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This absurd trolley conductor simulator gave me 3 separate Steam achievements for throwing grandmas from a moving public transportation vehicle
News All in a day's work.
'It's the year of Obsidian': The Outer Worlds 2 game director says the studio isn't worried about releasing another RPG in the same year as Avowed
News Unbothered. Happy. In its lane. Focused. Flourishing.
The Outer Worlds 2 game director says its writing has a 'less silly, darker tone' than the first game
News People aren't always bad in silly ways. Sometimes they're just bad.
At Fate's End is a gorgeous action adventure where you can pull a 'legendary God Sword' from your throat to work through family trauma in duels with siblings who use their own spines as weaponry
News I don't know what any of this is but I know I love looking at it.
Open world failson walking simulator Baby Steps is clumsily waddling our way in a dirty onesie—play the Steam demo now
PCGS 2025 Safe to assume there'll be a lot of stumbling in the process.
Co-op zombie shooter No More Room in Hell 2 is bringing back the fan-favorite Broadway map to kick off its summer of updates
PCGS 2025 Even zombies like dinner and a show.
Self-cloning sci-fi survival game The Alters might look like a harrowing psychological experience, but at least you and your alt-universe selves can have a dance party
PCGS 2025 Surely that'll smooth over the auto-amputations.
Game Freak reminds us that it's more than Pokémon with Beast of Reincarnation, a 'one-person, one-dog action RPG' about fighting robots and corrupted beasts in post-apocalyptic Japan
News Beast of Reincarnation was revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase today.
No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path'
News SGF's fascination with small staff sizes discredits the integral work of external contractors and contributors.
Nightreign's distilled shot of Elden Ring juice makes it my ideal level of soulslike investment after 14 years of getting good
GUD ENOUGH The best balm for soulslike fatigue, it turns out, is a roguelike.
To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector's 'player-powered' multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you'll have to 'play with your ears'
News If your heist is about to go loud, make sure there's something louder nearby.
Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold '90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage'
News Benevolent yoinking.
RE9 is real: Resident Evil Requiem just got a surprise SGF reveal, and it's launching in February
News Tragically, there's no giant vampire lady in sight.
Wildgate, the match-based Sea of Thieves in space from Mike Morhaime's new game company, launches this July
News And there's an open beta on the way, too.
Sonic Racing: Crossworlds just declared war on Mario Kart by becoming the true Smash Bros. of kart racers, bringing drivers from Minecraft, Persona, Yakuza—oh, and Hatsune Miku
News A new challenger approaches.
Square Enix just revealed a 'murder mystery action game' and as far as I can tell it's like Among Us in a spooky mansion full of hot people
News You put enough pretty people in the same space, and this kind of thing is bound to happen.
Nightreign players have figured out a way to guarantee you'll be at max level when fighting a Nightlord, but unfortunately it's super boring
News Success isn't always exciting.
Nioh 3 stars legendary warlord Tokugawa (the inspiration for FX's Shogun), and it's coming to PC in early 2026
News I'm not an expert, but I think the glowing guardian spirits are a product of creative license.
Oh dang, we're getting an all-new Lumines, and this one's got 'over 30 stages of synesthetic sensory wonderlands'
News That's my favorite kind of sensory wonderland!
The Witcher 4 tech demo has me hyped for a big budget open world for the first time in years—but not because of the Unreal graphics
bewitchered Thank god, they're making open worlds with character again.
Penguins confront Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the next game from the developers of Umurangi Generation
News Oh dear.
Former Ubisoft execs face trial in France this week on charges of 'moral and sexual harassment'
News Testimonies and internal Ubisoft audits allege an "institutionalized schoolboy environment" of racism, bullying, and sexual misconduct.
More than 2 million people have played/been brutalized by Elden Ring Nightreign in its first 24 hours
News That's a lot of Nightfarers.
