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WoW’s new player housing feature’s been out in early access for less than a week, and players have already made battleships, dollhouses, and large hadron colliders

World of Warcraft‘s player housing feature has been out for less than a week—well, in early access, as long as you’ve bought the upcoming Midnight expansion—and I’m delighted to report that players are already going hogwild. For context, player housing has taken notes from every other popular MMO’s housing system and basically rolled it into…

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Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms

Spry Fox, the Seattle-based studio behind cozy games like Cozy Grove, got purchased by Netflix back in 2022 when the streaming giant was really trying to get into this whole videogame thing. While the acquisition did bear fruit—an upcoming mobile co-op life sim called Spirit Crossing—Spry Fox is parting ways with its owner after just…

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The 25-year history of Total War, from an experimental side project made between PS1 sports games to Medieval 3: ‘Now more than ever, we are focusing our technology on the future of Total War’

Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth’s All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in October here in Colorado and I’d get a few extra days off school. And I discovered a little…

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‘Queen’s Domain’ Is A New Action RPG Inspired By FromSoftware’s Legendary ‘King’s Field’ Series

Coming 2026. New Blood Interactive’s Dungeons of Dusk wasn’t only the promising game announcement to come out of last night’s PC Gaming Show, with Freshly Baked Games and Future Friends Games also revealing an exciting new retro-inspired action-RPG, which is set to come to Steam next year. Queen’s Domain, as you might have guessed from…

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