Game developers association decries ‘financial censorship’ amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for ‘greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated’

The International Game Developers Association, a non-profit industry group that aims to “support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers,” has weighed into the controversy over the delisting of NSFW games on Steam and Itch.io, calling for “greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated and actioned…

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Disgaea 7 Complete Lands Western Switch 2 Release Date

Launching as a Switch 2 exclusive in the West. After revealing Disgaea 7 Complete‘s Western Switch 2 exclusivity last month, NIS America has today lifted the lid on the release date for the upcoming definitive edition: 10th October 2025. This ‘complete’ package arrived in Japan last year on PS5, PS4 and Switch, but only Nintendo’s…

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Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review

The Edge of Fate marks a landmark shift for Destiny 2. It’s both the launch of a new saga—an attempt to hook players into a bold new direction for the game’s story—and a massive change to Destiny’s most fundamental progression systems. Seasons are gone. Loot has been overhauled. The very structure of the activities you…

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It’s a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I’m in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods

We’re in a golden age for incredibly weird games from Eastern Europe. There’s Indika, the one where you play a nun who chats with Satan. There’s Militsioner, the one where you explore a town presided over by a 100-story-tall cop. There’s HROT, the FPS about socialist Czechoslovakia. And now there’s One-Eyed Likho, a horror/puzzle game…

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As the Chinese game industry flocks from mobile to AAA blockbusters, Phantom Blade Zero’s director says the quiet part out loud: ‘Good games are good. It’s not ‘big games are good.”

Game director “Soulframe” Liang accidentally started his career by making free games in RPG Maker and releasing them online. Two decades later, he’s making one of the highest profile upcoming games in China, the “kungfupunk” actioner Phantom Blade Zero. I recently flew to Beijing to spend a few hours with the game and have come…

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Nacon Rig 900 Max HS review

I think unboxing experiences are a little overrated. While it’s nice to open your new purchase and find a level of care and attention paid to the packaging that makes every component feel like a rare gem, I don’t really mind if a product comes in a default, easy-to-recycle cardboard container. It makes me feel…

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Bad vibes only: A zero-day flaw in popular sex toy app Lovense can leak usernames, email addresses, and other, err, intimate details

Data security in this day and age was already a joke. Besides one accurately guessed password putting a 158-year old company out of business, hackers keep finding zero-day flaws in Chrome like it’s going out of fashion. Speaking of, the latest data security punchline involves a zero-day flaw in Lovense, an app designed to remotely…

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