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RuneScape creator's new cozy MMO shouts "No microtransactions!" from the rooftops as it charts November launch after a closed beta coming this month
news Adam Gower's new MMORPG Brighter Shores is just weeks away
One of my favorite series is super cheap on Steam right now: $31 gets you 2 Metroidvanias, 2 XCOM-like strategy games, a city builder, and a clever deckbuilding RPG
news SteamWorld games simply do not miss
24 years ago, Blizzard reportedly shot down a pitch to make its own version of Steam by turning Battle.net into "a digital store for a variety of PC games"
news Meanwhile, Blizzard started bringing its games to Steam last year
Paradox boss says Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is doing well, it's "a bit more of an action RPG" and "people who have seen it talk about Dishonored"
news The long-delayed sequel has changed devs and seemingly found its footing
Helldivers 2 Major Order threatens players with a delay: you took Claorell and the bots didn't like that, so defend it for 3 days or your space station gets pushed back
news The Democracy Space Station "will be delayed" if this Major Order fails
Destiny 2 player locks himself in one of the MMO's hardest raids for over 400 hours until he finally solos it without dying: "I need to call my mom right now"
news TheSnazzzyRock has done it again
Elden Ring fan spends 500 hours making a low-poly version of FromSoftware's biggest map ever because "I thought it would be cool" – and it definitely is
news Honzaap packs The Lands Between into a low-poly wonder
Two new playable Genshin Impact characters announced for update 5.2: Chasca and Ororon
news Genshin Impact 5.2 adds the first Anemo and Electro users of Natlan
Now rushing to finish before Capcom releases Monster Hunter Wilds, one hunter has spent 5 years and over 2,000 hours decoding the series' "Monster Hunter language"
feature Capcom's language is "impossible" to reverse-engineer, but a lexicon was doable
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold – BioWare's long-awaited return to fantasy RPGs is ready for launch this month
news The next Dragon Age is ready for launch
Helldivers 2 devs move to prevent another "Accountgate" as Steam asks players to accept PlayStation EULA following new law on digital games: "No practical change"
news "There's no practical change at all" and it's just one blue button
Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station just passed a big Major Order, but we need to steal – I mean "liberate" a mining base from the Automatons next
news They weren't using it anyway
Terraria creator returns to Old School RuneScape, and within weeks catches the MMO dev's attention, fishes at a concert, and plots a unicorn ritual
news "If 'Add Terra Blade' or something shows up on one of your polls someday I’m good with it"
The one Destiny 2 weapon that I've wanted for more than 2 years is finally real and coming in Episode 2: Revenant next week
news All I want for Christmas is a kinetic Stasis glaive
Monster Hunter Wilds won't add a 15th main weapon but the devs talk about one all the time – one problem is the 14 weapons we have are a hard act to follow
news The Monster Hunter team hasn't written off a new weapon type
The new co-op roguelike from the Dead Cells team launches this month, and there's an unmissable demo coming soon too
news Windblown hits early access on Steam in just a few weeks
Oh no, the Dead Cells dev's new co-op action roguelike Windblown is so good that I'm already struggling to put it down
feature Preview | I was kind of hoping it would take longer for this to happen
"Any Bethesda developer who has been around since the horse armor days knows that by this point, if we understand one thing, it’s DLC," studio design director says of Starfield Shattered Space
news "Our fans don’t want to play our games – they want to live in the worlds we create"
Bungie says Destiny 2's new "medium-sized expansions" are about as big as Rise of Iron from the original Destiny, and the first is a Metroidvania inside the MMO
news "But this is happening twice a year"
Skyrim mirror mode mod flips the entire game, dealing psychic damage to the RPG's biggest fans: "Weirding out most anyone that plays has just been an unforeseen bonus"
news Skyrim's Mirror Mode mod makes it a whole new RPG
MMO dev says it's the "perfect time to grab a shower" after tearing servers down over economy-destroying potion dupe found in Old School RuneScape
news Jagex takes OSRS trade offline, then knocks the servers down and rolls them back
Helldivers 2 devs promise to let players literally fight with democracy through a "cutting-edge voting system" tied to their in-progress "gigastructure" space station
news Just tell the Democracy Space Station where to go
Starfield and Bethesda lead says "Morrowind and its themes and overall vibe were a big inspiration" for the Shattered Space DLC's main planet and city
news "I think it’s really unique fictionally and aesthetically," Emil Pagliarulo says of Dazra city
