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Best listAfter 25 years, here's the 15 best Japanese horror games, from Silent Hill to Haunting Ground, that still terrify me
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GuideAll Pokemon TCG Pocket Shiny cards and full Shinies list
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GuideGrounded 2 roadmap and future updates for early access
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NewsMost of the best-selling PS5 games of the last few months are actually Microsoft games, with Forza Horizon 5 and Oblivion Remastered leading the way
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GuideAll Secret Missions in Pokemon TCG Pocket (Updated for Wisdom of Sea and Sky)
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newsPokemon TCG Pocket owns up to art blunder after providing "incorrect reference materials as official documents" when commissioning new cards
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NewsMario Kart World update 1.2 seemingly speeds up the Switch 2 racer and finally addresses intermission track complaints, but getting classic 3-lap races online doesn't seem to be much easier
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NewsFormer The Last of Us artist says "ultra realism slows everything down" when it comes to game development, and "chasing" it has "negatively affected many"
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GuideGTA Online new cars arriving with the Money Fronts update
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FeaturesMarvel's Blade: Everything we know so far
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UpcomingUpcoming Switch games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsFormer GTA 6 artist says AI "does have its uses" for more "tedious" tasks, but warns "a lot of it is c**p" and "you can't replace people" with it: "It has this appearance of being amazing, but it's not"
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GuideWhere is the GTA Online Gun Van location
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NewsIt's no wonder Death Stranding 2's hyper-realistic visuals are so good as Hideo Kojima shares behind-the-scenes footage from a "live-action lighting workshop" from over 2 years ago
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NewsAfter 6 years, Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are so used to silkposting on Reddit that they can't quite believe the Gamescom demo is real: "I will never heal from the emotional pain that sub inflicted on me"
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NewsGTA veteran says "in some ways I would have liked GTA 4 to be a bit more like" Saints Row 2, with Rockstar Games taking a more "serious" tone with its series than its rival
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NewsLong-awaited Elden Ring Nightreign update adding a 2-player mode to the FromSoftware spin-off has been delayed following tsunami warning
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GuideHow to join friends in Elden Ring Nightreign multiplayer
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News"Thinks he's playing Assassin's Creed": Elden Ring Nightreign's absurd parkour tech sees one player scale a fort in seconds, so I guess it's time to update my routing cheat sheet
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NewsCapcom raises the alarm to DEFCON 2, rushing out a huge Monster Hunter Wilds endgame update meant for September to give players some good news for next month
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newsFromSoftware had one big problem turning an old Dark Souls 3 boss into an Elden Ring Nightreign boss, and apparently it solved it by yeeting him into the sky
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NewsAssassin's Creed Mirage's Basim wants to be in Netflix's show, and fans think this could be "part of a calculated audience warm-up"
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NewsBorderlands 4 has the "biggest world" Gearbox has ever made, and it's as seamless as it can be thanks to the power of "technical bulls***" that allows for "less borders, more lands"
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NewsRandy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 is intended to "bring new people in" to the series, and I can only hope it's better at that than the Borderlands movie and its $110 million loss
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NewsWuchang: Fallen Feathers reaches holy land of "Mixed" 40% positive Steam reviews after emergency patches, and like every other modern Soulslike, the devs are also targeting "difficulty levels and boss encounters"
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All Pokemon TCG Pocket Shiny cards and full Shinies list
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All Secret Missions in Pokemon TCG Pocket (Updated for Wisdom of Sea and Sky)
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Pokemon TCG Pocket owns up to art blunder after providing "incorrect reference materials as official documents" when commissioning new cards
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news$1.1 billion worth of Minecraft accounts have played the Hypixel Minecraft server in the past 13 years, founder says, and it's "still growing"
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsA new Pokemon Legends: Z-A clip teasing its seamless battling has fans more excited for the RPG than any of its actual trailers: "This will be the best Pokemon game"
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GuideIntergalactic: The Heretic Prophet – Everything we know about the new Naughty Dog game
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newsMega Dragonite's goofy wings in Pokemon Legends Z-A start to make sense when you consider one of the wildest theories in Pokemon history: "All the Mega Pokemon are designed after either the letter X or Y"
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News"I can't believe I just beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue": Streamer beats Minecraft while in a 2-hour wait, putting my procrastination to shame
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 3
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideWhen is the next Fortnite live event, Blast Off?
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GuideFortnite Characters locations in Season 3 of Chapter 6
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GuideFortnite Fortress of Solitude: Where to find it
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GuideFortnite Supernova Gear: What is it and where to get it
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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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Features"A hell of a feeling:" Doom: The Dark Ages Arena board game is like "heavy metal chess" and dammit I'm so in
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FeaturesI've played board games like Frosthaven for decades, but the digital version convinced me that it's a better introduction to the epic RPG
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Deals6 must-have board game deals for July 2025, hand-picked by experts
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DealsTime is almost up on my favorite Prime Day board game deals, so prioritize these 5 before they vanish
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DealsYou're running out of time to grab some of my all-time favorite board games for less than $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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FeaturesGoing 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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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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NewsIn some of the year's best Twitch content, Peak devs infiltrate streamer lobbies and possess the unholy plush BingBong: "Sentient BingBong you are so special to me"
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NewsPeak devs update the game with an incredibly unfair new rule: "You no longer win if you die," ruining my chances of ever making it
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NewsThis new co-op monster-feeding game looks like a bizarre blend of REPO and Overcooked, and there's a free open playtest you can try right now
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newsViral co-op game Peak used to have a fatal flaw - playing in French would "instantly crash the game" because of a code instructing it to "Frenchify"
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"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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Peak 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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"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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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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RecapEverything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
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FeaturesEvery new indie game that shadowdropped during Wholesome Direct 2025: From a Sims-like decorating game to a chaotic cooking roguelike
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FeaturesDay of the Devs Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 brought us 7 new reveals - here's what they were
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RecapEverything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
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NewsHow to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
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FeaturesWildcard 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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NewsDespite a Battlefield 6 leak suggesting the FPS could be $80, EA is "not looking to make any changes on pricing" yet
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NewsBattlefield 6 leaks are so widespread that scammers are now apparently sending Steam phishing links disguised as playtest invites
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NewsBattlefield 6's skins have apparently leaked, and EA appears to be steering clear of Fortnite and Call of Duty's wacky collaborations for now with no crossover cosmetics in sight
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UpcomingUpcoming Xbox Series X games for 2025 and beyond
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Features1,769 hours into Destiny 2 on Steam, The Edge of Fate has killed my interest in playing with one of the worst leveling systems I've seen in an MMO
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NewsHalo's official esports tournament is moving on from Halo Infinite next year, so those rumors of a new Halo game in 2026 just got way more convincing
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GuideKilling Floor 3: Everything we know so far
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NewsThanks to Warner Bros, FEAR and its devs at Monolith are gone, but its legacy lives on in this horror FPS out this year that looks like the real deal
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GuideCall of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Everything we know so far about the upcoming shooter
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NewsInvincible VS reveals a brutal new trailer focused on Battle Beast
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NewsMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls makes some wild changes from the tag fighting games that have come before, teasing a single health bar per team and 3 assist options for every character
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newsMortal Kombat 2 star Karl Urban compares the new film to one of the greatest sequels ever: "[It's] what The Road Warrior is to Mad Max"
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NewsFirst Mortal Kombat 2 trailer features game-accurate Fatalities and brings in The Boys star Karl Urban as new anti-hero Johnny Cage
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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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Best list
After 25 years, here's the 15 best Japanese horror games, from Silent Hill to Haunting Ground, that still terrify me
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NewsBloober's Cronos: The New Dawn is like Dead Space in Hell, but it has a cool female protagonist because the devs say that's simply "more interesting"
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NewsViral horror game Mouthwashing no longer appears in Itch.io search results, but that's not because of the new crackdown on NSFW games, marketplace confirms
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NewsPlayers debate characters' looks in everything from Marvel Rivals to The Witcher 3, but Silent Hill 2 devs sent them a warning 24 years ago: "Maria was sexier when we first started out, but her plunging neckline gave us too many technical problems"
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsHe made a viral horror game in 2 months – it sold 6 million copies, and now he can make whatever he wants for the rest of his life: "My final theory is that gambling is very fun"
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Space Marine 2 dev Saber announces single-player Hellraiser game with actor Doug Bradley returning as legendarily horny demon Pinhead for the first time in nearly 20 years: "Ripped straight from the bowels of oblivion"
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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NewsClearly not too busy with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, Avatar game, and more, Space Marine 2 devs are teasing something new, and fans think it's a Hellraiser title
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NewsYoshi-P knows Final Fantasy 14 has a problem balancing casual and hardcore content, but he hopes the new Deep Dungeon will show the MMO's new philosophy on difficulty
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 killed one plugin that enabled player stalking, and now Square Enix is making sure "prohibited third-party tools" stay broken as MMO boss Yoshi-P says he "would appreciate your patience as we resolve this issue"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads follow up meeting their JRPG idols at Square Enix to exchange "visions and ideas" with praise from another genre icon over dinner: "My favorite game"
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News23 years in, Square Enix takes emergency action with classic MMO Final Fantasy 11 booming so hard amid discounts and a Final Fantasy 14 raid collab that worlds are spilling over
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NewsFinal Fantasy Tactics is already a JRPG GOAT, but The Ivalice Chronicles is cribbing one of Final Fantasy 16's best features to make it even better
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NewsAfter a sterling run of 20 beloved games, remasters, and spin-offs, Atlus finally finds something bad enough to make Persona devs apologize and "ask for your patience": gacha
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NewsAuthor responsible for JRPG icons like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona says Atlus game royalties aren't as big as you'd expect: "That's why people call me a novelist"
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NewsMetaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 artist says his interest "in fashion" is why his work is so similar to the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure artist's: "We're both into clothes and designer pieces"
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NewsThe Legend of Zelda movie has finally cast its titular princess, and it turns out she was already a video game movie veteran at roughly 12 years old thanks to Final Fantasy
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NewsHow do you make an impossibly dense MMO friendly to new players? Warframe dev says you just keep trying: "I don't think we've ever quite got that 100% right"
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NewsA naked WoW Classic hardcore player has spent 292 hours punching everything in the MMO to reach level 55 as the One Punch Warrior: "What am I doing with my life"
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News"Praise the maker": In an MMO miracle, Dune: Awakening players and the devs themselves tracked down a player named Ben to convince him to check his base power
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Yoshi-P knows Final Fantasy 14 has a problem balancing casual and hardcore content, but he hopes the new Deep Dungeon will show the MMO's new philosophy on difficulty
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NewsThis is what MMOs were made for: dev declares "there has been a calamity at the Crab" after 3 hardcore players who purposely gave their characters one life somehow die to a harmless crab boss
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NewsMMO history has been made after 21 years: all the blank spaces in the Old School RuneScape map have been filled in for the first time, right as the game hits player count highs
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NewsGold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"
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He spent years making the single-player MMO he dreamt of for decades – it blew his "expectations and sales goals out of the water," and of course fans added multiplayer to it
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NewsDune: Awakening patch fixes the item duplication glitch hoarders discovered a day after devs removed the last one, and I think we all know what happens next
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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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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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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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League of Legends' take on Balatro is one of its best mini-games yet – and it's also exactly what's wrong with this era of League of Legends
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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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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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Mario Kart World update 1.2 seemingly speeds up the Switch 2 racer and finally addresses intermission track complaints, but getting classic 3-lap races online doesn't seem to be much easier
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Despite a Battlefield 6 leak suggesting the FPS could be $80, EA is "not looking to make any changes on pricing" yet
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Long-awaited Elden Ring Nightreign update adding a 2-player mode to the FromSoftware spin-off has been delayed following tsunami warning
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