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Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don’t comply with demands for company data and content removal

Türkiye’s Family and Social Services Ministry, as part of wider legislation aimed at restricting child social media access, has drafted legislation that would impose restrictions and intensive oversight on Steam, Epic, and other digital gaming platforms (via Türkiye Today). While the legislation hasn’t yet undergone parliamentary consideration, it would allow the Turkish government under President…

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Warhorse reveals Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have killed 5.4 million enemies while drunk, and I’m just surprised that number isn’t higher because Drinking is the best skill

It’s been a full 365 days since Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 came out, and to celebrate the occasion, Warhorse is partaking in the time-honored game dev tradition of sharing peculiar or funny stats about how people played it. The infographic, painted in the RPG’s signature medieval gothic art style, starts with a big number: our…

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7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables

Poker Night at the Inventory was, for a very brief time, kind of a phenom in the world of videogames. A relatively early Telltale release, it was a poker game starring four big-at-the-videogame characters: Max from Sam and Max, Strong Bad’s Homestar Runner, the needs-no-introduction Heavy, and Tycho from the Penny Arcade webcomic. It was…

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Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a ‘run-based’ spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls

Dreamhaven, the company unveiled in 2020 by Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, has something new(ish) in the works, a “tactics roguelike game” for 1-4 players called Shadowstone that’s set to launch later this year. Shadowstone is being developed by Secret Door, the team behind the 2025 tactics RPG Sunderfolk, and you may notice a certain similarity…

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Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: ‘I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed… they will pay for what they want’

Bethesda veteran and Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith has done a new interview with PressBoxPR going over his considerable time at the studio: among the topics addressed are why Bethesda shouldn’t switch to Unreal Engine, Todd Howard’s “seagulling” habits, and one bit of deep cut lore that had PCG’s Joshua Wolens despairing. Nesmith is asked…

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Of course there’s a tiny Bridgerton reference in The Sims Royalty & Legacy expansion because it’s basically a Lady Whistledown simulation

The next Sims 4 expansion, Royalty & Legacy, launches next week and the details we’ve seen so far are all to do with family legacy and scandals. Coincidentally (or likely not) it’s landing right in the middle of season 4 of Bridgerton, the regency era romance TV show that is also all about the scandals…

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MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its ‘most significant post-launch update’ is now live and an expansion is coming later this year

I use the word “catastrophic” quite a lot—it’s one of those things that just happens when you write about videogames for a living—but there are few games more deserving of the term than MindsEye, one of 2025’s biggest flops. A rough pre-release led into an even worse launch: Player counts on Steam were microscopic, layoffs…

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Interview: “Kids Don’t Like Being Treated Like Kids” – How 4PGP Is Harnessing The Power Of Sega Rally’s Director To Challenge Mario Kart

“I think there are people who have trouble connecting with cute characters”. There are plenty of notable things about 4PGP, which launches on Switch and Switch 2 today – the iconic (but unlicensed) 1990s F1 cars, the 120Hz visuals (on Switch 2) and the four-player split-screen mode – but I have to admit that, as…

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