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Where to find Monster Hunter Rise King Rhino, Rock Roses, and Bismuth Prisms
Guide How to complete the Monster Hunter Rise Economic Stimulation request
Project Helix "might be Microsoft's last attempt to make their hardware business work," analyst suggests
News "Microsoft has been walking on thin ice for a long time now"
15 years after Dark Souls, Nioh 3 faced the exact same problem and "people felt that the game was a little bit easier"
News Is Nioh 3 too easy? That depends on you, for starters
"Nioh 3 is a great game but it's not perfect," devs say in refreshing show just weeks after the acclaimed RPG's release
News "We do hope that, if there's future titles, we can improve upon this"
Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop" in its Discord amid AI criticism, causing the internet to Microslop even harder
News You know what? I'm gonna Microslop twice as hard
Path of Exile dev sighs, informs the saddest action RPG player that "the last 6 weeks" of their life were wasted
News Whoever you are, good luck on your Oni-Goroshi
Marathon is the third-best-selling game on Steam after its big server slam, trailing Resident Evil Requiem
News Things are looking strong for Bungie's extraction shooter
A total lunar eclipse will cause a real blood moon tonight, exactly 9 years after Zelda: Breath of the Wild's blood moon
News You've got to admire the foresight of the Nintendo marketing department
And so, another excellent roguelike claims a chunk of my life: no wonder this is one of the biggest in Steam Next Fest
News Everything is Crab, including me
RPG dev of "Planescape Torment + Disco Elysium" spent 8 years struggling to pay rent and writing over 1 million words
News Esoteric Ebb is, against all odds, about to launch on Steam
Marathon's UI is a headache that I fear will send me right back to Arc Raiders – tedious even for Bungie's standards
Feature Opinion | Hello, can I interest you in some rectangles of unclear value?
Pokemon Winds and Waves trailer gives us our first glimpse at the new starter Pokemon
News Pombon, Browt, and Gecqua revealed
This might be the fastest I've gotten sucked into a roguelike all year: build the perfect war castle in this Steam demo
News Wanderburg is like medieval Vampire Survivors on wheels
A dev made their own Factorio about feeding a monster instead of growing a factory, and its Steam demo is very clever
News Snacktorio is a little less sandbox and a little more sautee
I finally got to try the cyberpunk Metroidvania I've been following for years, and its Steam Next Fest demo is fantastic
News Altered Alma only takes a few minutes to turn into something very cool
One of the best pixel art RPGs ever made is getting a spiritual sequel, and I’ve been hooked on its Steam Next Fest demo
News Alabaster Dawn was always going to be good, but even then, hoo boy it's good
Arc Raiders gets short film from pro "game trailer director" who got Game of Thrones and Hades actors to do voices
News Arc Raiders lore has never been so dramatic
Arc Raiders devs "understand your frustrations" with Wolfpack nerf and new crafting recipes, but are changing nothing
News The vibe is: deal with it
"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"
News Their departure has sparked another conversation about how the modding scene looks after its own
Arc Raiders just pulled a Helldivers 2: players spot enormous, unannounced UFOs after Shrouded Sky update goes live
News Oh no
Xbox is not "dead" after CEO change, says original co-founder, but "seeing it struggle and being unable to act is hard"
News "The distress it's in kills me"
Arc Raiders apparently had a legendary weapon "intended" for PvP all along, but it was so bad nobody noticed
News The Aphelion has been buffed, for PvP of all things
Diablo creators' new action RPG feels like sampling bread by eating raw flour in rough Steam Next Fest demo
News There is something in Darkhaven, but I can't quite reach it
