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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
Baldur's Gate 3 dev explains in painstaking detail how and why players get to break the game: "The easy thing would be to block players ... but we don't like that at Larian"
news "Just allow players to have fun," says Larian's Mihail Kostov
After 8 years and more than 30 volumes, one of my favorite slice of life manga is entering its final arc and I don't know how to feel
News Komi Can't Communicate is approaching the end
With the determination that makes MMOs special, Old School RuneScape player kills 16,000 chickens by hand for a week because "I like my feathers covered in blood"
news Clucktastrophe
Larian finally throws its hands up as one 1,400-hour Baldur's Gate 3 player beats every backup possible, including a magic fish, to doom the world and find new content
news RPG investigators are digging deep in search of Baldur's Gate 3 secrets
25 years later, Counter-Strike co-creator says Valve has "done a great job" with the FPS icon, and he still regrets "not balancing some of the weapons, such as the AWP"
news He was surprised y'all liked DE_Dust so much, too
Legendary MMO speedrunner "can finally play the game again" after a 1,758-hour record for one of Old School RuneScape's most brutal challenges
news He box jonge has done it again
Gamers have been voting with their wallet for years – that's why 82% of US players reportedly made freemium in-game purchases last year
news A new report also found 62% of adults over 18 are gamers
Even after the Baldur's Gate RPGs, BioWare vet says Dragon Age: The Veilguard was when the dev "finally said out loud" it's best at "telling stories through characters"
news "You literally cannot save the world without these characters," adds Veilguard's creative director
Manor Lords publisher announces a new city builder that sounds like a Disney movie turned into a colony and automation sim where "verticality is key"
news It's raining cats and mice in Whiskerwood
No Man's Sky update 5.0 promises variety "that just wasn't possible before" and "things the community has almost given up hope on," still with "much more to come"
news With Worlds Part 1, Hello Games is "almost bringing this technology back from the future"
Genshin Impact players get 1,600 Primogems for free thanks to a rare bug fix rollback after update 4.8 made the game's best DPS character feel worse to play
news HoYoverse rolls back the fix for a Neuvillette bug it already gave out Primogems for
Hades 2 Patch 4 is bigger than expected, with Supergiant pushing balance changes and bug fixes "we wanted to get in before our first Major Update later this year"
news Hades 2's update cadence will slow down a bit with that update in mind
I've somehow been living a chilling lie for over 200 hours of Elden Ring, but at least I'm not the only one
Features I can explain
Hidetaka Miyazaki's reputation grows as an Elden Ring poster signed by the director himself goes for $12,600 and counting
news In support of the Immune Deficiency Foundation
"Go and learn how to mod": CD Projekt lead says "half" of the people making quests for Cyberpunk 2 right now are former modders
news The Cyberpunk 2077 sequel has a lot of modder power under the hood
Over a dozen Genshin Impact voice actors lay into developer HoYoverse for more inexplicably "pale" characters after Natlan reveal: "You still got time to fix it"
news "People are absolutely within their rights to demand better representation"
