New branding guidelines suggest official third-party hardware support is imminent.
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Longtime Valve watchers likely remember Steam Machines,...
An arcane combo of witty dialogue, turn-based tactics, and magical friendship.
Tom Francis and his Suspicious Developments team spent 6.5 years crafting the perfect finale...
Pitchford's prediction that Steam could be "a dying store" have not come to pass.
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Devs cite Rollercoaster Tycoon, Dwarf Fortress, and, yes, SimCity as inspiration.
Naming a game must be incredibly hard. How many more Dark Fallen Journeys and Noun: Verb of the Noun games can fit...
Maybe, just maybe, players want more new ideas rather than live services.
Palworld's head of community has a radical idea: Stop caring about how many...
Regulator says move is "exactly the sort of consumer harm" it warned about.
The FTC says the across-the-board price increases that Microsoft recently announced for its Xbox...
Developers canceled a beta test—but may have gotten one anyway.
How badly do you want to play the upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ahead of its...
The original developers revised puzzles and realized the immersive world in 3D.
A remake of Riven: The Sequel to Myst launched this week, made by the original...
A model trained in a virtual environment does remarkably well in the real world.
Exoskeletons today look like something straight out of sci-fi. But the...
New iOS emulation rules only apply to "retro game consoles," not retro computers.
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OG Fallout producer says "Project Van Buren" ran out of time and money.
PC gamers of a certain vintage will remember tales of Project Van Buren, a title...
2025 release could launch on the still-mysterious "Switch 2."
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It has now been almost exactly seven years since Nintendo first announced Metroid Prime 4 and over five years...
Souls fans seeking real challenge should love it. Casuals like me might wait.
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Elden Ring was my first leap into FromSoftware titles (and Dark-Souls-like games generally), and I...
Developer bans "over 600" players for exploiting an item duplication glitch.
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Adata embraces the CAMM2 memory standard for its intriguing handheld prototype.
For PC gamers used to the modular design of a desktop rig, there are pros...
