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newsBethesda's Fallout bundle is 70% off and gets you every main Fallout game and all DLC for $43 in one of the best Steam RPG deals of the season
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NewsCo-op survival game Necesse is like Terraria but top-down with an "infinite" world – it just left early access and flew up the Steam charts with Palworld's blessing: "Absolute banger"
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NewsNier creator Yoko Taro says he includes "small unknown features in my real autographs," so you might be getting scammed: "Nearly half of the autographs being resold are actually fake"
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News"We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans
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NewsA brave Alpha Magikarp in Pokemon Legends Z-A is getting revenge by blasting unsuspecting players with Hydro Pump instead of the usual Splash attack
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NewsScrew up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"
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NewsThe Steam store just added a feature I didn't know I needed until Valve pointed it out: a dedicated page for every bundle containing a game
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GuideBrookhaven codes (October 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsGTA 6 theory crafting reaches the next level as one fan thinks the next trailer's release date has been under our noses for months
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newsGod of War Ragnarok lead says AAA studios should "diversify into double-A and single-A, and then perhaps indie" even if blockbuster releases result in "potentially really large" payoffs
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NewsAs Red Dead Redemption 2's reveal trailer turns nine years old, fans look back at the worst reactions to it: "The main character seems completely tasteless"
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NewsFormer Assassin's Creed boss says he "did not make that choice" to leave Ubisoft after 20 years – the company "decided to transfer the leadership… to someone closer to its new organizational structure"
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NewsI played the top-rated Soulslike in Steam Next Fest to see what the fuss is about – turns out it's not a Soulslike but a boss rush with amazing combat, and I see what the fuss is about
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NewsTeam Ico pitched Shadow of the Colossus to Sony with placeholder music from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man: "Later on, we found out that was actually the theme music"
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PreviewHyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment's Zonai contraptions empowers Zelda's allies in the best way possible, and I'm excited by how much has changed
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NewsAfter Sony rejected a Horizon Zero Dawn collab, Tencent tried to pitch a new The Last of Us game instead: "I was confused"
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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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News"We were looking at the Zelda Oracle games," says Shovel Knight dev, but the gorgeous Mina the Hollower actually feels more "like a Castlevania or a Bloodborne"
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NewsBorderlands 4 update that aims the nerf cannon at its most broken builds delayed into next week, so enjoy your crit knife until then
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NewsBorderlands 4 creative lead promises fans "more options are coming soon" as the crit knife build dominates the meta, and offers a warning: "We will be adjusting it"
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GuideAll Zenless Zone Zero codes (October 2025) and how to redeem them
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newsThis cosmic horror action RPG basically turns my home state of Arizona into the Upside Down from Stranger Things, and it's my first must-play Steam Next Fest demo
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NewsGearbox's Randy Pitchford is pretty happy with Borderlands 4 story feedback: "Isn't it weird to ship a game where the biggest complaint isn't how we f***ed up the story?"
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NewsIt's 2025 and we're still digging up new finds in the original Dark Souls: FromSoftware expert reckons cut boss attack "likely to be just a typo" that was resolved in the Artorias DLC
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NewsGearbox boss Randy Pitchford said we'd have to wait at least 5 years to see Borderlands 4 get a major discount, but we've only had to wait 1 month for its first smaller discount as it's already 20% off on Steam
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A brave Alpha Magikarp in Pokemon Legends Z-A is getting revenge by blasting unsuspecting players with Hydro Pump instead of the usual Splash attack
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A's real-time combat changes make one of the series' best non-damaging moves basically redundant and one of the coolest Gen 6 Pokemon "utter garbage"
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Guide
Brookhaven codes (October 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsMinecraft devs explain "players have a different appetite for challenge and difficulty" which is why the Ender Dragon isn't allowed on the overworld: "That's not a great game experience"
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A has an enormous, unavoidable grind if you want the shiny-boosting Shiny Charm, but fans are already finding ways to avoid doing the work
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NewsPokemon Legends: Z-A can keep 10 ultra-rare shiny Pokemon spawned on the map at any time, and it's impossible to lose them unless you knock them out or are silly like me and scare them away
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NewsPokemon Friends sure does look like another game from the same developer, as fans accuse the puzzler of being a 2016 reskin
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News"Every game has a parry now," but Shovel Knight dev wants to keep things simple for upcoming Game Boy Zelda-like Mina the Hollower: "I played that new Doom, and even Doom has Dark Souls stuff in it"
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GuideHow to get past all Pokemon Legends: Z-A obstacles
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NewsFortnite, Roblox, Wordle, and other popular games down as Amazon Web Services outage sends the internet toppling
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideThe Fortnite Fortnitemares 2025 event explained
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NewsI've been a professional writer for 8 years, but that didn't stop Steam Next Fest's weirdest battle royale - a terrifying typing game - from completely humbling me
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Fortnite 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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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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ReviewWingspan review: "One of the greats"
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DealsWhat to expect from Black Friday board game deals 2025
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NewsI'm going full CSI on this very blurry image from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater
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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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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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Guide
Brookhaven codes (October 2025) for music tracks and memes
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GuideMurder Mystery 2 codes (October 2025) have all expired
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NewsHelldivers 2 updates take a pause as Arrowhead commits to sorting out widespread performance issues "to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in"
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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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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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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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Brookhaven codes (October 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsOG Modern Warfare 3 director is "immensely" worried about what will happen to Call of Duty under Xbox: "What's happening to Gears of War, where's Halo… you know what I mean?"
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GuideRoblox Rivals codes (October 2025) for free Keys, Wraps, and more
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NewsArc Raiders devs already patch Server Slam disconnect errors as Steam players queue to get in: "This time around, it's a full redownload of the game"
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GuideHow to access the Arc Raiders Server Slam and when it ends
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NewsBattlefield 6 players asked for changes and the devs brought a sledgehammer: Conquest changes rolled back, and progression is much easier to ward off XP farms
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NewsFormer Call of Duty director Glen Schofield says "I hate doing this, but since I left Sledgehammer, none of the games have been very good"
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NewsBattlefield 6 Conquest tickets get reduced, players revolt: "If I wanted ten-minute chaos with zero teamwork and no room for tactics, I’d go play COD"
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GuideHow to use the Battlefield 6 Range Finder
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GuideJujutsu Infinite codes (October 2025) for free Spins
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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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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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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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newsThe original Little Nightmares devs basically made their own Little Nightmares 3, and I had more fun playing its Steam Next Fest demo than I did reviewing the actual sequel from Supermassive
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news29 years later, cult classic horror game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream gets "definitive update" from retro powerhouse Nightdive with bonus content, achievements, and "modern menu options"
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Hands-onBlumhouse first-person horror game is a Silent Hill dystopia where nobody sleeps, and you need to stealth around like it's Alien: Isolation – which I might be better at if I weren't so scared
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Best ListThe best games based on horror movies
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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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"We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans
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NewsLegendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has "never used AI and probably never will" because it's "more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"
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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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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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newsA Short Hike dev's free "seasonal pumpkin carving MMO" with "new areas and new secrets" now supports 800 players at once and it's hard to think of a better way to get into the Halloween spirit
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News"I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction
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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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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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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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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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The Steam store just added a feature I didn't know I needed until Valve pointed it out: a dedicated page for every bundle containing a game
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NewsA new shooter is gaining on Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders on Steam's top sellers, and it's only $18: Escape from Duckov is a PvE riff on Escape from Tarkov with 180,000 peak players
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NewsThe Elder Scrolls fans rebuilding the entirety of Morrowind "cut from the original game" are now adding "one of the holy grails" of Bethesda lore fans have wanted "for more than 20 years"
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