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NewsOne of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it
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Something strangeHow to prepare for the Wonderland Whimsy update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Tea party
Disney Dreamlight Valley Wonderland Whimsy update: Everything you need to know
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Keep rollinHow to tumble launch in REPO
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regular riddleToday's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 15
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newsYoung men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
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NewsBalatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
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ON PINS AND NEEDLESAfter 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?
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newsData sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself
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NewsMarvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not
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NewsDays Gone’s upcoming survival arcade mode will introduce endless hordes and ‘exploding freakers’, and I’m beginning to think it might be the best way to play the game
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Fruit CodesAll active Blox Fruits codes in April 2025 and how to redeem them
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Solo StyleAll active Arise Crossover codes in April 2025 and how to redeem them
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FreebiesZenless Zone Zero codes for April 2025
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searchvaniaThe next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while
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News6 years after launch, my favorite action platformer Katana Zero is still getting that long-promised free DLC that's 'nearly the size of the base game'
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newsLost Ember studio reveals its next game, and dang, it's got some really good snow
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Dress CodeActive Infinity Nikki codes for April 2025
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news7 years after its debut, Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 are finally coming in June
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Point-and-tripRosewater review: a sun-baked and unhurried adventure
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NewsVideogame collectibles don't have to suck, argues seasoned dev: 'I'm lookin' at you, Korok Seeds'
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NewsGet up to 85% off some of the PCs weirdest adventure games, all to benefit 'humanitarian relief in Ukraine'
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NewsThis whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes
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NewsNo Sleep For Kaname Date will have us dreaming of AI: The Somnium Files' deranged detective again this July
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newsAn unannounced Hogwarts Legacy expansion and 'definitive edition' have reportedly been cancelled
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newsThe best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
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newsParents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
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NewsEpic's war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne'er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
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NewsApparently the canceled Twisted Metal game would have been a battle royale where you could get out of your car for some reason
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Epic will give Fortnite cheaters 'a second chance' with a new, more forgiving ban policy, as long as they didn't do anything too awful or illegal
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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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NEWSFinally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models
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newsThe mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe
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NewsThe Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last
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Truth Begets HatredI wish Darktide's progression mechanics were as straightforward as the miniatures game
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WARHAMAZONAs a Warhammer fan of over 20 years, I've worked out the 3 rules Amazon needs to follow to make a great Warhammer TV show
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NEWSAfter a not-so-subtle tease 2 months ago, and 4 years since it was originally announced, Grand Cathay from Total War: Warhammer 3 is finally coming to the tabletop wargame
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NewsTotal War: Warhammer 3's army of Cathay has broken containment and is making its way to tabletop Warhammer at last
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NewsX-Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week
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newsThis Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5
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Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
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news'We are so back': After a month spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players
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NewsNo other card game matters to me now, I only want to collect these middle-aged man cards from Japan
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newsYou really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently
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newsThe League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year
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newsStray Gods studio reveals its next game, an 'unholy roguelite deckbuilder' about hunting demons in a festering city
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news'You must have played this before!': Balatro's creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was
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HissMagic: The Gathering's Tarkir: Dragonstorm set isn't just about dragons
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NewsWizards of the Coast throws a bone to players who miss vanilla Magic: The Gathering with a dragon-themed set called Tarkir: Dragonstorm
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NewsShelter's developer is now making a cozy decorating game called Twinkleby
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NewsSuperb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
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Cities: Skylines 2 celebrates 10 years of Cities with more nuanced homelessness and six new DLCs
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NewsNested Lands is a 'brutal' survival city-builder about guiding villagers through a plague-infested world, and you can play its open alpha right now
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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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newsFormer Concord dev says 'it was gut wrenching to see our project fail' but urges players not to judge Marathon too soon: 'To call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me'
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NewsThe latest Stalker 2 roadmap includes modding improvements, more A-life updates, and letting mutants eat corpses
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NewsOverwatch 2's Stadium mode gameplay trailer somehow looks even more chaotic with whole team nano boosts, multi orbs, and a mini B.O.B.
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News'Trust continues to be tampered with': A thread about SBMM in the upcoming Battlefield game is the final straw as an EA community manager lets loose on leakers
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The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
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NewsJohn Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
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NewsA new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom
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SprintMarathon alpha test—how and when to play
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NEWSBungie says Marathon is about losing all your gear but still having a great time because you 'come out with a good story'
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newsTekken 8's newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there's a 'disconnect between what the community wants' and what the developer is doing
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In a world of bizarre fighting game crossovers, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has taken it up a notch with a niche Swedish DJ
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newsIt doesn't really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened
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NewsThis fighter is Marvel Vs Capcom for classic mecha anime sickos, launching into early access with a strategy RPG story mode on its heels
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SuperduperGreat moments in PC gaming: Injustice 2's over-the-top super moves
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news2XKO fans despair for a 2025 release as Riot pushes back a planned 'larger-scale global playtest' in favor of a 'much smaller one'
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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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Keep rollin
How to tumble launch in REPO
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Haunted HolidayPhasmophobia events for 2025: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts
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news'Let's just fail quickly this time': Semiwork took a 'big risk' on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn't sell very well
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Dream teamREPO: how many players can join
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Helping handHow to heal and revive your teammates in REPO
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news'I'm still loving this game after 50 hours': Lethal Company solo dev has been inspired by REPO to carry on work, 'My energy level is suddenly very high'
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Power HungryHow to get and use Energy Crystals in REPO
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Keir's hereRepose's demo is short, but this 2D horror game is already feeling like something out of Severance
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Monster mashREPO monster list: Every terror you can face
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Something strange
How to prepare for the Wonderland Whimsy update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Tea party
Disney Dreamlight Valley Wonderland Whimsy update: Everything you need to know
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NewsDisney Dreamlight Valley's Alice In Wonderland update is dropping next week, but I'm mostly excited about 'uncrafting' things
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Castle KeysAll Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them
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Blooming lovelyHow to complete the Blooming and Blossoming quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Next GenerationProject Rene—Everything we know about the next major Sims game
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newsOne of the biggest games on Steam right now is Bongo Cat, a cat with a hat who smacks your Windows taskbar like a bongo drum when you type
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newsSchedule I gets Bleuballs in its first 'proper patch,' now live in Steam beta
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Live MasThe best games like The Sims for building beautiful characters, homes, and a life full of drama
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newsThe Elder Scrolls Online is getting subclassing—which'll expand its roster of classes to 'over 3,000' combinations of mix-and-matched skill lines
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newsAfter 10 years of setting-hopping, The Elder Scrolls Online is coming home for a new chapter of its base game story, returning player QoL updates, and a writhing wall of 'soul-juice concrete'
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NewsThey can't keep getting away with this: Star Citizen has now raised over $800 million after 13 years, and it's still in alpha
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safety firstNobody told me that Old School RuneScape was home to a perfect time capsule of mid 2000s cybersecurity
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NewsDune: Awakening will have in-game radio stations featuring everything from Harkonnen propaganda broadcasts to classic '90s Dune tunes
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newsEverQuest 2 to bring back the 'absolute heyday' of PvP with classic server
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NewsHere's what happens to your base in Dune: Awakening if you take a long break from Arrakis
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STYLIZEDI expected a Genshin clone before playing this upcoming MMO spinoff of a massive Chinese MOBA, but the depth of its hot-swappable combat styles proved me wrong
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NewsWorld of Warcraft's started swiping good ideas from one of its most popular user-made UI addons, and it's honestly about time
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NewsSeekers of Skyveil, the MOBA—extraction shooter mashup, is shutting down less than a month after release: ‘We have no choice but to bring this short journey to an end’
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newsRiot walks back unpopular League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests are coming back, and the Blue Essence cost for new champions will be cut in half
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NewsDeadlock gets a massive map overhaul that shrinks its map from four lanes to three: 'This has a large range of accompanying map-wide changes'
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Weather warningAs a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways
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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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regular riddle
Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 15
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NewsBlue Prince was made possible by creator's Magic: The Gathering fan site: 'Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads'
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regular riddleToday's Wordle answer for Monday, April 14
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regular riddleToday's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 13
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regular riddleToday's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 12
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house callBlue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion
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newsThe Talos Principle: Reawakened goes back to the beginning for a touching coda to its musings on what it means to be human
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NewsThe sci-fi puzzle game made by ex-Blizzard devs just got its first trailer, demonstrating intricate puzzles and cool landscapes
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ThinkerMy favorite thing about Blue Prince's intricate puzzles is that they're optional—you don't have to solve most of them to finish the game
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One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it
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moon manMy biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
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On TimeBaldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 release date and expected time
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Fall overHow Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'
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NewsBaldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is among its biggest, holding 48 pages (approx. 19,000-20,000 words) of patch notes in its vast and bountiful form
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News'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children
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NewsNeil Newbon definitely wants to play Astarion again, and if whatever studio that makes Baldur’s Gate 4 recasts him, he’ll totally ‘hunt them down and gut them like a fish’
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newsDark and Darker finally gets a PvE-exclusive 'Adventure Mode'
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Code lootAll Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Shift codes and how to redeem them
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NewsA whole bunch of Korean studios are trying to convince Blizzard to let them make a new StarCraft game, including MMO specialist NCSoft
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Heaven-sentAge of Mythology Retold's new Chinese pantheon expansion takes a bold stance on updating an old game: Just make good new stuff
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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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Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
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moon man
My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
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news'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
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