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The 10 Steam Next Fest demos you need to play this weekend
By Joe Chivers published
Features Indie Spotlight | Demo-nstratively Worth Your Time

10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth
By Oscar Taylor-Kent published
Opinion Opinion | Across almost forty years in-universe, it's been an unavoidably long time since I had a solid hangout sesh with Goro Majima – Pirate Yakuza gives me what I needed

Monster Hunter Wilds fixes my biggest issue with World: the monsters themselves
By Scott McCrae published
Opinion Opinion | Wilds has the strongest opening hours in the action RPG series yet – and it's great for new and returning players

Pokemon Legends: Z-A just catapulted to the top of my most anticipated games thanks to its single-city setting
By Heather Wald published
Opinion Opinion | I'm so glad Pokemon Legends: Z-A is seemingly taking the open-zone approach over fully open-world

Splitgate 2 improves on the FPS' intoxicating blend of Halo and Portal: "You no longer have to get hung up on which button you meant to press"
By Hayes Madsen published
Hands-on Hands-on | Splitgate 2 blows an already unique idea up to an even bigger scale, and it might just be why it succeeds

Pokemon Champions: Everything we know so far
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
Features Be the very best in Pokemon Champions, a new PvP experience from The Pokemon Works

Avowed's companions have really made the RPG for me, and it's all thanks to how responsive they are outside of combat
By Heather Wald published
Now Playing Now Playing | I'm in love with the way Avowed's companions interact with the world - they make the RPG feel so alive

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn’t historically accurate – it’s something better
By Marloes Valentina Stella published
Opinion Opinion | Carrots are orange, children don’t exist, but we don’t care
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