As its much newer sequel struggles, the 13-year-old Payday 2 is getting a ‘massive engine upgrade’ that improves performance and cuts the install size in half

Back in 2025, Starbreeze turned its venerable heist-shooter Payday 2 over to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it could focus exclusively on trying to salvage the still-struggling Payday 3. Today we got our first look at the fruits of those efforts, and it’s big news—not for Payday 3, to be clear, but for Payday…

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Dispatch cleared the way for medieval narrative RPG Sovereign Tower as its developer says the line up was ‘actually perfect for us’

Who could forget Dispatch’s release and subsequent explosion of popularity, as hordes of gamers gathered to run and romance their own superhero squad; not me. But months later, after stumbling on a new upcoming medieval narrative RPG, those memories came flooding back. Sovereign Tower’s Steam demo released a couple of months ago, and I loved…

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Haunted Chocolatier fans don’t have fresh screenshots to fawn over because Eric Barone says sharing them mid-development ‘feels like serving half-baked bread’

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone recently gave us a small update on the progress of Haunted Chocolatier. He said that his next project is taking longer than expected due to the fact that it’s a bigger game than Stardew Valley and because he’s a perfectionist. He also explained why there are no screenshots alongside this update—or in-depth…

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Battlefield 6 is overhauling its gunplay next week, and it’s adding one thing we’ve all asked for years on end

EA’s had a hard time juggling Battlefield 6 since launch. It was a record-breaking release for the series, but it quickly dropped off amid frustrations over map design, gunplay, and its seasonal structure. Six months later, the team was hit with layoffs. Since then, we’ve been living in the ‘we’ve heard your feedback’ era, with…

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Share of the Week: Saros – Arjun Devraj

Share of the Week: Saros – Arjun Devraj

Last week, we tasked you with capturing portraits of Arjun Devraj in Saros’ newly released Photo Mode using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: l2.focus shares Arjun’s profile against a moody red background MdeavorVP shares Arjun aiming his weapon Santisbae shares Arjun’s head haloed by the eclipse  thwippip shares a close up portrait of…

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer has a lot more Slay the Spire DNA than I expected, because its ex-Burnout devs wanted to add ‘real consequence’ to each race

Don’t call Galactic Racer “Podracer” in front of its developers—they’ll politely point out that their new game is about multiple types of racing in the Star Wars universe, and it is not a sequel to 1999’s Episode 1 Racer, despite featuring podracing’s most iconic characters and courses. At first this feels like splitting hairs to…

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says the NCR and Caesar’s Legion feel so real because their members disagree and challenge each other: ‘You have to wrestle with the fact that it contains multitudes’

Fallout: New Vegas is an incredible game, and its factions are its best part. The New California Republic (NCR), Caesar’s Legion, and the Securitrons of Mr House are omnipresent in the Mojave, and there’s barely an NPC in the game that doesn’t shine light on some new aspect of each one. So many of New…

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