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Burn After ReadingTwo laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance
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Eternally OnlineFormer EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off
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newsShadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
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Djinn up lootPath of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game
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NEWSMarathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit
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newsFormer Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'
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NewsDave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June
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Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June
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StunnerEven among the crowd of gorgeous illustrated games, At Fate's End is stunning enough to stand out
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NewsPragmata's demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: 'I can't believe millions of people are excited for our game'
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Fruit CodesAll active Blox Fruits codes in March 2026 and how to redeem them
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NewsBefore Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week
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NewsAmerican McGee has come out of retirement to make an Alice spiritual successor based on his plushie empire
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NewsThe Legacy of Kain: Defiance remaster does the best thing possible—it gets out of the way
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Crystal clearAll active Where Winds Meet codes and how to redeem them
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FreebiesZenless Zone Zero codes for March 2026
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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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NewsMaking Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say
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newsOne 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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NewsCopyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now
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NewsMore than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed
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Clean upThe 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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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
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Skill issueFortnite's no-aim-required lock-on assault rifle is an all-time stinker, and I hope Epic vaults it into oblivion
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Drop inFortnite Chapter 7 map guide: Where to land, boss locations, mythics and hot-air balloons
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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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Let us sprayI'm tired of running the same Fortnite loadout—both SMGs and snipers need a major buff
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Shock horrorShockwaves, we miss you. Please come back to Fortnite
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newsFortnite bans paid prize wheels in third-party games just days after Steal the Brainrot started selling them
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Keep rollin'All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for March 2026
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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
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NEWSGodzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers
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NEWSWarhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles
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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
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PathfinderWhat does the Golden Compass do in Slay the Spire 2?
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newsPlease 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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newsSlay 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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news'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'
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Turtles Together StrongTurtle 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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UnlockedSlay the Spire 2 launch times and release date
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Market CorrectionAfter its disastrous launch last year, I'm here to tell you that 2025's most promising auto-battler finally lives up to its potential
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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
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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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NewsCities: Skylines 2 finally gets its asset editor in a parting gift from the series' original developers
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Marathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit
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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'
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NewsEver complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'
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NewsOne of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'
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NewsModder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'
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NewsOverwatch 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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NewsCancelled LucasArts Star Wars shooter that 'would have just made Disney money' is playable online for the first time
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newsFormer Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse 'had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,' but adds, 'it wasn't the primary cause'
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newsMore than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing
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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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newsFatal 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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news'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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Tough luckThe worst part of Resident Evil Requiem is its final choice, which is an annoying throwback to Resident Evil 7's ultimatum
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NewsThis horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off
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NewsResident Evil Requiem mod makes Insanity mode even more brutal with zombie bites that actually infect you
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NewsCrabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that
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REdiculousResident Evil 2 Remake descends into kaizo chaos in Resurgence of the Dead Shadows
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NewsUntil Dawn remake studio is officially dead, a year after laying off nearly its entire staff
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NewsResident Evil Requiem director confirms 'extra story content' is in the works: 'It will take some time so we ask for your patience'
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Fine &All active Dandy's World codes in March 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox
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It Takes TwoResident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill
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Castle KeysAll Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them
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NewsStardew 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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newsThe Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players
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shining starStardew Valley's soundtrack is the game's unsung hero, and nails the surprisingly difficult task of making a cosy game's music memorable
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The GOATStardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming
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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
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NewsConcernedApe finds out not everyone will be hot for the blacksmith in Stardew Valley's upcoming 1.7 update: 'You've all been dying to marry Clint... right? ...guys?'
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NewsAll the Stardew Valley 10th anniversary announcements, including new romance options and a giant Pelican Town desk mat to replace your map keybinds
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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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newsWoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'
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NewsPlaying World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch
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NewsA terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'
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NewsWoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch
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newsBlizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes
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NewsRuneScape'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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BETTER PREYWoW: Midnight's new Prey mechanic is the coolest system the MMO's added in a while, but it needs to be meaner—even on lower difficulties
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2005's finestStill humming with life 21 years later, Konami's Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era
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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
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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
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OLD BILLSObsidian 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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NewsDevs behind GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters are done with big shooters after getting burned by Embracer, so their next game is a Balatro-like twist on Scrabble—and you can try the demo now
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newsOne of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago
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Burn After Reading
Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance
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Djinn up loot
Path of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game
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newsBravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam
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Looking for lootDiablo 4 boss loot tables for Season 12: Season of Slaughter
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NewsZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
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Saving ThrowHow well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's second act? You may need an actual brainworm to score a perfect 20/20 on our latest quiz
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NewsThe latest Humble Bundle packs 9 CRPGs, including some of the best to ever do it, for a little over $20
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newsDiablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new crafting system will bring back season 11's sanctification and gives bad loot the potential to be legendary
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NewsDark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic
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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
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NewsPromising 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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newsDawn 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'
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Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June
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NewsVin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'
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Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam
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