How to get Stone in The Forge

On your way to becoming a blacksmithing master, The Forge tasks you with learning the ins and outs of gathering with Umut The Brave’s quest, The Basics of Mining. He has a fairly simple request—just bring him a few resources—but you’ll need to know how to get Stone in The Forge to check off the…

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The Game Awards reveals fan-voted Players’ Voice nominees, and I’m sorry to say that Megabonk is once again out of the show

The final nominees for the Players’ Voice category at The Game Awards 2025 have been announced, and I’m sorry to say that indie darling Megabonk is—again—out of the running. And this time, there’s no coming back. It’s been quite a journey for Megabonk. Developer Vedinad withdrew the game from contention in the Best Debut Indie…

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‘We’re not doing a good enough job [with Portal] right now’: Battlefield 6 dev says players are making ‘fantastic’ creations that nobody is seeing because of a ‘technical issue’

When I sat down to chat with Ripple Effect studio design director Justin Wiebe last week, we’d planned to talk RedSec. Wiebe helped lead the charge on Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode developed primarily at the Los Angeles-based Ripple Effect, but on the day, we ended up chatting more about Portal—its expansive feature set, boundless…

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The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world’s Survivorslikes and Bullet Heavens intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name for the misfit genre

Of all the ideological struggles pervading our world today, none is more crucial than the effort to decide what we should actually call all the games like Vampire Survivors. This week, more than 450 developers are joining forces to solve that frustrating quandary of categorical nomenclature with a public survey aiming to finally settle on…

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