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NewsParadox gives up on dressing the wound, confirms Bloodlines 2 will have Lasombra and Toreador clans in the base game after "frank feedback" – then reveals more expansion pass DLC
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NewsElder Scrolls MMO lead still wants to make a new game, despite the cancelation of the Blackbird project that Xbox's Phil Spencer apparently loved: "I don't think you can ride one thing into forever"
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NewsWow, Mario Kart World really is Nintendo's take on Grand Theft Auto, as NPCs can break into each other's cars: "He's breaking into Green Shy Guy's car! And now he's stealing it!"
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DealsThis hyper-popular board game kickstarted a tabletop revolution, and it's never been cheaper
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NewsCD Projekt Red dev once again retcons V's age in Cyberpunk 2077, assuring fans the protagonist "is 27 not 22 or whatever": "THE LOREMASTER HAS SPOKEN. Go update the wiki"
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Best ListThe 25 best strategy games to play in 2025
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GuideAll Marvel Rivals codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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NewsSilksong players hate the Savage Beastfly so much that they've formed a community of haters called, and I quote, "F*** Savage Beastfly"
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GuideThe Mist walkthrough and map for Silksong
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GuideSaros: Everything we know so far
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Now PlayingAssassin's Creed Shadows' new DLC weapon transforms Naoe into a samurai-bashing machine, and I'll never use anything else
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FeatureI was kidnapped in Act 1 of Hollow Knight: Silksong, and I never thought Team Cherry would borrow Bloodborne's nastiest trick
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GuideAll Silksong Needle upgrades and Pale Oil locations
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GuideFull Silksong Hunter's March walkthrough and map
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GuideAll first five Silksong flea locations for the Lost Fleas Wish
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GuideHow to defeat Moorwing in Silksong: Weaknesses, strategies and boss cheese methods
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News"Quit game and restart": Borderlands 4 boss says potential memory leak issue on console could get worse the more you play the looter shooter, so "sorry for the friction!" while devs investigate
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NewsBorderlands 4 PC performance debate takes a turn for the weird as Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford gets into bizarre row with OG Minecraft creator Notch: "Masculinity is a shader option"
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NewsBorderlands 4's opening weekend stats show off 1.5 million items looted from toilets and only 25% of boss attempts ending in failure
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GuideHere's the full Borderlands 4 mission list
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NewsBorderlands 4 creative director says the "endgame is supposed to be earned/ tough," but tosses bruised players a bone: "We're still looking at other options"
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InterviewAs The Outer Worlds 2 embraces "crunchy" role-playing, its directors say people are "more open" to deeper RPGs after Baldur's Gate 3: "It's good to bring that stuff to the forefront again"
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GuideBest Borderlands 4 Rafa build to become a one-man mecha exo-soldier
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NewsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford continues to crash out over Borderlands 4 as fans compare the new game's PC performance to Battlefield 6 and Cyberpunk 2077: "Would you like help tuning?"
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NewsNintendo's tiniest console ever was a Pokemon handheld the size of a Tamagotchi, and after 24 years it's suddenly a wildly impractical way to play Game Boy games
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GuideAll Honkai Star Rail codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideAll Wuthering Waves codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideRoblox Brookhaven codes for music tracks and memes (Sep 2025)
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsPokemon's cute, cozy life sim spin-off may be hiding some deeply tragic lore as fans question the backstory of our Ditto protagonist: "What happened to their trainer?"
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NewsPokemon Legends Z-A locks the Mega Evolutions for the Kalos starters to ranked seasons, making them impossible to get without paying for Nintendo Switch Online
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GuidePokemon Pokopia: everything we know about the Pokemon game that looks a lot like Animal Crossing
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NewsNintendo announces Pokemon Legends Z-A DLC before the game's even out: Mega Dimension expansion adds "spatial distortions" and makes Raichu the third Pokemon to ever get two Mega Evolutions
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NewsMix Diablo mechanics and Overwatch abilities with Fortnite's battle royale, stick it in a tower, and you've got Arkheron, a new team-based PvP game I'm cautiously excited for
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 4
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GuideFortnite Characters locations in Season 4 of Chapter 6
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideHow to enable Fortnite two factor authentication and get a free emote
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GuideHow to enable cross-platform Fortnite matches on all formats
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GuideHow to play Fortnite advice for absolute beginners
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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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This hyper-popular board game kickstarted a tabletop revolution, and it's never been cheaper
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ReviewThere's now a real version of the Witcher Gwent card game, and it's just as engrossing as the original
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DealsA community favorite races straight to the top for September's board game deals, with Heat getting a big discount
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NewsI chose this D&D board game to kick off spooky season, and it got me in the Halloween mood
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ReviewThis enormous exploration board game won't be for everyone, but it's a masterclass in narrative and sandbox gameplay
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NewsThe weirdest ever Warhammer game is back with a new edition, and I think you need to see this
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ReviewThis gorgeously weird monster board game warms my Halloween-loving heart, and it's a delight
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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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GuideRoblox Murder Mystery 2 codes have all expired
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Roblox Brookhaven codes for music tracks and memes (Sep 2025)
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News"I'm here to interrupt the Silksong": Peak devs echo Team Cherry by telling players the game is just "that evil," tease "the next biome" already in the works
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NewsREPO devs "want to be a bit more secretive" with the next big update, threatening to unleash a load of new monsters at once: "Some will be there to make your life a living hell"
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NewsHelldivers 2 creative director wishes he could make a sequel to the chaotic co-op game that launched Arrowhead, but returning to it "scares" him: "I would like to do it at some point though"
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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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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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NewsEscape from Tarkov dev has outdone itself, telling players to buy the whole game again if they want it on Steam after 9 years leading to 1.0: "There are no excuses"
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NewsBattlefield 6 sniper glints won't be so blinding come the shooter's release, as devs have "stepped it back" after fans' "humorous" feedback: "I saw those memes with the hillside just full of these giant glares"
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BestThe 10 best Call of Duty games of all-time
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NewsBattlefield 6 nearly broke the Xbox Series S, which devs say had "less memory than even our mid-spec PC": "A lot of our levels were crashing on Xbox Series S"
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NewsBattlefield 6 devs abandoned the chaos of Battlefield 4's destruction mechanic because they thought "the game wouldn't be fun" if everything in it was dust: "We want it to serve a gameplay purpose"
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NewsBattlefield 6 uses the same destruction systems for both Multiplayer and Battle Royale mode, but you'll have to think wisely before smashing: "Just destroying everything isn't a good idea"
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GuideJujutsu Infinite codes (September 2025) for free Spins
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NewsFree-to-play League of Legends fighting game 2XKO "went back into R&D mode" after the initial reveal, producer says, which was both "awkward" and "the right call"
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Hands-onI played Invincible VS against the game's combat designer and loved every minute, despite getting my ass kicked
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newsStreet Fighter movie delays release date as it invites everyone to choose their fighter with retro character select cast announcement
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NewsA Super Smash Bros. Melee modder has finally added the most powerful Nintendo character of all: a cease and desist notice
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NewsMortal Kombat 2 gets a big release date delay, but ends up in a promising spot
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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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OpinionAfter 43 years, one of the world's greatest horror movies lives on in so many games – from Among Us to Cronos: The New Dawn
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NewsPalworld developer's publishing arm signs a new horror game that doesn't sound creepy at all – a retro-style fishing adventure which definitely has "absolutely no eerie mysteries" whatsoever
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GuideLittle Nightmares 3: Everything we know so far about the new horror game from Supermassive
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newsDead Space creator Glen Schofield "would love to make an Alien game," but he has to completely "own the creative" side of it
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NewsDespite directing Resident Evil 2, Hideki Kamiya says "I hate horror," but he still wants to see Hideo Kojima make a game "in the same style" as P.T.
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NewsBethesda's studio buying spree was fueled by wanting to work with likeminded devs: "If you have a chance to work with [Resident Evil creator] Shinji Mikami, you should always say yes"
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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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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NewsThe worst Yakuza game is finally getting a remake: RGG Studio accidentally leaks Yakuza Kiwami 3
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NewsAfter 5 years of work, Sony's cult classic PS1 JRPG trilogy is now fully playable in English as the roguelike spin-off finally gets its fan translation patch
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NewsDragon Quest 7 Reimagined takes the original JRPG's bloated story and cuts "subplots that have little or no direct relevance" to the main quest, but also adds "entirely new scenarios"
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NewsLock your doors: Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to Switch 2 as a monster game-key card that will eat around 90GB of storage
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NewsFinal Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu says video game music is getting more boring, and Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead agrees: "Nothing is made for anyone in particular anymore. (Except shareholders)"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake director takes a hammer to difficulty discourse as the JRPG reveals ultimate god mode, says he's played games where he "gave up because of the time it takes to level up characters or traverse the game"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake gets 2026 release date on Switch 2 and Xbox with Rebirth and Part 3 to follow
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NewsSquare Enix reveals another classic JRPG getting a remake: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced, coming February 2026 to consoles and PC
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NewsFinal Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles lead hopes it "will appeal to people who aren't particularly good at tactical RPGs," since devs "hopefully reduced some of the frustration"
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GuideAll Throne and Liberty coupons (September 2025) and how to redeem them
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News"When I explained to her that everyone at Zeke was a real player who came to pay their respects, she burst out in tears": Parents of late baby son overwhelmed by huge in-game MMO tribute
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NewsHundreds of MMO players show up to support a father mourning his infant son, who shares a name with an NPC in Old School RuneScape: "We have such an incredible community with the biggest hearts"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 is getting a "big update" to bring out the "uniqueness of each job" in battle content, Yoshi-P says, before confusingly adding "that nothing is going to change" for those who like things the way they are
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News26 years after dead MMO was left to rot, YouTuber spends 30 days reviving it through sheer will: "You reignited a fire that never went out, now it burns brighter than ever," devs say
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NewsSega's crunch was so bad, offices came equipped with nap rooms and showers until 2012: "It was basically expected that people would be sleeping over at the office"
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NewsWizards of the Coast boss and ex WoW dev would love a new D&D MMO, but says "the traditional model" Blizzard used "could use updating"
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NewsAfter 11 years, Elder Scrolls Online lead says the MMO is still "flying under the radar" of potential fans – with some even asking devs, "when does this come out?"
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NewsAfter report on MMO's bot problem, players bait piles of "clankers" to their doom like they're poisoning AI: ask "how many" and armies of bots reply in eery unison
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NewsValve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
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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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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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Silksong players hate the Savage Beastfly so much that they've formed a community of haters called, and I quote, "F*** Savage Beastfly"
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