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House Flipper is free to keep on Steam for the next few days
News Try out the renovate-'em-up's original incarnation before the remaster comes out.
Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'
News The Destiny-like was named for its "retention challenges" in a recent presentation.
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'
News "How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"
A programmer with terminal brain cancer was caught in Epic's mass layoff, but CEO Tim Sweeney says the studio 'will solve the insurance for them'
News "Mike is not just a number. He is a father. A husband. A person deeply loved."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator says he was 'fired from Warhorse Studios and replaced with AI'
News "If you've ever played KCD2 in English, you've quite likely seen my work."
The latest Crimson Desert patch adds five new mounts and makes it so you only get in trouble for stealing if you get caught
News Fixes and quality-of-life improvements abound.
'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance
news "Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."
Owlcat says everything in its new Expanse RPG 'will definitely 100 percent be human-made,' but also that generative AI will be used for 'vision coordination' and 'inspiration'
News Another highly-anticipated RPG has been spotted with its hands in the generative AI jar.
Elder Scrolls mobile spinoff Blades is shutting down this summer after eight years, but at least all its store items are ultra-cheap now
News In the end, it never made it to PC.
Meta to pay $375 million for 'thousands' of children's safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue
News Is it a slap on the wrist if you can't feel it?
Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them 'billions of times' to make over $8 million in royalties
News "Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real."
Mega 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'
News No need to break out the pitchforks.
That Dragon Quest MMO still isn't coming to the west, but it is getting a Gemini-powered AI slime companion
News Chatty Slimey will introduce conversational AI to Dragon Quest X.
Crimson Desert team apologizes after players find AI art in the game: 'Our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced'
News "We also acknowledge that we should have clearly disclosed our use of AI."
An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur's Gate games just got a massive overhaul
News Plan your next playthrough of one of D&D's best videogame adaptations.
Minecraft's Diablo-inspired spinoff is getting a surprise sequel this year
News "With peace restored, all was well until it wasn't."
Toby Fox says 'most of the development team has moved on' from Deltarune's fifth chapter, as focus moves to bug fixes and translation
News "The actual testing period will last for an indefinite amount of time."
Steam gets big ups for promoting the human artists behind its latest spring sale graphics: 'Thank you for using real artists and not slop'
News Someone has to make all those Points Shop items, you know.
The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: 'Lara deserves better than this'
News Players have taken to social media to share their disappointment.
This indie dev is making a Mirror's Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable
News Return to the late aughts.
Darktide is getting a new extraction-esque mode where you go outside and try not to die from radiation poisoning: 'If time runs out and you die, you get nothing'
News No PvP, but a familiar loop nonetheless.
Executive producer on The Simpsons says 'never say never' regarding a Hit & Run revival, even if he prefers the 2007 game
News There's no accounting for taste.
Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans
News Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."
