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A new throwback RPG is so good, it's won praise from Larian boss Swen Vincke: 'I’m flying to LA next week and plan to play it the entire flight'
news Skald: Against the Black Priory is really winning us over.
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
news All these unfinished, 75% off, 7/10 RPGs will be lost to time, like tears in rain.
I was shocked to find out the Windows 10 desktop background wasn't computer generated, but a picture of lasers being shot through an actual window
news My appreciation for a desktop background I immediately switched out has grown exponentially.
If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 with its nudity censor turned on, it straight up gives everybody a fig leaf like they're cartoon characters
news I guess that's one way to do it.
This is getting ridiculous: It looks like one of Deadlock's leakers has made it so you can see the unannounced Valve shooter's playtest concurrents, hero code names, and update history on SteamDB
news It would take an unreasonable effort to fake this SteamDB entry.
Bungie wins a little walkin' around money in first of its kind jury trial against Destiny 2 cheat maker, but the victory will likely make it even easier for game companies to keep taking cheaters to court
news $63,210 is a life changing amount of money for you or me, but the legal precedent is the bigger deal here.
It turns out you can find Idris Elba's Cyberpunk 2077 character hanging out and working a regular job in Night City before you start the expansion
news He mentions that he's a bouncer, and guess what? He's a bouncer.
Players unlock unreleased content in live service game ultimate hacker style: setting their system clocks forward a few weeks
news The absolutely absurd Wuthering Waves exploit seems to have already been patched.
A new Shadow of the Erdtree promo image is almost 100% our first look at one of Elden Ring's most mysterious characters
news Though one eagle-eyed observer noticed that they also made a brief appearance in the first gameplay trailer.
The developer of exceptional 2022 sci-fi adventure Norco is following it up with a 'narrative micro-adventure' about an android exploring an AI-haunted oil refinery
news You can play the demo for Silenus (and find all the tracks to Umbilical by Thou) right now.
It's already been 9 years since The Witcher 3 first released, and if you've somehow never played CD Projekt's opus, the complete package with all DLC is just 13 bucks on Steam to celebrate
news One game I'll always come back to.
We don't have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google's new nonsense-free 'Web' search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
news Web search is great, and it's not too hard to set it to be your default.
Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a '90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker's weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork
news Mysteries of the Sith Remastered just got a big 3.0 update.
Always keep backups: an 'unprecedented' Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund's entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks
news Thankfully, UniSuper kept backups for its backups.
If you've somehow not played Baldur's Gate 3 yet, our 2023 GOTY is on sale for 15% off, the lowest it's been since launch
news Whether you pay $60 or $51 for BG3, it's gonna be worth it.
With a month to go until Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware has broken its silence once more to show us a messed up new guy we'll fight in the expansion
news He looks suitably freaky.
Microsoft is reportedly taking the nuclear option: releasing the next Call of Duty day one on Game Pass
news They're really going for it.
There's already a company that will turn your dying relatives into perverse AI homunculi for $50K
news No, thank you.
Hades 2's Olympus-sized first patch introduces the quality of life fix we've been begging for
news Resource gathering is now less of a pain, along with a host of other tweaks.
One of my most anticipated upcoming RPGs doesn't just have a fishing minigame—it has a full 3D aquarium where you can view your biggest catches and learn fantasy fish 'lore'
news Main Quests Want Me (to finish them), Fish Fear Me.
The original Fallout had so much attention to detail, you could get special dialogue for speedrunning it in a weird order and returning to a completed zone to talk to a zombie who hates you
news Fallout is still just so impressive all these years later.
Finally, I have another game about being a freaky little nasty guy trapped in an otherworldly hell dimension to look forward to
news We have Scorn at home.
The season of game company gaffes continues with NetEase apologizing for a Marvel Rivals preview contract that asked streamers not to make 'subjective negative reviews of the game'
news NetEase walked the terms back, admitting they were "inappropriate and misleading."
