Tavern Keeper’s item design tool is so good one player made a tabletop D&D set where you can actually read the stats on the character sheets

I’ve fallen hard for Tavern Keeper, a sim where you manage an inn in a fantasy realm filled with halflings, orcs, and elves, serving drinks, cooking meals, and dealing with occasional devastating fire or insect infestation. Despite only entering early access just last week (after more than a decade of development), it’s already beloved among…

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PC Gamer’s highest review scores of 2025

The most notable thing about this year’s list of PC Gamer’s highest review scores is what doesn’t appear on it. Many of the games that are in the running for one of our Game of the Year awards aren’t represented, including Elden Ring Nightreign, Battlefield 6, Europa Universalis 5, Arc Raiders, and Clair Obscur: Expedition…

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Fully recovered from a messy year, Path of Exile 2’s next update is still on track to fix its most glaring issues and, if we’re lucky, debut a new class

The last update to Path of Exile 2 helped turn things around after developer Grinding Gear Games soured players with a gigantic pile of nerfs in the previous patch. It did not, however, include the new druid class that barely missed the deadline. With Path of Exile 1’s new Keepers of the Flame expansion going…

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Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

Videogame marketing company Trap Plan is taking heat for a marketing campaign that saw roughly 100 “organic-style posts and comments” made on numerous subreddits, which were formatted in such a way that “most players didn’t even realize they were part of a marketing effort.” And it probably would’ve stayed that way, except Trap Plan CEO…

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