Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more

It shows just how vast PC gaming has become that I had not heard of Barony until now, despite it being over a decade old and attracting thousands of players every day. After a wobbly start in 2015, the cooperative dungeon crawler has grown steadily in popularity over its lifespan, and in the last 12…

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Cities: Skylines 2’s new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel’s future, revealing a patch that will include changes players ‘have been requesting for a long time’

A decade after it famously beat SimCity at its own game, Finnish developer Colossal Order waved goodbye to the Cities: Skylines series last year. In Colossal Order’s place, stewardship of Cities: Skylines 2 was taken over by Surviving the Aftermath developer Iceflake Studios. Now at the helm, Iceflake has unveiled the first part of its…

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I didn’t even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim’s NPCs look during the split second they’re opening doors, and now a modder’s pointed it out the mod to fix has become essential

The way NPCs open doors in Skyrim has always been a bit silly. When they’re crossing load screens they can’t open them all the way—because then the other side would have to be rendered—and so they pop doors open a crack revealing a sliver of darkness, then fade out of existence like the guy in…

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Larian made a chill beats Baldur’s Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes

Larian’s community-focused Channel From Hell normally hosts videos like livestreams and developer interviews. The latest upload is a bit different. Borrowing the chill beats aesthetic every videogame from World of Warcraft to Victoria 3 has riffed on, Larian presents Chill Demonic Beats To Long Rest To, half an hour of a relaxed version of Raphael’s…

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Terra Invicta review

Need to know What is it? XCOM as a solar system-spanning grand strategy gameRelease date January 5, 2026Expect to pay $40Developer Pavonis InteractivePublisher Hooded HorseReviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site If you’ve played any of the XCOMs, the premise here will be familiar—appropriately enough, given that…

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The company that made a Dark Souls tabletop RPG is doing the same for Elden Ring Nightreign, and honestly, that’s harder to imagine

Elden Ring Nightreign was a major shakeup to the formula FromSoftware cultivated over several Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring—while each of those games is a departure from the last, Nightreign’s multiplayer focus and battle royale-inspired format make it a different beast altogether. But even though it was less of an RPG than…

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