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newsEx Nintendo PR managers say the Switch 2 generation is likely to see the retirement of "several of the major developers at Nintendo who we have known for 40 something years"
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NewsHelldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"
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News"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc
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NewsNot for the first time, workers at Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls parent ZeniMax threaten strike at Microsoft: "Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing"
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GuideRoblox Dress to Impress codes (Apr 2025) for the Flamethrower and more
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news"If it can run on Steam Deck, it can probably run on Switch 2": Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring prove there's a market for big AAA games on Switch 2
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featureHere are my biggest Nintendo Switch 2 Direct predictions as the rumor mill kicks up questions about the console's price, launch lineup, specs, and more
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Best ListThe Best Metroid Games of All Time
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InterviewAssassin's Creed Shadows was originally envisioned without Yasuke, but Ubisoft wanted the full feudal fantasy: "We were sort of making a stealth tank, and it didn't quite work"
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NewsAssassin's Creed Shadows lead says dual protagonists are "a cool thing" the new action RPG "does better than what we've done in the past"
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GuideAll Atomfall Pneumatic Dispatch Tubes locations
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GuideAll Atomfall gnomes locations in Wyndham Village
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NewsNaughty Dog's streak of The Last of Us re-releases isn't over yet, as leaker claims a $100 special edition is on the way soon
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GuideAll romance options in Assassin's Creed Shadows
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News"I'm lookin' at you, Korok Seeds": Former Diablo and Ghost of Tsushima dev outlines what makes a good collectible, and dunks Zelda: Breath of the Wild's worst grind into C tier
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newsGTA 3 on the Sega Dreamcast now has a 60fps "performance mode," but it makes the game almost unplayable
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newsNew Elden Ring Nightreign trailer is all about the archer class that wasn't in the beta, and this might be the first FromSoftware game where bows don't suck
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NewsMonster Hunter Wilds director reveals upcoming "balance changes" for the action RPG, including weapon improvements and nerfs for the "unintentionally overpowered"
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NewsTo celebrate 10 million sales, Capcom has released a special pack of Monster Hunter Wilds items, including upgrade materials and eggs
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NewsMonster Hunter Wilds breaks out the big guns, promising higher difficulty, PC fixes, layered weapons, hammer and other weapon buffs, and better endgame variety
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Monster Hunter Wilds continues its record-breaking streak, with Capcom now celebrating over 10 million sales for the new action RPG
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OpinionMonster Hunter Wilds’ biggest struggle is working out what it wants to say about nature
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newsThe other big Soulslike out this week has some Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 in its combat, dev says, but "we would rather call AI Limit an action RPG"
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OpinionWith no remaster in sight because Sony hates money and also me, I'm spending Bloodborne's 10-year anniversary thinking about its hardest, perfect boss battle
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NewsIn 15 hours, Elden Ring Nightreign beta players managed to beat the Day 3 boss over 58k times, which sounds pretty good until you hear about the 38 billion runes lost
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NewsPokemon Platinum's most obscure feature was a reward seemingly given to just 20 players lucky enough to participate in a complicated limited-time event with a lottery prize
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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Best listThe best Pokemon games, ranked from worst to best
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GuideAll the most rare cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best cards tier list (April 2025)
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GuidePokemon Legends Z-A: Everything we know so far
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GuideRanked rewards and matches in Pokemon TCG Pocket explained
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (April 2025)
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News37-year-old studio behind iconic PC game Myst and one of the longest-surviving indies in the world just laid off "roughly half the team"
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GuideHow to complete Fortnite Quests in Chapter 6 Season 2
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideFortnite Henchmen Walkie Talkies: How to eavesdrop on Kane
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GuideFortnite Outlaw Keycard: How to upgrade it and what does it do
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GuideHow to complete Someone is planning a joyride in Fortnite
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GuideAll Fortnite new weapons, vaulted and unvaulted for Season 2 of Chapter 6
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GuideWhat's new in the Fortnite OG Season 3?
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GuideFortnite Characters locations in Season 2 of Chapter 6
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GuideFortnite Gold Veins: How to mine them for Bars
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DealsThe Amazon Spring Sale has a massive selection of board games discounted this week
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DealsEssential nature board games to round out your collection in time for Spring 2025
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DealsTime to destroy cities and provoke some outrage, apparently, 'cause the Arcs board game is on offer
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GuideBest family board games for 2025, reviewed by experts
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DealsSave 56% on the run-up to Halfoween with this board game that lets you fight Cthulhu face-to-face
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DealsRoll up farming sim lovers, Stardew Valley: The Board Game is 25% off as we trundle into the spring sales
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NewsFellow witchcore weirdos, prepare your cauldrons for a classic potion-making board game refresh with Quacks: All-In Edition
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GuideThe 9 best board games in 2025, tested by our experts
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NewsI hope your affairs are in order, because Bandai Namco just dropped Tekken: The Board Game
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NewsCity Tales - Medieval Era is the next city builder destined for my Steam wishlist, and it's coming to Early Access in May
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NewsDisney's Robin Hood collides with Manor Lords in this charming city-builder where everyone is a fox
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newsCity-builder dev implores Valve to give devs real social media tools on Steam, because they're "terrified of the future market" and need a "solution for indie sustainability"
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NewsManor Lords dev confirms "castles and sieges are now in the works" for the city builder, as well as a new map that could get its own game mode in the future
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NewsThe hottest city builder in Steam Next Fest is actually a roguelike deck builder in disguise: "Break the game with thousands of insane builds"
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NewsManor Lords patch adds new maps and a city builder staple, bridge-building, and also makes it so "taverns realize ale isn't magic – it's just ale"
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NewsTetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year
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Solo developer behind The Falconeer and Bulwark explains why Game Pass is so great for indies: "If you get in it's generally a very positive thing for a dev."
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NewsMove over Manor Lords, this cozy medieval city builder is so good it "ruined other builders," and it's leaving early access very soon
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Hands-onMy first Den of Wolves heist, from Payday's creators, has me dropping plasma shields and brain-diving with teammates to steal minds: "We've been refining this formula for over 20 years now"
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GuideHow to save in REPO
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GuideBest REPO mods and how to install them
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GuideHow to revive teammates in REPO
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GuideAll REPO monsters and how to beat them
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REPO beginner's guide and how to play
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GuideIs REPO coming to consoles?
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Hands-onRevenge of the Savage Planet is a refreshingly colorful and light-hearted co-op throwback to the carefree action platformers of the noughties
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newsThe actors behind Split Fiction's main characters nearly botched their first auditions because they didn't know the script had two sides: "We were just stood there, sweating"
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InterviewDoom: The Dark Ages' team found new inspiration from the original Doom: "We play it at the start of every project"
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NewsDoom: The Dark Ages doesn't have multiplayer because "it would definitely come at the expense of" the campaign
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Doom: The Dark Ages is set to include 22 levels, almost doubling the amount offered in Doom Eternal
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Hands-onI didn't expect to say it, but Doom: The Dark Ages adding a shield and a parry somehow makes it feel more Doom than ever
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NewsAfter struggling to make sequel-sized changes, fans think Blizzard might retire the '2' in Overwatch's name based on Season 16 leaks
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NewsValve leads considered making a "mediocre" game before Half-Life to build the team up, but original marketing exec said "if you do that, the company will fail"
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Ubisoft reaches deal with Tencent to create $4.3 billion mini-Ubisoft subsidiary to "spearhead development" on new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six games
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GuideDoom: The Dark Ages – Everything we know so far
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NewsWhen Destiny 2 "weekly active users dropped lower and faster than we'd seen since 2018," Bungie assembled an A-Team to put out some fires: "We needed to do something"
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NewsAfter 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
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NewsAfter preserving the AI ghost of a fan's late brother, Tekken 8 boss says it might be a glimpse of the future where you don't "need an opponent who is human that has the exact same skill level"
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NewsSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate director "can't hope to compete with what doctors do," but he's content to "buff peoples' lives" with games
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NewsDespite fans begging for Tifa, Final Fantasy 16's Clive is "significantly more popular" than any other Tekken guest fighter
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News"I didn’t have a single ally": Tekken 4's negative reception put series boss Katsuhiro Harada under so much stress that he left Namco for a year
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newsTekken lead Katsuhiro Harada says he's spent decades "mentally preparing" for AI to overtake humans, but it's not happening: "If AI had really advanced, we wouldn't be pouring 10, 20, 30 billion Yen into making games"
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GuideAll Mortal Kombat 1 Fatalities and how to perform them
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NewsSuper Smash Bros. creator says instead of making more "Americanized works," Japanese devs should "seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games"
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Best ListThe 25 best fighting games you can play right now
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How to save in REPO
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Best REPO mods and how to install them
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How to revive teammates in REPO
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All REPO monsters and how to beat them
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REPO beginner's guide and how to play
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Is REPO coming to consoles?
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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NewsFormer Witcher 3 and Dying Light devs reveal their Resident Evil homage, complete with PS1-style fixed cameras
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NewsAfter 15 years and a $120,000 Kickstarter push, this cult horror dev has finally released a successor to their 2006 breakout game
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newsMetaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
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Interview"Should JRPGs be considered a distinct genre?": Lunar icon Kei Shigema reflects on the genre with new remasters on the way and how RPGs have changed 33 years later
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake's Aerith actor is throwing her hat into the ring for the Legend of Zelda movie: "I just wanna audition for Zelda so bad"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 9 gets website celebrating 25th anniversary with hints of "various projects," leaving fans of the JRPG hopeful for the long-rumored remake
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newsMetaphor: ReFantazio wanted to fix the JRPG grinding problem, but Atlus went too far at one point and accidentally broke the whole combat system
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth battle director says combining everything he learned on Monster Hunter: World with Square Enix's technology and unique skills created a "chemical reaction"
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NewsIt's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too
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NewsThe lead UI designer on Metaphor: ReFantazio had never designed for a game before – he just rolled up and made some of the best UI I've ever seen in a JRPG
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NewsShin Megami Tensei's overlooked action spin-off is coming back this summer after almost 20 years, and the OG JRPG's director hopes "things don’t end here"
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News24 years later, RuneScape gets its own survival game – RuneScape: Dragonwilds turns the MMO into a co-op game with RPG juice and Valheim energy, and it's out this year
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GuideDune Awakening: Everything we know so far about the new Dune MMO
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NewsFollowing a high-profile guild quitting WoW Classic Hardcore, Blizzard makes the unprecedented decision to revive MMO characters that die during DDoS attacks "at our sole discretion"
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NewsDune Awakening launches for $50 without a stay in early access, and while the survival MMO "will not have a monthly subscription" it will have "optional" paid DLC
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News"If this is just how it is, then yeah, that's the end": WoW Classic's most famous hardcore guild calls time for now after multiple raiders lose their MMO characters to DDoS attacks
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NewsMy newest MMO hero is World of Warcraft Priest 'Chimneytime,' who got an official "warning" from Blizzard for making too many people get trapped inside chimneys
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newsOne of the oldest action MMOs around gets its first level cap update in years: "The main focus of this update is to emphasize the core RPG experience - the fun of farming"
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NewsWoW Classic might be getting a legendary weapon that's been the subject of rumors in the MMO's mainline version for 20 years
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NewsWorld of Warcraft's latest raid race ends in disappointment after 12 days with a final boss so lackluster the team who won was visibly confused to have beaten it
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League of Legends' take on Balatro is one of its best mini-games yet – and it's also exactly what's wrong with this era of League of Legends
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NewsArcane Season 2 gets one last dance as the League of Legends spin-off animators return to bring Jinx and Ekko back to the series' most iconic song
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League of Legends shadow-drops a Balatro-style roguelike, but the catch is that to complete it you'll have to actually play League of Legends
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NewsRiot walks back controversial League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests, Exalted skins, and Blue Essence costs are all being reworked
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NewsLeague of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
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News4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs
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NewsDoubling-down on League of Legends' worst PR disaster in years, developer Riot locks hotly anticipated cosmetic behind $240 gacha wall
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NewsAs League of Legends fans reel over loot controversy, fans of ex-Riot devs' hot new MOBA seize the chance to promote their game instead
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News"We screwed up on this one," Riot admits, promising League of Legends updates for Blue Essence and Account XP amid player backlash
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NewsI failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything
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NewsThe long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
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NewsBethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
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NewsOne of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
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PreviewTavern Keeper feels like being a fly on the wall in a D&D campaign, and I never knew I needed that in a management sim
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NewsGrisly cult management sim Worshippers of Cthulhu has confirmed an October release date, but devout fans can play a free demo now
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NewsAbduct humans to put them on display in this theme park sim set in the same universe as a 27-year-old banger of a black comedy film
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NewsDwarf Fortress publisher isn't bothered about the cult classic hitting its 120,000 player peak again: "We're not here to make as much money as possible"
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NewsAmid rave reviews and 200,000 sales, Idle Stardew Valley-style farming sim dev can hardly believe their success: "I'm only now realizing how life-changing this is"
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Ex Nintendo PR managers say the Switch 2 generation is likely to see the retirement of "several of the major developers at Nintendo who we have known for 40 something years"
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Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"
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"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc
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Not for the first time, workers at Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls parent ZeniMax threaten strike at Microsoft: "Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing"
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Roblox Dress to Impress codes (Apr 2025) for the Flamethrower and more
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"If it can run on Steam Deck, it can probably run on Switch 2": Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring prove there's a market for big AAA games on Switch 2
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Here are my biggest Nintendo Switch 2 Direct predictions as the rumor mill kicks up questions about the console's price, launch lineup, specs, and more
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After 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
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New Elden Ring Nightreign trailer is all about the archer class that wasn't in the beta, and this might be the first FromSoftware game where bows don't suck
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feature
Here are my biggest Nintendo Switch 2 Direct predictions as the rumor mill kicks up questions about the console's price, launch lineup, specs, and more
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After 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
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news
New Elden Ring Nightreign trailer is all about the archer class that wasn't in the beta, and this might be the first FromSoftware game where bows don't suck
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