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Immediately after releasing my new all-time favorite strategy RPG, Japanese juggernaut Vanillaware is hiring for a new action RPG
news Music to my ears
Just 3 known players remain in the Nintendo Network servers as beloved JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X, "known to have the worst netcode on the Wii U," loses its last
news Thankfully, they cleared the online-exclusive challenges beforehand
Dev of open-world RPG hiding a whole base builder is "impressed" by games like Factorio and Satisfactory, but says Arknights: Endfield "will be quite different"
Feature Interview | Arknights: Endfield feels like a true base builder RPG
The new Elden Ring DLC story trailer is peak FromSoftware: 3 minutes of messed-up war lore beamed straight into your eyeballs
news Shadow of the Erdtree's latest story trailer doesn't disappoint
Elden Ring player wins $1,000 bet with her husband by beating the RPG after nearly 50 hours of grinding: "It was extremely painful ... I don't play games often"
news The newly crowned Elden Lord says she rage quit "pretty much every day"
FromSoftware producer reappears after 3 months, drops an Elden Ring DLC image that looks exactly like Bloodborne, explains nothing, leaves
News Squint your eyes and we're back in Yharnam
Arise, Tarnished: a new Elden Ring DLC image just dropped, and it looks like a fresh take on an old enemy wielding a cool new weapon type
news I really hope we can steal these chakrams
A 4,000-hour Final Fantasy 14 diehard made his own MMO raid-infused roguelike and it's tearing it up on Steam, beating the 4-year sales of his last game in 24 hours
news Rabbit and Steel delivers another surprise roguelike hit for May
30 million copies later, Stardew Valley creator says "I'm just a dude who made a game" and still spends "all day hunched over the computer"
news Eric Barone says he hasn't done anything "extravagant" with his success
Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead Dan Houser is making an "open-world action-adventure game" of his own at his new studio
news Why yes, that does sound a bit like GTA
Meet the new hero of Helldivers 2: Dremskiy, a player kicked despite insisting "Im frend," who now has a full Steam friends list after even PlayStation shared the love
news Dremskiy have frend now
Helldivers 2 dev threatens to make the hardest difficulties even harder: "I think we might have some things in store for the players who coast through everything"
news Is that Difficulty 10 I smell?
Following Japanese giants like Sony and Capcom, JRPG powerhouse Square Enix says it wants "to win over PC users" as the Final Fantasy 16 port nears completion
news PC is a "growth market," and Square isn't the only that thinks so
Fortnite shop updated as Epic gets fined over microtransactions once again, this time for $1.2 million amid claims "children’s vulnerabilities were exploited"
news The Dutch were not happy
Stardew Valley creator says he's "doing everything within my power" to get update 1.6 out for console and mobile players, and a new PC patch is coming too
news The upcoming patch is "mainly some bug fixes"
Hades 2's first patch is in the works, Supergiant wants to improve the roguelike's dash, sprint, and resource gathering but "don't expect too many" balance changes
news Hades 2 patch 1 should arrive "later this month"
Bethesda adds the Fallout 4 graphics settings the community wanted from the first next-gen update, but the devs "highly recommend" you don't use them
News Thanks, I guess?
Helldivers 2 might get its review bomb cape after all, whether Sony likes it or not: CEO teases a wearable tribute as the game recovers to "Mostly Positive" on Steam
news Operation Clean Up is in full effect
All Destiny 2 Exotic Class Item perks for Prismatic builds
Guide The Final Shape introduces an Exotic Class Item to Destiny 2 that lets you combine Exotic armor perks
Helldivers 2 devs remind players "it's Sony's decision, not ours" amid PSN backlash: "We always knew this day would get here, and it's going about how I expected"
news Sony does what Arrowheadon't
An incredible roguelike and fighting game pushed one of the biggest companies in vtubing to make its own game publisher, and now hololive's buried in over 50 ideas
feature Interview | hololive's gaming arm holo Indie hopes to put out around 10 games a year
My next Metroidvania kick is an ingenious mix of Zelda-like exploration, twin-stick combat, and pitch-perfect controls – with 97% positive Steam user reviews
news Minishoot' Adventures absolutely nails an odd combination
Stellar Blade keeps fixing things that bothered me when I reviewed it – now including "input time for basic attacks, as well as the timing of blocking and parrying"
news Stellar Blade's day-one update is a pretty big deal, it turns out
