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Deltarune's beloved Spamton is everywhere and Persona 3 fans are turning Japan's real-life Port Island into a JRPG mural in this viral web app that's seeing pixel artists literally take over the world
News Wplace.live lets you cover the world map in pixels, and people have been making some seriously impressive stuff
Fortnite 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"
News Super Earth would be proud
Battlefield 6 open beta is already Steam's most popular Battlefield game with a peak of 330,000+ concurrent players, doubling the record of the 2042 beta and tripling 2042 itself in just hours
News And this is just the start
Grounded 2 update improves the survival game's stability by around "40%-60%" while devs warn the "various performance improvements" aren't expected to fix the "problems as a whole"
News Grounded 2 version 0.1.2 squashes loads of bugs and visual issues, too
Fortnite'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
News Super Earth isn't involved in Fortnite's "anti-bug military defense force"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's possible endings aren't particularly cheery because the French JRPG's creative lead likes "really sad stories" and wanted to give players "an impossible choice"
News But it also gives players the chance "to finally take things in their own hands"
Sony says Bungie's "independence is getting lighter" as it aims to launch the Destiny 2 studio's troubled new FPS Marathon before April 2026: "We are now fixing the problems, so we believe this launch will happen"
News It's still expected that we'll get a launch update this Fall
We really got an unofficial "lore-friendly GTA 5 remaster" before GTA 6, as one fan combines 138 mods into the ultimate package of visual enhancements, police AI improvements, and more
News One modder has "completely overhauled GTA 5," and you can try it too
New 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"
News The devs describe it as "the most incredible happy accident"
Palworld dev and Pocketpair publishing manager says "big things" have happened that he can't talk about for "at least a year or 2," and keeping the secret is "gonna kill me"
News "You guys are going to be super excited about it!"
Fallout "was a sequel" to Wasteland, says Interplay co-founder, and "we did everything we could not to be sued by Electronic Arts" after the devs "had to pivot out" of the follow-up
News Brian Fargo says "people don't know the story behind that"
Starfield patch sparks hope among fans that Bethesda is finally adding "proper space travel" to the RPG, 2 years after it originally launched: "Todd my life is yours again"
News Fans have apparently uncovered mentions of "cruise mode" in Starfield's code
Almost 11 years since launching Destiny 1, former Bungie CEO says live service isn't right for all games: "It's pretty clear that we can't just pick a business model and say that's a reason to make a game"
News "I believe consumers are telling us it's not appropriate for all consumers"
Battlefield 6's beta doesn't start for another 2 days, but fans clearly don't mind the wait as the FPS has already hit a peak of almost 10,000 concurrent players on Steam
News Changing settings has never been more exciting, apparently
Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because Nintendo just announced a new 15-minute Indie World showcase for this week
News Could we finally see more Silksong?
Former Stardew Valley dev decides against adding a "stink gun" to his new life sim, but offers a compromise by allowing you to torment cityfolk with pungent fruit
News Mr. Podunkian's life sim Sunkissed City keeps getting bigger and bigger
Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director is "so insanely excited" for Larian's next RPG, but don't expect it any time soon: "This s**t ain't cooked in an air fryer bro sorry got nothing for you right now"
News Let them cook
If you've had enough Diablo 4, new historical action RPG Titan Quest 2 came out 3 days ago, and it's become an instant hit on Steam 19 years after the first game
News It's got "Very Positive" reviews as well as a healthy concurrent player peak
Battlefield 6 follows Call of Duty in letting you "pick and choose which components of the game you install" to help suffering hard drives, but fans worry a day-one patch will leave them full regardless
News You won't need to keep both single-player and multiplayer installed at the same time
Battlefield 6 will apparently have some skill-based matchmaking according to EA, and not everyone is happy: "Just let me hang with the boys"
News Others have faith the system will be more "like BF3/4," however
Nintendo gives Switch 2 users a platform for their game-key card complaints with a survey about physical and digital games, and yes, you can say you "definitely would not buy" them
News You can tell Nintendo what you like about physical games, too
I need to know what the 190,000 people who bought a Switch 2 at launch without Mario Kart World were doing, because I refuse to believe Welcome Tour was a system seller
News The vast majority of Switch 2 owners also have Mario Kart World, though
Octopath Traveler 0 is "inspired by story elements and gameplay ideas" from the JRPG series' mobile game, but even returning fans are "getting a new experience"
News Square Enix says "it doesn't matter" whether or not you've played Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent
