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NewsCrimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it
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RNGA decade ago, Call of Duty sidelined its iconic progression system to dabble in gacha instead, and I was glad I'd forgotten
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newsThe multiplayer shooter with radioactive attack bears and moose-drawn artillery is closing after less than a year in early access
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newsAvalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'
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News'There wasn't really a game or team' when Undead Labs made the now-5-year-old State of Decay 3 reveal trailer: 'The game was in a Word document'
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NewsA Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: 'I swear to god, you people aren't human'
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NewsSony will put you through a 2-stage job interview for the chance to get scanned into Gran Turismo 7 and other games
By Joshua Wolens Published
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NewsCrimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it
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NewsZelda: Twilight Princess PC port inches closer to release with new showcase video—and modders have already added Linkle into the game
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NewsDevious Crimson Desert players are sending NPCs tumbling to their deaths by weaponizing their insatiable apple cravings
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Fruit CodesAll active Blox Fruits codes in April 2026 and how to redeem them
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SUIT YOURSELFYour joys will always be someone else's junk
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MMO noAfter over 150 hours with Crimson Desert, it still makes no damn sense—compels me though
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newsDatamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
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In defense ofMindsEye is a glitchy, incoherent mess I wouldn't recommend to anyone—and it might also be my favorite game of 2026
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news'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'
By Andy Chalk Published
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Adventure
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NewsA Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: 'I swear to god, you people aren't human'
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RetconciliatonLife is Strange: Reunion does its best to give Max and Chloe fans what they want at the expense of almost every other character in the game
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News'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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newsPeak's new update gives you the keys to the climb with a suite of custom settings, including the option to turn on 'Grapple Mode (Stupid)'
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rabbit holeA $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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NewsDispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle
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NewsDispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games
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News'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'
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NewsDispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
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Battle Royale
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Drop inFortnite Showdown: Rivalries explained, map secrets, mythic weapon locations and more
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Super looterAfter a massive shake-up of Fortnite's loot pool, what's the best weapon and loadout?
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Final circleAfter layoffs, Fortnite's future is shakier than it has ever been
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newsFortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'
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NewsFortnite's new Peak skin costs almost 3 times as much as the indie game it's based on: 'That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers'
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NewsFortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'
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NewsFortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, is going free-to-play after nearly a decade
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newsFortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'
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New balanceFortnite's Chapter 7 loot pool is a blueprint for battle royale going forward: balanced, lethal, and flexible
By Samuel Horti Published
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Board Game
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Keep rollin'All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for April 2026
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NEWSThe Slay the Spire board game is getting an expansion based on one of the PC game's most popular mods
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NewsActual-play series Dimension 20 is partnering with White Wolf for a Vampire: The Masquerade show
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NewsGames Workshop just announced a book of 'insightful ork quotes' called Words of Waaagh
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NewsBlood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban, says 'it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort'
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NewsMy next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15
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newsThe Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers
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NewsWarhammer World, Games Workshop's pub-slash-hobby store celebrating the venerable wargame, is coming to the US
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Not to jinx itThe League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games
By Jonathan Bolding Published
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Ditch the QuidditchThank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn't doing a Harry Potter crossover set
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newsSlay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch
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NewsMega 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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NewsSlay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
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newsWhat will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit
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NewsMega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2's 1st balance pass, saying these changes are 'the first of many': 'No change is necessarily permanent'
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newsVampire Crawlers, the 'Turbo Wildcard' Vampire Survivors spinoff, is coming in April
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News'Even though I threw out my back from overworking, I'm feeling high in spirits': Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week
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Let's TalkPlaying Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally all weekend turned me into a happy lump of swaddled gamer joy
By Andrea Shearon Published
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City Builder
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Vis MajorIf you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods
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NewsBeaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
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NewsYou can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years
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NewsCities: Skylines 2's new developer celebrates the occasion with a debut patch all about death, making citizens pop their clogs around the clock and removing immortality in easy mode: 'Previously, about 80% of them never died of old age'
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Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers
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NewsCities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
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News'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'
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NewsManor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources
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pretty cityThe city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures
By Christopher Livingston Published
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RNGA decade ago, Call of Duty sidelined its iconic progression system to dabble in gacha instead, and I was glad I'd forgotten
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newsThe multiplayer shooter with radioactive attack bears and moose-drawn artillery is closing after less than a year in early access
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NewsOverwatch's Anran redesign fixes her controversial 'baby face' in Season 2: 'This process has really helped dial in the next set of heroes'
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NewsGray Zone Warfare's player count jumps by over 1000% following its most recent update: 'Players are coming back'
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NewsMarathon's most powerful gun gets a major nerf, as Bungie seeks to 'curb a little bit of its dominion in the game'
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Kitchen nightmaresThis Nightdive-remastered 3DO shooter shows why it took Halo to break PC gaming's FPS hegemony
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NewsOur favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month
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TWIBBorderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes
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Black MarketWhere is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?
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Fighting
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NewsStreet Fighter 6's new DLC character is into incest, and somehow Capcom is making the whole thing even weirder
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NewsTekken 8 devs promise better after latest patch, but fans are in full doom mode
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news'Evo is dead': Major fighting game tournament is now wholly owned by Saudi megaproject Qiddiya, promises 'traditions, values, and identity will remain unchanged'
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'Our team is still fully committed and working hard on 2XKO' says Riot as it announces two new characters days after mass layoff announcement
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NewsThe best Smash Bros.-like on Steam just added a character who can shop for items and go fishing in the middle of a match, in case you thought fighting games were too one-note
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NewsTeam Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation
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Great expectationsI don't understand what Riot wants from 2XKO
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newsRiot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'
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newsAfter a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3
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Dead goodDead By Daylight codes for April 2026
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NewsShinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
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Fine &All active Dandy's World codes in April 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox
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NewsResident Evil Requiem patch adds photo mode, and apparently 'Character expressions in some cutscenes have been adjusted to better convey emotion'
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newsGet every Frictional horror game ever made—Penumbra, Amnesia, and SOMA—for just $15 in this screamingly good bundle
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Haunted HolidayPhasmophobia events and updates for 2026: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts
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NewsNow you can play Resident Evil Requiem in VR if that's a thing you want for some reason
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NewsNow you can replace Resident Evil Requiem's product-placement Porsche with a drivable hamburger
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newsHoarder 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'
By Andy Chalk Published
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Life Sim
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newsPetit 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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NewsI opened my own store in Stardew Valley so now Pierre has to buy my seeds. MY SEEDS
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newsInzoi 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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News'There are no leaks', says Stardew Valley creator, taking a hammer to the rumour mill
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NEWSStardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice
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Sweets ScienceHaunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley
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News'Sims don't plan anything' says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: 'it's always shot down, rightfully so'
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News'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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Castle KeysAll Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton Last updated
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MMO
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NewsTeam Liquid becomes the 4-peat World of Warcraft Race to World First champions after 2 weeks, 473 pulls, and one fake out
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newsWoW raiders start celebrating world-first Midnight boss kill before watching it come back to life for a secret final phase: 'This cannot be'
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NO CARROTFinal Fantasy 14's latest variant dungeon is so good, it deserves better—the MMO needs to figure out its rewards so all this great work isn't wasted
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Free stuffAll Blue Protocol: Star Resonance codes
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STORY SKIPThere's just no good reason why WoW's story mode raids aren't available right away—and I'm saying that as someone who cleared normal just fine last month
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NewsWoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
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newsWorld of Warcraft secret hunters perform synchronized dance in a 40-player raid group to finally solve a year-old puzzle, proving they will do anything for a new outfit
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NewsWoW players are beating Mythic+ dungeons at a rapid pace, and it's raising fears about difficulty
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newsClever WoW players exploited bugs and some poor little rats to try and kill a Midnight raid boss early, but Blizzard was one step ahead
By Tyler Colp Published
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MOBA
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NewsDeadlock's latest update brings some huge movement buffs like jumping mid slide and 30% increased air control—it's a lot cooler than it sounds
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newsAfter deciding to make a MOBA, Quantic Dream also decides to release it at the same time as the Marathon server slam, the first Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest, and the Steam Next Fest
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FACTSEvery Deadlock hero and all abilities
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NewsLeague of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no
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NewsDeadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'
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LOCKED AWAYI'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead
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NewsAll of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last
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NewsValve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands
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NewsDeadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2
By Harvey Randall Published
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Puzzle
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Purr-fectOragnized Inside is the perfect follow-up to Unpacking and A Little to the Left, as you trail a stray cat around town and tidy up as you go
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NewsThe creator of Stephen's Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
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Rise and shineI'm celebrating Spring by helping a little frog wake up from hibernation in the cosy puzzle game Walk the Frog
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Buddy SystemAn hour of puzzle-solving in the quirky world of Big Walk is the most fun I've had in co-op in ages
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NewsYou can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher's office to play it in person
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NewsHuman Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason
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GuideBlue Prince foundation elevator: how to use it
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house callBlue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion
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newsYou might think hidden object games aren't cool, but that's only because you haven't tried the Find My Frogs: Branches demo yet
By Andy Chalk Published
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newsAvalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'
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NewsOG Persona fans beg Atlus for a remake, Atlus says best I can do is a surprise rebrand and a phone case
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news11 years after launch, Pillars of Eternity's new turn-based mode feels like the way it's meant to be played
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NewsStar Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
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NewsStar Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
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critical hitIn 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
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NewsA new Crimson Desert patch adds the only RPG feature that matters: A hide helmet button
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newsFallout: New Vegas for the PS3 mod adds Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 to Fallout: New Vegas for the PC
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news'There's always the chance s**t hits the fan and we suffer another major setback,' Skyblivion lead says about the possibility of another delay, but 'from what I see internally I am pretty optimistic'
By Andy Chalk Published 13 Comments
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RTS
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newsGet the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8
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newsStormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company
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NewsDawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it
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NewsAge of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets yet another massive update adding a new line of warships and 'significant changes' to naval mechanics
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NewsStronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
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NewsDawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'
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NewsTotal War: Warhammer 40,000 surpasses Steam wishlist milestone, with over 1 million people ready to fight for their dessicated corpse of an Emperor
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NewsThe original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
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NewsI'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer
By Justin Wagner Published 8 Comments
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NewsSony will put you through a 2-stage job interview for the chance to get scanned into Gran Turismo 7 and other games
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Tiny hatsAll Minecraft Tiny Takeover Twitch drops and how to get them
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NewsDisney Dreamlight Valley's all-new Star Path feature means rewards never truly disappear for good
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