New Disney Dreamlight Valley Update Welcomes Aladdin And Jasmine, Here Are The Patch Notes

Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: ‘I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child’

Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed soulslite multiplayer ARPG, is more than a little popular with around 190,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write this. It’s also got more than a little of everybody’s favorite novel-but-ruinous technology, as some of its NPCs appear to be powered by LLM chatbots. That means you can converse with…

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Cowabunga! Essential Tips for TMNT: Splintered Fate

Category: Games June 24, 2025 Cowabunga! Essential Tips for TMNT: Splintered Fate Daniel Stansens, Lead Game Designer The Heroes in a Half Shell have arrived on Xbox—and they’re ready to kick shell! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate brings fast-paced, roguelike action to your console, featuring chaotic co-op gameplay, powerful power-ups, and a cast of…

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Ten years ago I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me League of Legends would one day have a bafflingly adorable ‘crafting RPG’ spinoff

For me, League of Legends “ended” somewhere around 2015 when I realized ranked play was just making me upset and that there were other games I wanted to spend my time on. Whenever I’m periodically reminded that the game’s still bigger than god and transforming in unrecognizable ways I get the same sense of vertigo…

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League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

MOBAs are interesting videogames—imagine, if you will, a slot machine. Then imagine that slot machine takes forty minutes to do one pull of the arm, and also it’s yelling colourful and exciting swearwords at you in a language you don’t understand the entire time. That’s sort of what playing a MOBA with public voice chat…

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Retroid Confirms Rapper Soulja Boy “Does Not Have Permission” To Rebrand And Sell Its Handhelds

Rapper is under fire again for rebranding other people’s products. Remember when one-hit-wonder Soulja Boy (real name DeAndre Cortez Way) got caught selling rebranded handhelds? Well, he’s back at it again (actually, this is technically ‘again again’) because he’s now flipping Retroid handhelds via his shady Soulja Game branding. As spotted by Retro Dodo, Soulja…

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I played the new demo for the upcoming Starship Troopers boomer shooter and accidentally wiped out 6 of my own guys when I bounced a grenade off someone’s head

I sometimes have trouble keeping track of all the different Starship Troopers games out there, but the upcoming Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War stands out for a couple reasons. One, it’s being made by Auroch Digital, developer of the very excellent Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, and two, there’s now a demo on Steam so you can…

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