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NewsBioWare veteran calls out the 'cruelty' of fans celebrating layoffs: 'You are crossing a line, and you're probably attacking the wrong person anyway'
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newsUbisoft quietly changes Rainbow Six Siege character from New Zealand after people notice her birthday is the same date as the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings
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Date PlannerThe 2025 games release calendar hits the ground running with Avowed, Monster Hunter, and Civilization 7
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NewsDelta Force's Chinese developer says it doesn't 'have an opinion' on the American military and just wants to create 'fun and meaningful gameplay' with its campaign based on the very real Battle of Mogadishu
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HERE AGAIND&D's new Monster Manual is gorgeous and filled with welcome variety—but even with a full system revamp, WoTC's still leaving too much important work to its DMs
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Name brandThe best uniques in Avowed that you can grab early in the game
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Weed KillerEarthly Aegis treasure map solution in Avowed
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BioWare veteran calls out the 'cruelty' of fans celebrating layoffs: 'You are crossing a line, and you're probably attacking the wrong person anyway'
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YARRKUZALike a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii review: Flawed and overfamiliar, but still as joyously OTT and hilarious as ever
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NewsGTA 3 almost had us obeying traffic laws before Rockstar yanked it out, and if you're wondering if GTA 6 will bring it back: 'I'm sure they'll realize it's a bad idea'
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NewsMass Effect 3 didn't have music like Vigil or Suicide Mission because composer Jack Wall had a spat with Casey Hudson: 'Casey was not particularly happy with me at the end'
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newsShovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea'
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NewsCapcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
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newsMonster Hunter producer says 'There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan,' and that the series' handheld wilderness years prepared them for Wilds' day 1 PC launch and crossplay
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Scrap metalA renewed obsession for British TV show Robot Wars led me on a wild goose chase to find a good robot fighting game
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NewsControllers beware: The much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series is being revived
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NewsMintrocket's director is delighted to bring Like a Dragon's Ichiban into Dave the Diver, 'It's been a dream of mine to invite these iconic characters into Dave’s world'
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Dress CodeActive Infinity Nikki codes for February 2025
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NewsElden Ring Nightreign's Steam page lets slip it'll have DLC bosses and player characters
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NewsRockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new project looks like nothing special, to be perfectly honest
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NewsTechno Banter channels Yakuza and Bojack Horseman as you destroy club rejects with words
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newsThe team behind one of 2024's hidden gems is following it up with a stop-motion 'relaxed digging and discovery' game about a happy robot's underground adventures beneath a lake of slime
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NewsFormer Arkane designer says Dishonored 2 cost more to make than Skyrim, and while it didn't meet Bethesda's sales expectations, the series' reputation still 'saved the studio'
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Style WatchThe current and future Resonance banners in Infinity Nikki
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Belayed gratificationClimbing a lighthouse that was determined to kill me in Peaks of Yore was genuinely revelatory—now I understand mountaineers
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Don't stress, Epic Games says you can still unlock Fortnite's Xbox-exclusive Master Chief skin
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newsJohnny Silverhand is coming to Fortnite and yup, he's got a suitcase nuke
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newsWith equal parts confusion and shame, I regret to inform you that Skibidi Toilet is coming to Fortnite
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NEWSThe World of Tanks studio is making a free-to-play mech shooter, and the playtest starts today
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NewsUS Federal Trade Commission sends out the first wave of $72 million in refunds to Fortnite players that Epic used 'dark patterns to trick'
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newsFortnite's drastically diminished Save the World XP rewards was a bug, Epic says, but now it's fixed
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NewsFortnite's latest season lets players morph into lethal demon hunters who defy gravity and the God of Destruction himself, Godzilla
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NewsWe're getting a new and improved Geoff Keighley added to Fortnite using MetaHuman technology, ready for The Game Awards
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newsFree-to-play 'MOBA battle royale' game Supervive, one of the most popular recent Steam demos, is out now in early access
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NewsKurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run
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ReviewHeroQuest: First Light turns the classic board game into something I could actually imagine kids playing today
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NewsWotC has published a handy guide to upgrading your D&D campaign to the 2024 rules
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Across the boardThe best board games to play right now
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Co-opportunitiesThe best cooperative board games
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Going it aloneThe best solo board games
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DealThe best Cyber Monday deals on board game adaptations that will lure your beloved gamer away from their screen
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Mine Craft5E's original Starter Set, Lost Mine of Phandelver is still a great way to start a D&D campaign
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NewsPathfinder 2e celebrates the 1st anniversary of its remaster by smashing D&D for value, offers $888 worth of new books for $45 with latest Humble Bundle
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newsChoo choo, here comes Monster Train 2: One of our favorite deckbuilders is getting a sequel and you can play a demo today
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NewsThanks to the upcoming Final Fantasy set, Magic: The Gathering is getting a fishing minigame
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Top GearMagic: The Gathering's interplanar Wacky Wheels set is good actually
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NewsAs Elder Scrolls: Legends shuts down, a mod delivers the perfect dedication to the rampers, aggros, mids, late gamers, invaders, ropers, comboers, and everyone else who loved it: 'Whoever you are: You are Legends'
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NewsAfter falling victim to the recent US TikTok ban, Marvel Snap switches to a new US-based publisher
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PRIMAL SCREAMDeath Howl is an impossible and brilliant blend of soulslike, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding, and you can try it for free now
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NewsMagic's death race set Aetherdrift gives us the goblins we deserve: ones who look like a psychobilly album cover
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NewsMarvel Snap apologises for US TikTok outage by throwing a bunch of free stuff at its players
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NewsMarvel Snap is back online after falling afoul of TikTok's temporary ban, and unsurprisingly, its creators are on the search for a new publisher
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News'It may seem like a whole new game': One of my favorite medieval city builders just got a huge update with a ton of new features
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NewsThis 'physics-based survival city builder' stuffed all my favorite words into its title so I'm automatically psyched
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NewsPlanet Coaster 2 isn't the financial success that Frontier needed, according to a report, which means there's more pressure on Jurassic World Evolution 3 to bring in the big bucks
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NewsHigh-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it's testing my balancing skills in more ways than one
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🏠I played a whopping 23 city builders in 2024, and here are my 5 favorites
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🏆Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords
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For all you mayors managing your budgets, here are 5 city builders from 2024 with great discounts in the Steam Winter Sale
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🏆I've lost weekends to crushing dissenters and seals in Frostpunk 2 and that's why it's my personal pick for game of the year
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NewsTiny Glade's winter update finally lets me turn my castles into that scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
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Ubisoft quietly changes Rainbow Six Siege character from New Zealand after people notice her birthday is the same date as the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings
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Delta Force's Chinese developer says it doesn't 'have an opinion' on the American military and just wants to create 'fun and meaningful gameplay' with its campaign based on the very real Battle of Mogadishu
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NewsCall of Duty's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover costs like $90 and even the die-hards are in shellshock: 'Cash cow-abunga!'
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OorahDelta Force's Black Hawk Down campaign is a bizarrely slow, serious complement to the popcorn multiplayer mode
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NewsOverwatch 2's new competitive season is as chaotic as ever, thanks to the new perk system, but it's still a huge step in the right direction
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newsValve releases 'Team Fortress 2 SDK,' enabling creators to 'build completely new games based on TF2'
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NewsUbisoft announces the 'biggest transformation in Rainbow Six Siege's history' for later this year, so big they're adding an 'X' to the name—But don't call it a sequel
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NewsAsked point-blank if they're trolling dataminers with fake characters, Marvel Rivals dev scoffs and says they'd 'rather spend our time developing the game'
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NewsSaber Interactive's head honcho pulled a wild stunt to nab the Halo: Combat Evolved remaster, telling Microsoft he'd do the job for free before ultimately squeezing the publisher for millions
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newsMultiVersus is somehow using its dying breath to go full looney tunes and put out what may be one of its best patches, and now fans want it to be saved
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RematchVirtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. isn't just a PC port of a 19-year-old game: it's the reason a diehard fighting game community can 'finally reach out and play with each other across the world'
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newsMultiversus director addresses fans angered by its upcoming closure: 'You're entitled to what you say and think, but when there are threats to harm it's crossing the line'
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NewsThe true victims of Multiversus closing are the people who bought that $100 Founder's Pack
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NewsWarner Bros. says that's all, folks for Multiversus: The next season will be its last, but you'll be able to play offline 'for the foreseeable future'
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NewsMai in Street Fighter 6 isn't just good—she has me howling for Capcom vs. SNK 3
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NewsDead or Alive publisher requests between 2,000 and 3,000 takedowns on works of inappropriate fan art annually because it thinks of the game's characters 'like daughters'
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newsTekken 8 has finally reinstated the time-honoured tradition of deathmatching your foes for hours on end
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Newt! Mint! Zak!The best superhero games on PC
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Dead goodDBD codes for February 2025
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Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a 'substantial quality of life initiative', which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on 'extreme hiding'
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NewsDirective 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
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newsAn all-new Five Nights at Freddy's game is coming in June
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NewsAfter more than a year and 2 million sales, Alan Wake 2 is finally turning a profit for Remedy
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Great levellerHow Dishonored and Deathloop led to a mesmerising indie horror game about tending to a monstrous train
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NewsThe best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
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NewsForbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
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NewsResident Evil Re:Verse is reversing right off Steam, as Capcom claims it has served its 'original, celebratory purpose' despite mostly negative reviews
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Not bitingFishing minigames are the worst and I'm not afraid to say it
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NewsThis long-running cozy tavern life sim on Steam just added online multiplayer, so now you can design and run a medieval pub with your pals
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NewsInzoi's game director teases plans for ghost Zois getting shackled to the mortal realm, karma-starved and seeking redemption if they die with a bad rep
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ModularThe best Sims 4 mods to expand your life sandbox
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NewsHello Kitty Island Adventure warns players coming from 'other cozy games' not to do that cheat-y time travel stuff or risk corrupting their save files
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Rise and GrindThe Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion announcement includes a ton of cross-pack play that I'm pretty psyched for
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WooHoo!The Sims 2 has the most unhinged drama in the entire series that finally seduced me away from my beloved Build Mode
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NewsPsychologist says 'there's a real sense of effort' to The Sims 4's emotional realism, from Maslow's Hierarchy to personal pep talks
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NewsAfter The Sims 1 + 2 rereleases stumbled out to mixed reviews, EA issues a patch that boldly declares they 'should now launch in most situations'
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NewsWhen asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot's co-founder replies: 'Oh yeah,' but don't get too excited, the ETA is 'before we go to Mars'
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newsBlockchain-based space survival MMO EVE Frontier has a free trial running, with CCP hoping you'll take a chance on its 20,000 star systems, more tactical combat, and 'dark sci-fi Pinocchio story'
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NewsWoW next big patch, Undermine(d), gets a release date, starting the countdown clock until my gaming time is entirely consumed with doing donuts in my new ride
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NewsBobby Kotick says he'd never have raised World of Warcraft's subscription by even a dollar because 'it's a prickly audience, you don't wanna do too much to agitate them'
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NewsAncient MMO Tibia is getting its first new class in 28 years
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NewsBobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was 'a terrible idea' for Blizzard, and in the end 'was one of the worst movies I've ever seen'
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RedactedWe're in a golden age of spy TV shows, but I have to play a 14-year-old MMO to get my videogame espionage kicks
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NewsWoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary
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news'No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep': World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14's egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own
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NewsLeague of Legends is getting a hotly anticipated skin for its lich necromancer Mordekaiser, but fans' joy has been 'obliterated' because it's 'stuck in a $200 fomo gacha store'
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NewsHi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
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We have the technologyIt's high time League of Legends got full voice chat
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NewsDeadlock's latest update makes a bunch of hero changes, including one suggested by a player who got laughed at for raising the idea
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NewsDeadlock's ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out
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newsRiot admits it 'screwed up' League of Legends' new reward system, because somebody forgot to add a big chunk of numbers in the new XP calculations
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NewsLeague of Legends players are up in arms after an update to get rid of 'unnecessary complexity' makes it a struggle for new players to earn anything
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NewsValve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
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NewsLeague of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
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Name brand
The best uniques in Avowed that you can grab early in the game
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Earthly Aegis treasure map solution in Avowed
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Adra ArrowAncient Arrowhead treasure map solution in Avowed
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WorthyWoedica's Inheritance treasure map solution in Avowed
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Scholarly SacrificesRobe of the Arcane Cheater treasure map solution in Avowed
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NEWSAvowed's huge 66GB update includes major improvements for the game's whole progression system, along with key bug fixes and buffs for companions
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NewsGood boy modders fix Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's worst issue—all the dog treats rolling away when you're trying to feed Mutt
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WORD UPAvowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever
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exceeding expectationsHow to find and upgrade the Disappointer in Avowed
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newsRelic's new project is a 'smaller indie-style' game about a martian invasion of Earth
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newsAge of Empires 3: Definitive Edition DLC promised last year is cancelled: 'We announced content before it had been built, and we now feel that announcement was premature'
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NewsThe first multiplayer demo for my most anticipated RTS, Tempest Rising, is out now
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NewsFormer Age of Empires developer says the RTS genre's stuck in a rut: 'you're still playing the same game'
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Goo fightersCreeper World IXE breaks the RTS mold and adds a dash of Noita's alchemy to the gooey war
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NewsPlanetary Annihilation successor has a bumpy landing on Steam, and the backers aren't happy: 'So bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game'
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newsStarCraft 2's impossible mission has been beaten after 14 years by a guy who turned the 'Archon Toilet' into an 'Archon Bidet'
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bug lifeEmpire of the Ants review: The insects are great, the strategy less so
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newsWarcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December
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