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5 free games on Steam you can play right now (that are actually good)

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Brandon Sanderson updates on Apple's Mistborn movie, script inspiration

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Microsoft says Xbox Play Anywhere titles can double spending and engagement

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Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new crafting system will bring back season 11's sanctification and gives bad loot the potential to be legendary

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Pokémon Pokopia: The Kotaku Review

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Former God Of War Writer Says Sex Mini-Games Were ‘Worked On By Women’ And Should Return In Remake

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Mysterious slate puzzle solution in Pokémon Pokopia

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Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'

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Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum casts Kate Winslet in mystery role

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Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates

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Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year

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Homura Hime is here to fill the Nier-sized hole in your life

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Marathon Equitable Distribution priority contract walkthrough

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Microsoft spills the beans on its Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC while suggesting it's still years away

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Solasta 2’s character creator makes building a D&D party the best part of the game

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Even among the crowd of gorgeous illustrated games, At Fate's End is stunning enough to stand out

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At Fate's End is the best game at GDC 2026

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Alamo TohoScope: Godzilla gets a massive movie theater revival

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Microsoft lifts the lid on Project Helix at GDC Festival of Gaming

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Xbox’s Next-Gen Console Sounds Powerful, But Dev Kits Not Going Out Until 2027

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'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'

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Yu-Gi-Oh Wants You To Know It Wasn’t Involved In The White House’s Propaganda

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Valve clarifies what's required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more

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One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech

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Valve Responds To NY Lawsuit, Defends Loot Boxes And Compares Them To Pokémon Card Packs

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Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'

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Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don't know how much—and we're not completely sure why yet, either

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This Month’s PlayStation Plus Extra Games Include Bangers Like Persona 5, Space Marine 2, And Metal Eden

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Cancelled LucasArts Star Wars shooter that 'would have just made Disney money' is playable online for the first time

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In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag

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Former Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse 'had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,' but adds, 'it wasn't the primary cause'

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Chained Echoes Dev ‘Preparing A Lawsuit’ Against First Press Games For Failing To Make Physical Copies

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Pragmata's demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: 'I can't believe millions of people are excited for our game'

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More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing

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This year's Overwatch April Fool's event is a two week Underwatch mode which throws 'common sense off the nearest ledge'

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Split Fiction's final level concept was originally meant for the whole game

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints

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Dark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic

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Fortnite 'Save the World' goes free-to-play

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Top PlayStation Trophy Hunter In The World Has Been Permabanned And Blames A Hacker

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Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'

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Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool

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Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025

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EarFun Air Pro 4+ review

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Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

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Memory prices could leap even higher as the supply of helium, crucial to making chips, is now impacted by the conflict in the Middle East

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Google Cloud's vision for AI in the game industry

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‘Defiant New Videogames Magazine’ Continue Funded In 7 Hours On Kickstarter

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Ubisoft Does Something Completely Unexpected, Helping Save This All-Time Classic From Obscurity

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Stardock announces expansion of publishing services for indie devs

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