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newsHideo Kojima only plays "maybe one game a year" because "games take a lot of time" and "what's happening outside the game world is more important to me to incorporate into my game"
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News"No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize
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NewsYou can put Dragon's Dogma 2 alongside Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2 as a sterling example of what happens when you stop trying to make AAA games for everyone: "It’s normal if some people outside that target audience don't like the game"
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Hands-onI can't get enough of the cute cat-like companion in this puzzle platformer, even if some block pushing is a little business as usual
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GuideDestiny Rising codes (August 2025) and how to redeem them
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News"Super cozy" Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar shoots to 94% positive Steam reviews 1 day after launch as fans of the series that inspired Stardew Valley sing its praises: "It's not just a simple remake"
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Buying guideBest computer speakers 2025: The clearest sounding picks for your PC
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NewsIndiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
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NewsTodd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star
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GuideGTA Online new cars arriving with the Money Fronts update
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Hands-onThe stealthy spirit of Arkham Knight returns in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and I never believed a Lego game could pull this off
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GuideWhere is the GTA Online Gun Van location
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NewsAs Perfect Dark gets canceled and the next Tomb Raider's development stumbles on, Crystal Dynamics lays off even more developers while blaming "evolving business conditions"
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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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"No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize
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You can put Dragon's Dogma 2 alongside Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2 as a sterling example of what happens when you stop trying to make AAA games for everyone: "It’s normal if some people outside that target audience don't like the game"
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newsElden Ring Nightreign answers your unholy prayers with extreme "Deep of the Night" challenge mode, and it even has an endless option
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Interview"The shorthand is New Vegas in space": The Outer Worlds 2 directors double down on Fallout comparisons, and Obsidian isn't worried about setting expectations too high: "It's our pedigree"
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NewsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford feels like "we're just getting started" with Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: "I would bet that we are going to spend more time on that"
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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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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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NewsLego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A buffs up one of X and Y's best 'mons as it introduces Mega Hawlucha, which might have the RPG's coolest new form yet
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (September 2025)
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GuideAll Pokemon TCG Pocket Shiny cards and full Shinies list
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GuideAll Secret Missions in Pokemon TCG Pocket (Updated for Secluded Springs)
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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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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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Buying guideThe 6 best 2-player board games in 2025 for date night and more, hand-picked by experts
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Buying guideThe best adult board games 2025, from newcomer Fate of the Fellowship to Gloomhaven
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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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Hands-onBeyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
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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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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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Destiny Rising codes (August 2025) and how to redeem them
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NewsBattlefield 6 won't actually boot stomp Black Ops 7, analyst says, because Call of Duty fans on "autopilot" will "buy it even if they complain about it"
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NewsPS5 exclusive horror game bucks the trend, announces a delay to get out of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's way instead of Hollow Knight: Silksong
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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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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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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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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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NewsAs Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest dates leave fans worried the MMO's next expansion might not release until March 2027 at the earliest, Yoshi-P drops an ominous tease: "Rest assured you won't have to wait long"
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NewsJRPG lovers are "migrating away from Fandom" to unite the Trails and Ys communities in an independent wiki, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Silksong fans before them
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NewsAfter 16 JRPGs across 37 years, the long-running Ys series is finally localizing the Nintendo Switch remaster of its overlooked PS Vita gem next year
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P breaks silence following latest add-on drama, says Square Enix has no choice but to act if mods threaten the MMO itself as costs rise and regulations grow stricter
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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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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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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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Final 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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As Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest dates leave fans worried the MMO's next expansion might not release until March 2027 at the earliest, Yoshi-P drops an ominous tease: "Rest assured you won't have to wait long"
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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P breaks silence following latest add-on drama, says Square Enix has no choice but to act if mods threaten the MMO itself as costs rise and regulations grow stricter
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NewsAfter 14 years in development and $860 million racked up in crowdfunding, Star Citizen director hopes single-player spin-off Squadron 42 will be "an event almost as important" as GTA 6
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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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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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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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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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Buying guide
Best computer speakers 2025: The clearest sounding picks for your PC
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GuideHow long does it take to beat Metal Gear Solid Delta?
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Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
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