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"What else are we going to do, another f***ing platformer?": Mewgenics took 15 years to dominate Steam, but its secret sauce was cooked up in just 2 weeks
Interview Interview | Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's roguelike hit was a long time coming
"Only the nerdiest of the nerds" would play roguelikes before Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac, says Mewgenics dev
News "It was so cool that you could have an endlessly replayable game like that"
Mewgenics review: "The Binding of Isaac collides with Into the Breach in a smart strategy roguelike"
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Cairn review: "This climber has a grip on me – even when it loses its footing with awkward systems"
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More than Mass Effect's spiritual successor, Exodus wants to pull decades of player choice into a single story
Exclusive Big in 2026 | RPG royalty are preparing a new type of sci-fi epic
25 Best free PC games to play in 2026
Best list From 2XKO to Fortnite, the best free PC games of 2026 offer huge experiences in exchange for absolutely nothing
PUBG's first spin-off is a top-down shooter shaped by Valorant, Counter-Strike, and a hardcore military MMO
Exclusive Big in 2026 | This chicken dinner looks a little different...
Bloodborne "is a special game for me" says Hidetaka Miyazaki: It's "the strongest reflection of my type of flavoring"
News "I've imparted a lot of my own ideas into this game"
"Silksong charged $5 more, 9 years later, and people lost their minds": Indie dev says pricing is actually really easy
News Price "is just a single number you can change in 30 seconds"
The D&D campaign that helped shape Skyrim has been unearthed, as The Elder Scrolls legend's lost RPG notes are archived
News Julian LeFay's original notes were discovered after his death
Larian's Divinity AMA Live Coverage - All the news as it happens
Live The Baldur's Gate 3 devs have plenty to reveal about their follow-up
Baldur's Gate 3 director u-turns on the use of AI art in Divinity, will no longer use tech for concept art development
News It's a major change of tune
Fallout creators wanted to buy the IP, but Bethesda sniped them with a $6 million bid: "They would have laughed"
News "We never even got a chance to make an offer"
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin's vision for Elden Ring changed so much that Miyazaki thinks he'd be surprised
News Elden Ring remains "in a league of its own"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev blames Final Fantasy 10 for letting you nuke its final boss
News "We think it's OK – more or less what we wanted"
Fallout 3's VATS system almost didn't make it into the RPG, and Bethesda worried no one would even want to use it
News "We only just got that working by the time it shipped"
Elden Ring Nightreign was a bold yet flawed Soulslike experiment, but I think it could shape the industry's future
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Nightreign is paving the way for more like it in the years to come
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
