completely removing all character and weapon banners"
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newsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford admits Borderlands has gone "too far" in the past, but promises Borderlands 4 has hit the sweet spot
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NewsPath of Exile 2's first free weekend lets you check out everything the ARPG has to offer for the low, low price of nothing
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NewsBorderlands 4 writers say the previous game "sometimes felt like parody," and while there's at least one meme in the new loot shooter "it does not involve a Skibidi Toilet"
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NewsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford is "a little nervous" about Borderlands 4 because it can be harder than previous games and not everyone wants a big challenge
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OpinionYakuza Kenzan remains a Japan exclusive, but Like a Dragon fans like me shouldn't skip this historical adventure for the ages
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NewsRandy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"
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News"One of those emails was an invitation from Sony": PlayStation's new Final Fantasy-style action RPG started with one dude screwing around with Unreal Engine 4 in 2014
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GuideBorderlands 4: Everything we know so far
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NewsLego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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newsNew Pokemon Legends: Z-A gameplay shows off how the RPG's trainer stealth attacks work, and they look so brutal that we're going to feel like we're part of Team Rocket
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NewsHollow Knight: Silksong has now delayed at least 8 indie games in the 5 days since its September release date was announced: "I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale"
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PreviewKeeper is quintessential Double Fine, a strange creative concept with a truly wondrous execution: "We wanted to make something that we could probably never have gotten signed and published"
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NewsPokemon Go level cap increases to 80 in October with huge "rebalance," so you've got less than 2 months to get the level 50 legacy rewards
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OpinionGreat, now I'm desperate for Pokemon to make a Resident Evil-like – and it had better go full Lavender town
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NewsOne of the reasons Hollow Knight: Silksongs developers got to have so much fun making it despite taking 6 years is that it's a 2D game
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Hands-onI love turn-based RPGs, but 20 minutes of Pokemon Legends: Z-A has convinced me that real-time combat could be the way forward for the series
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GuideFortnite Precision Air Strike: How to get it
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GuideFortnite Hammerhead Choppas: Where to find the helicopters
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GuideFortnite Characters locations in Season 4 of Chapter 6
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 4
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideFortnite Boons: How to collect them
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News"READ IF YOU'RE AT EPIC": Fortnite player takes matters into their own hands, writes out bug fixes for over 350 problems "for the developers of OG"
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GuideFortnite Starter Pack, the Fortnite Bee Positive Pack is the best deal you can get in the game
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NewsThey'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
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DealsStar Wars Villainous and a Borderlands spin-off lead the price cuts in August's board game deals
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ReviewThis board game might be my all-time favorite to play as a team, and it's like a psychological shot of espresso
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ReviewFate of the Fellowship is the most anticipated board game of the year, and it's a thing of absolute genius
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ReviewThis is the perfect cozy board game for Fall with its compelling mix of Redwall and city-building
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NewsI'm not normally a fan of crossovers, but this horror board game is the perfect fit for IT
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ReviewThis D&D-style board game "pairs gentle strategic fun with tempting press-your-luck mechanics" for a very good time
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OpinionIt's the 30th anniversary of Warhammer Quest, and there's never been a better time for a nostalgic reissue of the beloved dungeon crawler
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ReviewThis D&D board game could be the magic item needed to refresh your game nights, but it won't be a critical hit for everyone
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NewsI didn't expect this new board game to become my summer obsession, but now I've dropped everything else
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NewsAnno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025"
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NewsBeautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon
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NewsManor Lords' new update is "overhauling a lot of systems at once," and it should be worth the 6-month wait as "we'll be able to shift to smaller, more frequent updates going forward"
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NewsMy favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
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NewsFantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
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Now PlayingIn this rat-filled city builder, one wrong move can change everything - and in my case it was forgetting to add a toilet
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news"I remember uploading the build, crossing my fingers that things wouldn't immediately fall apart": A year later, city builder mega-hit Manor Lords has a bigger dev team teasing big updates
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NewsAfter 7 years and a sequel, the original Frostpunk is getting a remake titled Frostpunk 1886 – a reimagining of the city builder that's "no mere visual overhaul"
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NewsCity Tales - Medieval Era is the next city builder destined for my Steam wishlist, and it's coming to Early Access in May
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NewsThe first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
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News"We hope you enjoy Peak for the next two weeks": Co-op comedy devs acknowledge the incoming Hollow Knight Silksong-shaped black hole in style
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newsUbisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
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Indie SpotlightForget Elden Ring Nightreign or Expedition 33, the toughest boss fight I've faced this year is a slippery rock face on an empty stomach
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NewsViral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"
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NewsViral co-op game of the moment hits a new all-time high on Steam after Peak update finally adds second biome to the "stupid jam game"
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NewsREPO devs blown away by world record level 10 speedrun ponder adding "official speedrun seeds" – "I know that Lethal Company did"
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NewsMicrosoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause, and it seems Hideo Kojima's OD is the only thing that's safe
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NewsYou can now play as Hideo Kojima, Adam Sandler, and Link in Castle Crashers as new DLC finally opens up the Steam Workshop after 17 years, with results as chaotic as you'd expect
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GuideGamescom 2025 schedule: all of the showcases and biggest reveals
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NewsHow to watch The Future Games Show at gamescom 2025 – and what to expect
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NewsMetal Gear Solid and Resident Evil Village stars set to host Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
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NewsElden Ring Nightreign players posted so hard that even the game's publisher has succumbed to Revenant
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NewsDavid Cronenberg says he's "never been a great games player" — the only "game" in movies like eXistenZ and Videodrome "is to try to understand what life is now"
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RecapEverything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
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FeatureEvery new indie game that shadowdropped during Wholesome Direct 2025: From a Sims-like decorating game to a chaotic cooking roguelike
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FeatureDay of the Devs Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 brought us 7 new reveals - here's what they were
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RecapEverything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
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Unreasonably good Xbox FPS featuring Vin Diesel was so under the radar, not even the studio noticed when it got canceled: "They basically forced the publisher to restart the game"
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Ken Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"
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NewsIntel says "this is fine" to fallen stock prices, tells gamers they can get Battlefield 6 bundled with its hardware for no extra cost
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UpcomingUpcoming Xbox Series X games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsActivision owns up to ugly Call of Duty skins, reverses course on Black Ops 6 skins transferring and promises "authentic" skins for Black Ops 7 – a game that is already selling cyborgs and murder robots
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NewsIt looks like Battlefield 6's battle royale mode can be customized in Portal, and I can only apologize for what I might create
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NewsHigh on Life 2 is about to be the only legal way to play notorious NES anti-classic Bible Adventures
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NewsBattlefield 6 developer explains there's no visual filter, every level in the new FPS simply has "the actual atmospheric vibe of each particular location"
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NewsOne of the worst Battlefield games has more players on Steam than the two most recent Call of Duty games, and it's all because of some Battlefield 6 freebies
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NewsThe Balatro hivemind absorbs another victim as Super Smash Bros. modder is compelled to add Joker king Jimbo to Melee, and there hasn't been a new character this scary since 2001
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NewsEx-Sony boss would consider bringing back PlayStation All-Stars as it's "important" for the brand, even if it didn't live up to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros
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NewsAfter 28 years as a legend among Mortal Kombat fans, "the holy grail of MK lost media" has been preserved and made playable for Legacy Kollection
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NewsPremier fighting game tournament Evo has a new co-owner, but Sony's continuing to invest alongside Saudi Arabia's tourism project and WWE's parent company
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Interview"There's got to be a game in here somewhere": How Felt That: Boxing quietly became one of the most innovative games in development
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Best ListThe 25 best fighting games you can play right now
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NewsMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls devs plan to keep the 4v4 tag fighter alive "for the next 10 years," with hopes of "making this game the best experience ever" over the next decade
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NewsMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is getting an closed beta on PS5 next month after a successful debut at EVO which had a Marvel Vs Capcom legend saying "I just want to play more, it's cracked bro"
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NewsMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has a $150 Kollector's Edition with a delightfully stupid Goro statue, but I think the $80 Deluxe Edition might be even better for '90s arcade nostalgia
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PreviewI was already nervous about playing gory survival horror Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, and then I saw the stack of vomit bags provided by the devs
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsCo-op survival horror game Dark Hours is getting a 1.0 launch this fall, but it's cosmic horror-themed Cruise Into Madness update is out now!
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NewsBecome purely and simply evil with the Halloween video game, unmasking in 2026
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NewsHere's a look at the twisted Carnevale level in Little Nightmares 3 which looks like it might pack peak Little Nightmares creepiness
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NewsSequel to Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark throwback Tormented Souls gets October release date
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NewsBloober Team spills its guts on Cronos: The New Dawn's body horror, resource management and monster combat
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newsDead Space creator says the devs put posters in EA toilets to fight for funding and get exec attention: "Whenever they went to the bathroom, they were seeing Dead Space"
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OpinionAs if playing Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't enough, Neil Newbon's latest performance in Dead Take is the best acting I've seen in gaming
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs denied DLC plans, but now the French JRPG's director admits that may have changed: "We may be cooking"
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Final Fantasy 9 translator admits some references to older games "slipped by us completely," and he'd love to see "a new team" tackle the JRPG: "I wish we'd been sharper about the nostalgia"
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NewsRetro JRPGs are suddenly getting pulled from the Switch eShop, and it looks like a probably unlicensed version of OG operating system MS-DOS is to blame
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 patch 7.3 "finished that story" devs wanted to tell with Dawntrail, and Yoshi-P is "kind of glad and relieved" it's over as the MMO once again puts "the fate of the world" on your shoulders
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 director says "there's no real need" for new consoles right now, because "people are happy with the Xbox Series X, the PS5, or the Switch 2" already
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says "it could be" that new content for the MMO "goes down," as Square Enix hopes "many more players" would then be able to enjoy the content it does implement
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News"Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out": Devs wanted to "fight Silksong," but it's added another body to its kill count with delay of Persona-inspired tactics RPG
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NewsJust when I thought things couldn't get any better for JRPG fans, now we've gotten launch info for expanded action RPG Ys X: Proud Nordics in English
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Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"
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PreviewWorld of Warcraft has always asked us to call Azeroth home, but Midnight's new player housing is the first time you'll have one to call your own – and it's the best feature to come to the MMO in years
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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says "it could be" that new content for the MMO "goes down," as Square Enix hopes "many more players" would then be able to enjoy the content it does implement
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NewsWorld of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"
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newsDune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm" because that breaks Dune
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NewsDune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
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NewsWorld of Warcraft design lead says the upcoming housing feature is a "challenge" for performance and accessibility because it's not "anything like existing zones and the kinds of content that we've had before"
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NewsDune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive”
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NewsWorld of Warcraft ends 21-year drought and adds housing with MMO's new Midnight expansion – but Blizzard has a good reason it took so long: "We couldn't just check off a box and do the minimum"
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NewsLeague of Legends leadership just got a crash course in horniness when "someone started explaining what 'gooning' meant: "I shouldn't tell you this"
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NewsNew Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game
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Best List10 Best MOBAs to play today
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News"We will for sure lose money": League of Legends developer is finally cracking down on account boosting after 15 years, even at the cost of the game's revenue
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NewsLeague of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
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NewsDeadlock fans in shambles after Valve dev issues a classically Valve update for its new MOBA: We see you're "really hyped up for an imminent update," but it "won't be coming for some time"
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NewsThe League of Legends Balatro homage I thought I'd never see again is back, thanks to a major MOBA preservation win
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Desperate to avoid saying 'we want that $10 billion', League of Legends dev Riot Games tries to justify legalizing esports gambling sponsors, but players aren't buying it
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NewsRiot inducts its second-ever player into League of Legends’s Hall of Fame, awarding them a custom Mercedes and possibly their own version of Faker’s controversial $400 skin
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Indie SpotlightI accidentally played 10 hours of Magic Inn and it's already the most hands-on management sim I've played since Two Point Campus
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Indie SpotlightI finally tried Minami Lane after seeing over 5,000 positive reviews, and within 4 hours it's already the chillest management game I've ever played
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News"This is completely insane. I didn't even think that was possible?": Minami Lane dev stunned to see his new cute $5 Steam game gather over 1,000 flawless reviews
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PreviewI traded banned books for bread in this RPG-tinged resource management game that feels like Pentiment meets Citizen Sleeper
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NewsI failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything
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NewsThe long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
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NewsBethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
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NewsOne of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
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PreviewTavern Keeper feels like being a fly on the wall in a D&D campaign, and I never knew I needed that in a management sim
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After their Black Panther game got killed, 14 EA devs are fleeing to D&D house Wizards of the Coast to "incubate a new game" under Monolith vet and Shadow of Mordor boss
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Marvel's Spider-Man officially has its first working multiplayer mod, and it's probably the closest thing we've got to Insomniac's canceled Great Web project
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Retro JRPGs are suddenly getting pulled from the Switch eShop, and it looks like a probably unlicensed version of OG operating system MS-DOS is to blame
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