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Meet the Japanese solo dev who spent 15 years making the bizarre game that's secretly one of the highest-rated JRPGs on Steam and a personal favorite of mine
Features Astlibra Revision creator Keizo explains the making of the unexpected epic
Genshin Impact 4.5 release date and time - When the Chiori banner starts
news New five-star Geo character Chiori debuts in the first half of version 4.5
One of the best action RPGs of 2024 gets better as Granblue Fantasy Relink rolls out the kind of endgame live services would kill for, plus more gorgeous characters
news Granblue Fantasy Relink has yet another epic boss battle on the way
After almost 2 years, Genshin Impact confirms Arlecchino for update 4.6 in one of the open-world RPG's most-anticipated reveals ever
news Arlecchino will be the second playable Fatui Harbinger
This sci-fantasy RPG came out of nowhere and had pretty much everything stacked against it, but somehow I ended up loving it anyway
Features Arknights studio Hypergryph released Ex Astris, an RPG with no microtransactions, and it whips
Beloved indie dev "miraculously" lands co-op game featuring 9 of the biggest vtubers on Earth, but pays a heavy price: "My cringe ass trying to voice act"
news Holo X Break features several Hololive talents, but not without cost
Helldivers 2 boss says players unlocked mechs "4x faster than we thought," and are now calling in so many EXO-45s that the servers are struggling again
news Y'all are calling in so many mechs that even the servers are getting democratized
Final Fantasy 7 writer "regretted" parts of the original JRPG and saw Rebirth and Remake as a chance to "properly portray Aerith and Tifa’s friendship"
news Kazushige Nojima shares his hopes for the remake trilogy
Helldivers 2 finally gets its mechs in our first post-launch Stratagem after players liberate Tien Kwan in record time
news The mechs have arrived, I repeat, the mechs have arrived
Helldivers 2's annoying armored enemies are getting nerfed, devs look to tone down "spawn rates and health pools"
news The most-requested Helldivers 2 change is coming, people
CD Projekt dev congratulates Cyberpunk 2077 player on finding an Easter egg photobomb after the RPG's latest update
news The devs were just chatting about how nobody had found it yet
Helldivers 2 CEO says Arrowhead has "taken action internally to educate our developers" after game balance debates got out of hand
news Comments from community and development figures fanned the flames
Helldivers 2 balance lead says the "don't nerf, only buff" approach is a horrible idea as the community reacts to top weapon nerfs
news "I believe players are scared of nerfs, because it will ruin the fantasy of a weapon"
The original legendary Stalker trilogy, still an open-world FPS icon, gets "refined for console" in surprise Xbox and PlayStation release
news The Stalker games that started it all finally jump to consoles
Oops, Destiny 2's best farm ever was literally just the MMO playing itself: bugged Lost Sectors were auto-completing and spitting out free Exotics in seconds
news Farm it before it's patc– and it's been patched
Helldivers 2 dev casually confirms mechs are coming "soon" – meet the EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
news Arrowhead announces what we've all been hoping for
Putting out an MMO fire, Temtem devs confirm the last big update for the "MMO-lite," cut "all of the microtransactions in the game," and tease another new game
news Temtem is almost out of new content, but the sort-of MMO will stay on for "a really, really long time"
Yuzu devs pay Nintendo $2.4 million, shut down the massive Switch emulator, declare "we cannot continue to allow" such "extensive piracy," and pull all code offline
News Update: In less than a week, the Yuzu devs agree to a settlement and shut it all down
As Helldivers 2 players died millions of times on planet Mort, D&D-style war master Joel was "watching it all go down" and called it a "thing of beauty"
news "He's as dedicated to the community as I am," community manager says of Joel
Helldivers 2 got so big that its virtual D&D master Joel needed "emergency" assistance: "He's only one guy, and he was just not sleeping ... sending me messages at 4am"
news Helldivers 2 war master Joel needed reinforcements of his own
Helldivers 2 CEO acknowledges the meta in the best way: "Give the new player the shield backpack and the railgun. You can do without it if you are a true Helldiver"
news Helldivers 2 players do love their railguns and shields
Money-hating creator of one of the highest-rated roguelikes in Steam history says "oops I made a second game" in the most casual reveal of 2024
news HoloCure followup Holo X Break also looks great
The $6 Metroidvania that lit Steam on fire last year hits 100K sales, self-taught dev who made the game in a few months "still having trouble processing"
news Psuedoregalia gets even better with a chunky map update
