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NewsMarvel Rivals devs are allowed to make their own original characters, NetEase threatens: "Stay tuned"
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NewsCapcom has good news and bad news: it's aware Monster Hunter Wilds kinda sucks on PC and has "a multifaceted plan" to fix it with CPU and GPU optimizations, but it's targeting "this winter"
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NewsWhat is wrong with Monster Hunter Wilds? Another debate burns besides difficulty and PC performance: has Capcom removed too much of the classic charm?
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NewsFinal Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts writer Kazushige Nojima is "delighted" to learn his games have made you all cry: "There's nothing more joyful"
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NewsValve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean
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NewsValve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs
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News"This dude’s gonna single-handedly delay GTA 6 for several years": Bold truth seeker asks if GTA 5 street signs are actually legal, commissions a mod that corrects Rockstar's many mistakes
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"This dude’s gonna single-handedly delay GTA 6 for several years": Bold truth seeker asks if GTA 5 street signs are actually legal, commissions a mod that corrects Rockstar's many mistakes
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FeatureDetermined Zelda fans spent 2 years traveling Japan to find Breath of the Wild locations in real life, from shrines to statues to villages: "I remember hiking all this equipment through rice fields for 3 hours"
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NewsGTA 5 sleuth finally has an explanation for this 12-year-old Easter egg, and it turns out it has roots in a GTA 4 urban myth
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ReviewSword of the Sea review: "Joyous, fluid hoverboarding connects together everything I loved about Journey and The Pathless"
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NewsAssassin's Creed Shadows beats Mario Kart World and Elden Ring Nightreign to be the top-selling 2025 game in Europe this year, but EA Sports FC 25 has still managed to sell more
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Best ListThe Best Metroid Games of All Time
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Best ListBest PC games: The 25 greatest PC games to play in 2025
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NewsIn the run up to Spider-Man 4, Marvel fans are discussing the best Spidey moments in the MCU: "One of the best moments in superhero history"
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NewsEmma Stone says Amazing Spider-Man press tours made her feel "truly psychotic the entire time"
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Capcom has good news and bad news: it's aware Monster Hunter Wilds kinda sucks on PC and has "a multifaceted plan" to fix it with CPU and GPU optimizations, but it's targeting "this winter"
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What is wrong with Monster Hunter Wilds? Another debate burns besides difficulty and PC performance: has Capcom removed too much of the classic charm?
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NewsYeah, Elden Ring Nightreign's new giga-boss Everdark Libra is 100% getting nerfed, and if FromSoftware doesn't do it soon I'll delete my best relic
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GuideBorderlands 4: Everything we know so far
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NewsMysterious Black Myth: Wukong tease has fans of the action RPG hoping for a DLC reveal at Gamescom next week
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NewsMonster Hunter Wilds 1.021 is already getting a second hotfix just days after launch, as Capcom confirms that stealth Long Sword nerf was accidental
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NewsNew Elden Ring Nightreign Everdark boss is all about balance, so it only seems right the Soulslike community is perfectly split on the fight: "This is what he would've wanted"
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NewsWith censorship swirling, devs of polarizing anime RPG Blue Archive say Steam delay "was unrelated to the game's content" and there were "no modifications or censorship of the content specifically for Steam approval"
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NewsBizarre Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch un-murders historical Chinese characters in massive retcon, makes the game way easier, and breaks a whole chapter: "Faint from exhaustion? Are they Pokemon?"
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NewsPokemon Scarlet and Violet may be getting replaced in VGC tournaments, but the notoriously buggy RPGs had one last, hilarious glitch left for their final World Championships
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GuidePokemon Champions: Everything we know so far
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OpinionPokemon Legends Z-A has made me realize what I miss about the series, and it's up to Gen 10 to fix it
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Pokemon Stadium-like battling game Pokemon Champions is "free-to start," but a "paid digital version" is coming to Switch 2 and OG Switch too
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Pokemon Champions is replacing Scarlet and Violet as the new place for official VGC tournaments, with devs calling the spiritual Stadium successor "the one-stop shop for everyone interested in Pokemon battles"
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Best PC games: The 25 greatest PC games to play in 2025
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newsThe Pokemon Company confirms that you've probably been pronouncing one legendary Pokemon's name wrong for 20 years
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A introduces chaotic 4-player battles that play out in real time, making up for Legends: Arceus ditching multiplayer fights entirely
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NewsAs cult classic GameCube release Chibi-Robo finally makes its way to Switch 2, co-director says he made the platformer "while imagining a 'Zelda but without the battles'"
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News"READ IF YOU'RE AT EPIC": Fortnite player takes matters into their own hands, writes out bug fixes for over 350 problems "for the developers of OG"
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GuideFortnite Starter Pack, the Fortnite Bee Positive Pack is the best deal you can get in the game
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NewsThey'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
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GuideFortnite SHADOW Briefings: Where to find and accept them
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 4
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GuideFortnite Characters locations in Season 4 of Chapter 6
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NewsFortnite players do Helldivers 2 grunts proud, squash 100 million of the new season's bugs in 12 hours even without a Major Order propelling them: "An incredible start to repelling this invasion"
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NewsFortnite's new season looks a lot like Helldivers 2, with bugs to fight, precision air strikes to launch, and even a very democratic-looking emote, but "there's literally no sign" of a collab, leaker says
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GuideWhat are the biggest changes for Fortnite Season 4 in Chapter 6?
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NewsI'm not normally a fan of crossovers, but this horror board game is the perfect fit for IT
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ReviewThis D&D-style board game "pairs gentle strategic fun with tempting press-your-luck mechanics" for a very good time
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DealsVantage and Fate of the Fellowship are getting tempting price cuts in August's board game deals
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OpinionIt's the 30th anniversary of Warhammer Quest, and there's never been a better time for a nostalgic reissue of the beloved dungeon crawler
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ReviewThis D&D board game could be the magic item needed to refresh your game nights, but it won't be a critical hit for everyone
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NewsI didn't expect this new board game to become my summer obsession, but now I've dropped everything else
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FeatureI've been reporting on board games and tabletop RPGs for years, and I think these upcoming projects need to be on your wishlist
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NewsAn official Sims board game just dropped seemingly out of nowhere, and it's thrown me for a loop
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ReviewI'm convinced that this is still one of the best team board games around, and it deserves to be on your shelf
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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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newsUbisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
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Indie SpotlightForget Elden Ring Nightreign or Expedition 33, the toughest boss fight I've faced this year is a slippery rock face on an empty stomach
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NewsViral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"
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NewsViral co-op game of the moment hits a new all-time high on Steam after Peak update finally adds second biome to the "stupid jam game"
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NewsREPO devs blown away by world record level 10 speedrun ponder adding "official speedrun seeds" – "I know that Lethal Company did"
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NewsMicrosoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause, and it seems Hideo Kojima's OD is the only thing that's safe
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NewsYou can now play as Hideo Kojima, Adam Sandler, and Link in Castle Crashers as new DLC finally opens up the Steam Workshop after 17 years, with results as chaotic as you'd expect
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NewsAfter 5 million sales, dev of hit underwater Soulslike tells people to just pirate its new viral mounting climbing game Peak instead of wasting time and money on "microtransaction-riddled Roblox slop" ripoffs where you can buy a win
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newsIn the age of Steam censorship, Peak devs bravely go where no Peak has gone before and begrudgingly add requested cannibalism feature: "Fine"
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NewsHow to watch The Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025 – and what to expect
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GuideGamescom 2025 schedule: all of the dates, times, and what to expect
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NewsMetal Gear Solid and Resident Evil Village stars set to host Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
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NewsElden Ring Nightreign players posted so hard that even the game's publisher has succumbed to Revenant
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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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NewsBattlefield 6 dataminers uncover launch map that's nearly four times larger than Siege of Cairo, days after beta players kept clowning on Dice for saying "large maps exist"
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NewsBattlefield 6 lead responds to complaint it's "not how Battlefield should be," says "I'd urge everyone to go and play some smaller/medium map BF3 and BF4" to get a feel for "the intensity curve"
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GuideHow to access the Battlefield 6 beta
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newsYears after a terrible launch, Dice loads Battlefield 2042 onto the BF6 hype train, revealing "Road to Battlefield 6" update reviving fan-favorite BF5 map Iwo Jima
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GuideWhen are the Battlefield 6 beta times and dates
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GuideBest weapons in Battlefield 6
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GuideAll Battlefield 6 classes: Assault, Engineer, Support and Recon explained
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Best ListAfter spending hours with the Battlefield 6 beta, these are the 5 games that are helping me fill the hole it's left behind
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NewsEA reportedly has big plans beyond Battlefield 6, wants to take on Call of Duty with a yearly release but it'll be "five or six years before we get two-in-a-row"
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Best ListThe 25 best fighting games you can play right now
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NewsMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls devs plan to keep the 4v4 tag fighter alive "for the next 10 years," with hopes of "making this game the best experience ever" over the next decade
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NewsMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is getting an closed beta on PS5 next month after a successful debut at EVO which had a Marvel Vs Capcom legend saying "I just want to play more, it's cracked bro"
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NewsMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has a $150 Kollector's Edition with a delightfully stupid Goro statue, but I think the $80 Deluxe Edition might be even better for '90s arcade nostalgia
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NewsOne of the best Super Smash Bros. players of all time tried a new indie platform fighter and immediately got destroyed without landing a single hit: "What the f*** just happened!"
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News"Has anyone heard the budget for Grand Theft Auto 6? It's like three Trey Parker and Matt Stone deals": Invincible creator says the series is getting a fighting game because "open-world games are expensive"
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NewsInvincible VS reveals a brutal new trailer focused on Battle Beast
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OpinionAs if playing Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't enough, Neil Newbon's latest performance in Dead Take is the best acting I've seen in gaming
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FeatureHideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far
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GuideLittle Nightmares 3: Everything we know so far about the new horror game from Supermassive
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Horror Special 2025 – Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast lead our dive into the genre's future, past, and present
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NewsNew Pocketpair-published horror game turns Balatro's live-action Jimbo actor into a jester again, devs insist it's "accidental," really: "No one will believe that we genuinely didn't mean to do this"
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NewsHorror dev says her FMV game contains "no pornography whatsoever" but still got banned on Steam for NSFW content: "What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women"
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Now PlayingI thought the scariest thing about Dead Take would be its Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 stars doing American accents, but no horror game has stunned me like this since 2022
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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Best ListThe 10 best Resident Evil games of all time
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Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts writer Kazushige Nojima is "delighted" to learn his games have made you all cry: "There's nothing more joyful"
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NewsOne of the best JRPGs ever may have its remaster unveiled tomorrow as Bandai Namco prepares an official announcement following months of speculation and a supposed leak
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NewsMore "Japanese companies seem to realize the value" of releasing old games without DRM, GOG staff say, so top "Dreamlist" game Final Fantasy 7 might actually, eventually happen
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NewsThe original Final Fantasy launched with a game-breaking bug that Square noticed too late to fix, so devs had to slip a warning into 500,000 copies of the JRPG: "Do not delete this..."
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NewsJapanese gamers vote Final Fantasy 10 the most tear jerking JRPG of all time, but it seems the emotional appeal of Western indies like Undertale and Omori is universal
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NewsAfter promising more re-releases, Bandai Namco seemingly leaks a remaster of one of my all-time favorite JRPGs, which still has some of the best combat in the genre
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newsWelp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game
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GuidePersona 4 Revival - Everything we know so far about the new Persona 4 remake
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NewsSquare Enix down ¥11 billion in game sales because it can only re-release Kingdom Hearts so often, but says don't worry boss, we've got some great JRPGs in the chamber
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NewsWorld of Warcraft fans don't appreciate having to complete 19 quests about bees, for some reason: "I thought for sure I was done and then I'd get another quest to photograph 10 bees"
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News"Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs
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NewsDune: Awakening players report disappearing items, devs tell the MMO's community to try standing around for "up to 10 minutes" while they work on an actual fix
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NewsSomehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless
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NewsAn anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"
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NewsWhen your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"
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NewsBeaver-collecting mastermind behind 13,000-hour MMO account suggests things got a bit out of hand: "I sort of realized it would be possible to do something unique and stupid and get the most beavers"
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NewsI was contacted by probably the best fisherman in World of Warcraft, if not any MMO ever, and I was not prepared for how deep the waters went: "It's literally been an almost 10-year battle"
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NewsDune: Awakening player manages a sandworm escape so jaw-dropping even the MMO's devs are impressed: "Yes, I pissed my pants, yes, my stillsuit saved the piss"
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News"I shouldn't tell you this": Once-innocent League of Legends leaders got a crash course on player sensibilities when "someone started explaining what 'gooning' meant"
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Best List10 Best MOBAs to play today
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News"We will for sure lose money": League of Legends developer is finally cracking down on account boosting after 15 years, even at the cost of the game's revenue
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NewsLeague of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
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NewsDeadlock fans in shambles after Valve dev issues a classically Valve update for its new MOBA: We see you're "really hyped up for an imminent update," but it "won't be coming for some time"
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NewsThe League of Legends Balatro homage I thought I'd never see again is back, thanks to a major MOBA preservation win
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Desperate 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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Deadlock 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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Indie SpotlightI accidentally played 10 hours of Magic Inn and it's already the most hands-on management sim I've played since Two Point Campus
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Indie SpotlightI finally tried Minami Lane after seeing over 5,000 positive reviews, and within 4 hours it's already the chillest management game I've ever played
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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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"This dude’s gonna single-handedly delay GTA 6 for several years": Bold truth seeker asks if GTA 5 street signs are actually legal, commissions a mod that corrects Rockstar's many mistakes
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"READ IF YOU'RE AT EPIC": Fortnite player takes matters into their own hands, writes out bug fixes for over 350 problems "for the developers of OG"
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Determined Zelda fans spent 2 years traveling Japan to find Breath of the Wild locations in real life, from shrines to statues to villages: "I remember hiking all this equipment through rice fields for 3 hours"
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