This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players can’t decide if they love or hate it, perhaps because of the $2000 microtransaction

I hadn’t heard of Russian Fishing 4 until PCG’s Wes Fenlon noticed it was weirdly popular on Steam. The game’s been available since 2018, launching on Steam in November 2021, and since then it’s steadily built a considerable audience over time: per SteamDB’s three year charts, it was pulling in around 7,000 concurrent players after…

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This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and Destiny devs lets you do the best thing a videogame can: Make a town look cooler while you rebuild it

When I approach a videogame, all I’m looking for is one thing: the ability to construct a small hamlet. This is why I still, in stray moments, catch myself reflecting with a wistful sigh on my time rebuilding Monteriggioni in Assassin’s Creed 2 or that one village you build in Breath of the Wild. This…

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Dead Take is a first-person horror game out to expose ‘the darkest secrets’ of the entertainment industry: ‘I want players to think, I can’t believe they actually did this’

Just over a year after the release of its debut game Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Surgent Studios has unveiled its next project, and I don’t know what I expected but it definitely wasn’t this. Dead Take is a first-person psychological horror game the studio says “will peel back the entertainment industry’s glittering facade to expose…

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The Elder Scrolls Online’s subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: ‘It’s in the works’

The Elder Scrolls Online just had a huge patch drop yesterday—titled Seasons of the Worm Cult, this new update marks the start of a few key changes to the MMO, alongside a nice helping of content for current or returning players to sink their newly subclassed mitts into. Subclassing, which I had a look at…

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Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate’s new exotics include the most powerful primary weapon I’ve ever used and gloves that enable one of the coolest player-requested abilities

The chocolate box of exotic gear that comes with a new Destiny 2 expansion is always one of the biggest reasons to log back in. With The Edge of Fate expansion, which launches on July 15, the slate of new supercharged weapons and unique armour pieces feels particularly fresh—including one item, Melas Panoplia, which enables…

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‘In a very interesting way, it actually reduces the work’: Destiny 2’s director explains why reinventing the wheel with The Edge of Fate was actually the easier option

It’s hard to think of a time in the decade since Destiny launched when the next expansion wasn’t make or break. As the first major release since last year’s The Final Shape, which did the improbable job of landing the game’s sprawling narrative successfully, this year’s The Edge of Fate expansion has the unenviable job…

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