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Torchlight 3 studio Echtra Games, acquired by Zynga in 2021 to help it move into PC and console gaming, is being closed without doing that
Echtra was working on a new RPG for Zynga, but it never saw the light of day.
Jonathan Joss, who appeared in Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption, shot dead in Texas
The actor, who was best known for portraying John Redcorn in King of the Hill, was killed in what police say was a dispute with a neighbor.
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Singleplayer Elden Ring Nightreign is no longer hell to play, but it's still a compromised game of 30-minute boss runbacks
Solo Nightreign has hit its natural ceiling of being 60% as good as the co-op experience.
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Trial begins in France this week for 3 former Ubisoft executives facing accusations of 'moral and sexual harassment'
Testimonies and internal Ubisoft audits allege an "institutionalized schoolboy environment" of racism, bullying, and sexual misconduct.
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Forget Divinity: Original Sin 3: For its Baldur's Gate 3 follow-up, I implore Larian to revisit its okayest game
I'm not talking about Ego Draconis. Even okayer than that.
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I found a mysterious demo disc with no name hiding a game almost no one in the world has ever seen, and it made me feel like I'd uncovered buried treasure
A fun game with no name.
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A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
Stig Asmussen has finally revealed what he's getting up to at his new Giant Skull studio.
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Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
One of the most-requested Dune: Awakening features is now a reality.
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The worst part of Elden Ring Nightreign, like all multiplayer games, is that you need to rely on the kindness and intelligence of strangers
First there was maidenless, now there's friendless.
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IO's James Bond game is called 007 First Light, will be revealed later this week
The name's Light. First Light.
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All Elden Ring Nightreign Remembrances and quests for each character
Tick off each character's Remembrance quests for the full story.
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Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's tremendously messed-up endings aren't what I'd hoped for—and I hope Sandfall keeps it that way
I don't want a future DLC to tie everything in a neat bow.
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I wouldn't pass up this gaming PC deal: the latest AMD components and 32 GB of RAM for way under $2000
Yes, another all-AMD gaming PC—it's hard not to when they're this good value.
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Elden Ring Nightreign's first major patch sees FromSoft belatedly admit singleplayer is all sorts of unfair, adds an auto-resurrect and buffs the levelling curve
You Died (a lot).
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American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'
Taxation rates can be a surprisingly emotive topic.
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Asus ROG Pelta review
The ROG Delta, but with a 'P', offers surprisingly robust audio and comfort at a reasonable price tag.
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Lethal Company's biggest update for months is finally out, and with it comes the much awaited first look at a new monster
Look out for the Sapsucker on Vow.
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89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
It's not an age thing, grandma. It doesn't make sense to most of us either.
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How to get salt in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
One of life's most essential seasonings.
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Someone's already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through
Executor my beloved.
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How to unlock multiplayer in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Everything is better with friends.
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How to change your appearance in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Sometimes you've got to shake it up a little bit.
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Here's another terrifying trailer for that creepy retro survival horror game that's half FMV, half pixel-art
Tenebris Somnia is going to keep us up at night.
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D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
We're at the endgame of insane home-builds for D&D and I am loving it.
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 2, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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XWVM, the X-Wing mod that lets you play the Star Wars classic remade in Unity, is finally available to download
X-Wing is back.
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Gaming laptops are ridiculously expensive in 2025, but Lenovo AU's EOFY discounts have made some brand new RTX 50-series units more viable
Get an RTX 5060 with a 15-inch OLED display for as little as AU$2,139.
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Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it's still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great
Apple is creating its own game launcher, but what it really needs is a page from Valve's book.
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'We wish to express our deepest regret': Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs
Two of People Can Fly's planned mystery games may never see the light of day.
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Elden Ring Nightreign artist wanted part of the game to feel 'more cozy, more welcoming, more at home,' so naturally she drew on Dark Souls for inspiration
Elden Ring Nightreign was designed to look like more than just a spin-off.
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You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
The relic's better early game and nothing to write home about, but it's still neat.
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I didn't even know what roleplaying was until I experienced this bizarre '90s B-game where you slowly turn into a bug
Bitten by the bug.
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Elden Ring Nightreign is the first FromSoftware game that I honestly wish I could play on easy
Nightreign would be a much stickier roguelike if its randomness extended to easier, and more varied, challenges.
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'The journey was long': 2 years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips
"Perhaps that second step sequel-wise should have been a smaller one."
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