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Ex-Bethesda lead reveals origins of Fallout's text and iconic "F*** You": "I was honestly expecting them to tell me to delete it"
News F*** you!
As Larian disgusts and excites with Divinity, RPG veteran says "it is wild what people will get upset about in games"
News The Divinity reveal is far more graphic than Baldur's Gate 3's gruesome trailers
Take a bow, Arc Raiders players: your degeneracy surprised even Embark, which didn't expect all the wallhacking – "We have to continuously find ways to waterproof the experience"
News "There are quite a few things that have taken us by surprise"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets free update to ring in record-breaking The Game Awards GOTY win: "New weapons, new quest, new boss"
News There's yer new content
MMO adds Christmas event, accidentally fills city fountain with pee: "A fix is planned"
News And a happy holiday to you, too
"We apologize": Monster Hunter Wilds to get "Steam-specific stability patch" in January, nearly a year after launch, as Capcom ends major updates
News "We apologize for the time it has taken to address these issues, but we ask that you wait just a little longer"
Publisher says Valve rejected complaint about hateful Steam review: "'Has Muslims, not recommended' is literal racism"
News "I just don't know what to do about this"
For the creators of Baby Steps, one of 2025's best and weirdest games, there's no room or reason to surrender creativity to AI: "The player is in communion with a human designer"
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | "It feels like a very pivotal time right now in terms of what games are gonna look like going forward"
Larian says no Divinity: Original Sin 3 plans as new trademarks suggest Divinity reveal at The Game Awards
News How very specific of you Larian
"I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games
Feature "If we create what only we can create, the world will gladly accept it"
"Why does Valve allow this?": Indie publisher laments losing Overwhelmingly Positive Steam review score to off-topic rant, replies "please never, ever play any of our games"
News "Please go refund the game, and then crawl back into the hole you came from"
After Horses ban, Steam loses gooner monolith BrownDust2 to "the platform's policy requirements": "We encountered an issue that cannot be reasonably resolved"
News Racy gacha RPG BrownDust2 drops Steam
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List Try, die, and try again in the best roguelikes to play right now, from Hades 2 to Blue Prince
"This still does not compare to the kind of audience we would have on Steam": Horses lead says ban virality helped sales "but we're not out of the woods," and he fears "self-censorship" with future games
News Horses has become a top seller on GOG
Romancing Saga, a Square Enix JRPG released in 1992, remade in 2005, and remastered in 2022, gets yet another re-release: "I had always wanted to make a grand fantasy RPG in the style of The Lord of the Rings"
News You can't keep a good JRPG down
FromSoftware, you appear to have broken Elden Ring Nightreign: the new DLC class Undertaker is an ult-spamming, boss-melting monster
News Forsaken Hollows drops a nuclear bomb on Nightlords
Arc Raiders players exploited the Hidden Bunker so hard that Embark has turned it off entirely
News This is why we can't have nice things
Open-world RPG Wuthering Waves pulls a Breath of the Wild, adds a motorbike in 3.0 expansion
News Lynae and Mornye show off new areas in Lahai-Roi
Stolen Marathon art issue "resolved" with Bungie and Sony "to my satisfaction," original artist says
News Marathon's plagiarism first surfaced in May
AI has an "unbelievable ability to create a lot of slop," says ex-Nexon boss who signed Arc Raiders, predicting the industry will "triple" in size in 7 years due to players "rejecting slop and bad product"
News Owen Mahoney sees a creative edge to AI in games
Banned by Steam, $100,000 in the hole, and facing shutdown, graphic horror game dev now dropped by Epic Games Store "roughly 24 hours before launch"
News This game can't catch a break
REPO is adding cosmetics, and they can only be unlocked by playing the dang game: "If you happen to love microtransactions, I'm going to disappoint you deeply"
News "There will be no microtransactions"
With Baldur's Gate 3 still in Steam's top 20 after 2 years, Larian ends 2025 with love for the best mods keeping the RPG thriving: "Give yourselves a pat on the back, have a shot of whiskey"
News 350 million mod downloads, 10,000 mods uploaded
