Star Wars Battlefront 2 had over 2200% more Steam players this weekend than it did last June—and it’s thanks in part to Kyrie Irving and his level 101 Emperor Palpatine

We’re still in the midst of an unexpected renaissance for Star Wars Battlefront 2. Last month, we wrote about the surprising upsurge of Battlefront 2 player counts on Steam, which was really only surprising for as long as it took to remember how good Battlefront 2 is. Over the last four weeks, those player counts…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker 20-minute gameplay trailer shows off Dishonored-style teleportation and a man getting popped like a zit by an angry vampire boss

The Blood of Dawnwalker, the game that dares ask “what if Geralt was Blade?”, dropped an all-new 20 minute gameplay trailer over the weekend that adds an exciting new layer to the inquiry: What if Geralt was Blade, and they were also Corvo Attano? That aspect of gameplay becomes apparent midway through the video, when…

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I’m not built for whatever I heard in Phasmophobia’s Chronicle update, which adds terrifying new sounds you can’t afford to run from

The big Phasmophobia Chronicle update launches tomorrow, June 24, and brings a long list of bug fixes and tool reworks with it. As part of the tool shake-up, developer Kinetic Games also overhauled the journal’s media section for capturing evidence. It’s great if you’re tired of being limited to a photo camera. But, if you’re…

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Dune: Awakening is changing its endgame in response to player complaints: ‘Our goal is not to force PvE players to interact with a PvP system that they may have no interest in’

Just a few days after a Dune: Awakening AMA in which developers promised some changes to the endgame, here’s the first: Creative director Joel Bylos said today that some areas of the deep desert will be flagged as “partial warfare (PvE) areas,” enabling players to explore what it has to offer without fear of getting…

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Moonlighter 2 perfectly refines and streamlines the first game’s engrossing shopkeeper RPG formula, and it’s got a free demo you can try right now

The first thing you notice going from the first Moonlighter to the new sequel is the shift from 2D pixelart to full 3D. But it doesn’t take long before you realise that’s actually one of the least significant changes. What makes this sequel feel fantastically fresh is a whole laundry list of clever adjustments to…

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What does your birthday do in Death Stranding 2?

Everyone knows that Kojima games are full of confusing jargon, but Death Stranding 2 almost immediately throws an interesting dilemma your way: your birthday. It might sound simple on paper, but—as the prompt cryptically notes—a birthday “can determine a person’s experience of DOOMS”. Below, I’ll explain what your birthday actually does, what DOOMS means, and…

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Resident game industry weirdo Yoko Taro laments that there aren’t as many ‘weird’ people making videogames as there used to be

If there were to ever be a mascot for the videogame industry weirdos (endearing), it’d most certainly be Nier creator Yoko Taro. He’s built a brand around being a little eccentric, almost always seen sporting his Emil mask and making games that somehow perfectly straddle being a little horny, devastating, and thought-provoking all at once….

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Xbox-themed Quest 3S has been spotted ready for release and if you close your eyes and imagine what an Xbox-themed Quest 3S looks like, bingo

Holy heck this looks amazing!!! pic.twitter.com/gIGss0BI70June 20, 2025 In April of last year, Meta announced it would be working alongside Microsoft to make an Xbox-themed Meta Quest. As we noted at the time, we said the collaboration “probably means it’s black with a bit of green.” Well, you can imagine how shocked the PC Gamer…

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