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Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'

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2 years after its announcement, FF14's monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode

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7 beginner's tips to succeed as a ranger in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

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Silent Hill F and Silent Hill 2 remake are 50% off at PlayStation store

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Mythmatch Is An Anti-Capitalist RPG That’ll Really Brighten Your Day

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Suspicious Steam games are now getting investigated by the FBI

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Indie Game All Will Rise Is Returning Microsoft’s Funding In Support Of ‘No Games For Genocide’ Boycott

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The Funhouse: Tobe Hooper's underrated slasher deserves another look

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It's been 25 years since my jaw first dropped at 3DMark2001's Nature test but hoo boy, have 3D graphics changed since then

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Pokémon Pokopia Players Are Finding Ways To Make Their Towns Run Themselves

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Honkai: Star Rail version 4.1 livestream codes

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Sin Reloaded is coming out this year because Nightdive refused to break a promise

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'GeForce 3 was such a transition for us': Nvidia's Jensen Huang looks back on 25 years of the classic graphics card

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Lost Doctor Who episodes part of the Daleks' Master Plan arc are discovered

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Is AI the future of gaming? GDC attendees say yes, but don't agree how

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Pokémon Copycat Pickmon Accused Of Ripping Off Fan Artists’ Designs

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'It was supposed to be the greatest time ever': Jeff Kaplan only got 6 weeks to come up with and pitch Overwatch: 'We were probably the most demoralised we'd ever been'

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The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'

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Microsoft removes its 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign and is slowly purging all mention of it

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Best new game previews of GDC 2026: At Fate's End, Mina the Hollower, and more

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Major copper foil supplier raises prices by 12%, potentially ushering in a fresh wave of spikey prices for PCBs and plenty of PC components besides

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Fortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'

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Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all

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Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great

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Xbox Is Marching Forward With AI Features But Says It Wants To Protect Content Creators

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Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance

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Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off

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Ghost Of Yotei’s New Free Online Mode Is So Good I’d Pay Money For It

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Shadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase

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Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself'

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Path of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan explains why he quit Blizzard

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Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92

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Pokémon Pokopia already one of Switch 2's best-selling games

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Which Cowardly Game Company Will Be The First To Stand Up To Trump?

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PEGI revises its age ratings system with considerations for loot boxes, daily quests

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Marathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit

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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'

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Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June

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I Fell In Love With Highguard And Now It’s Gone Forever

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Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'

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Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam

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FF7 Rebirth's Tetsuya Nomura reveals his favorite Final Fantasy Magic cards

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Pokémon Pokopia Fan Artists, Are Y’all Okay?

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Steam's sales numbers aren't telling the whole story

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Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 episode 10 lets Megumi shine as a battle strategist

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Netflix and Sony make KPop Demon Hunters 2 official in major new deal

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Netflix Finally Stops Beating Around The Bush And Confirms KPop Demon Hunters 2

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Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs

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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

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