Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2's 1st balance pass, saying these changes are 'the first of many': 'No change is necessarily permanent'

Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2’s 1st balance pass, saying these changes are ‘the first of many’: ‘No change is necessarily permanent’

Slay the Spire 2 has been raking in the dough and enjoying all sorts of positive feedback, but the precarious thing about making something people love is that the minute you change it, you’re messing with that thing people love. Developer Mega Crit experienced this last week when its first balance changes incurred the collective…

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Geoff ‘Zag’ Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: ‘Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Geoff “Zag” Keene first encountered PC gaming by watching his…

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Crimson Desert’s soundtrack is criminally inoffensive but that hasn’t stopped one song from driving me insane

There is so much about Crimson Desert that enthralls and deeply frustrates me—you can read about all that in my review—but something that had almost no impact on me was its soundtrack. That’s quite the surprise for someone like myself. I’m the kind of person who absorbs every single note, melody, and instrument videogame music…

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Crimson Desert team apologizes after players find AI art in the game: ‘Our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced’

AI has been involved in its fair share of oopsies at this point, and Crimson Desert is the latest to take the hit. As reported by IGN, many players have taken to Reddit to point out likely AI-generated assets since the game’s release, and today developer Pearl Abyss shared a statement on X responding to…

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Picross S Konami Antiques Edition Features Castlevania, Contra, And More

Launching end of April. Jupiter Corporation has announced a new Picross entry to its growing lineup: Picross S Konami Antiques Edition. Launching on 30th April 2026 for the Switch eShop, the new game will introduce several classic Konami properties, including: – GRADIUS series– TwinBee series– Castlevania series– Ganbare Goemon series– CONTRA series Read the full…

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Nearly 2 years after hitting 1.0, goblin pachinko roguelike Peglin adds a fourth act and a final boss: ‘It’s been a long time coming’

The Peggle series may have long been lost to the free-to-play maelstrom that is mobile gaming, but PC gamers jonesing for a fantastical pachinko fix can at least console themselves with Peglin. The game takes the ball-bouncing, peg-busting fundamentals of Peggle, then smashes it together with a fantasy roguelike where a cute wee goblin batters…

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