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How BioWare can make an unlikely comeback, and why it never will: The first step is cancelling Mass Effect

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The once prestigious RPG studio is in a serious rut, but there’s a way out.

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DDR4 and DDR5 prices are down on the spot market but only by a teeny, tiny amount

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How BioWare can make an unlikely comeback, and why it never will: The first step is cancelling Mass Effect

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The once prestigious RPG studio is in a serious rut, but there’s a way out.

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You can finally rescue Half-Life's guards and scientists thanks to this mod inspired by Lemmings

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Half-Life: Lemmings lets you save the trapped employees of the Black Mesa: Facility.

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Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that's fine by him: 'You've got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger'

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‘I write 700,000 words and then I’m expecting most of it to not be seen on a normal playthrough’

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Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'

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Darkstone, 1999 RPG about eating apples and trying not to die of old age, being remastered

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Eat the apple, apple boy.

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I have 1,700 hours in Europa Universalis 4. After one EU5 campaign, I can't go back—but I don't want to stay, either

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I have 1,700 hours in EU4—now I don’t feel like I can go back, but EU5 has to change if I’m going to play it again.

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28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it

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Someone has made a tool to add achievements to non-Steam games on Linux, which feels like a niche in a niche

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Graveyard Keeper is available for free on Steam right now

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Link for convenience: https://store.steampowered.com/app/599140/Graveyard_Keeper/

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SOMA studio says its next game is not 'stressful or scary' in the traditional sense, but it'll still mess you up real good: 'The goal is to evoke this deep existential terror that stays long after you finish playing'

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Ontos, revealed by Frictional Games at The Game Awards, aims to double down on SOMA’s cerebral approach to horror

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'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google

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'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google

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HipHopGamer says GTA 6's user-generated content 'will produce millionaires'

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Press F to doubt.

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Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched

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Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet

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Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched

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Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own YouTube channel

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A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'

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Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world

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I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.

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Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world

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I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.

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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'

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Bay 12 Games’ co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

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Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month

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There’s still no release date, but it’s getting closer.

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This AI startup envisions '100 million new people' making videogames

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Xenonauts 2 review - an exceptional tactics game, even without the nostalgia [available on GOG and Steam] Review

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GOG Store Page

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43% of PC Gamer readers will be switching to gaming on Linux this year

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[ScummVM], the best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and [Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness], a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a 'terribly low 2/10'

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ScummVM Blog - ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" sees the light

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Amazon TV head allegedly orders Mass Effect show rewrite to make it 'more appealing to non-gamers'

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I should go.

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Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception

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Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty: Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again.

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When I heard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 was back in the limelight thanks to an unusually steep $6 sale on Steam, I wasn’t too surprised. Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare reboot was extremely popular in its day, reinvigorating a series that tread water through the mid-2010s and ushering in an era of followups that’d build on its reimagined progression and class systems.

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MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees [17 lay off]

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An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'

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'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'

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Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island.

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This AI open-source cloning software shows the gaping hole in code copyright

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FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

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Artemis II astronauts are struggling with Microsoft Outlook issues

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US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision

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Nintendo has plenty of space to respond, however.

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Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'

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How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?

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Inzoi Studio head says early access was unavoidable, but he feels kind of bad about it: 'The users are testing it on our behalf, so I always feel sorry for them'

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Yeah, that’s pretty much how it works.

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Aether & Iron review - Arcanum meets Bioshock Infinite in a speakeasy.

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That finishes them off, then sending them hurtling down the highway to collide with an innocent bystander’s car. “Ah, my transmission!” he shouts, taking four points of damage as my turn comes to an end.

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Deus Ex: Invisible War audio director says 'there was room for improvement'

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It wasn’t this ‘90s cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic cheese fest that everybody reveled in at that time.

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Death Stranding 2's PC port pushed it past 2 million copies sold

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Ghost of Yotei, this could be you.

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TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028 and even its next-gen Arizona fab is fully booked before it has even been built

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Next on the AI cockblock.

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XCOM meets Rashomon in Vaunted, a tactical RPG where your characters can rewrite history from their perspective

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The debut title from Lost Lake Games also lets you switch between turn-based combat and real-time action.

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Linux kernel maintainer says Al has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better"

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution could've had a track from the original game's composer but it was rejected for not being the 'right fit,' and in hindsight he says they were right

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Eidos Montreal wanted to put its own stamp on Deus Ex after it took over the series, and that meant it wanted music from an entirely different composer.

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My 2021 RPG of the year's 232 subclasses make it the ultimate game for buildcrafting freaks—especially the overpowered Ranger who gets to ride a griffon from level 1

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By sickos, for sickos.

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Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in April

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Team 17’s Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.

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Developer of cozy tea shop adventure Wanderstop is shutting down: 'It's a particularly tough time for raising game funds'

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Zero Parades devs, [ZA/UM], knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

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Cops are out, spies are in.

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Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

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There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev

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Alien Deathstorm is the very real title of the new 'action horror game' coming from Atomfall developer Rebellion

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It sounds like an ironic gag title from an early-aughts sitcom, but no, this is just how things are now.

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Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making 'as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you'

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It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year

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AI’s impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.

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Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice

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Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar.

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Stranger than Heaven is Yakuza except set between 1915 and 1965 in five different cities—including Kamurocho

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It’s a grittier take than the recent Like a Dragon games, but I’m sure it’ll still have bonkers mini-games.

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'Realtime-with-pause is not dead,' says turn-based Star Wars game designer

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Which is why I’m looming over the genre’s coffin with a stake and hammer.

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In its first major visual overhaul ever, RPG Maker will soon let you make games in the style of Octopath Traveler

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The distinctive RPG Maker look is finally evolving.

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It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year

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AI’s impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.

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The companions in [The Expanse: Osiris Reborn], Owlcat's new Mass Effect-inspired RPG, stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up

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Meet the party of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn in our exclusive reveal.

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Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath

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This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026’s biggest surprise.

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Banquet for Fools review: An enthralling experience that expects nothing less than your full attention at all times

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Steam store page

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Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath

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This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026’s biggest surprise.

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CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people

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What an utter dick.

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I've put Intel's Binary Optimization Tool to the test

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It really does work but with so few CPUs and games supporting it, BOT will mean nothing to most enthusiasts.

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If you think citizens in city builders are needy, try pleasing Roman gods

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In city builder Nova Roma, the gods can make life easier for you—just don't turn your back on them.

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[Lost Wiki: Kozlovka, a] $5 Wikipedia-like mystery game consumed me for 2 straight hours as I dug for clues about a little town and its big weird tree

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Lost Wiki: Kozlovka has a disturbing story told through database entries and classified documents.

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If you think citizens in city builders are needy, try pleasing Roman gods [in Nova Roma, a new Roman city-builder entering early access this week]

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In city builder Nova Roma, the gods can make life easier for you—just don’t turn your back on them.

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I felt like playing a janky choice-driven RPG on my Steam Deck, and [Mars: War Logs, a] gritty AA deepcut is hitting the spot for just 99 cents

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Mars War Logs isn’t amazing, but it’s definitely worth investigating.

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Masters of Albion is a 'Best of Peter Molyneux' greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it

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No cube this time, though.

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Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development

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Do you ever think there are too many PC games? So did Ultima's Robert Garriott—in 1989

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“The consumer doesn’t really know what to buy for their computer,” Garriott said in 1989, while also pointing to the popularity of Nintendo’s newfangled game console.

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After one of Blood's best mods added a new episode in January, another brilliant spin on Monolith's shooter just got an even bigger overhaul

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Death Wish 2.0 available on ModDB or in Nightdive’s recent remaster.

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An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur's Gate games just got a massive overhaul

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Plan your next playthrough of one of D&D’s best videogame adaptations.

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Hoarder is what happens when a Darkwood co-creator makes a cleaning simulator: Your job is to clean the abyss and 'no one is coming to save you'

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Hoarder is a bit like Powerwash Simulator, except you might be in a sort of Cthulhu-esque hell.

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Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers

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The latest game from the developer of Moonlighter is a tower defence roguelike about Dracula fighting off waves of vampire hunters

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Deploy werebears and ghosts to turn away unwanted visitors in ReVamp.

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Cities: Skylines 2 boss says they 'completely overestimated' the Unity engine's capabilities

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“Our mistake was to bank on something that was not yet proven,” says Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen.

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RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years

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Subnautica 2 set for early access release in May as Krafton signals surrender: 'We look forward to working with Ted Gill to support a smooth transition and work toward a successful launch'

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A judge ruled yesterday that Krafton improperly fired Gill in 2025, and ordered that he be restored as CEO of Unknown Worlds.

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As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I'm excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer

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Burdened with glorious knowledge.

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Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort'

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Emergency call.

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'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

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The Sims 4’s original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

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The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'

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I knew something about that Tick Milk felt familiar.

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Going Medieval stole my heart with a large, cursed hole

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Don’t be rude.

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Deus Ex's maligned sequel was the most 2026 game of 2003⁠: It clocked the 21st century even harder than Metal Gear Solid 2

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Give me Deus Ex (Invisible War)

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Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'

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“Nerd baby rage” sums up a lot of Lemmy

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Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'

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Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'

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In a wild turn for the Subnautica 2 lawsuit, a judge orders Krafton to restore fired Unknown Worlds CEO and gives them 9 more months to earn $250 million bonus

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Deus Ex's maligned sequel was the most 2026 game of 2003⁠: It clocked the 21st century even harder than Metal Gear Solid 2

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Give me Deus Ex (Invisible War)

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Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI

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Our actions and voices do make a difference! Keep AI out of games and reward original creative work.

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Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'

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The way Kaplan explains it, the good ship Overwatch started to buckle when unreasonable expectations were placed on the Overwatch League, a hugely hyped esports league founded in 2017 and closed in 2024.

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'

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The way Kaplan explains it, the good ship Overwatch started to buckle when unreasonable expectations were placed on the Overwatch League, a hugely hyped esports league founded in 2017 and closed in 2024.

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Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

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Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'

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