Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes Announces Major Game Update, Releasing Alongside New DLC Fighter

This month’s Humble Choice is offering one of the best turnbased sicko RPGs of the century for an all time low $15—plus you get 8 other games including Diablo 4

I love Atlus’ JRPGs but most of the time, faced with the prospect of actually playing them, I flake out. I loved Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor ReFantazio, and Persona 5 is a modern classic for good reason, but in my opinion none can hold a candle to Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance. Why? Because…

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‘The team has weathered a lot’: Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going ‘when it was at its hardest’

Considering the months of turmoil surrounding the development of Subnautica 2, it’s not just exciting that the undersea survival game is finally launching into early access next week on May 14—it’s a minor miracle. But while the legal battle between publisher Krafton and the founders of developer Unknown Worlds was incredibly loud and extremely public,…

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Steam Deck verification criteria continues to confuse as Masters of Albion is marked Unsupported, despite devs considering it ‘fully optimised for handheld’

Masters of Albion is the new god game by Fable creator Peter Molyneux. Ahead of its early access launch in late April, studio 22cans addressed its Steam Deck compatibility in a blog post. “We have spent a significant amount of time setting this up, making sure that Masters is a smooth, playable experience on the…

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Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited, Seamus Blackley is best known as the “father of the Xbox” after proposing and spearheading the creation and design of the Microsoft console’s first iteration. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002, but he was recently…

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