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"Save them Bucky": Fans hope for the best after Palworld and Pocketpair Publishing lead asks Romero Games about its defunded game – "Would love to hear more about this project if possible"
News It's nothing concrete, but it's not nothing
Dying Light dev Techland acknowledges cancelled games but says it didn't lay anyone off: "Developers were moved to other projects and are working on a number of games"
News "Game development is never a straight line"
I 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
Features I'll just come back to this later
Xbox puts a bandage over its latest self-inflicted gaping wound with Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox Series X next month – inexplicably on the same day as Gears of War: Reloaded
News August 26 is now stacked for multiplayer-capable shooters
Dying Light dev Techland has reportedly chucked two more cancelled games into today's river of bad news
News In 2022, the studio announced work on a new fantasy RPG which may or may not have been affected
I blinked and Hades 2 has another patch out, but here's the real news: Supergiant says it "will likely be our final patch before our v1.0 launch"
News Hades 2 Patch 10 is out now
"A giant black hole sucking everything in, and spitting out bones": Devs react with anger and concern as yet more Microsoft layoffs see huge cuts and cancellations at game studios
News "Every day it’s hard to see what the future of this industry is"
Steam faces a stampede: horse girl game Umamusume: Pretty Derby is "actual cinema," and a massive hit on PC with 5,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews after a week
News It turns out gambling is fun, and gambling inside of gambling is even more fun
Elden Ring Nightreign players are using an extremely rare Legendary sword to juice their stats to the moon, stacking thousands of HP and even one-hitting final bosses
News If you can get your hands on a Grafted Blade Greatsword, you can do some seriously dumb stuff
Weeks after changing owners, Nexus Mods updates rules on "illegal" and "adult" content – but even the original owner says calm down, it's purely about following the law or being "fined out of existence"
News The change of ownership has nothing to do with this change in guidelines, Nexus Mods founder says
FromSoftware ruins my entire week by announcing Elden Ring Nightreign's next Everdark boss fight is the bug duo that frankly already sucks
News Everdark Gnoster is coming this week
I have 464 games on my Steam wishlist, 23 games in my Steam Summer Sale shopping cart, and I can feel my already overstuffed library giving me the side-eye
Features Backlog season returns and I welcome it with open arms
Elden Ring's new content and Nintendo Switch 2 release could be coming soon – the Tarnished Edition was just rated by the ESRB
News We may have an Elden Ring Tarnished Edition release date soon
Hideo Kojima says "I'm happy with the scores, thank you" as Death Stranding 2 settles at 90 on Metacritic, overcoming his fears that it might be too likable
News You know what, maybe massive critical acclaim isn't so bad
After 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"
News These Lost Sole ain't gonna collect themselves
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone receives the highest honor possible: Big ConcernedApe, a gigantic in-game portrait one fan made with 20 hours of painstakingly arranged items
News "I'm good with numbers so that wasn't hard, the tough part was figuring out what to use," the artist says
Ex Dragon Age writer's new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it's a cool roguelike with a mana system I don't think I've ever seen
News Malys is an interesting, inky roguelike card game
MMO community fears PvP bots have formed a "cartel" using false reports to get you banned if you kill them for their illegal loot, bringing Old School RuneScape's bot problem to a boil
News There's no clean and actionable answer to the bot problem, it seems
Hytale studio founder says he'd spend $25 million buying it back from Riot to get the game finished, and in his eyes it was "maximum 2 years away from a PC release" over 5 years ago: "That's how much I believe in it"
News "I don't know exactly what happened in the past few years," says Simon Collins-Laflamme
Capcom forgot to buff one of the worst and least popular weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds, but the rest of the Title Update 2 balance changes sound pretty good
News Where are my lance buffs, Capcom? I know you're hiding them somewhere
Warren Spector celebrates 25 years of Deus Ex, reiterates he wasn't some sole creator: "The Deus Ex concept may have been mine, but the game itself and all kudos aimed at it belong to the great, great team"
News "Ideas are easy, shipping is hard"
Elden Ring Nightreign players worship a new god: a Relic buff that gives a gigantic damage boost just for killing some pretty easy mini-bosses
News The before-and-after difference with this one Relic is absolutely disgusting
The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live – here are 10 deals we love, from the biggest Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 discount yet to 50% off Lies of P and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
News JRPGs, city builders, open-world games, indies, and everything else are on sale
