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NewsI thought Kojima filmed Death Stranding 2's opening sequence in my Arizona backyard, and now that people are confusing pictures of a real-life desert for screenshots, I know I haven't lost my marbles
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NewsReducing the "burden" of open-world games, Ghost of Yotei replaces Ghost of Tsushima’s journal menu with a "wolf pack" of important characters that meet you under the stars: "The game comes to you"
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NewsSucker Punch says "the best way to play" Ghost of Yotei is to "find something interesting on the horizon and enjoy the ride," and thankfully since Breath of the Wild that's the only way I play open-world games
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NewsGhost of Yotei "isn't going to rush you through anything" and "focuses on player freedom more than any game Sucker Punch has ever made," with clues and activities for all play styles
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NewsSubnautica 2 publisher says the studio's previous game was a "failure" – a strategy game that's nothing like Subnautica and peaked at under 1,000 Steam players
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NewsFormer Square Enix exec says the developer "has spent two decades slowly moving away from being a content business" after accidentally predicting the rise of AI: "But the sun set on their opportunity to transition"
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NewsSubnautica 2 owner Krafton says "former leadership abandoned the responsibilities entrusted to them" in response to concerns over sudden changes and official delay: "We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure"
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NewsGTA 6 rumor suggests GTA Online server player capacity could double, even triple, and it's making me want to lock my doors and stockpile guns like I'm in a doomsday bunker
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NewsThe Last of Us Online lead and Uncharted veteran is opening a new studio in Japan after 10 years at PlayStation's Naughty Dog
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NewsDeath Stranding 2's Dollman has divided fans in a way that only an animatronic puppet with strings pulled by Hideo Kojima could: "Please just keep your observations to yourself"
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NewsDragon Age and Ghost of Yotei star is probably more excited for today's State of Play than you are – the actor's logged 80 hours to 100% Ghost of Tsushima
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NewsAn Arkane Studios AAA game entered production at the end of 2024, meaning Marvel's Blade might not be as far along as we all hoped
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NewsIndiana Jones and the Great Circle being a first-person only game "was a given" from the start because "if you're going to be Indiana Jones, you need to look through his eyes"
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News"SILKSONG IS IMMORTAL AND SO ARE WE": Desperate for answers, Hollow Knight Silksong fans are ritualistically banning mods in savage sacrifice to their fickle god Team Cherry
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NewsDeath Stranding 2 porter commits to an "agonizing" journey, slowly shuffling over a snowy mountain and ignoring all helpful tools on offer, purely for the love of the game: "I prefer this vibe"
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Now PlayingI wanted to make a beeline for Tears of the Kingdom's ending, but Zelda's Switch 2 upgrade has forced me to slow down
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NewsGearbox releases an intensely gory Borderlands 4 character trailer, cementing that I will be playing as the Siren for the fourth time
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NewsThe dev who turned Bloodborne into a Zelda game has now made his very own Soulslike Western with a map that's several times larger than A Link to the Past
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NewsBloodborne looks almost unrecognizable in these "never-before-seen design planning maps and alpha layouts," showing FromSoftware's evolution of an iconic hidden shortcut
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GuideBorderlands 4: Everything we know so far
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NewsSpongeBob SquarePants' Sandy is a barbarian in the tabletop-inspired Diablo-like Nickelodeon action RPG Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny
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NewsBorderlands 4 will have a "very ambitious" endgame, but not everyone is happy about having less skill points as creative director argues "you lose build diversity" with too many
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NewsAs Borderlands 4 fans create a skill tree planner months before launch, creative director issues a reminder that "the game isn't done yet" and their builds are "subject to change"
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NewsWith Monster Hunter Wilds "Overwhelmingly Negative" in recent Steam reviews due to optimization, Capcom cancels panel on "everything you need to know about optimization" following statement on dev harassment
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News"It is a turning point in our universe": Gearbox explains Borderlands 4's deliberately less-stupid story, and it feels weird to actually be interested in a Borderlands plot
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NewsPokemon voice actor behind OG rival Gary, Professor Oak, Meowth, and James dies at 71
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OpinionDeath Stranding 2's final fight is Hideo Kojima's way of saying goodbye to Metal Gear Solid
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Best ListThe 25 best video game stories to play right now
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NewsHytale studio founder isn't giving up yet on reviving the canceled game, but says "suggestions to use another game or engine" to bring it back are "out of touch"
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NewsA former Hytale dev is bringing other veterans let go from Hypixel Studios onboard to make a fantasy-themed Hytale mode for their eldritch horror survival sandbox game
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (July 2025)
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GuideBioShock 4: Everything we know so far
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GuidePokemon Legends Z-A: Everything we know so far about the upcoming Nintendo game
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Best ListThe best Zelda games of all time
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 3
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GuideWhen does Fortnite Season 4 start in Chapter 6?
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NewsFortnite player allegedly cheated to win $6k in a competitive tournament - now he owes Epic $175k and is banned from the game "forever"
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NewsThe FTC is giving $126 million-worth of Fortnite refunds to players, and there's still time to submit a claim for one
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GuideWhen is the next Fortnite live event, Blast Off?
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GuideHow to enable cross-platform Fortnite matches on all formats
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GuideHow to play Fortnite advice for absolute beginners
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What are the biggest changes for Fortnite Season 3 in Chapter 6?
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DealsI'm fed up of hyper-expensive board games, luckily 15 of my must-haves are under $25 this Prime Day
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DealsHave you seen these massive board game deals for Prime Day? You can save up to 65% on 12 of my favorites
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DealsThese legendary family board games are now up to 50% off at Amazon, and I think they should be in every collection
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Deals10 must-have board game deals for July 2025, hand-picked by experts
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FeatureGoing on vacation? Here are the best travel board games to take with you
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OpinionThe Traitors is out, but this pirate game combines all my favorite board games into one deceptive pocket-sized package
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FeatureLegendary board game designer says his upcoming Lord of the Rings project is "definitely the most thematically and mechanically rich game I’ve worked on"
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NewsMajor board game publisher snaps up the Zombicide franchise, saving it from an uncertain future
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NewsManor Lords' new update is "overhauling a lot of systems at once," and it should be worth the 6-month wait as "we'll be able to shift to smaller, more frequent updates going forward"
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NewsMy favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
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NewsFantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
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Now PlayingIn this rat-filled city builder, one wrong move can change everything - and in my case it was forgetting to add a toilet
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news"I remember uploading the build, crossing my fingers that things wouldn't immediately fall apart": A year later, city builder mega-hit Manor Lords has a bigger dev team teasing big updates
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NewsAfter 7 years and a sequel, the original Frostpunk is getting a remake titled Frostpunk 1886 – a reimagining of the city builder that's "no mere visual overhaul"
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NewsCity Tales - Medieval Era is the next city builder destined for my Steam wishlist, and it's coming to Early Access in May
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NewsDisney's Robin Hood collides with Manor Lords in this charming city-builder where everyone is a fox
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newsCity-builder dev implores Valve to give devs real social media tools on Steam, because they're "terrified of the future market" and need a "solution for indie sustainability"
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News"Guys we can't add cannibalism to Peak": Co-developer of viral indie survival game lays down the law, despite fans' protests of "what if just one little nibble"
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News"REPO has changed forever": Semiwork finally releases its first major update and celebrates with the co-op horror game's best discount yet
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NewsPeak devs really did not expect to sell 2 million copies in 9 days, say they're now "looking into possible updates" for their hit that started as a "stupid jam game"
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NewsLittle Nightmares 3 release date set for October, it's also coming to Switch 2 alongside an enhanced version of the original, and oh, here's 10 minutes of new gameplay footage
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news"I'm gonna crash out": Even the creators of co-op climbing game Peak are stunned by 1 million copies sold in 6 days – "Why did this stupid jam game sell more than Another Crab's Treasure"
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NewsREPO's "weird" new museum map will have "tons" of verticality and laser alarms you'll have to "Mission: Impossible" your way past
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NewsREPO devs apologize for teasing cosmetics we'll never get, confirm other cosmetics are actually coming and "old levels will get updated" eventually
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NewsLynked: Banner of the Spark is a robo-arm swinging 'rogue-life RPG', where you fight robots for the parts you need to build the town of your dreams
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NewsDavid Cronenberg says he's "never been a great games player" — the only "game" in movies like eXistenZ and Videodrome "is to try to understand what life is now"
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FeatureEvery new indie game that shadowdropped during Wholesome Direct 2025: From a Sims-like decorating game to a chaotic cooking roguelike
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FeatureDay of the Devs Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 brought us 7 new reveals - here's what they were
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FeatureWildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025
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RecapEverything announced at the PlayStation State of Play June 2025
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News"Gameplay is Japanese developers' strongest suit": Indie developer behind incredible anime FPS series reckons Japanese devs keep flubbing shooters by chasing Call of Duty too hard
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NewsBioShock creator says "audiences reward" single-player games that don't have "other methods of monetization," like Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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News"Star Wars: Battlefront 2 jumped from 135th on the monthly best-selling titles chart in April to 12th in May," analyst says, illustrating the community's efforts: "It ranked 5th across the PC aggregated storefront tracking"
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GuideHow Destiny 2 Gear Tiers work in Edge of Fate
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NewsWith Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox, hopium for a Halo crossover is at an all-time high even if some divers are really against the idea
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NewsPerfect Dark Joanna Dark actor calls for a Hi-Fi Rush-style revival after Microsoft cancels the reboot, as Starfield and Deus Ex star reveals his scrapped role will cost him "thousands of dollars"
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News25 years after launch and 15 years after its last Evo appearance, the legendary Marvel vs Capcom 2 is back on the big stage and we're set for "the largest MvC2 tournament of all time"
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NewsStreet Fighter 6's latest outfit DLC adds the game's biggest batch of horny yet, which might distract people from the fact that this is only the second wave of costumes in 2 years
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NewsMassive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work
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News"We must change our methods": Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai says game development has become "too time consuming and unsustainable"
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Interview"Notoriously obtuse hardware" meant Mortal Kombat 4 has "never accurately" come to home consoles, but Legacy Kollection found a way to preserve NetherRealm's full arcade roots
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NewsTekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids
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NewsNintendo Switch 2 is too powerful for asses to handle: 1v1 butt swordfighting game Ketsu Battler is having issues with literal backwards compatibility
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OpinionI've played 200 hours of Street Fighter 6, and the Switch 2 version is a perfectly fine companion piece – even if it could never be the ideal platform
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NewsSwitch 2's controversial game-key cards come on a physical cartridge, but Capcom is still counting its sales of them as digital
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Now PlayingThe Silent Hill f writer's debut game was basically the original Doki Doki Literature Club, and it's still terrifying me 23 years later
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FeatureHideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far
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OpinionPlaying a horror game is my worst nightmare, but these two gnarly farming sims make me want to brave the genre
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's upcoming roguelike-style dungeon "will appeal to a more casual playstyle," but is still getting an additional "extra hard boss" so the MMO's more hardcore players don't find it "lacking"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 9 director goes full ape, says the JRPG's iconic Trance mechanic channels a Space Odyssey scene where apes use tools not as a new skill, "but rather a depiction of an ability they had always possessed being awakened"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 devs "struggling to find a balance between referencing past Final Fantasy games and introducing new content," but a new Gundam anime may be just the inspiration Yoshi-P needs
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P admits recent raid was "a misstep in development" that "wasn't meant to be hardcore," says Square is "trying to satisfy both" casual and hardcore MMO players
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Opinion25 years later, Final Fantasy 9's stylized visuals have ensured it's aged brilliantly without a remake
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NewsFinal Fantasy 9 celebrates 25th anniversary with a short video, not news of the long-awaited JRPG remake fans wanted: "Do the remake already or leave me alone, Square Enix"
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FeatureI accidentally became a god in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and it broke combat so badly that I had to nerf myself to keep things fun even on Expert mode
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Final Fantasy 9 fans have long thought Vivi's name came from his tragic background, but a new prequel book has a much sillier explanation
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Best ListThe best JRPGs to play in 2025
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News"There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers
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NewsAfter 3 years of attempts, the Lord of the Rings MMO's "Great Hobbit Run" is finally successful as a band of tutorial-level hobbits make it to Mount Doom, and celebrate by jumping into lava
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NewsSo many World of Warcraft veterans and top streamers are trying Old School RuneScape that even Jagex has noticed, and the gap in MMO muscle memory is hilarious: "Chat I'm freaking out"
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NewsDune: Awakening will finally reward your personal contributions in Landsraad thanks to a "game changer" update
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newsPhil Spencer reportedly had so much fun playing the Elder Scrolls Online dev's unannounced MMO that Xbox's Matt Booty had to take his controller from him — 4 months later it's canceled
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NewsDune: Awakening hoarders swiftly discover a second item duping glitch, barely a day after the survival MMO's devs fixed the first one: "This game is cooked"
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NewsAfter 18 years, Elder Scrolls Online director and studio head Matt Firor is leaving the company amid Microsoft layoffs: "There are many more stories to be told, adventures to be had"
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News"A new low": The Final Fantasy 14 cash shop just got a $42 outfit set, more expensive than anything that's come before and even pricier than the MMO's latest expansion
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NewsAfter 4 years and 800k gold, World of Warcraft player claims the MMO's smelliest "World First" by collecting 10 million of a very specific fish: "I have no intention of ever getting rid of even a single one"
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NewsDesperate to avoid saying 'we want that $10 billion', League of Legends dev Riot Games tries to justify legalizing esports gambling sponsors, but players aren't buying it
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NewsRiot inducts its second-ever player into League of Legends’s Hall of Fame, awarding them a custom Mercedes and possibly their own version of Faker’s controversial $400 skin
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NewsDeadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
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NewsArcane Season 2 gets one last dance as the League of Legends spin-off animators return to bring Jinx and Ekko back to the series' most iconic song
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League of Legends shadow-drops a Balatro-style roguelike, but the catch is that to complete it you'll have to actually play League of Legends
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NewsRiot walks back controversial League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests, Exalted skins, and Blue Essence costs are all being reworked
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NewsLeague of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
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News4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs
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News"This is completely insane. I didn't even think that was possible?": Minami Lane dev stunned to see his new cute $5 Steam game gather over 1,000 flawless reviews
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PreviewI traded banned books for bread in this RPG-tinged resource management game that feels like Pentiment meets Citizen Sleeper
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NewsI failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything
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NewsThe long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
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NewsBethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
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NewsOne of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
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PreviewTavern Keeper feels like being a fly on the wall in a D&D campaign, and I never knew I needed that in a management sim
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NewsGrisly cult management sim Worshippers of Cthulhu has confirmed an October release date, but devout fans can play a free demo now
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NewsAbduct humans to put them on display in this theme park sim set in the same universe as a 27-year-old banger of a black comedy film
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Subnautica 2 owner Krafton says "former leadership abandoned the responsibilities entrusted to them" in response to concerns over sudden changes and official delay: "We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure"
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Pokemon voice actor behind OG rival Gary, Professor Oak, Meowth, and James dies at 71
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Gearbox releases an intensely gory Borderlands 4 character trailer, cementing that I will be playing as the Siren for the fourth time
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