Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 2025)

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…

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‘If the players own the game, they’ll make it fantastic’: Larian CEO Swen Vincke doubles down on defense of Baldur’s Gate 3 Stardew Valley mod and the modding community overall

Swen Vincke has once again proven himself to be a friend of Baldur’s Gate 3 modders and the wider modding community, doubling down on his defense of mods in a recent GameSpot interview and even advocating for modding as a core part of sustaining games long-term. Speaking with GameSpot’s Tamoor Hussain, Vincke was asked about…

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Larian boss Swen Vincke says the studio is ‘deep in the trenches’ on its ‘crazy-ambitious’ follow up to Baldur’s Gate 3, hopes to show it off no later than 2030 because ‘my wife will divorce me if it takes longer’

In a new video interview with GameSpot, Larian founder and CEO Swen Vincke revealed a little bit more about its much anticipated next project, as well as everything the studio’s doing to make itself a well-oiled RPG machine that still keeps its developers happy and excited. Vincke told GameSpot’s Tamoor Hussain that, after an eight-year…

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Resident Evil 4 Remake is now the fastest game in the series to sell 10 million copies, and it’s currently half price if you want to make it 10 million and 1

Resident Evil 4 Remake was always going to be popular. It was comfortably the most anticipated overhaul in Capcom’s makeover project, given the original is one of the best games of all time. But I hadn’t anticipated just how popular it would prove to be. This week, Capcom announced that not only has Resi 4…

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Trump-appointed lawyer threatens to revoke Wikipedia’s non-profit status, putting the online encyclopedia in jeopardy

The Wikipedia articles you use to do research and find basic info on your favorite games might include propaganda. At least, according to Ed Martin, acting attorney for the District of Columbia. Last week, a letter from Martin sent to the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, was obtained by The Free Press. The letter includes…

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Oblivion’s forgotten goblin wars system, which saw gobbos battling each other all over Cyrodiil, emerged from designing a single quest: ‘I figured it wouldn’t be a lot more work to make this systemic’

Oblivion’s radiant AI system is mainly remembered for its impeccable, if entirely unintentional, comedic timing, producing non-sequiturs and bizarre NPC interactions all over Cyrodiil. Players are currently discovering this all over again in Bethesda’s immensely popular remaster. But one of the system’s lesser-known effects is how it also influenced goblin behaviour. Far from being mindless…

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