Co-op submarine survival simulator Barotrauma has a free weekend on Steam, so dive in with friends and experience the most comically horrifying deaths you can imagine

Quick story about the most nightmarish death I’ve ever experienced in a videogame: I was playing Barotrauma, the submarine survival simulator where you explore oceans on alien worlds. I’d left the sub and was swimming around in the inky black waters to investigate some sunken ruins, when I noticed I was out of air. Frantically,…

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22-year-old MMO MapleStory is getting the ‘old school’ treatment with the original lead game designer in charge of new classic servers

There’s something about taking long-running MMOs back to their roots that fans really seem to like. Old School Runescape, a version of the venerable Jagex MMO that recreates the game as it was in 2007, is enduringly popular, and when Blizzard announced World of Warcraft Classic in 2018, that was a big deal. Now MapleStory…

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Forget Baldur’s Gate 3’s new subclasses: Patch 8’s most disgusting power gamer combo is the Rock That Makes You Stupid paired with a sneakily revamped level 2 spell

The marquee additions in Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 are probably photo mode, the Hexblade subclass, and the Booming Blade cantrip, but there’s also a new sicko combo that’s taken the BG3 Builds subreddit by storm: Shadow Blade plus Resonance Stone. Neither of these are fully new, but Patch 8 did a complete revamp on…

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