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'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates
News Valve's lifted the restrictions on discussing its not-so-secret shooter MOBA.
11 Monster Hunter Wilds features from the Gamescom dev streams that have me hooting and hollering like an inbound Bazelgeuse
Wild world It's a beautiful week for having brain worms.
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World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas says the Worldsoul Saga is letting Blizzard give its villains some much-needed character: 'Dragons are really cool, but it's hard to grasp the motivations of a being the size of a city'
News "What if we give this some time to breathe and give us some time to let the story go where it ought to go?"
Let's all just pretend that the Borderlands 4 reveal came at a better time
Oof Timing can be tragic.
Riddlemaster Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands 4 teaser contains 'several secrets'
News You must solve my riddles three, ere you see guns generated procedurally
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 imagines a medieval Europe that's mostly swords in its latest Gamescom gameplay teaser
News I'd stay home in my hovel.
The First Berserker: Khazan shows off its angry anime Conan in a new Gamescom trailer
News What is best in life? Seeking vengeance alongside a hateful ghost.
Monster Hunter Wilds reveals a horrifying spider and an electric apex predator in its Gamescom trailer
News So tasty!
We can finally get our hands on Path of Exile 2 when it hits early access this November
News Loot awaits.
Larian released a teaser for the new evil endings coming in Baldur's Gate 3's next patch, and they really weren't kidding about the evil part
I'll say it: This Dark Urge fella seems like bad news.
Runescape's latest content roadmap includes group ironman mode, a new skilling boss, and exciting advancements in woodcutting
News Jagex reveals its update plans through early 2025.
Black Myth: Wukong review roundup: 'An interesting and exciting reimagining'
Review roundup Lovely visuals and lively boss fights earn praise for the Monkey King.
The next Stellaris expansion will let your space empires harness 'the majesty and menace' of new cosmic storms, which I'm sure can only go well
News These Twister sequels are getting out of hand.
Some of the world's biggest game companies are joining together to make us all look at this truly awful horse
News Does the grotesque not offer its own beauty?
Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable's female protagonist: 'It is likely never going to happen'
News The dream is dead.
Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'
News Our long national nightmare is almost over.
Mordhau pugilists raise thousands of dollars for a fellow player's medical bills in a fistfighting contest against cancer
News Fisticuffs for a good cause.
A massive free update and a 50% discount sends Cult of the Lamb rocketing up the Steam charts
News There's a goat now!
Black Mirror creator offers a new premonition of humanity's self-wrought tech apocalypse, and it's Balatro on phones: 'It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created'
News What if Balatro, but too much?
Bethesda's updated Doom remasters have opened a portal to a hellish dimension of uncredited mod uploads: 'This is a massive breach of trust'
News A new in-game mod browser makes it all too easy to pass off another's work as your own.
Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
News I've never been more excited to scan fingerprints.
Nightingale devs say they're 'not satisfied' with the game, its reception, or its player numbers, but they've got big improvements coming
News Step one: bigger build limits.
