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NewsBeloved Final Fantasy 14 catboy G'raha Tia is now Eorzea's "Sexiest Man Alive," fans declare, as actor Jonathan Bailey becomes the real-world equivalent
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GuideAll Mecha Break codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideAll Marvel Mystic Mayhem codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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FeatureLife after Lethal Company: solo creator Zeekerss says "weirdly, not a lot has changed" after one of the biggest indie hits in recent memory, and he still has "a good handful of ideas for games"
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GuideAll Infinity Nikki codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them online
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GuideWhere to find the Commander's safe key in Outer Worlds 2
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NewsBattlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"
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ReviewHyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: "Zelda is a fantastic lead in this action-packed Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but boring missions hold the magic back"
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NewsRed Dead Redemption 3 "probably will happen," says Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, but he'd be "sad" about it: "It was a cohesive two-game arc"
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NewsAssassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"
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NewsUpgrading Hornet's weapon in Silksong always felt inconsistent, and now I know why: Team Cherry's special damage multipliers leave hits-to-kill all over the place
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UpcomingUpcoming Switch games for 2025 and beyond
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News"If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years
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NewsRockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead
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NewsAfter 15 years, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser reveals the meaning behind Red Dead Redemption's Strange Man: "He's a manifestation of your shadow, your karma, the devil"
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NewsCreating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was "over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"
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Guide
Where to find the Commander's safe key in Outer Worlds 2
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GuideAll Outer Worlds 2 flaws and the best to pick
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GuideShould you kill or spare Montelli in The Outer Worlds 2?
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GuideAll Outer Worlds 2 companions and how to get them all
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GuideCan you respec in The Outer Worlds 2 and reset your Skills?
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GuideShould you use the intercom or attack the automechs in The Outer Worlds 2?
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GuideShould you go to Security Ops or Central Dispatch in The Outer Worlds 2?
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GuideAll Borderlands 4 Shift Codes (November 2025) and how to redeem for Golden Keys and Skins
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GuideBest Outer Worlds 2 Skills and how Skills work
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GuidePokemon Legends Z-A Occa Berry locations
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NewsNintendo's patent fight against Palworld over Pokemon mechanics "further" undermined, IP expert says, as US Patent and Trademark lead calls controversial summoning patent into question
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ReviewCarimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs review: "Playing as a goblin thing to crack a gothic fairy tale mystery with magical cards has quickly become one of my favorite gaming short stories"
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GuideHow to learn Psycho Cut in Pokemon Legends Z-A
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GuidePokemon TCG Pocket best decks and meta tier list (November 2025)
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UpcomingUpcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsPokemon TCG Pocket reportedly made $245 million more than Pokemon Go managed in its first year
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GuideBrookhaven codes (November 2025) for music tracks and memes
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OpinionClair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are leading a turn-based renaissance, and it's leaving games like Pokemon Legends: Z-A far behind
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News"The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing
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GuideFortnite Hidden Gags locations and how to complete them all
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NewsFortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"
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InterviewArc Raiders' studio founder is an enemy health bar hater, saying they turn games into an "Excel sheet" and immersion is better than "answers served on a silver platter"
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GuideWhen does Fortnite The Simpsons Season start?
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GuideIs Fortnite down? And if so then how long is the Fortnite downtime?
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GuideWhen is the next Fortnite live event, Welcome, Our Alien Overlords?
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GuideFortnite Sidekicks explained and how to get companions
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NewsFortnite devs think removing guns from new proximity chat mode was a weird move, so now they're back in custom Delulu matches with up to 80 players – but players don't want guns: "Who is gonna tell him"
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ReviewAlien: Fate of the Nostromo review - "Laced with tension"
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DealsWhat to expect from Black Friday board game deals 2025, including the best early offers we've seen so far
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Buying guideThe best board games 2025, with over 25 recommendations tested, reviewed, and rated by experts
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ReviewSpooktacular review: "This is the perfect family board game for Halloween"
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ReviewFame & Fable review: "Pairs gentle strategic fun with tempting press-your-luck mechanics"
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ReviewBack to the Future: Dice Through Time review - "Really rather clever"
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ReviewTwilight Imperium review: "Magnificent peace, glorious war"
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ReviewSplendor Duel review: "A superior game in almost every regard"
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NewsI'm obsessed with the Traitors so can't wait for this new Warhammer 40K hidden role board game
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News"I am rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again": Manor Lords creator ends months of silence and reveals a huge update to the city builder's AI towns
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Hands-onBeyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
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NewsAnno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025"
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NewsBeautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon
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NewsManor Lords' new update is "overhauling a lot of systems at once," and it should be worth the 6-month wait as "we'll be able to shift to smaller, more frequent updates going forward"
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NewsMy favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
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NewsFantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
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Now PlayingIn this rat-filled city builder, one wrong move can change everything - and in my case it was forgetting to add a toilet
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news"I remember uploading the build, crossing my fingers that things wouldn't immediately fall apart": A year later, city builder mega-hit Manor Lords has a bigger dev team teasing big updates
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GuideMurder Mystery 2 codes (November 2025) have all expired
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News"We proudly wear the friendslop badge": Peak studio unpacks one of the biggest trends on Steam and beyond after studying games like REPO to find out what makes them fun
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Guide
Brookhaven codes (November 2025) for music tracks and memes
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NewsDressed in their best digital pigeon cosplay, Fall Guys devs reunite after Epic layoffs to serve up REPO and Peak-style "tasty friendslop"
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FeatureAfter a few months of work led to 11 million copies sold on Steam, Peak devs embrace what many companies refuse to learn: "We're not going to continually have a graph go up"
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NewsWith a peak of 100,000 concurrent players sending it straight into Steam's best-sellers chart, the latest indie hit is a silly physics-based co-op game about driving an RV
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NewsHelldivers 2 updates take a pause as Arrowhead commits to sorting out widespread performance issues "to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in"
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NewsREPO dev says its big monster update turns it into more of "a proper horror game" and "reinvigorates the entire gameplay loop"
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NewsAfter one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
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Vote NowGolden Joystick Awards 2025: Vote for Your Ultimate Game of the Year!
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LiveEverything announced at the PlayStation State of Play September 2025
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GuideGamescom 2025 schedule: all of the showcases and biggest reveals
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NewsHow to watch The Future Games Show at gamescom 2025 – and what to expect
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NewsMetal Gear Solid and Resident Evil Village stars set to host Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
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NewsElden Ring Nightreign players posted so hard that even the game's publisher has succumbed to Revenant
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NewsDavid Cronenberg says he's "never been a great games player" — the only "game" in movies like eXistenZ and Videodrome "is to try to understand what life is now"
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RecapEverything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
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Battlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"
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GuideDestiny Rising codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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GuideRoblox Rivals codes (November 2025) for free Keys, Wraps, and more
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GuideDo Battlefield 6 and Redsec have skill-based matchmaking?
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NewsArc Raiders gives players 500 free Raider Tokens to apologize for servers buckling under the weight of 350,000 Steam players alone over the weekend
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NewsActivision clears the air: no Call of Duty Black Ops 7 early access despite rumors
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NewsBattlefield 6's new casual mode Breakthrough is stuffed with bots, leaving some players worried it's losing what "makes the franchise special" but others happy to have a less sweaty option
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UpcomingUpcoming Xbox Series X games for 2025 and beyond
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NewsBattlefield 6 player goes to extreme lengths to prove the new maps are much smaller than in previous games, painstakingly scaling pixels to meters: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend"
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GuideJujutsu Infinite codes (November 2025) for free Spins
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News"This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online
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NewsYet another PlayStation icon that Sony is content to leave in its grave is getting revived by an entirely different publisher
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newsMortal Kombat co-creator says the movie sequel's opening has made him cry every single time he's watched it: "It punches you in the face"
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NewsAfter conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art
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Now PlayingEven after 14 years of League of Legends, fighting game 2XKO can do little but make me think of the games I wish Riot was still making instead
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Mortal Kombat 2 is as much about Kitana as it is about Johnny Cage: "They go in and out of each other throughout the movie"
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News"It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
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News2XKO director says players should know the LoL fighting game "might not be good" at everything at first, but Riot will "address it" – "We're going to make mistakes"
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Life after Lethal Company: solo creator Zeekerss says "weirdly, not a lot has changed" after one of the biggest indie hits in recent memory, and he still has "a good handful of ideas for games"
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UpcomingUpcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
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News"I don't know why, but it feels like fear has been my primary emotion ever since I was a kid": Lethal Company creator says horror games still feel like home as his 10-year project finally ends
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Lethal Company creator has thought about a sequel, but sees "a lot left to do" on the original: "As for Lethal Company 2, I have a vision for what that ought to be, and it surpasses my own ambition"
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NewsAfter 47 years, Halloween: The Game answers "burning questions" about John Carpenter's 1978 classic in a "sandbox-driven" single-player story with multiple endings designed to "prepare" you for multiplayer
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newsThe indie horror I've been raving about for 2 years headlines an incredible $13 Halloween games bundle that includes 12 other spooky treats
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Best ListThe 25 best horror games to play right now
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Indie SpotlightThe most unsettling horror game of the year is the Mouthwashing publisher's No, I'm Not A Human – Junji Ito meets Papers, Please with a monstrous twist
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NewsIndie horror hit REPO's "Monster Update" lives up to its name by being absolutely huge, with 10 new freaks to contend with
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Beloved Final Fantasy 14 catboy G'raha Tia is now Eorzea's "Sexiest Man Alive," fans declare, as actor Jonathan Bailey becomes the real-world equivalent
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NewsAfter 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form
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NewsDragon Quest creator and JRPG icon Yuji Horii becomes the first game designer to receive Order of the Rising sun award: "It's thanks to all the staff that helped create the games with me"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
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NewsSquare Enix finally says the words Final Fantasy 14's MMO fashion devotees have waited years to hear: "From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job!"
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NewsNobody told Octopath Traveler 0 devs they'd make an extreme town building system, so they guessed it was a mistake before the JRPG's producer said it "absolutely" wasn't: "I thought it would be only logical"
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "basically nothing" from the original JRPG's development survived: "We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left"
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NewsSquare Enix says no spoilers for the remakes of 38-year-old NES JRPGs Dragon Quest 1 and 2, please – there's a "big surprise" in store
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newsAnother MMO dead: ex-World of Warcraft and League of Legends lead's new studio "will close its doors" this month without releasing its flagship game Ghost
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Square Enix finally says the words Final Fantasy 14's MMO fashion devotees have waited years to hear: "From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job!"
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NewsStrip club DJ returns to a truly inescapable MMO, accidentally becoming a community legend and real-life GTA character: "Stripper saw me playing, I have been deeply judged"
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NewsAs Amazon kills New World, League of Legends co-creator and Riot co-founder puts a call out for "star devs" from the MMO: "We’re always on the lookout for S-tier talent"
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NewsThe fate of one of the oldest living MMOs, and one of the worst microtransaction shops ever, is up for a vote
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NewsAmazon's Lord of the Rings MMO looks doomed as former dev says we "would have loved it" amid thousands of layoffs
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NewsNew World devs leave heartfelt tribute for players after Amazon starts sunsetting the fantasy MMO, and now I'm crying: "Thank you for so many stories"
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newsFormer World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO lead says replacing devs with AI is "a little bit premature" - "AI may one day accelerate game development. But it's not happening today"
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News"I can't even find the motivation to play": 13,000-hour veteran leads the charge as New World players mourn their MMO by absolutely nuking its Steam reviews
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newsAfter 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
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NewsValve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
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NewsLeague of Legends leadership just got a crash course in horniness when "someone started explaining what 'gooning' meant: "I shouldn't tell you this"
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NewsNew Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game
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Best List10 Best MOBAs to play today
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News"We will for sure lose money": League of Legends developer is finally cracking down on account boosting after 15 years, even at the cost of the game's revenue
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NewsLeague of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
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NewsDeadlock fans in shambles after Valve dev issues a classically Valve update for its new MOBA: We see you're "really hyped up for an imminent update," but it "won't be coming for some time"
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NewsThe League of Legends Balatro homage I thought I'd never see again is back, thanks to a major MOBA preservation win
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Indie SpotlightI accidentally played 10 hours of Magic Inn and it's already the most hands-on management sim I've played since Two Point Campus
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Indie SpotlightI finally tried Minami Lane after seeing over 5,000 positive reviews, and within 4 hours it's already the chillest management game I've ever played
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News"This is completely insane. I didn't even think that was possible?": Minami Lane dev stunned to see his new cute $5 Steam game gather over 1,000 flawless reviews
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PreviewI traded banned books for bread in this RPG-tinged resource management game that feels like Pentiment meets Citizen Sleeper
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NewsI failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything
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NewsThe long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
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NewsBethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
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NewsOne of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
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PreviewTavern Keeper feels like being a fly on the wall in a D&D campaign, and I never knew I needed that in a management sim
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Battlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"
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GuideDying Light The Beast docket codes (November 2025) and how to redeem them
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Review
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: "Zelda is a fantastic lead in this action-packed Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but boring missions hold the magic back"
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