Deadlock’s snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: ‘Yoshi took him out back’

Apollo, the latest hero to come to the Cursed Apple of Deadlock—and the final in the sextuplet of the Old Gods, New Blood update—has been hit with a barrage of nerfs, per the game’s official changelog forums. For context, Apollo was a duelist character whose mobility and relative tankiness was a terror in most games—a…

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Original Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end ‘was a mistake,’ because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into ‘a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason’

Artur Ganszyniec, the lead story designer of the original Witcher RPG, recently completed a full playthrough of the game he helped create nearly 20 years ago, documented across 26 separate episodes on YouTube. And at the end of it all, he dropped an interesting little bit of trivia: The game’s epic, out-of-nowhere ending wasn’t originally…

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Valheim’s creative director is still ‘dedicated on Valheim every day’ in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: ‘We love making games so much that we want to make more games’

Developer Iron Gate Studios released Valheim into early access almost exactly five years ago, and the finish line may finally now be in sight: work on the survival game’s final biome is underway and the launch on PlayStation and Switch 2 is planned for 2026. While there’s been no official word, I wouldn’t be surprised…

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