A big Civilization 7 is on the way with ‘large and huge maps,’ Steam Workshop support, and a promise to keep working on it

A beefy new update for Civilization 7 is coming soon, featuring “several long-awaited features” including Large and Huge maps, new advanced game options, town specializations, and Steam Workshop support. The full low-down for those who want to dive deep is up on the Civilization website, but here’s the crash course version: Large and Huge map…

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Mecha Break will have interactive space toilets because its developer wants to emphasize that players ‘are acting as a pilot and not the mech itself’

The developer of Mecha Break, an anime-inspired mech battler which recently had a popular beta on Steam, wants to make sure we feel like we’re playing as mech pilots, rather than the mechs themselves. To that end, Amazing Seasun CEO Kris Kwok says that the studio is putting special attention toward building explorable, interactive hangars—with…

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Splitgate 2 boss apologizes for the ‘division’ caused by his MAGA-style hat but still insists it wasn’t meant to be political: ‘There’s division in the community, and for that I am truly sorry’

Four days after appearing on stage at Summer Game Fest in a MAGA-style “Make FPS Great Again” hat, Splitgate 2 boss Ian Proulx has posted a video apologizing for his poor judgment, although he still insists that there was no intentional political message behind it. Proulx said during his Summer Game Fest appearance that he…

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With Oblivion Remastered’s first patch looming, I wish Bethesda had taken a leaf from CDPR’s book and straight-up incorporated popular mods at launch

You know what? You gotta give Bethesda credit: the tack it takes with modders is a breath of fresh air compared to, well, pretty much every other big games company out there. Where, say, Nintendo is liable to send in a detachment of mercenaries to damnatio memoriae you and everyone you’ve ever loved if you…

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‘It’s the year of Obsidian’: The Outer Wilds 2 game director says the studio isn’t worried about releasing another RPG in the same year as Avowed

2025 is a busy year for Obsidian. The studio launched the well-received first-person fantasy RPG Avowed in February. Grounded 2, the sequel to its “honey-I-shrunk-the-kids” survival game, arrives in July. And in October, Obsidian’s revisiting its satirical space sci-fi setting with The Outer Wilds 2. You might reasonably expect that its packed release schedule would…

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Despite its new easy mode, Lies of P will get a ‘difficulty reduction’ in a future update because too many players are getting wrecked by the DLC

The Pinocchio soulslike Lies of P got an easy mode alongside the release of Overture DLC last week, an entirely uncontroversial move that riled up absolutely no one. But the DLC also apparently introduced a major difficulty spike in the Legendary Stalker mode—previously the game’s default—and it’s bad enough that game director Ji Won Choi…

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Team Ninja says Ninja Gaiden 4 is all about ‘bringing together the stylish qualities of Platinum while retaining that distinct Ninja Gaiden feel’—and the studios ‘wouldn’t hold back’ critiquing each other’s work

Team Ninja is busy. On the heels of remaster Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, the studio is working on Nioh 3 for 2026 while also overseeing development of this October’s Ninja Gaiden 4, which is in the works at PlatinumGames. Though they were once rivals for the fiefdom of Japanese character action games—Ninja Gaiden 2 and…

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