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News"Boy, that game sucked": Notorious Dead Island 2 delay lasted nearly a decade partly because its original developer ignored "horrific" player feedback, says former Deep Silver lead
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News"We love our girlfailure daughter": Umamusume frenzy sees anime horse girl fans buy so much grass for a real, retired horse that her donation website has crashed yet again
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News11 years into a very confusing MMO, Destiny 2 lead reckons Bungie might have some problems onboarding new players: "We really want to be looking at things like New Light"
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news"A future has been stolen": ZeniMax union says "lives were upended" by Xbox layoffs and MMO cancelation, but "we have not yet been laid off"
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NewsResident Evil fans are convinced Leon Kennedy's sharper jawline at age 27 compared to 21 is a powerful example of how trauma ages a person, and now I'm insecure about being 26
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NewsGearbox reveals a surprising series first coming in Borderlands 4: Vex is the first playable Siren to "focus specifically on kinetic damage," which is great news for lifesteal lovers like me
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Best ListThe best retro remakes and reboots out there aren't afraid to get weird with it – as Shadow Labyrinth being a dark and gritty Pac-Man game shows us
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"Boy, that game sucked": Notorious Dead Island 2 delay lasted nearly a decade partly because its original developer ignored "horrific" player feedback, says former Deep Silver lead
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GuideGTA Online new cars arriving with the Money Fronts update
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NewsUbisoft foresaw the grindy fate of Assassin's Creed Valhalla back in the Odyssey days, wanting a literal "odyssey" but not "a world that was just fatiguing to travel through"
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GuideWhere is the GTA Online Gun Van location
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CheatsAll GTA 5 cheat codes and phone numbers for PS5, PS4, Xbox, and PC
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says his latest game dev crush is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, one of the most efficient games he's played all year
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Ubisoft had a very on-brand problem with Assassin's Creed Odyssey: there weren't many tall buildings in Ancient Greece even though it's a "climbing-frame game"
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Now PlayingRed Dead Online's role-play servers have clearly broken my brain, but I'm just happy to be saving the Wild West as a flamboyant gentlemen vigilante
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News27 years later, this uncanny "Hero of Law" mod makes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time the game it was always meant to be: Ace Attorney
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Gearbox reveals a surprising series first coming in Borderlands 4: Vex is the first playable Siren to "focus specifically on kinetic damage," which is great news for lifesteal lovers like me
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News"A massive win for media preservation": Dedicated Borderlands fans have finally "made it into Borderlands Online," months since the project to revive the long-dead MMO began
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NewsI need to know more about Elden Ring Nightreign's mystery big boys – giant tree-like figures 5x the size of the second-biggest Souls creature, which FromSoftware explains almost nothing about
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Best ListI'm going back to the five best post-apocalyptic games I ever played, thanks to Death Stranding 2 giving me a taste for the terrible
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News"I actually felt heard": Diablo 4 content creators tease exciting things to come for the ARPG after a call with Blizzard, following seasons of complaints about nerfs, endgame, and more
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newsBorderlands 4 has "well over 200" collectibles that are so well hidden, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford expects "most players will never see any of them"
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NewsBlizzard puts the nerf bat down, reaches for a dash of buffs instead, then says screw it and buffs literally every Diablo 4 class in the next update
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NewsBorderlands 4 narrative director reveals his biggest uncertainty, and looking at the script, yeah, I get it: "The crowd falls apart like that guy in the cube that gets cubed in the movie Cube"
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NewsI don't know folks, I think game dev might be kind of broken: slick Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen has passed 5.5 million players but still isn't profitable
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NewsPokemon voice actor behind OG rival Gary, Professor Oak, Meowth, and James dies at 71
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OpinionDeath Stranding 2's final fight is Hideo Kojima's way of saying goodbye to Metal Gear Solid
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Best ListThe 25 best video game stories to play right now
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NewsHytale studio founder isn't giving up yet on reviving the canceled game, but says "suggestions to use another game or engine" to bring it back are "out of touch"
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NewsA former Hytale dev is bringing other veterans let go from Hypixel Studios onboard to make a fantasy-themed Hytale mode for their eldritch horror survival sandbox game
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (July 2025)
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GuideBioShock 4: Everything we know so far
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GuidePokemon Legends Z-A: Everything we know so far about the upcoming Nintendo game
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Best ListThe best Zelda games of all time
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 3
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GuideWhen does Fortnite Season 4 start in Chapter 6?
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NewsFortnite player allegedly cheated to win $6k in a competitive tournament - now he owes Epic $175k and is banned from the game "forever"
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NewsThe FTC is giving $126 million-worth of Fortnite refunds to players, and there's still time to submit a claim for one
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GuideWhen is the next Fortnite live event, Blast Off?
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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 Characters locations in Season 3 of Chapter 6
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What are the biggest changes for Fortnite Season 3 in Chapter 6?
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DealsTime is almost up on my favorite Prime Day board game deals, so prioritize these 5 before they vanish
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DealsYou're running out of time to grab some of my all-time favorite board games for less than $25 this Prime Day
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DealsHave you seen these massive board game deals for Prime Day? You can save up to 65% on 12 of my favorites
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DealsThese legendary family board games are now up to 50% off at Amazon, and I think they should be in every collection
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FeatureGoing on vacation? Here are the best travel board games to take with you
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OpinionThe Traitors is out, but this pirate game combines all my favorite board games into one deceptive pocket-sized package
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Buying guideBest board games in 2025, with over 25 recommendations reviewed by our experts
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FeatureLegendary board game designer says his upcoming Lord of the Rings project is "definitely the most thematically and mechanically rich game I’ve worked on"
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NewsMajor board game publisher snaps up the Zombicide franchise, saving it from an uncertain future
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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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NewsDisney's Robin Hood collides with Manor Lords in this charming city-builder where everyone is a fox
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newsCity-builder dev implores Valve to give devs real social media tools on Steam, because they're "terrified of the future market" and need a "solution for indie sustainability"
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News"Guys we can't add cannibalism to Peak": Co-developer of viral indie survival game lays down the law, despite fans' protests of "what if just one little nibble"
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News"REPO has changed forever": Semiwork finally releases its first major update and celebrates with the co-op horror game's best discount yet
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NewsPeak devs really did not expect to sell 2 million copies in 9 days, say they're now "looking into possible updates" for their hit that started as a "stupid jam game"
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NewsLittle Nightmares 3 release date set for October, it's also coming to Switch 2 alongside an enhanced version of the original, and oh, here's 10 minutes of new gameplay footage
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news"I'm gonna crash out": Even the creators of co-op climbing game Peak are stunned by 1 million copies sold in 6 days – "Why did this stupid jam game sell more than Another Crab's Treasure"
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NewsREPO's "weird" new museum map will have "tons" of verticality and laser alarms you'll have to "Mission: Impossible" your way past
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NewsREPO devs apologize for teasing cosmetics we'll never get, confirm other cosmetics are actually coming and "old levels will get updated" eventually
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Best ListThe 25 best multiplayer Switch games you can play today
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NewsLynked: Banner of the Spark is a robo-arm swinging 'rogue-life RPG', where you fight robots for the parts you need to build the town of your dreams
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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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11 years into a very confusing MMO, Destiny 2 lead reckons Bungie might have some problems onboarding new players: "We really want to be looking at things like New Light"
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NewsOverwatch 2 director thinks "competition is healthy" in the hero shooter space, but says the FPS' new features aren't "a response to Marvel Rivals"
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NewsFar Cry 4 lead reveals a cut idea for enemy camps that would have completely changed the story: "I think that's where the fun of the whole genre might lie"
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News"I am a husk, a shell, totally empty": In an act of MMO masochism, Destiny 2 team spends 84 brutal hours locked in a blind run of the Salvation's Edge raid, insisting on the Master difficulty I struggle with even after raiding for 10 years
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NewsOverwatch 2 director says the FPS "dropped the ball when it comes to story," but wants those sick animated shorts to make a comeback and "would love" a TV show
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GuideAll Destiny 2 Armor 3.0 changes in Edge of Fate
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News"Gameplay is Japanese developers' strongest suit": Indie developer behind incredible anime FPS series reckons Japanese devs keep flubbing shooters by chasing Call of Duty too hard
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NewsBioShock creator says "audiences reward" single-player games that don't have "other methods of monetization," like Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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News"Star Wars: Battlefront 2 jumped from 135th on the monthly best-selling titles chart in April to 12th in May," analyst says, illustrating the community's efforts: "It ranked 5th across the PC aggregated storefront tracking"
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News25 years after launch and 15 years after its last Evo appearance, the legendary Marvel vs Capcom 2 is back on the big stage and we're set for "the largest MvC2 tournament of all time"
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NewsStreet Fighter 6's latest outfit DLC adds the game's biggest batch of horny yet, which might distract people from the fact that this is only the second wave of costumes in 2 years
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NewsMassive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work
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News"We must change our methods": Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai says game development has become "too time consuming and unsustainable"
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Interview"Notoriously obtuse hardware" meant Mortal Kombat 4 has "never accurately" come to home consoles, but Legacy Kollection found a way to preserve NetherRealm's full arcade roots
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NewsTekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids
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NewsNintendo Switch 2 is too powerful for asses to handle: 1v1 butt swordfighting game Ketsu Battler is having issues with literal backwards compatibility
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OpinionI've played 200 hours of Street Fighter 6, and the Switch 2 version is a perfectly fine companion piece – even if it could never be the ideal platform
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NewsSwitch 2's controversial game-key cards come on a physical cartridge, but Capcom is still counting its sales of them as digital
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Now PlayingThe Silent Hill f writer's debut game was basically the original Doki Doki Literature Club, and it's still terrifying me 23 years later
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Little Nightmares 3: Everything we know so far about the new horror game from Supermassive
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Now PlayingI got a nicotine rush and set zombies on fire in this PS1-style survival horror demo, and it's basically Resident Evil on a submarine
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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FeatureHideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far
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OpinionPlaying a horror game is my worst nightmare, but these two gnarly farming sims make me want to brave the genre
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Hands-onThis insomnia simulator has Outlast enemies, Alan Wake dream sequences, and "evil" music by a Nine Inch Nails guitarist, and I already need to watch about 50 lore videos on it
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Best ListThe 10 best Resident Evil games of all time
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NewsChrono Trigger and Xenogears writer "actually hated" video games before discovering Dragon Quest: "That concept really stunned me"
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NewsGiving that Elden Ring co-op modder a run for their money, there's now a Yakuza 5 mod that lets you play with a friend or AI-controlled Ichiban
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News"EOS speedrun": Persona 5's latest spin-off becomes the worst-rated Atlus game on Steam as reviews plummet over gacha that's even more "aggressive" in the global version
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NewsWith Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in the rear view, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says a turn-based Final Fantasy could sell over 10 million copies: "There's clearly the audience"
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NewsAs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sparks love for turn-based RPGs, Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says there's no "clear-cut answer" on if Square Enix will use the format in Final Fantasy 17 or 18
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's upcoming roguelike-style dungeon "will appeal to a more casual playstyle," but is still getting an additional "extra hard boss" so the MMO's more hardcore players don't find it "lacking"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 9 director goes full ape, says the JRPG's iconic Trance mechanic channels a Space Odyssey scene where apes use tools not as a new skill, "but rather a depiction of an ability they had always possessed being awakened"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 devs "struggling to find a balance between referencing past Final Fantasy games and introducing new content," but a new Gundam anime may be just the inspiration Yoshi-P needs
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P admits recent raid was "a misstep in development" that "wasn't meant to be hardcore," says Square is "trying to satisfy both" casual and hardcore MMO players
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"A future has been stolen": ZeniMax union says "lives were upended" by Xbox layoffs and MMO cancelation, but "we have not yet been laid off"
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News"There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers
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NewsAfter 3 years of attempts, the Lord of the Rings MMO's "Great Hobbit Run" is finally successful as a band of tutorial-level hobbits make it to Mount Doom, and celebrate by jumping into lava
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NewsSo many World of Warcraft veterans and top streamers are trying Old School RuneScape that even Jagex has noticed, and the gap in MMO muscle memory is hilarious: "Chat I'm freaking out"
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NewsDune: Awakening will finally reward your personal contributions in Landsraad thanks to a "game changer" update
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newsPhil Spencer reportedly had so much fun playing the Elder Scrolls Online dev's unannounced MMO that Xbox's Matt Booty had to take his controller from him — 4 months later it's canceled
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NewsDune: Awakening hoarders swiftly discover a second item duping glitch, barely a day after the survival MMO's devs fixed the first one: "This game is cooked"
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NewsAfter 18 years, Elder Scrolls Online director and studio head Matt Firor is leaving the company amid Microsoft layoffs: "There are many more stories to be told, adventures to be had"
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News"A new low": The Final Fantasy 14 cash shop just got a $42 outfit set, more expensive than anything that's come before and even pricier than the MMO's latest expansion
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NewsDesperate 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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NewsDeadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
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NewsArcane Season 2 gets one last dance as the League of Legends spin-off animators return to bring Jinx and Ekko back to the series' most iconic song
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League of Legends shadow-drops a Balatro-style roguelike, but the catch is that to complete it you'll have to actually play League of Legends
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NewsRiot walks back controversial League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests, Exalted skins, and Blue Essence costs are all being reworked
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NewsLeague of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
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News4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs
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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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NewsGrisly cult management sim Worshippers of Cthulhu has confirmed an October release date, but devout fans can play a free demo now
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NewsAbduct humans to put them on display in this theme park sim set in the same universe as a 27-year-old banger of a black comedy film
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The best retro remakes and reboots out there aren't afraid to get weird with it – as Shadow Labyrinth being a dark and gritty Pac-Man game shows us
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NewsBethesda "lore master" of 29 years would've made The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion weirder like Morrowind, but The Lord of the Rings was king, and Todd Howard "gravitates not towards the weird stuff"
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News"I know what's coming for Helldivers for the next few years": Arrowhead has a long-term plan for Helldivers 2, but it's still "subject to change"
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