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Risk of Rain 2, one of our favorite roguelikes, is getting a game-changing character: the Seeker, a team-reviving beast inspired by classic RPG monks and Tai Chi
feature Risk of Rain 2's next DLC, Seekers of the Storm, brings a feature fans have wanted for years
Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold
news Charizard is priceless in the Pokemon TCG, and also in RuneScape
Glen Schofield says The Callisto Protocol cost 4x more than Dead Space, needed 3 more months of work, and wasn't meant to be one-and-done: "The discussion we had was ... look at The Witcher"
news "I was not feeling good" in the final stretch of development, Schofield says of his health
Larian unveils a full year of Baldur's Gate 3 player stats: Astarion is the favorite, Paladin is best class, and "a surprising amount of you enjoy bear sex and tentacles"
news Astarion barely beats Gale as the RPG community's favorite Origin character
Bungie admits Destiny 2's new Pathfinder system isn't working "as we expected," gives out over 3,000 Bright Dust as "a make good to get folks caught up"
news We're getting 350 Bright Dust a week for nine weeks
Genshin Impact 4.8 Emilie release time - Here's when the new 5-star Dendro character comes out and who's on her banner
news The Emilie banner kicks off the second half of Genshin Impact update 4.8
Oops, Diablo 4 accidentally gave Season 5 characters a bunch of extra tempering recipes, but Blizzard is "letting this one slide" for fun
News Enjoy it for Season of the Infernal Hordes, but don't expect it to happen again
As Helldivers 2 players grill Arrowhead over more nerfs, its CEO speaks to the "buff everything" and "it's too easy" crowds: "We are listening and will tweak"
news Escalation of Freedom stokes familiar anti-nerf complaints
Skyrim player begs for help after their Speech apparently drops to -1 mil, making bribes cost 20 million gold: "I think I would fail the Whiterun guard letting me into the city"
news The Skyrim economy is in shambles, it seems
Behind the scenes of the Stardew Valley concert, creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone was living his pre-game dev dream: "Music has always been my primary thing"
news "I always wanted to be a composer," Barone says
Capcom fuels hopes for Monster Hunter Wilds launching in very early 2025 by giving it the same video treatment Monster Hunter World got 6 months before its launch
news Monster Hunter Rise followed a similar pattern
Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3, so this new Japan-inspired platformer has taken matters into its own hands
news Kitsune Tails is filling a niche I didn't know existed
Destiny 2 reportedly moving away from annual expansions after The Final Shape amid declining sales, Bungie apparently planning more Into the Light-style free updates
news Destiny 2 is seemingly gearing up for more big changes to its business model
Baldur's Gate 3 dev shares Larian boss Swen Vincke's response to the RPG's explosive launch: 'You know what this means? It means we get to do it again'
news "We were looking at the Steam numbers, seeing the numbers going up and up and up"
Out of things to do in a game? Manor Lords dev has a good idea: "Enjoy other games for a while" and come back "when there's new fun stuff"
news Sometimes you just have to put a game down
"Help us understand," pleads MMO dev as Old School RuneScape players vote on infamously loud monsters and decide they should be louder, actually
news Old School RuneScape's Nail Beasts are basically a protected species now
My favorite Star Wars game gets an HD re-release after 22 years, and thankfully it's miles ahead of the janky Star Wars Battlefront collection
News Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is back, baby
Bungie reportedly shelving "the next Destiny" indefinitely following another brutal wave of layoffs
news Update: Conflicting reports suggest the shelved project is unrelated to Bungie's recent layoffs
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List The best roguelikes and roguelites that will keep you coming back for one more round
The 25 best Metroidvania games you can explore today
Best List Jump, slash, and shoot through the best Metroidvanias to play right now
Humble Games confirms layoffs amid "restructuring," but says Humble Bundle and "ongoing projects and upcoming releases" aren't affected
news One employee said this was "my entire team's last day"
One of the new mission types in Helldivers 2's massive update is basically Death Stranding except you're transporting a kidnapped bug baby
news Bug Lou, is that you?
Helldivers 2's big update revealed: "Escalation of Freedom" adds new and returning bots and bugs, more missions, bigger outposts, and difficulty 10 "Super Helldive"
News Escalation of Freedom is coming for free on August 6
