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Another year on this godforsaken rock is grinding to a close, and you know what that means: award season! The Golden Joysticks just wrapped up, The Game Awards are coming, and to kill some time in between you can now nominate your games of choice for the 2025 Steam Awards. I’d actually wondered how Steam…

Eric Barone, the developer behind all-time great farming sim Stardew Valley, has had his head down working on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier since it was announced in 2021. But he’s also flirted with a bit of gaming-minded philanthropy, publicly musing about whether he’d save the Minecraft-like Hytale before it was sold back to its original…

Following disappointing sales of Assassin’s Creed Nexus, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the publisher isn’t going to increase its investment into VR game development until demand for it “grows enough.” Assassin’s Creed Nexus looked “genuinely cool” in the estimation of news writer Joshua Wolens, “if you can keep yourself from throwing up,” which in the…

Just earlier this year, the US DOJ came in hot arguing “Google must divest the Chrome browser”, and accusing it of dominance “through its unlawful and unchecked, monopolistic conduct over the past decade.” For a while, it felt like something might happen to break it apart, and now it appears this was all bluster. As…

In a recent snapshot shared to the Minecraft website, a couple of new features for the game’s next drop have been revealed. Much like the Copper Golem, one of these additions is also designed to make organising your base a lot more convenient. Rather than sifting through a room of chests, you’ll now be able…

All the help you need to solve your daily Wordle is waiting below. There’s a range of tips if you’d like to refresh your everyday strategy, a hint written especially for today’s game if you need some guidance, and of course the full answer for the October 12 (845) game if you really need that…

When REPO announced it would be receiving a bunch of new monsters in September, I naively thought they wouldn’t be too scary. Most of REPO’s existing critters are unsettling, especially the Upscream and the Animal, but there’s nothing that really petrifies you. The same can’t be said for the game now though, and having spent…