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NewsSaints Row creator admits he took Grand Theft Auto's design "wholesale," but feels there were "enough differentiating factors" overall; "Am I playing a GTA game? No! But I kinda feel like I am"
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NewsWarhammer Quest: Darkwater feels leaner, meaner, and a lot of fun, so I hope fans can actually get their hands on it this time
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NewsPokemon archeologist travels 12 hours to reunite a 17-year-old Diamond save file with the player who was forced to sell the barely functional, chewed cartridge after his partner's car wreck
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NewsI was informed of what seems to be the only game on Steam with this many 100% positive reviews, and I need you to see it with me
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NewsSilksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"
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Silksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"
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News"Hope is not lost" for Assassin's Creed Shadows to follow Mirage's lead and add the fan-favorite manual jump in a post-launch update
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NewsAssassin's Creed Shadows lead says microtransactions pay for free updates: "It allows us to do the Isu stuff, the quest stuff, the parkour updates"
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NewsWith The Game Awards weeks away, new Remedy trademark for what could be Control 2 surfaces
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NewsAnticipation for GTA 6 isn't enough to overshadow Rockstar Games' alleged union-busting scandal as a Scottish councillor calls for political action
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NewsNew Assassin's Creed Shadows update includes a big Odyssey Easter egg and the devs have an entire Kassandra-focused story under wraps: "We might reveal it at some point"
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Opinion18 years after it owned the Xbox 360 era, Crackdown deserves so much better – and should have one more chance to prove itself
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Assassin's Creed Shadows' Attack on Titan crossover gets a kicking over lack of Titan fights, "atrocious" cutscenes, and an ending pop-up "telling you to go to the store and buy the outfit instead"
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NewsAssassin's Creed Shadows director says the RPG won't get another expansion as big as Claws of Awaji, but Ubisoft is still working on "chunkier updates" for Year 2
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GuideEverything we know about the Elden Ring Nightreign Scholar so far
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NewsWhere Winds Meet players find a way to skip side quests by manipulating the MMO's AI chatbot NPCs into just giving over the goods instead
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GuideAll Borderlands 4 Shift Codes (November 2025) and how to redeem for Golden Keys and Skins
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NewsSupports win games, so Elden Ring Nightreign's new Scholar class looks like a must-play – and like a direct counter to the infamous gank boss Libra
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News"I will not disappoint you": Lies of P director promises "the most fun" as Neowiz prepares a sequel to one of the best Soulslikes ever made, says the Overture DLC was treated "almost as a sequel" anyway
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GuideAll Zenless Zone Zero codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideAll Genshin Impact codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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Pokemon archeologist travels 12 hours to reunite a 17-year-old Diamond save file with the player who was forced to sell the barely functional, chewed cartridge after his partner's car wreck
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OpinionHow Dispatch helped me to see my father's death in a new light
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NewsCyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 veteran says superhero smash hit Dispatch is "my game of the year" – and it certainly wouldn't be replicable with AI
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NewsDispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"
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OpinionDispatch's success shows a way forward for a struggling AA narrative genre
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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Indie SpotlightRue Valley is a time looping RPG that's best off leaning away from Disco Elysium comparisons, and getting Monkey Island with it instead
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Telltale Games veterans' superhero comedy game Dispatch uses a familiar system to track your choices, helping players painstakingly map out how to get every single ending
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (November 2025)
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NewsOld copy of Fortnite from before it went free-to-play sells for $42,500, and while you might think that's weird, remember that the person who bought it probably won't play it anyway
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GuideWhen does Fortnite Chapter 7 start?
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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, Zero Hour?
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Best listThe best Battle Royale games to play right now
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NewsPUBG creator says he's "really heartened to see the community revolt against AI," but his studio is still using the tech in new games: "We're using it in the right way"
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GuideFortnite Hidden Gags locations and how to complete them all
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News"The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing
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NewsFortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"
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Warhammer Quest: Darkwater feels leaner, meaner, and a lot of fun, so I hope fans can actually get their hands on it this time
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Buying guideThe 6 best family board games for 2025, chosen and reviewed by experts
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Buying guideThe best board games 2025, with over 25 recommendations tested, reviewed, and rated by experts
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ReviewFans think this is the best strategy board game ever made, and I have to admit that they've got a point
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NewsCities: Skylines 2 is getting a new developer as publisher Paradox turns to a new studio, 2 years after the city builder's messy launch with no console release in sight
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News7 years and 35,000 wishlists later, one of Steam's most popular city-builder demos failed miserably enough at Early Access for its creator to question everything: "None of this means we were owed anything"
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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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NewsOvercooked-like medieval fantasy game debuts with 90% positive Steam reviews and a kitchen full of anthropomorphic rats: "We’re rats, what did you expect?"
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NewsCo-op horror game REPO gets a new arachnophobia setting as devs say "sorry" to the spider haters, plus plenty of new bug fixes and balance changes
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NewsREPO dev semiwork is going dark for a little bit after a "crazy" October leading up to the big monster update: "We'll be back very, very soon"
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News"It's so hard to balance a game for 14 million players ok": Peak devs ask for mercy after overpowered zombies rip players apart
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With 11 million copies sold, Peak continues the Bing Bong divorced dad saga in latest update: "The divorce court has allowed Bing Bong to visit his kids"
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NewsOne day after adding them, indie co-op game Peak is nerfing its new zombie enemies: "We did playtest the zombies. I guess the playtesters were just too good"
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GuideMurder Mystery 2 codes (November 2025) have all expired
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"We proudly wear the friendslop badge": Peak studio unpacks one of the biggest trends on Steam and beyond after studying games like REPO to find out what makes them fun
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GuideBrookhaven codes (November 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsGTA 6 might've won the "Most Wanted Game" award at the Golden Joysticks, but The Witcher 4 wasn't far behind
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NewsAll the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 winners revealed
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NewsThe Game Awards 2025 has Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as the most-nominated game in the show's history, while Arc Raiders is up for just one category
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NewsXbox Partner Preview stream coming this week with a new look at James Bond game 007 First Light confirmed
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Clair 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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NewsThis nautical take on the boomer shooter is filled with 90s cartoon absurdity, and it's already one of my favourite games of the year after only playing an hour
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NewsOver 2 hours of new Marathon footage leaks as Bungie's answer to the likes of Arc Raiders shows how far it's come since Sony indefinitely delayed the troubled extraction shooter earlier this year
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NewsAfter Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'"
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OpinionBlack Ops 7's Endgame can't decide if it wants to be Destiny 2 or Call of Duty, and it's a muddy addition that makes me miss simpler co-op campaigns
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NewsHalo co-creator Marcus Lehto redesigned Master Chief 9 times before perfecting the Xbox mascot: "It took forever, but I wasn't going to stop"
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NewsSome Battlefield 6 players still can't hear enemies creeping up on them, so devs are doing "a full pass" to fix niggling sound issues for good: "Hoping we can share more details on that soon"
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NewsChatter over Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's skill-based matchmaking kicks up another notch after player runs the tests and finds it isn't quite as open as we'd hoped
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NewsDestiny 2 game director says "we don't want to be a dead live game" as Renegades arrives at a low for the MMO, admits "relatively few [new] people come" in and Edge of Fate pivot "didn't work"
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NewsBungie and Star Wars owner hashed out the tone of new Destiny 2 expansion Renegades together, realized it can't "feel like a side quest": "What’s the bad version of this?"
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GuideJujutsu Infinite codes (November 2025) for free Spins
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NewsNow that Kirby Air Riders is out, everyone is making the same joke about Nintendo immediately asking Masahiro Sakurai to work on Super Smash Bros 6: "Alright. We let you make Air Riders. You know what comes next…"
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NewsFrom the moment development started on Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, "the goal was to reinstate Marvel as a pillar of the fighting game community"
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News"This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online
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NewsYet another PlayStation icon that Sony is content to leave in its grave is getting revived by an entirely different publisher
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newsMortal Kombat co-creator says the movie sequel's opening has made him cry every single time he's watched it: "It punches you in the face"
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NewsAfter conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art
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NewsGOG shades Steam in support for horror game banned by Valve: "We've always believed that players should be able to choose the experiences that speak to them"
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Valve's "final decision" is that surreal horror game Horses will not be sold on Steam, despite the acclaimed studio behind it "likely closing" after sinking 2 years and $100,000 into it
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After 2 years and $100,000 invested, acclaimed indie studio is "likely closing" due to Steam ban, says it was "tricked and betrayed" by Valve: "A system that allows that is broken"
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NewsHideo Kojima pays tribute to veteran actor Udo Kier, who appeared in over 200 movies and featured in upcoming project OD before passing away: "He was truly an 'icon' of his time"
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GuideStalker 2 The Lost Boys walkthrough and should you side with Dew or the Ninth?
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors Ben Starr and Jennifer English worry the J’RPG wouldn’t be “as sexy” if it wasn’t French: “French people are just sexier”
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr is still ready to "lose to Megabonk" at The Game Awards, since one "person's game of the year is going to be another person's worst game of all time"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 writer says Dragon Quest taught him that protagonists should be "self-insert for the player", but realized "I shouldn't be so set on the idea that a silent protagonist is the only way"
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NewsSega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor Jennifer English chooses her favorite ending for the "delulu fantasy" JRPG, and I forgive her for siding with her own character
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Charlie Cox is right to credit motion capture actor for Gustave, says Red Dead actor, since "it takes a village" just to "depict 1 character!"
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NewsDragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy protagonists "speak a lot," forming a "key difference" between the two iconic JRPG series: "You're not necessarily becoming the protagonist"
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NewsDragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy 10 is "the ultimate perfection" of the beloved JRPG series, and we're sure stans will be completely normal about it
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 performance actor says Charlie Cox is "generous" to credit him for Game Awards nomination, explains "bringing Gustave to life was a team effort"
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NewsMMO player endures "heavy chest pains" and struggles "to stay awake" as his girlfriend brings him food during 4-day grind to become first in the world to reach max level
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NewsWarframe studio reveals Founder packs with exclusive equipment for new fantasy MMO Soulframe as Digital Extremes starts "planting some of our biggest roots yet for the future"
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NewsBaldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English is moving on to her "dream part" – a fairy empress with a Welsh accent in the Warframe devs' new MMO
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NewsWorld of Warcraft lead assures worried MMO raiders that Blizzard removing add-ons is "to set ourselves up for being able to build content that will better serve all of our players"
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NewsMMO players get a sailing skill, immediately become pirates channeling a famous 2006 disaster: "Piracy as emergent gameplay is honestly perfect"
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NewsMMO players are unstoppable: Handed a new skill after 19 years, Old School RuneScape fans instantly force the devs to hotfix a Sailing XP flood over "Daddy's Special Water's special water"
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NewsWorld of Warcraft's $90 dinosaur mount is back again for a limited time ahead of Midnight's launch, and WoW Tokens have already sold out: "Costs more than the expansion. Company is trash."
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 lead Yoshi-P reportedly teases another "rebirth" for the MMO as Dawntrail continues to suffer "Mostly Negative" Steam reviews over 1 year on
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newsAfter 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
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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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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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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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Silksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr is still ready to "lose to Megabonk" at The Game Awards, since one "person's game of the year is going to be another person's worst game of all time"
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