Blue Prince was made possible by creator’s Magic: The Gathering fan site: ‘Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads’

Blue Prince, a mind-bending mix of roguelike, deckbuilder, and puzzler—one where you draft the rooms of an enormous mansion and assemble them piece-by-piece, to be slotted together like riddle LEGO—has been claiming the minds of PC Gamer’s more intellectually inclined staff. I’ve yet to give it a go myself, but it really does seem like…

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According to David Fincher’s new Xbox ad with an extremely late ’90s/early 2000s vibe, you can escape capitalism by buying Xbox games

David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna’s Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 14, 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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Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro’s inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself

Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has uploaded a new video that interrogates one of the studio’s most memorably strange non sequiturs: The giant guy made of rope who carries you from the kingdom of Ashina to the celestial Fountainhead Palace. It seems like there was once much more to Mr. Rope-a-Dope than we saw…

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‘It’s about to get even darker, more disturbed, and violent’: Barotrauma’s Calm Before the Storm update introduces new PVP outpost and alien ruins

If you’ve ever wanted to perish in undersea alien ruins on one of the moons of Jupiter, now’s your chance thanks to the latest update for 2D co-op horror game Barotrauma. The “Calm Before the Storm” update brings a slew of new features to support your frightening submarine expeditions on Europa, including a new mission,…

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