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After 23 years of making Dwarf Fortress, even its creator is still 'terrified' of drowning all his dwarves with aquifers: 'Part of the problem is we are just not good at videogames'
News Water hazards keep us all humble.
Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime's new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter
News Wildgate looks like some promising space piracy.
Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job'
News Sighing at the slop.
After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
News Limber up.
Oh my God, it's happening: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally bringing a fan-favorite sea snake home from the war
News Huge day for Lagiacrus enjoyers.
Despite making a roguelike where you can have countless arms and legs, Caves of Qud's creators say the ideal form is a limbless sphere: 'We started in perfection and only moved farther from God'
News That's about what I expected.
In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: 'The hubris of man'
News I don't know if you can destroy mankind's wretched ambition with cannonballs, but I'm certainly going to try.
Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry's got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: 'We talk way too little about the core philosophy'
News Visualise, then execute.
Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'
NEWS Sound advice, but easier said than done.
Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.
Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
News It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.
The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
News Players’ eagerness in the fight for Super Earth begs the question: are we the baddies?
'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021
News Many such cases.
2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet
News Number goes up. Or does it?
Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list
HIGH RANK Our recommendations for what to wield next.
Monster Hunter Wilds players can't stop blowing themselves to smithereens with its rollable barrel bombs
News Nobody could have foreseen this.
The latest Monster Hunter Wilds event quest gives piles of Armor Spheres for hunting a Chatacabra, making this a very bad week to be a frog in the Forbidden Lands
News It's a perfect time to stock up for armor upgrades.
Attention, fashion hunters: There's a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to disable all those obnoxious glowing buff effects that distract from your fits
News Turn the glow off for a glow up.
I wish Monster Hunter Wilds wasn't so afraid of letting me play Monster Hunter
LOW RANKLED A story on rails gives Monster Hunter the wrong kind of guidance.
Best Switch Axe build in Monster Hunter Wilds
Axe-iomatic Carve through the Forbidden Lands with two ways to cut.
Best Bow build in Monster Hunter Wilds
Full quiver Turn those monsters into pincushions.
The first Monster Hunter Wilds event quests let you wear an adorable forest creature as a helmet, which means my headgear is locked in for the next few months
News Peak fashion achieved.
Best Hammer builds in Monster Hunter Wilds
Bonk 101 Clobber your way across Low Rank and High Rank with these recommendations.
