If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover

If for some reason you can’t get enough of Stranger Things’ Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight’s latest crossover

I can’t pretend to be anything other than relieved that Stranger Things is over. While I enjoyed the first few seasons of its pulpy Spielberg pastiche, it ultimately became far too big for its Nike high tops. But if you still haven’t had enough of the gang explaining its preposterously convoluted plans to kill Vecna,…

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A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen’s creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: ‘The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft “axed” Christ Roberts’ Freelancer’

Before he spent thirteen years struggling to finish Star Citizen, Chris Roberts spent six years struggling to finish Freelancer. Digital Anvil’s third-person space-sim was conceived by Roberts in the late nineties. But after blasting through both Freelancer’s budget and its planned two-and-a-half-year development cycle, Digital Anvil was acquired by Microsoft. Roberts left the company shortly…

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Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience

It’s happening again. You’ve ignored your body’s alarms and pushed yourself well beyond the threshold of exhaustion. It’s Monday, or maybe Thursday, but who’s keeping track anymore? Your body moves independently from thought—either unconcerned or incapable of addressing the growing detachment—and you repeat the same, torturous daily routine with a mechanical ease. You’re not physically…

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s lead writer hopes we won’t want to save scum in Divinity: ‘Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting’

We all save scummed in Baldur’s Gate 3⁠—except, apparently, for my friend Jack and coworker Morgan Park. They both accidentally killed everyone at the Last Light Inn and just kept trucking. As part of Larian’s big Divinity AMA on Reddit, the game’s writing director, Adam Smith, revealed how the studio is factoring players’ save scumming…

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Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

League of Legends looks unrecognizable in 2025 when compared to its cartoonier, humbler 2009 incarnation. And yet, while Summoner’s Rift has been dotted with all sorts of new jungle monsters, balance tweaks, and visual overhauls, the actual map has changed only slightly. Occasionally a different mode is introduced with a new map, but those rarely…

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