Month: August 2024

Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in the excellent survival game Core Keeper, and it’s huge 1.0 launch makes its creator feel he “must be dreaming”

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Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in the excellent survival game Core Keeper, and it’s huge 1.0 launch makes its creator feel he “must be dreaming”

August 31, 2024

Someone mashed together Minecraft’s mining and survival chops with Stardew Valley’s pixel beauty and mind-boggling plethora of...

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Self-taught Metroidvania dev floored by 200k sales and 10k Steam reviews while preparing for a new game “hopefully soon”

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Self-taught Metroidvania dev floored by 200k sales and 10k Steam reviews while preparing for a new game “hopefully soon”

August 31, 2024

Pseudoregalia stole my heart with its retro gothic setting and expressive, flipping platforming – and it seems...

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has Baldur’s Gate 3-style nudity toggles and customizable underwear

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has Baldur’s Gate 3-style nudity toggles and customizable underwear

August 31, 2024

Dragon Age: The Veilguard developers have answered the most urgently thirsty questions about the RPG fourquel, confirming...

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Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving Capcom after 30 years to make a “new game in a new environment”

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Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving Capcom after 30 years to make a “new game in a new environment”

August 31, 2024

Hideaki Itsuno has been pumping out beloved games at publisher Capcom for over three decades, from multiple...

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Borderlands 4 will add “4 brand-new Vault Hunters,” and the devs want classes to add depth to the RPG mechanics but not “at the cost of complexity”

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Borderlands 4 will add “4 brand-new Vault Hunters,” and the devs want classes to add depth to the RPG mechanics but not “at the cost of complexity”

August 30, 2024

After our first taste of Borderlands 4 with the Gamescom announcement trailer, the devs took to the...

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After version 62, Lethal Company dev says he’s “burning out” on the multiplayer hit and may focus more on his single-player horror adventure for a while

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After version 62, Lethal Company dev says he’s “burning out” on the multiplayer hit and may focus more on his single-player horror adventure for a while

August 30, 2024

Last year, cooperative survival horror game Lethal Company launched to huge success. Roughly a year later, the...

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Netflix cancels Sandman spin-off after 1 season, ending yet another fan-favorite fantasy series

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Netflix cancels Sandman spin-off after 1 season, ending yet another fan-favorite fantasy series

August 30, 2024

Dead Boy Detectives, based on the comic series of the same name, is the latest fan-favorite fantasy...

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Amid Risk of Rain 2 DLC blowback, the roguelike’s creators say “it sucks” for fans and the new devs at Gearbox, but those new devs say fixes are coming and this is “just the beginning”

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Amid Risk of Rain 2 DLC blowback, the roguelike’s creators say “it sucks” for fans and the new devs at Gearbox, but those new devs say fixes are coming and this is “just the beginning”

August 30, 2024

After selling the Risk of Rain IP to Gearbox and seeing the new caretakers stumble with the...

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One of anime’s best studios teases a cryptic Transformers project, and all we know is that it’s “coming soon”

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One of anime’s best studios teases a cryptic Transformers project, and all we know is that it’s “coming soon”

August 30, 2024

A Transformers anime is in the works from Trigger – and we could not be more excited....

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Civilization 7 lead says the new Ages system will be “the hardest thing” for fans to learn: “It changes the fundamental structure of the game”

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Civilization 7 lead says the new Ages system will be “the hardest thing” for fans to learn: “It changes the fundamental structure of the game”

August 30, 2024

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 is going to shake up the tried and true formula fans have come...

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