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A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email
news "The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt—we went all in, there was no money left"
Bioware's art lead shared some off-the-wall rejected concepts for Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer characters, including the return of a controversial companion we never saw again
news I wish I could be friends with all of them.
12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon
news Update 7.6 is coming in early December, with the Galactic Threads" storyline to come later.
Three years on, monster-huge RPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' final major update will overhaul its end-game dragon god abilities to finally live up to the hype
news No longer dragon their feet.
BioWare's art director reveals eight pieces of decade-old concept art for the earliest version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
News Dragon Age 4 looks like it was once a more direct sequel to Inquisition.
More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track
news Not bad for a 20-year-old game.
Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes
news It'll have concept art for Episode One and Two, as well as "ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be."
Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis
news Get Your Free TVs!
A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game
news There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.
Dragon Age: Origins' Fade level is the sort of funky failed experiment you just wouldn't see in a triple-A RPG these days
Cross Faded Next time around, maybe skip Skip the Fade.
It was nuts that BioWare based Dragon Age: Inquisition's story on a DLC nobody played, but that DLC also proved just how close Dragon Age 2 was to perfection
legacy content Encounter design, baby.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands were the closest BioWare got to making an Elder Scrolls-style open world, and everyone agreed you should leave as quickly as possible
green hill zone The Hinterlands are one of the most controversial RPG starting areas, but were they really that bad?
In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
news As sure as the seasons or the tides, DIYers will make Doom run on that proprietary new device.
A college student put on a free stage adaptation of Silent Hill 2 'to make a truly frightening theatrical experience' all without an appearance by Pyramid Head
news "Part of his removal was proving that Silent Hill does not need [Pyramid Head], and what a better way of doing it by removing him from the one story that actually justifies his existence."
Apparently George Lucas originally wanted Liam Neeson to be the 'real' Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor taking up the name after he died
News The Jedi and the Pauper.
Baldur's Gate 3's offscreen secrets include an 'asylum' for plot-critical NPCs and a 'magical teleporting death journal' to help particularly murderous players find Act 2
News It takes a lot of work behind the scenes to keep Baldur's Gate 3 running.
The biggest hidden gem of the Steam Scream Fest is Labyrinth of the Demon King, a brutal horror game that traps you in the worst place in all of Feudal Japan
Hell House You're in for a bad time.
I play way too many indie horror games, and you absolutely shouldn't miss Psychopomp Gold: it's $9 and got 1,000 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam reviews in just 1 week
underground The sleeper hit just got a paid, expanded re-release after an initial free launch at the beginning of the year.
6 times we got seriously creeped out by games that aren't even horror games
👻 Some of gaming's scariest moments came when we weren't expecting to be scared.
With no Disco Elysium 2 in sight, who exactly are behind the 5 studios of Disco devs now vying to make its spiritual successor?
Inland Empire Here's who's actually making each of these 'Disco Elysium spiritual successors' and their odds of doing something cool.
This new FPS is so good, it's almost unfair that it's free: A '1v1 me bro' simulator with 70 maps and no microtransactions that feels like the sickest Counter-Strike: Source mod of 2007
1v1 A $5 DLC doubles the number of maps and adds new weapons.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dusts off his controller to stream Crazy Taxi on Twitch: 'The Republicans will accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something'
news The VP candidate and Minnesota governor made an appearance on congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's channel.
Life is Strange co-creator says 'nothing justifies' the vitriol the series' current devs are getting while allowing that 'we would not have written things the same way'
Much of the pushback stems from how the new game Double Exposure handles the first game's primary relationship.
