“That evening, I told the company: This is the first game we’re publishing”—how vibes, fun, and aggressively mashing a keyboard landed the Vampire Survivors dev its first publishing client

In an interview with Edge Magazine earlier this year, Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galente said that, prior to launching the overnight sensation that wound up spawning its very own genre, he almost gave up on game development. Vampire Survivors, he admitted, was the first game he’d made just for fun. And fun, he surmised, would…

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The first published game from the Vampire Survivors’ devs is a ludicrous hack-n-slash you control by mashing your keyboard and, oh, it’s out right now

Famously, Benjamin Franklin once remarked—in a 1789 letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy—that “In this world nothing is certain, except Berserk or Die.” He was right. Featured during the PC Gaming Show 2025, Berserk or Die is an absurd, manic, and absurdly manic retro-style slice of chaos where your goal is to absolutely wild out on…

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s first new class is the cop from hell and his robot dog

You would’ve thought the situation in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide—demon-worshipping, diseased cultists infesting an entire hive city, a full regiment of Imperial Guard turned traitor, and mutants running amok, while the Inquisition barely stem the tide with wave after wave of cannon fodder—was a bit beyond the intervention of the local police force. But apparently developer…

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Open world failson walking simulator Baby Steps is clumsily waddling our way in a dirty onesie—play the Steam demo now

The latest game from QWOP and Getting Over It developer Bennett Foddy, an individual I’ve come to regard as something between a trickster deity and biblical tormentor, Baby Steps is the opposite of a power fantasy. You play as Nate, “an unemployed failson with nothing going for him”—the Steam page’s words, not mine—who’s been warped…

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Farever is the multiplayer Zelda-like you’ve been waiting for—check out its shiny trailer aired at the PC Gaming Show 2025

Recently Shiro Games has been responsible for strategy games like Northgard, WarTales, and Dune: Spice Wars, but before that it created the Evoland series, which remixed classic action-adventures like The Legend of Zelda. The studio’s next project is harking back to its starting place with an open world fantasy setting that has action and platforming—only…

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