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Summer Game Fest confirms GTA 6 publisher, Xbox, and PlayStation will all be in attendance during next month's show
News Get ready for plenty of excitement from June 7
Solo dev behind breakout Metroidvania hit Animal Well says his game has 256 encounters, but he had to cut at least 500 of them during development
News "Designing a Metroidvania is a lot harder than designing a linear platformer"
Helldivers 2 devs reveal the first Galactic War was just "an elaborate special operation," and "The Second Galactic War" has already begun
News This is just the beginning...
The Assassin's Creed Shadows open-world map is about the same size as Origin's Egypt, but exists on a more realistic scale because Ubisoft "really wanted the mountains to feel like mountains"
News Prepare for a climb
Manor Lords player figures out how to hack food production and "put out a ton" - just surround your massive vegetable patches with huge corpse pits
News Hey, free fertilizer!
Helldivers 2 CEO wants the galactic war to last "forever" even if Arrowhead has to "sunset" the game in the far future and the devs have to make an AI game master
News "We don't want to screw you guys over"
Amid rave reviews and 200,000 sales, Idle Stardew Valley-style farming sim dev can hardly believe their success: "I'm only now realizing how life-changing this is"
News Rusty's Retirement is a certified hit
Helldivers 2 dev asked players for Warbond feedback, and boy did it get some: after 21,000 votes, over 70% of recruits don't like the new gear or would prefer more patches
News Polar Patriots hasn't gone down well
Manor Lords dev begs modders to stop submitting bug reports after wasting time trying to fix a bug that wasn't even his fault
News "Feel free to experiment with mods but please don't submit bugs if you use them"
Skyrim's been out for 13 years, but players are still being surprised by the fact that NPCs die if you steal their hearts
News I heard they die if you chop their heads off, too
Frustrated dev of misunderstood city-builder changed his game's name to remind players that it's "a bloody creative sandbox not a f***ing strategy game"
News Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles isn't the game it might appear to be at first glance
Mass Effect and Dragon Age veteran invokes BioWare's biggest RPG flop as he rails against EA's newfound "hunger" for AI
News David Gaider has some interesting memories of Anthem
After Helldivers 2 fixed the bug that helped players squish 2 billion Terminids in 24 hours, a new Major Order pits them against 2 billion bots instead
News But they'll earn some shiny new anti-tank mines if they succeed
A Fallout: New Vegas fan is trying to raise $500,000 to put the RPG's enigmatic antihero on the Vegas Sphere
News TIL how expensive the Las Vegas Sphere is
Call of Duty on Xbox Game Pass could still happen this year as Xbox president appears to confirm Activision games will hit the subscription service
News Sarah Bong pledges games from "across the whole slate"
I went to war in Manor Lords all so my city-builder civilians could get a proper drink
Now Playing Now Playing | I'd do literally anything for a mug of ale right now
After millions of sales and a glut of awards, Baldur's Gate 3 director says he's nearly done talking about his smash CRPG hit: "I really want to focus on new things"
News Larian is moving on
As Xbox shutters studios, community concern mounts for the teams behind Doom, Avowed, Hellblade, and more
News They "all seem unsafe now"
Manor Lords players trying to expand into the city-builder's new territories are getting stung by settlements that aren't self-sufficient
News There's no 'set and forget' in medieval Europe
Indie devs react to Hades 2's stealth launch: "Good thing we picked a quiet news week to launch a video game"
News "Can we collectively stop doing shadow drops for majorly anticipated games?"
Star Wars Outlaws' Reputation system will change "the gameplay around the story" rather than "the story itself"
News Even if Jabba hates your guts
Hades 2 review: "The roguelike DNA at the heart of this sequel remains as tight and cutthroat as its predecessor"
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How to beat Hecate in Hades 2
Guide The Witch of the Crossroads is your first major obstacle in Hades 2
