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Dune: Awakening dev Funcom released a very successful MMO, so of course it is laying off staff: "This difficult process is starting now, and we cannot yet determine the exact impact"
News Funcom says Dune: Awakening was "the biggest release" it's ever had
Resident Evil and Street Fighter veteran faces backlash after saying "please don't buy" Palworld, claiming Pocketpair "crossed a line that should not be crossed," and admitting he has not played Palworld
News Yoshiki Okamoto does not "want the world to become a place where this kind of thing is acceptable"
Want a ChatGPT response that takes 2 hours? CraftGPT is an AI made entirely in Minecraft by a legendary player who vanished for 3 years and then turned the most advanced redstone build I've ever seen into a 3-minute video
News Minecraft legend Sammyuri, who once built Minecraft in Minecraft, has done it again
EA tells employees worried about layoffs after $55 billion buyout that there will be "no immediate changes" to your jobs, and I think "immediate" is the key word here
News That doesn't sound like a no to me
Ghost of Yotei day one patch notes clock in at 883 words, Sucker Punch hopefully dodges the God of War: Ragnarok problem by limiting "puzzle clues in some difficulty levels"
News The Ghost of Yotei day one patch looks beefy
Gearbox pushes Borderlands 4 patch full of Vault Hunter buffs to Thursday to "tweak a few more things" and fit in "proper QA testing," Amon mains assemble a wishlist
News The big Borderlands 4 buff fest is still on for this week
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List Settle down for one more round of the best roguelikes 2025 has to offer
Team Cherry publishing boss advises concerned Silksong players to report scam ad spoiling the final boss and promising a magical world where you can download games without internet
News Turns out Silksong is not the next mobile hit
Solo dev spends 6 weeks making a short free game, accidentally wins the Steam algorithm and makes $4,200 in 5 days, then rushes to prepare a big update: "Seems the people liked my honesty and that I don't have any hidden costs"
News Idle Pixel Fantasy has done way better than its creator ever expected
"For the first time ever," Valve reminds us, the Steam Autumn Sale is live 2 months early – like, right now
News The Steam Autumn Sale is now live and runs through October 6
After 15 years with Bethesda's most important RPG, Skyrim Grandma retires for real: "I'm not having any fun with it anymore," and comments from "all the little kids" in her 1.3 million YouTube subs aren't helping
News Shirley Curry hangs up her helmet after 15 years in Bethesda's iconic RPG
Capcom warns it "will no longer guarantee" Monster Hunter Wilds, Rise, and World "will run" on PCs using Windows 10 as of mid-October, also advises Wilds players to check your dang drivers
News Windows 10 support from Microsoft ends the same day
A merciful distance from Silksong, gorgeous dystopian Metroidvania with Smash Bros combat, a veteran team, and a director who hates the word Metroidvania gets November release date
News Possessor(s) from Hyper Light Drifter dev Heart Machine is coming soon
Now that Silksong is out, we can obsess over this Hollow Knight-flavored Metroidvania that had a huge Kickstarter 4 years ago, and the devs are ramping up the teasers
News Crowsworn still looks very good, and pretty Hollow Knight-y
Silksong player reviews are several points and a whole Steam tier below Hollow Knight, and I don't know if it's the brutal difficulty or if the first game is just that good
News Obviously, Silksong is still reviewing and selling very well
"This Nintendo patent was apparently granted without a patent examiner looking at a single game": IP expert says concerns "hundreds of games" could be affected by Pokemon summoning patent granted amid Palworld lawsuit are "valid"
News The patent is, in fact, bad news, expert argues
After an open-world RPG, a turn-based JRPG, and multiple action RPGs, Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail dev announces new life sim Petit Planet, which looks like Animal Crossing except your town is a whole galaxy
News Petit Planet closed beta signups are now open
Gearbox has "too many Vault Hunter buffs" planned for Borderlands 4, creative director says, so a separate update is "targeting" next week
News It simply wouldn't be safe to release that many buffs, apparently
Borderlands 4 update adds FOV slider for PS5 and Xbox Series X, Gearbox immediately warns using it could cause "some dips in performance"
News All players including the PC crowd also got a suite of performance, UI, and gun fixes
Ghost of Yotei is reviewing 4 points higher than Ghost of Tsushima, but 2025 has been so amazing for games that it's barely top 20 for the year
News Ghost of Yotei looks like another open-world triumph for Sucker Punch
Returnal is still one of my favorite PS5 games, and its successor Saros looks even better thanks to the "permanent progression" my brain craves
News Saros looks like another Housemarque special
Nioh 3 devs confirm the release date Amazon leaked, adding another must-play action RPG to my 2026 to-do list
News Nioh 3 is coming in February
Marvel's Wolverine reappears with a 2026 release date on PS5, and gameplay that we're actually supposed to see
News Insomniac's Wolverine game is coming next fall
