Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: ‘I saw the game the day it went up on Steam’

As part of a talk highlighted in the 2026 GDC Trends Report, Playstack head of discovery Patrick Johnson explained how the indie publisher got in on the ground floor with PCG’s 2024 game of the year, Balatro. There’s no shortcut or sexy secret, though, just putting in boring work with a dose of good old-fashioned…

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It seems Terraria’s developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than ‘adjusting a few numbers’

Back in January, Terraria finally received its gargantuan 1.4.5 patch. Three years in the making, 1.4.5 was supposed to be the final update for the long-running, massively successful survival-crafting game. But it turns out that developer Re-Logic is terrible at making final updates, having committed to at least one further major patch in the future…

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Pragmata’s developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a ‘huge compliment’, though I’m not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection

If you’ve played Pragmata, there’s a slight chance you’ve noticed it resembles an action game from the Xbox 360/PS3 era. By ‘slight chance’, I mean the connection has been made by anyone who has looked at Capcom’s third-person shooter for more than five seconds. Yet while this may have been considered an insult a decade…

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Legend has it that The 7th Guest’s creators were ‘fired’ on the spot after pitching the game—it’s ‘hyperbole,’ but not entirely untrue

Myst is the game best known for driving adoption of the CD-ROM drive, but as a Halloween-obsessed kid in the ’90s, The 7th Guest was where it was at for me. The 1993 puzzle-adventure game was, like Myst, one of the first games that required a CD-ROM drive—but unlike Myst, sometimes your mouse cursor was…

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An EVE newbie got an impossibly rare $7,000 ship out of a free loot box, leaving him set for life in the space MMO: ‘Everyone gets this for free, right?’

At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere⁠. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character sitting on…

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The Witcher 3 sold another 5 million copies over the last year: ‘This cements its place among the best-selling videogames in history’

Here’s a nice little bit of trivia to carry you into your weekend: Amidst all the hullabaloo about the surprise Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past that was announced earlier this week, CD Projekt also revealed that Geralt’s big(gest) adventure has now surpassed 65 million copies sold. “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which recently…

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Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2’s final update: ‘My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating’

Its entry into retirement is approaching, but Destiny 2 is being sent out with a bang. After detailing the ways D2 activities are evolving in its end-of-new-content Monument of Triumph update, Bungie today has provided more specifics about the avalanche of new and returning weaponry it’s spilling into its various loot pools. From resurrecting long-absent…

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