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Hands-onA player before me destroyed a bridge in this Steam Next Fest demo, so I had to build it again in this narrative adventure where your choices have consequences for others
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NewsSilent Hill 2 remake actor's "most difficult scene" is an iconic moment from the horror game: "I was really making sure I didn't cry"
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News20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
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NewsUndertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale
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GuideAll Battlefield 6 classes explained and the best ones to use
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NewsBorderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"
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Best ListAfter careful consideration, I've decided to endorse these Jurassic Park games ahead of Jurassic World Evolution 3
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OpinionIt took 8 hours of losing to find my favorite thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong
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NewsHideo Kojima enjoys the trip of a lifetime to Brazil to promote Death Stranding 2, meeting a doppelganger of himself, probably eating a cake modeled after himself, and more
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News007 First Light might have its own James Bond, but the Hitman studio is borrowing from "the Daniel Craig era" in one major way: his physicality
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NewsGhost of Yotei creative director says "the cognitive overload of all of the systems and all the buttons on the controller can be quite intense"
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News007 First Light studio "didn't want to create this superman from day one" with its fresh-faced James Bond: "It's not very relatable"
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NewsGhost of Yotei has so much climbing because the devs wanted to focus on the "idea of freedom," and because Hokkaido really is that steep and "epic"
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NewsFantastic Four and one-time Assassin's Creed actor reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of a post-Civil War era game in the most appropriate way possible: "F**k off"
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NewsFor 19 years, this Ratchet & Clank game was "a holy grail for probably 14 people," but after 6 years of preservation efforts it's no longer lost media
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GuideIndiana Jones and the Great Circle New Game+ explained
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Borderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"
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NewsBorderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better
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GuideAll Borderlands 4 Shift Codes (October 2025) and how to redeem them for Golden Keys and Skins
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NewsBorderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford channels Hideo Kojima, hopes to make "an NPC or a gun or a side quest" based on a guy who told him he looks like Randy Pitchford
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GuideAll Genshin Impact codes (October 2025) and how to redeem them
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NewsBorderlands 4 lead gives fans "7 days notice" as Gearbox aims the nerf cannon at broken builds with fixes to "unintended interactions in certain Vault Hunter skills" arriving next week
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NewsBorderlands 4 creative director says "It’s way more involved and riskier than it appears" as fans call for a popular dialog skip mod to become official, warns it may "lead to broken mission states that might not be recoverable"
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News"Feels like I'm shooting pebbles": Gearbox is planning Borderlands 4 patches to buff legendary pistols, help assault rifles, and improve the beloved Hellwalker
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UpcomingUpcoming Assassin's Creed games: Every new Assassin's Creed game in development
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Hands-on
A player before me destroyed a bridge in this Steam Next Fest demo, so I had to build it again in this narrative adventure where your choices have consequences for others
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest victim of a major Nintendo breach, as more than 70GB of information is reportedly shared online in huge 'Freakleak'
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NewsEverwild might've been canceled by Xbox after 11 years of development, but new screenshots show a stunning game that might've proven a true adventure game genre gem
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle New Game+ explained
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OpinionPokemon Legends: Z-A has got the shiny hunting sicko in me cautiously optimistic, but I hope the RPG doesn't repeat one of Scarlet and Violet's biggest mistakes
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Best25 Best sci-fi games to travel into the future with
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NewsGameStop blames Pokemon Company for botched Scarlet and Violet shiny giveaway: "Not our decision"
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Best List25 best adventure games to get swept up in right now
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NewsFortnite dataminers find sus game files that say "PriceChange," but Epic Games denies a price hike for its subscription: "Those rumors aren't true and the price changes aren't happening"
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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FeaturesI smashed out a win on Haven's Hollow at Call of Duty: Next, so naturally the incoming Resurgence map is my new Warzone favorite
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NewsAfter a Fortnite player's post about their late sister "saying hello to me in my favorite game" went viral, Epic Games added a statue in her honor: "I will forever cherish this"
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Best listThe best battle royale games to play in 2025
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NewsWarzone is getting a Blackout-inspired mode in 2026 and a dev who also worked on Call of Duty's original battle royale promises "that mode is going to be fun"
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NewsCall of Duty: Warzone's weapon attachment tweaks are being separated from the other games like Black Ops 7 to allow for "faster meta shifts" and tuning
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NewsEpic Games banned "thousands" of Fortnite players over the last weekend as players say new proximity chat mode Delulu "was a mistake"
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NewsFortnite Delulu adds proximity chat to the battle royale, and after engaging in Solid Snake roleplay, running in-game stores, and more, players with early access are calling it "the best thing to ever happen" to the game
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ReviewWith a new season on the way, is Blood Bowl's second edition still worth a look?
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DealsCelebrate spooky season with this week's board game deals
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News7 of my favorite Halloween board games have been slashed in price for Prime Day
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DealsBetrayal at House on the Hill is one of my all-time favorite board games, and it just got a massive discount for Prime Day
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NewsNew Warhammer Quest: Darkwater board game revealed
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ReviewThis Star Wars board game is an excellent introduction to a whole galaxy of gaming
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DealsWhat to expect from Black Friday board game deals 2025
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NewsA 13x award-winning board game is back with a fancy Special Edition, but you'll need to be quick to get it
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DealsI think everyone should try this legendary board game, and it's never been cheaper than it is now
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News"I am rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again": Manor Lords creator ends months of silence and reveals a huge update to the city builder's AI towns
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Hands-onBeyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
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NewsAnno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025"
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NewsBeautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon
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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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NewsREPO dev says its big monster update turns it into more of "a proper horror game" and "reinvigorates the entire gameplay loop"
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NewsAfter one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
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GuideRoblox Murder Mystery 2 codes (October 2025) have all expired
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GuideRoblox Brookhaven codes (October 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsREPO's monster update just got a lot more monstrous as devs reveal new "tumble-grab" feature that coincidentally lets you "twerk enemies to death" and just might "break our game"
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NewsThis sci-fi co-op game about vehicular Legos has left Steam early access with 96% overwhelmingly positive reviews laser-targeted at sickos like me: "If you liked Death Stranding but wished it were chiller and let you build roads ANYWHERE"
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News"I'm here to interrupt the Silksong": Peak devs echo Team Cherry by telling players the game is just "that evil," tease "the next biome" already in the works
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REPO devs "want to be a bit more secretive" with the next big update, threatening to unleash a load of new monsters at once: "Some will be there to make your life a living hell"
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NewsHelldivers 2 creative director wishes he could make a sequel to the chaotic co-op game that launched Arrowhead, but returning to it "scares" him: "I would like to do it at some point though"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
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Vote NowGolden Joystick Awards 2025: Voting is Live!
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LiveEverything announced at the PlayStation State of Play September 2025
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GuideGamescom 2025 schedule: all of the showcases and biggest reveals
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NewsHow to watch The Future Games Show at gamescom 2025 – 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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RecapEverything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
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All Battlefield 6 classes explained and the best ones to use
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GuideBest Battlefield 6 Engineer class loadout and guns
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GuideBest Battlefield 6 Recon class loadout and best guns
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GuideBest Battlefield 6 Support class loadout, guns, and medic build
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NewsEA is apparently playing whack-a-mole as Battlefield 6 fans keep using the FPS game's new Portal mode to set up XP farms to bypass the sluggish progression grind
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GuideBest Battlefield 6 Assault class loadout and guns
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NewsDespite the massive launch, Battlefield 6 players are once again slamming the FPS game's map sizes: "It really feels like five maps, not nine"
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NewsBattlefield 6 fixes coming "one step at a time" as devs fix missing rewards, movement bugs, and more within 48 hours of launch, and eye up "other elements of the core loop" next: "Thanks for all the feedback!"
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NewsEA makes amends with Battlefield 6 players shut out at launch with 24 XP boosters and up to two Battle Passes: "We wanted to offer an apology… with perks"
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Now PlayingEven after 14 years of League of Legends, fighting game 2XKO can do little but make me think of the games I wish Riot was still making instead
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Mortal Kombat 2 is as much about Kitana as it is about Johnny Cage: "They go in and out of each other throughout the movie"
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News"It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
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GuideJujutsu Infinite codes (October 2025) for free Spins
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News2XKO director says players should know the LoL fighting game "might not be good" at everything at first, but Riot will "address it" – "We're going to make mistakes"
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News"How have we seen more footage for Kingdom Hearts 4": Sega claims coveted worst show award at Tokyo Game Show with a Virtua Fighter talk that "could've been an email"
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NewsA "genre-defining visual novel" for Super Nintendo in Japan is making a comeback as a Street Fighter 6 bonus, and I hope we've got a Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros situation on our hands
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After just 2 weeks in beta, League of Legends fighting game 2XKO gets October early access release date
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NewsBandai Namco trademark could hint at a new crossover fighting game that shares a name with a forgotten Smash Bros-like featuring Bomberman, Metal Gear's Solid Snake, and Optimus Prime
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GuideThe complete Little Nightmares timeline and story recap
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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GuideLittle Nightmares 3: Everything you need to know about the horror game from Supermassive
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NewsAlien: Isolation writer originally thought Ellen Ripley's daughter as protagonist was too "Son of Frankenstein" and "convenient," but was sold after realizing "everything had so much more weight and heart"
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NewsCreative Assembly wanted to make Alien: Isolation 2 for years, but Disney buying Fox is what "made it a lot more possible," says former dev
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NewsAlien: Isolation writer says the game "is too scary" for a lot of people and "we probably could've sold more if we'd watered it down," and speaking for the scaredy cats, I'm so glad they didn't
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Best ListThe 10 best Resident Evil games of all time
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SponsoredDark Atlas: Infernum is one of 2025's must-play horror games, blending cosmic and psychological horror for a uniquely narrative-driven experience
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20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
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Undertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale
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News18 years later, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles explains what Cloud Strife is actually doing there thanks to newly discovered secret dialogue
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NewsSquare Enix announces the first new Dissidia Final Fantasy in 8 years, but fighting game fans are dismayed it's only on mobile: "I have little faith this will be anywhere near as good"
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NewsFinal Fantasy Tactics player puts in the grind to prove once and for all that "Chocobos can believe in monster Jesus" and will "leave your party to go find God" if their Faith stat gets too high
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NewsDragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake adds "numerous" new scenarios "that connect to the overall Erdrick Trilogy" as well as "encounters with people not featured in the original title"
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NewsAs Steam's unfair regional pricing comes under fire, hit JRPG Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter joins Arc Raiders in updating costs for international gamers
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Best ListThe best Yakuza games, ranked
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NewsKingdom Hearts actor auditioned for the role of Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Remake "a very long time ago" after Square Enix asked him: "He's the Riku of Final Fantasy"
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NewsLeft for dead by Amazon and revived by Tencent, free anime MMO Blue Protocol: Star Resonance launches to over 90,000 Steam players but only 48% positive user reviews
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NewsWorld of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says his new studio will "likely close" if it's "unable to find a publisher soon" for fantasy MMORPG Ghost: "We're doing everything we can"
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NewsBlizzard says removal of popular World of Warcraft combat mods "needs to happen" in Midnight to "level the playing field" for the long-running MMO
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NewsVeteran Elder Scrolls Online devs set up new worker-owned studio after Xbox cancelled their last game: "We only answer to people who are passionate about games"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 might not be on the Switch 2 just yet, but fans of the iconic Square Enix MMO have already brought it to Nintendo's best handheld console: the 2DS/3DS
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GuideAll Throne and Liberty coupons (October 2025) and how to redeem them
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NewsWorld of Warcraft: Midnight's riff on Monolith's The Lord of the Rings Nemesis System was spurred on by a War Within feature Blizzard doubted: "We weren't sure how people would react"
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NewsWorld of Warcraft housing finally launches in early access this December for Midnight expansion owners, giving Blizzard's MMO a feature seen in the likes of Final Fantasy 14 for years
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NewsDune: Awakening dev Funcom released a very successful MMO, so of course it is laying off staff: "This difficult process is starting now, and we cannot yet determine the exact impact"
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NewsValve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
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NewsLeague of Legends leadership just got a crash course in horniness when "someone started explaining what 'gooning' meant: "I shouldn't tell you this"
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NewsNew Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game
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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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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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After careful consideration, I've decided to endorse these Jurassic Park games ahead of Jurassic World Evolution 3
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NewsSkyrim's longevity shocked Bethesda devs as the RPG was thriving "still, ten years later" thanks to its unique open world: "By all rights, a year later, some other game should have eclipsed it"
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Guide99 Nights in the Forest codes (October 2025) for free Gems
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