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"Share this to scare Team Cherry": Dev of gorgeous roguelike with bosses "built like MMO raid encounters" declares war on contact damage, quickly adds "Silksong is great, and so is Team Cherry"
News Getting hit without getting hit can be a bummer sometimes
Baldur's Gate 2 writer was unconvinced anyone would care about romance in an RPG: "People don't come here to romance, they come here to fight s**t and battle dragons"
News Hear me out: date the dragons
Battlefield 6 is EA's biggest Steam launch ever, passing 700,000 concurrent players in under an hour and finally dethroning Apex Legends as the king
News Battlefield 6 is having a huge launch day on PC especially
Battlefield 6 queue system will keep players in line and servers stable at launch and "peak moments," devs hope: "We anticipate many of you to login at the same time"
News Battlefield 6 will use a queue system, assuming you can even get to the queue
Genshin Impact takes a shot at Roblox with its own game creator: Miliastra Wonderland is a new permanent UGC mode with PvP and the first fully customizable character
News Miliastra Wonderland is coming in Genshin Impact update 6.1 after years of development
Battlefield 6 Metacritic score is the best the FPS series has had in years, but still can't match the likes of Battlefield 3
News Battlefield 6 praised as a return to form for DICE, Criterion, Motive, and Ripple Effect
PS6 release date speculation soars as PS5 architect Mark Cerny teases "future console" and says "current approach" to lighting and graphics has "reached its limit"
News Sony and AMD reveal Project Amethyst tech aimed at next-gen GPU and memory
One of the best and most popular anime on Crunchyroll for fall 2025 is not from Japan, and I like it way more than I thought I would
News Who Made Me a Princess has some of the best animation we've seen all year
"The beaches will dry before the Helldivers do": Helldivers 2 players made Seyshel Beach the new Malevelon Creek, complete with propaganda and a stunned response from Arrowhead
News "Sir, I'm finishing this fight"
Genshin Impact is giving out free 5-star Constellations for the first time in 5 years, but FOMO beckons: after today, you'll miss out on one
News The road to free 5-star Constellations in Genshin Impact is long and unforgiving
I picture Rockstar and Nintendo lawyers locking eyes as one bold dev creates slick Zelda meets GTA action game Vice: Magic City Mayhem – "You ain't gettin nowhere without yo s***. Take this"
News A retro GTA Zelda-like was not on my bingo card, but I like the look of it
As games face censorship on Steam and beyond, Japanese site says fine, we'll make our own dang payment method, and actually pulls it off
News DLsite finds an alternative amid Visa and Mastercard moral crackdown
DICE confirms final Battlefield 6 PC system requirements that "a substantial number" of beta players did not meet, and gets bonus points for actually breaking it down by FPS, resolution, and settings
News Finally, a full suite of graphics settings and performance benchmarks
Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass price hike for existing subscribers in "certain countries," but only "for now" and not for the US or UK
News Xbox Game Pass prices are still going up, just not for everyone yet
Skyrim player 3D scans himself into the game, executes himself immediately, and invades Dark Souls for good measure: “Wanted to get a video of me decapitating myself”
News "I knew just the NPC for the job"
[Update: We're so back] Steam is down, with store errors and strong lag hitting the web and client version: "An error occurred while processing your request"
News Steam went down following Tuesday maintenance
Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"
News Cloakless Crest Hornet challenge runs when?
When does difficulty become un-fun? Dev says their game has moments of "intentional bulls***" but the trick to difficulty is making the player feel it's their fault they failed
Feature Interview | Baby Steps gives you full control over your own failures
"Steam rejected the build" at the finish line, the "last 3 months were intense crunch," and the story was finished 3 days before launch: How one dev scraped together a horror hit that "accidentally" sold 150,000 copies
News The story of Emissary Zero is fraught with surprises
My first must-watch anime for fall 2025 is also the highest-rated new season on Crunchyroll so far: one girl pummeling dudes into mush, and with better animation than I ever expected
News May I Ask for One Final Thing is an unmissable physical and ethical beatdown
Survive "a near-death studio experience," rally to make a hit game, and get laid off anyway: 10-year studio The Outsiders shut down by Dune: Awakening house Funcom
News Metal: Hellsinger dev The Outsiders shut down
"The very first video game champion" and co-founder of Interplay, pivotal in the history of Baldur's Gate and Fallout, opens GoFundMe for "aggressive" cancer – already raising over $50,000
News Rebecca Heineman crowdfunds essential healthcare not fully covered by insurance
Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"
News Thread Storm is the DPS king by a country mile
