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New JRPG giant Metaphor: ReFantazio beats all Persona games to become Atlus' fastest-selling title and biggest Steam launch
News It's a fantastic start for Atlus' new fantasy JRPG
Valve reminds Steam users they don't actually own a darn thing they buy, GOG pounces and says its games "cannot be taken away from you" thanks to offline installers
News GOG previously said it wants "to ensure your gaming legacy is always in your hands"
Pokemon math goes to the moon as Scarlet and Violet gives us a new max damage record over 2 billion, and it only takes 164 turns and 100 totally-not-dead Pokemon
News Did Smeargle just become the most powerful Pokemon?
How long is Metaphor: ReFantazio?
Guide The time to beat Metaphor: ReFantazio is about 80-90 hours for an average first playthrough
God of War: Ragnarok, Cyberpunk 2077, and Apex Legends are gloriously ugly in new art from devs joining "Blocktober" trend showing how games come together
News Blocktober gives a rare glimpse into the early development of some iconic games
A spiritual successor to Disco Elysium that's "continuing a legacy" of RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Icewind Dale is in the works from Bungie, Rockstar, and ZA/UM veterans
News The upcoming psychological RPG will let you constantly reshape the world with your decisions
Cities: Skylines 2 publisher says players "have higher expectations" today and are "less accepting" that games will "fix things over time"
News "A few games bring in most of the players, and most games are dropped quite quickly"
Ex-Blizzard president reportedly wanted to reboot Overwatch and reduce Diablo 4 microtransactions, but left before either of those things happened
News It sounds like big changes could have been on the horizon
This stunning Steampunk-inspired pixel art RPG is smashing through its Kickstarter goals by nearly $100k, and there's already a demo to give it a go
News Forge of the Fae is a "a love letter to the classics of the 16-bit era"
Nintendo has unveiled a new product, and it's not the Switch 2, but a $100 alarm clock that'll play a victory fanfare when you get up
News The motion-sensing alarm clock can wake you up to sounds from different Nintendo games
StarCraft 2 veteran would want a sequel go open world, or just "try something radically new"
News StarCraft 2's production genre hopes a sequel could "advance the genre"
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero publisher says just "Lower difficulty and retry" to fighting fans getting demolished by Great Ape Vegeta, but players say that's "absolutely NOT" an option
News Bandai Namco suggests "a win is a win," but dedicated players don't think so
This adorable sandbox RPG looks like Skyrim combined with Stardew Valley, which might be helped by the fact that Skyrim's lead designer is working on it
News Farm, fish, decorate, and forage as you live out your life as a woodland creature
Valheim takes notes from cozy games like Stardew Valley with an update that adds cooking and farming skills, as well as new feasts
News The survival game is about to get way cozier
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's difficulty is "f***ing absurd," fighting game fans say as CPU opponents pull off long combos, and one story mode fight is "some BS"
News It's not just you - Sparking Zero is very tough
Red Dead Redemption 2 modder makes every NPC permanently drunk, even in cutscenes, and it's absolute chaos
News Every scene is full of characters staggering, falling, and being sick
Helldivers 2 players are one step closer to getting their massive Democracy Space Station, but the constant Automaton battles are proving to be a bit much: "I need a break from bots"
News Helldivers are in desperate need of a bug-shaped break
Epic is already planning Unreal Engine 6, combining "high-end" dev tools with Fortnite's simpler creative mode editor and enabling "persistent universe" games
News But it's "going to take several years" to get there
Alien: Isolation devs heard fans' "distress calls loud and clear," confirms a sequel to the survival horror game is in "early development" after 10 years
News More details will be shared "when we're ready"
Metaphor: ReFantazio Metacritic score confirms a new certified JRPG banger, as the Persona devs' latest effort ties with Astro Bot as one of the best games of the year
News It looks like we have yet another Game of the Year contender on our hands
Silent Hill 2's remake has an achievement for the faint of heart who don't want to enter the creepy town at all, even though there's no secret Far Cry 4-style ending
News You can't just run away from Silent Hill, but trying will reward you nonetheless
Amid whispers of Ubisoft potentially being bought out, the Assassin's Creed developer says it reviews "strategic options" regularly
News Ubisoft isn't confirming anything either way right now
