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Earlier this month, we covered the release of Baldur’s Village, a Stardew Valley mod adding more than 20 characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 that earned Larian CEO Swen Vicke’s stamp of approval. This morning, we reported how Wizards of the Coast seemingly decided that the best way to capitalize off that brand momentum was to…

I’ve been curious about Psycho Patrol R for a long time, but after spending seven hours with it in early access, it’s now one of my most anticipated games: A ludicrously complex immersive sim, mech sim, and open-ended RPG in the tradition of Deus Ex, Morrowind, or Stalker. It’s also extremely difficult, and I feel…

I was perhaps a bit uncharitable when the first Minecraft movie teaser dropped in 2024, and by “uncharitable” I mean that I may have sent off several emails to the Hague to complain about the commission of crimes against humanity. A bit extreme, perhaps, but I’m hardly the only one who was appalled by what…

I sat down for a demo of Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero with two main curiosities. First was how its combat compares to last year’s Black Myth: Wukong, and it turns out: pretty different. Second was the backstory of S-Game studio founder “Soulframe” Liang, who started his career with an RPG Maker game while…

One of the most unintuitive parts of life in Inzoi is figuring out how to invite someone over to your house. You’d think it would involve pulling out your cell phone like getting a job or buying a car, both of which you can do through an app. Nope, for some reason there’s no way…

Less than a week after Crystal Dynamics laid off 17 employees “to better align our current business needs,” Eidos Montreal has announced that it’s letting go of “up to 75” employees, saying it doesn’t currently have sufficient work to justify keeping them around. “Today, we informed our studio staff that we are going to let…

At GDC 2025, I spoke with Tarn Adams, co-creator and lead programmer of Dwarf Fortress, about the past, present, and future of his 23-year procgen masterwork. We talked about how the looming threat of aquifer flooding encapsulates his approach to Dwarf Fortress difficulty and how he’s generally bummed about AI. Towards the end of our…

If you’re a RuneScape lifer who’s ever thought that it might be nice to have some RuneScape in a game that isn’t RuneScape, then Jagex has, maybe, just the thing. RuneScape: Dragonwilds is an open world survival crafting game for 1-4 players that’s set to launch into early access this spring. This isn’t actually the…