Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience

It’s happening again. You’ve ignored your body’s alarms and pushed yourself well beyond the threshold of exhaustion. It’s Monday, or maybe Thursday, but who’s keeping track anymore? Your body moves independently from thought—either unconcerned or incapable of addressing the growing detachment—and you repeat the same, torturous daily routine with a mechanical ease. You’re not physically…

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s lead writer hopes we won’t want to save scum in Divinity: ‘Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting’

We all save scummed in Baldur’s Gate 3⁠—except, apparently, for my friend Jack and coworker Morgan Park. They both accidentally killed everyone at the Last Light Inn and just kept trucking. As part of Larian’s big Divinity AMA on Reddit, the game’s writing director, Adam Smith, revealed how the studio is factoring players’ save scumming…

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Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

League of Legends looks unrecognizable in 2025 when compared to its cartoonier, humbler 2009 incarnation. And yet, while Summoner’s Rift has been dotted with all sorts of new jungle monsters, balance tweaks, and visual overhauls, the actual map has changed only slightly. Occasionally a different mode is introduced with a new map, but those rarely…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 composer Borislav ‘Bobby’ Slavov is coming back for Divinity: ‘We wouldn’t be able to stop him even if we wanted to’

Not that there was much doubt, but now it’s confirmed, and it’s good news for Larian fans. Borislav Slavov, the creator of the Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 soundtracks, is composing the music for the studio’s next game, Divinity. “We wouldn’t be able to stop him even if we wanted to,” Larian…

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Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it’s right on the money

Does your choice of fashion say something about your behavior in Arc Raiders? As I pore over this “Raider Outfit Danger Scale” created by Reddit user abeetabee and marvel at its anecdotal accuracy, it’s hard to argue there isn’t a correlation. Some threads just scream “this guy is totally going to shoot me when I…

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