Jagex outrages the Runescape community yet again, this time with a survey hinting at big price hikes and worse service for those who don’t want to pay

Less than six months after angering its community by hiking the price of Runescape, Jagex has done it again with a new player survey asking players for their thoughts about some potentially very big changes to the game’s pricing and feature set. With those thoughts now coming in like cow shit in a hurricane, Jagex…

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Undaunted by mixed Steam reviews, Hyper Light Breaker dev says it’s ‘encouraging’ to have ‘extremely reasonable’ early access feedback

After a hands-on preview with Hyper Light Breaker in late 2024, we walked away liking Heart Machine’s neon-splashed Drifter follow-up quite a bit. Our Ted Litchfield called it “a great action game that nails the look and feel of Hyper Light Drifter in a 3D open world,” which left him hopeful for how the game…

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Mouthwashing review

Review catch-up (Image credit: Coal Supper) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…

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Path of Exile 2’s first big patch of 2025 is here, bringing new maps, quality of life tweaks, unique item and monster rebalancing, and—let’s see—improved visuals for ‘Chaos Pustules’

Path of Exile 2 is kicking off 2025 with its first major patch—and it’s a doozy. As promised in the patch preview released last weekend, Grinding Gear Games has returned from its holiday break to tackle some of the most pressing issues and smooth out some of the friction players have faced in the weeks…

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Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever

Castlevania’s defining trait, since the beginning, is that it’s better than it has any right to be. I’m talking about the animated series on Netflix, which found its groove in Season 2 by combining surprisingly articulate conversations between murderous vampires and ruminations on loss and legacy with explosive action sequences. You could say the same…

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Logitech G RS Wheel Hub and RS Track Wheel review

Owners of the Logitech G Pro Racing Wheel rejoice! We can finally upgrade our sim racing setup as we always had hoped. With new shifters, handbrakes, and, as I’ll cover here today, new wheels and wheel hubs. Logitech has two new racing wheels on offer, one designed for the track and another largely aimed at…

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Deadlock’s ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out

When Valve first introduced ranked play to Deadlock the player distribution was a little funky. Seeing that Deadlock was and is still in closed beta, this was to be expected, but still, instead of the normal bell curve, players were spread out across all the ranks. It was a little chaotic to begin with, but…

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9 years after launching his own studio, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo finally reveals what he’s doing with it

In 2016, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new venture called Bonfire Studios, made up of former Blizzard colleagues and ex-Nexon CEO Min Kim. Nine years down the road, he’s finally revealed the studio’s first project: A team-based PvP game called Arkheron. Pardo told VentureBeat that Arkheron has been in proper…

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