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From a 'single save-passing exercise' to an 'international community': How GTA’s world-hopping Chain Game has endured through hundreds of rounds—and how it's preparing for its biggest test yet with GTA 6

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Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to 'rebuild our core systems from the ground up'

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Death Stranding 2 devs thought 'Brutal' mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to 'the upper limit' with its new difficulty option on PC

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Silksong player tracks down a secret version of its act 1 boss and immediately discovers why Team Cherry probably cut it

Beeves

Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert

Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to 'work to make improvements quickly'

Crystal clear

All active Where Winds Meet codes and how to redeem them

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Controversial Space Marine 2 DLC has been made free: 'It's obvious this DLC has failed to meet your expectations'

Freebies

Zenless Zone Zero codes for March 2026

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Dispatch'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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Dispatch 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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'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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Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'

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Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say

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One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down

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Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now

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More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed

Clean up

The Muri: Wildwoods demo blends cute critters and the same satisfaction of PowerWash Simulator to create what might be my favourite demo from Steam Next Fest

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Fortnite 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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Fortnite: 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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Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'

New balance

Fortnite's Chapter 7 loot pool is a blueprint for battle royale going forward: balanced, lethal, and flexible

Skill issue

Fortnite's no-aim-required lock-on assault rifle is an all-time stinker, and I hope Epic vaults it into oblivion

Drop in

Fortnite Chapter 7 map guide: Where to land, boss locations, mythics and hot-air balloons

Super looter

After a massive shake-up of Fortnite's loot pool, what's the best weapon and loadout?

Let us spray

I'm tired of running the same Fortnite loadout—both SMGs and snipers need a major buff

Shock horror

Shockwaves, we miss you. Please come back to Fortnite

Keep rollin'

All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for March 2026

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Games Workshop just announced a book of 'insightful ork quotes' called Words of Waaagh

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Blood 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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My 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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The 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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Warhammer World, Games Workshop's pub-slash-hobby store celebrating the venerable wargame, is coming to the US

Not to jinx it

The League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games

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Godzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers

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Warhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles

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Vampire Crawlers, the 'Turbo Wildcard' Vampire Survivors spinoff, is coming in April

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'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

Let's Talk

Playing Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally all weekend turned me into a happy lump of swaddled gamer joy

Pathfinder

What does the Golden Compass do in Slay the Spire 2?

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Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'

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Slay the Spire 2 dev compared it to unexciting 'chicken noodle soup' before its extraordinary launch, but it turns out people really, really like their soup

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'It's kind of like you're a butcher': Hundreds of Slay the Spire 2 card ideas were cut during development in an 'incredibly destructive process'

Turtles Together Strong

Turtle Team-Up turns Magic: The Gathering into a chill co-op game so you don't have to beat your friends and feel bad about it

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Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem

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Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

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You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years

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Cities: 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'

Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers

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Cities: 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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'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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Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources

pretty city

The city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures

Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

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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

Runners

Best Marathon characters tier list: All Runner Shell classes explained

TWIB

Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

Run and Gun

Best weapons in Marathon

Black Market

Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?

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Bungie admits Marathon's weekend-heavy endgame means 'there are likely some who cannot participate'

NEWS

Marathon community crushes Cryo Archive puzzle, unlocks release date, and learns the map is only playable on weekends

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Counter-Strike 2 introduces the game's biggest shake-up in years: Now when reloading, you lose all the mag's remaining ammo

Marathon's competitive mode is so complicated that Bungie made a literal maths test to figure it out, and it actually helps

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'Evo is dead': Major fighting game tournament is now wholly owned by Saudi megaproject Qiddiya, promises 'traditions, values, and identity will remain unchanged'

'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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The 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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Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation

Great expectations

I don't understand what Riot wants from 2XKO

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Riot 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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After a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3

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Fatal Fury fans accuse new City of the Wolves trailer of being filled with AI slop: 'All that Saudi money and can't pay someone a couple bucks to make real s**t'

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'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout

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Now you can replace Resident Evil Requiem's product-placement Porsche with a drivable hamburger

Dead good

Dead By Daylight codes for March 2026

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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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Dead by Daylight's new K-pop chapter doesn't add a new killer, but it does sound like one more step towards a healthier game: 'It's a bit of a trial'

Fine &

All active Dandy's World codes in March 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox

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Resident Evil Requiem actor had to spend '2 to 3 minutes' audibly dying during her audition, while the casting director threw out surprise instructions: 'Now a zombie has bitten your left leg'

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Capcom celebrates 6 million units sold for Resident Evil Requiem, 'the fastest that a title in the series has reached this milestone'

Nightmare fuel

As if seeing it on your screen wasn't enough, someone has created a lifesize animatronic version of the girl from Resident Evil Requiem, which is a really good, not at all terrifying idea, I'm sure

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Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA's franchise sale, including Motive's excellent remake that will probably never see a successor

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'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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'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'

Castle Keys

All Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them

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Stardew Valley and Wordle sure do make for a cute combination in this daily guessing game on the farm sim's crops

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All about Sandy: Stardew Valley gift guide, schedule, and events

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The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players

shining star

Stardew Valley's soundtrack is the game's unsung hero, and nails the surprisingly difficult task of making a cosy game's music memorable

The GOAT

Stardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming

Evergreen 🌿

I went on a serious cottagecore Stardew Valley mod hunt and now I've got the cozy farm of my dreams for my next save

TWO MINUTES

World of Warcraft: Midnight's class balancing is steering the MMO headfirst into a mistake that's been haunting FF14 for years

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World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion

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Our idea of Azeroth could have looked very different, because Jeff Kaplan said he 'really wanted WoW to be first-person' in its early days: 'I argued a lot for that'

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FF14's most determined challenge runner finally hits a wall after 1,000 hours, then unveils a backup strategy that took 233 days to prepare in secret: 'I wanted so badly to tell people'

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Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize

BIG PULLS

Question time: How many of you actually care about going fast in an MMO dungeon?

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2 years after its announcement, FF14's monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode

Free stuff

All Blue Protocol: Star Resonance codes

Eternally Online

Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off

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Deadlock'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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After 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

FACTS

Every Deadlock hero and all abilities

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League 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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Deadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'

LOCKED AWAY

I'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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All 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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Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands

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Deadlock 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

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The 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

Rise and shine

I'm celebrating Spring by helping a little frog wake up from hibernation in the cosy puzzle game Walk the Frog

Buddy System

An 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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You 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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Human 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

Guide

Blue Prince foundation elevator: how to use it

house call

Blue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion

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You might think hidden object games aren't cool, but that's only because you haven't tried the Find My Frogs: Branches demo yet

OLD BILLS

Obsidian Moon is a Lovecraftian noir detective game about moving bits of paper around your desk and making sure you've got enough money for whiskey and beans

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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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Bethesda learned its lesson from DLC pop-ups in its older RPGs: 'We've gotten better at that'

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Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game's most evil ending

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Minecraft's Diablo-inspired spinoff is getting a surprise sequel this year

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Toby Fox says 'most of the development team has moved on' from Deltarune's fifth chapter, as focus moves to bug fixes and translation

arr pee gee

These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale

Geralt vs Goralt

The great RPG debate: Defined playable characters or blank slates?

Weird Weekend

I installed the 154 GB 'biblically accurate Skyrim' mod and only crashed my PC like 8 times

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Crimson Desert dev says it 'takes time' to get used to the game's notoriously clunky controls, but advises players to 'think of it like riding a bike, it comes naturally after you learn it'

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Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

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Age 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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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign

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Dawn 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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Total 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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The 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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I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer

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Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month

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Dawn of War 4's 'guiding star' was the first in the series, but 'you're not trying to recreate the old game, you try to recreate the feeling'