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Hades 2 is absolutely worth playing in early access right now

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After a short testing period a couple weeks ago, Hades 2 has officially entered early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store. It's been almost four years since Supergiant released what is one of the best action RPGs out there, and now we…

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It sure looks like The Talos Principle 2 is about to get an expansion

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Teaser videos and cryptic tweets hint at something new on the horizon.

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Dota 2's Pudge becomes the MOBA's first character to be played in over a billion matches

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Dota 2's Pudge has become the first character in the MOBA's history to be played in more than a billion matches, making the portly butcher the game's most popular character by about 300 million matches.

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As Helldivers 2's Steam reviews begin to recover, Arrowhead's CEO shares an 'accidental' cape design based upon its Overwhelmingly

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It's been a rough few days for Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead. Seemingly blindsided by Sony's attempt to restore the requirement for Steam players to link their game to a PlayStation Network account (which was suspended at launch due to…

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NetherRealm gives us a proper look at Homelander in Mortal Kombat 1's latest DLC trailer, and somehow the fatalities aren't the grossest thing in it

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I've long since become inured to Mortal Kombat's grossout action. There are only so many ways to slice up a virtual human before it becomes passé, after all. But NetherRealm's latest DLC trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, which gives us our…

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Scammers have resorted to selling CPUs without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered

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Scammers are among the lowest forms of life, but they can be crafty. In recent times there's been an increase in the number of scams that try to rip people off by selling expensive items without the things that make them expensive items.…

Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

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A few days ago, Sony posted a message to Steam noting that, "Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That…

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Looks like Space Marine 2 will continue the first game's grand tradition of PvP multiplayer

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A video uploaded to YouTube by prdalien0 showing a flick-through of The Art and Making of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 seems to have confirmed Saber Interactive's sequel will have a PvP mode. A two-page spread shows the armor of Chaos…

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 6

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Whether you're looking for a quick refresh of your daily guesses or you're in desperate need of today's Wordle answer, we've got all the help you could ever need right here. There's even a clue for the May 6 (1052) puzzle waiting below too…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 6, 2024)

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Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

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The Magic: The Gathering manga set in the '90s will come out in English at last

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Katsura Ise and Takuma Yokota's series Destroy All Humans: They Can't Be Regenerated will receive its first official translation this year.

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Love Sucks: Night Two is a horny game where the real fantasy isn't sex, it's enjoying a carnival without almost immediately getting tired and wanting to go home

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I made my peace with linear visual novels a while ago—as long as there's at least a little interaction. Let me muck around in a scene deciding what I look at while being rewarded with some ambient dialogue or whatever before I get back on…

New Apex Legends trailer gets us another look at Alter, Season 21, and the return of solos

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New Legend Alter is the first overtly villainous character since 2020.

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Robot roguelike Cogmind outlines three free expansions for its ultra-customizable scrapbots

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More ways to be a scrappy little bug inside the system continually reinventing itself.

Sunday, May 5

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Cybersecurity researchers find that fake USPS phishing sites account for at least as much internet traffic as the Postal Service itself

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"The way we filtered the data suggests that the malicious traffic significantly outweighs the legitimate traffic in the real world."

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Check out the trailer for this big, cooperative Halo campaign mod

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The Halo: RedShift campaign will work for Halo: Master Chief Collection.

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Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 5

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A hint to help you out and today's Wordle answer if you need it.

Saturday, May 4

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Here's the launch trailer for V Rising's 1.0 version, releasing very soon

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Vampire empire survival and crafting RPG V Rising has a proper launch trailer ahead of its 1.0 launch this week on May 8—almost exactly two years from its May 17, 2022 Early Access release.

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All four modern Fallout games catapulted into the most-played games on Steam Deck this past month

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It's no secret that the Fallout show was a big success, with Amazon saying it was the streaming arm's biggest hit since The Rings of Power, with 65 million viewers. It's also no real secret that successful videogame shows make people want…

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Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other

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A clear and obvious oversight in the smash hit video roleplaying game Baldur's Gate 3 is that the big weird family of characters you build cannot give each other more hugs. One brave modder by the name of Cerberry has fixed that.

Update: With over 211 thousand negative Helldivers 2 Steam reviews in three days, developer Arrowhead seems to be grappling with Sony over its controversial PSN sign-in requirement

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The storm over Helldivers 2 introducing a PlayStation Network sign-in requirement doesn't show any signs of slowing down, with the game sitting at a little over 84,000 negative Steam reviews over the past two days at the time of writing.…

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Seekers of Skyveil convinced me the extraction genre isn't just for shooters anymore

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A team of former Riot and Blizzard developers might've just cracked a new subgenre.

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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 4

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The answer to today's Wordle is only an easy click away now you're here, ready and waiting to go if you need it. And if you don't, you might still like to spend some time checking out our handy tips section, or mulling over a clue for the…

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I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'

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English is a quirky language, but what they've done with the title for the new hobbit game can't be blamed on zany grammar rules. It's a sin that's been committed in the name of branding—a terrible sin.

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I fell in love with Abiotic Factor the minute I strapped a couch cushion to my chest and called it armor—there's no other survival game like it

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The co-op survival game climbing the top-sellers chart is making a fantastic first impression.

Insanely ambitious Elder Scrolls remake Skyblivion shows off another reason it's not releasing until 2025: refreshed dungeons with unique appearances for each region

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Every time the volunteer team behind Skyblivion, a fan-made remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, comes out with a new dev update, I make the same mistake. I figure, "I know what they're all about, I've played Oblivion for a million…

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Gray Zone Warfare players can now change factions so they can team up with their friends

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A new character wipe option has been added, so players who picked the wrong side can start over and try again.

Friday, May 3

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Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours'

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The developer of Farthest Frontier takes issue with the notion that Manor Lords is a one-person production.