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Peak put friendslop on the map in 2025, but neither of its 2 studios expected it to blow up
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | "We didn't launch with so so much of what we thought was required to make a hit"
"Baldur's Gate 3 and D:OS2 are the blueprint for Divinity": Larian's next RPG is the studio's "natural evolution"
Interview Interview | "It's called Divinity because we're bringing everything together"
Baldur's Gate 3 director isn't "pushing hard" for AI, and "I don't actually think it accelerates things"
News "I'm not 100% sure if you're actually seeing speed-ups that much"
Baldur's Gate 3 devs didn't want to include a core D&D rule in their RPG, but players proved them wrong
News Larian had a swift Reaction
Rematch "was a very strong learning curve" but Sloclap is still working to find the back of the net
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | A game of two halves
Hollow Knight: Silksong gets first expansion, as the original Metroidvania heads to Nintendo Switch 2
News Team Cherry has been busy
D&D unveils new open-world adventure game Warlock, but it's definitely not a turn-based RPG like Baldur's Gate 3
News Do patronize me
Mass Effect veteran's Mass Effect-style sci-fi RPG sure looks a lot like Mass Effect in its new trailer
News Exodus is looking better - and more BioWare - than ever
The best gifts for Xbox Game Pass lovers
Gifts What do you get the Xbox fan who has everything?
The best Xbox gaming gifts for travel this holiday season
Gifts From convenient accessories to portable consoles, look no further for some inspiration
Best Buy's Cyber Monday deals will end in a matter of hours, these are the biggest offers live right now
Deals Best Buy's Cyber Monday deals will end soon, so I've handpicked 7 of the best offers still live right now.
007: First Light's developers "don't really think about" the hype around the 13-year wait since the last James Bond game
News IO Interactive is "head down" as it prepares for First Light
GTA 6, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Peak, and Ghost of Yotei all win big after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's mammoth Golden Joystick Awards haul
News Four games claimed runners-up status
RPGs reign supreme as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ties Baldur's Gate 3's record-breaking Golden Joystick Awards haul
News 7 awards beats the record set by The Last of Us Part 2
"We know that the players are the ones actually enjoying the game": Moonlighter 2 owes its existence to its devs' astonishingly in-depth approach to player feedback
On the Radar Testing, testing, testing
After 2 roguelikes, an acclaimed strategy game, and a League of Legends spin-off all in just 7 years, the Moonlighter 2 devs explain how new ideas are key to their survival
On the Radar Digital Sun is on an incredible run
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review: "Dungeon delving, balancing sacks of loot, then hawking your wares is still a compelling loop – but the exchange rate between those pillars is wobbly in early access"
Not yet ratedReview
The Witcher author says "there is no cooperation at all between me and the games," and he won't play The Witcher 4 because "it's not an entertainment for me"
News "I never played the games, so I know practically nothing about it"
Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open
News Maggie Robertson, Lady Dimetrescu herself, will host this year's ceremony
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are leading a turn-based renaissance, and it's leaving games like Pokemon Legends: Z-A far behind
Opinion It's a good time to be a strategy sicko
Critical Role 4 DM Brennan Lee Mulligan confirms the D&D campaign's big bad, and I've got a feeling no amount of natural 20s is gonna beat this one
News I know DMs that use subtexts, and they're all cowards
Critical role 4 newcomer says she's in "a race to the bottom" with one of her co-stars: "I made the mistake of thinking I could out-troll him"
News Tyranny and Wicander are causing problems on purpose
Pokemon Legends Z-A tests my 25 years of Pokemon experience in all the wrong ways, and I'm begging Game Freak to ease up on the tutorials
Opinion "I know more than you"
