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After 92 hours with Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, I can safely confirm 2025 is indeed the year of the cozy game and the beloved farming sim series that inspired Stardew Valley is so back
Now Playing Now Playing | Time-traveling to my Harvest Moon era
Roblox is reportedly bigger than the entirety of Steam with a whopping 47.4 million concurrent users, almost exclusively thanks to two games: Steal a Brainrot and Grow a Garden
News Valve's own concurrent user record sits at 41.2 million
New No Man's Sky update is so big "the game has had to be reworked" for its features, including "huge" interactive spaceships that are basically buildings with wings
News Voyagers is Hello Games' latest feat
ConcernedApe is bringing Stardew Valley's most infamous minigame to Haunted Chocolatier, and fans are already lining up to ask if fishing will be "as ridiculously hard"
News Fishing is so back, baby
Final Fantasy 14 director says "there's no real need" for new consoles right now, because "people are happy with the Xbox Series X, the PS5, or the Switch 2" already
News "Hardware is just expensive to buy," too
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says "it could be" that new content for the MMO "goes down," as Square Enix hopes "many more players" would then be able to enjoy the content it does implement
News Quality over quantity, right?
World of Warcraft ends 21-year drought and adds housing with MMO's new Midnight expansion – but Blizzard has a good reason it took so long: "We couldn't just check off a box and do the minimum"
News "We get one shot at this to impress people"
Infinity Nikki devs call their crossover with Stardew Valley "a free love letter" to the farming sim following ConcernedApe's statement that he does such collabs as "a fan," not for money
News It's their "way of saying thanks"
Final Fantasy 14's premier mod for fashionistas and roleplayers "winding down" following a "legal enquiry," and the MMO's community is in shambles: "So many night club owners just dropped to their knees"
News "So many nightclub owners just dropped to their knees"
The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"
News This is no Skyrim
Bloodlines 2 devs rush to reattach foot blown off by day-one DLC paywalling 2 factions in an RPG about factions: "As you know, the date has pushed back, but that has been to fatten it out"
News The Chinese Room has "made a huge amount of changes" over time
Ex-CDPR dev behind The Witcher 3 says new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about how players "shape their own way of play," just as "pen and paper refugees" did in tabletop games like D&D
News "I believe that RPG games should be about choice"
Infinity Nikki's "cozy" collab with Stardew Valley is so out of the blue that most of the open-world dress-up game's players didn't think it was real: "I seriously thought this was a troll post"
News The crossover with ConcernedApe's farming sim starts September 1
Following a drop in players, Sims 4 competitor inZOI snags "Very Positive" Steam reviews for its free Stardew Valley-esque expansion featuring island farming and more: "A step in the right direction!"
News Island Getaway launched as the life sim's first DLC yesterday
Genius Legend of Zelda fan recreates the King of Red Lions from Wind Waker in real life using an "extremely old and slightly suspicious" boat that actually sails
News She only had two months to pull it off
Final Fantasy 14 director hints the MMO and Final Fantasy 16 may come to Switch 2, as Square Enix had "positive" talks with Nintendo: "We are putting in our best efforts to ensure that this happens"
News It's his "aim" to bring both games to "as many players as possible"
Stop us if you've heard this before, but a new Sims 4 update bringing long-awaited features has broken the game once more: "Bravo EA"
News RIP, all of our custom content and mods
Final Fantasy 14 fans can't get enough of the MMO's wonderfully simple instructions on how to access the Monster Hunter Wilds crossover's content: "Create a character, play roughly 600 hours"
News "The length of time between these two steps is hilarious to me"
After 21 years and various delays, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 finally gets a solid release date during Gamescom Opening Night Live
News The first Bloodlines RPG launched in 2004
I guess we're riding Chocobos now: Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 14 reveal huge crossover with some of the action RPG and MMO's best boss battles and characters changing games
News Coming this fall
An official GTA 6 police car that "was 3D scanned directly" by Rockstar Games has been put up for auction, with a current bid of just $3,250
News We got a real GTA 6 car before GTA 6
Hollow Knight Silksong hopefuls spiral as Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley asks "first time?" while dressed as a clown: "DAMN YOU, GEOFFFFF"
News Here we go again
New Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game
News Meet Mina, a "glass canon" vampire
