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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2 Is Hiding A Secret Merchant Boss Fight Event

Slay the Spire 2 contains a hidden boss fight triggered by throwing a Foul Potion at the Fake Merchant, rewarding 300 gold and fake relics worth approximately 300 gold.
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fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

Slay the Spire 2 introduces new characters and mechanics during Early Access, but the core gameplay feels familiar to veterans of the original game.
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fromKotaku
1 week ago

Slay The Spire 2 Reverts Controversial Nerf And Explains Why

The latest beta patch for Slay the Spire 2 reverts several changes from the previous patch, emphasizing player feedback and restoring key skills.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay the Spire 2 Gets Review Bombed Over Balance Patch

Slay the Spire 2's Steam rating dropped from 97% to 83% due to a controversial balance patch causing 11,000 negative reviews.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started

Slay the Spire 2 is intentionally harder than the original, with significantly increased enemy damage scaling, particularly in Act 1, requiring adaptive deck-building strategies rather than predetermined builds.
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fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

Slay the Spire 2 introduces new characters and mechanics during Early Access, but the core gameplay feels familiar to veterans of the original game.
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fromKotaku
2 days ago

Cyberpunk, League Of Legends Games Suggest TCGs Are Having A Moment

PAX East 2026 featured a shift from video games to trading card games, particularly a TCG based on Cyberpunk 2077.
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fromKotaku
2 days ago

Puzzle Spy International Deserves To Be Played By Way More People

Puzzle Spy International offers a collection of 11 engaging puzzles with a light story, ideal for solo or cooperative play.
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fromEngadget
1 day ago
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Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie game showcases are thriving, with new games and updates announced regularly.
fromEngadget
1 week ago
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Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out

Albatross Interactive is developing Terminal War, a 4v4 shooter inspired by the canceled Factions mode from The Last of Us.
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fromEngadget
1 day ago

Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie game showcases are thriving, with new games and updates announced regularly.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out

Albatross Interactive is developing Terminal War, a 4v4 shooter inspired by the canceled Factions mode from The Last of Us.
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fromThe Verge
1 day ago

Super Meat Boy 3D makes suffering fun

Super Meat Boy 3D retains the series' challenging platforming while introducing new 3D movement dynamics.
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fromGameSpot
5 days ago

New The Lord Of The Rings Game Coming From Tomb Raider Studio - Report

Crystal Dynamics is developing a new The Lord of the Rings game, alongside two Tomb Raider titles, aiming to compete with Hogwarts Legacy.
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fromGameSpot
5 days ago

New The Lord Of The Rings Game Coming From Tomb Raider Studio - Report

Crystal Dynamics is developing a new The Lord of the Rings game, alongside two Tomb Raider titles, aiming to compete with Hogwarts Legacy.
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fromWGB
1 week ago
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Hades 2 Is Coming To Xbox And PlayStation Real Soon - Release Date Announced

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fromEngadget
1 week ago

Hades 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on April 14

Hades 2 will be available on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and Xbox Game Pass on April 14.
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fromWGB
1 week ago

Hades 2 Is Coming To Xbox And PlayStation Real Soon - Release Date Announced

Hades 2 will release on Xbox and PlayStation on April 14th, 2025, and will be available on Game Pass.
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fromKotaku
1 week ago

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

The original Hollow Knight just got an update to fix a glitch with a final boss

Team Cherry fixed a long-standing bug in Hollow Knight, enhancing gameplay for new players after nine years since the game's release.
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fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell

Oeuf is a physics platformer where players control an egg navigating a whimsical world with unique movement mechanics.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Top 10 Solo Board Games for Every Kind of Gamer

Solo gaming is rapidly evolving, with many games now including solo modes or automata, enhancing the tabletop gaming experience.
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fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Vampire Survivors spinoff Vampire Crawlers is coming to PC and consoles on April 21

Vampire Crawlers, a dungeon-crawling deckbuilder spinoff of Vampire Survivors, launches April 21 on PC, consoles, and later on mobile platforms for $10.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Everbound Review

Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.
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fromGameSpot
3 weeks ago

All Slay The Spire 2 Bosses

Slay The Spire 2 features new bosses with unique tactics across multiple acts, requiring strategic card, class, and perk selection to overcome challenging encounters.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Endeavor: Deep Sea Review

Endeavor: Deep Sea is a strategic exploration game with modular board gameplay, multiple play modes (solo, cooperative, competitive), and mission-based scenarios with unique goals and impact tracking mechanics.
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fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Marathon Has Replaced Nightreign As My Multiplayer Obsession

Marathon functions as an action roguelike disguised as an extraction shooter, combining procedural RNG, run-based gameplay, and permanent gear loss with the liberating design philosophy of traditional roguelikes.
fromEngadget
4 weeks ago

Slay the Spire 2, Scott Pilgrim EX and other new indie games worth checking out

Nintendo packed a lot of news into that 18-minute stream, including the sudden arrivals of three great games - Blue Prince, Minishoot' Adventures and Öoo - on Switch and/or Switch 2. The company revealed release dates for a bunch of games we've had on our radar, such as InKonbini: One Store (April 30), Denshattack! (June 17) and others.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Steam Just Quietly Added The Most Hardcore 2D Game That Shows A Little Restraint Can Go A Long Way

Velaster adapts Soulslike stamina-based combat into a precise, readable 2D Metroidvania, emphasizing timing, positioning, and punishing encounters.
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fromWGB
1 month ago

Styx: Blades of Greed Review - Safe, Sneaky Fun

Styx: Blades of Greed returns after nine years with a more forgiving stealth formula, but plays it safe in structure and storytelling with bland characters and underdeveloped companion motivations.
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fromKotaku
1 month ago

Esoteric Ebb Has A Lot Of Hilarious Ways In Which You Can Die

Esoteric Ebb is an isometric RPG combining Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium elements, released March 3, where character stat allocation significantly impacts gameplay difficulty and survival.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week - 3/2/26

Multiple crowdfunding board game campaigns are available, including Lion Dancers, Almighty, NPC Rivals, and One Card Dungeon, each offering distinct gameplay themes and mechanics.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Slay The Spire 2 And More Games Coming The Week Of March 2, 2026

March has arrived, spring is almost here, and we're officially in peak release season for the first half of 2026. Indie games like Scott Pilgrim EX and Planet of Lana 2 arrive alongside first-party console releases like and Pokémon Pokopia. It would have been great if these games had all been slightly delayed so I could just spend all of my time getting lost in Slay the Spire 2 instead.
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fromKotaku
1 month ago

Control Resonant: 7 Things We Just Learned About The Sequel

Control Resonant is a melee-focused action RPG sequel where Jesse Faden is not playable; instead, players experience Dylan's story with extensive skill trees and character build customization.
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fromKotaku
1 month ago

A New Castlevania Is Finally Coming From The Dead Cells Devs

Konami is releasing Castlevania: Belmont's Curse in 2026, developed by Evil Empire and Motion Twin, set 23 years after Castlevania: Dracula's Curse.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Gwent: A Legendary Card Game Review

Gwent is a two-player strategic card game where players use faction decks, place cards on rows, and win rounds by higher strength totals.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Top 10 Boss Battler Board Games

Tabletop boss battlers that allow attacking the boss from round one emphasize immediate cooperative combat, positioning, pattern manipulation, and varied high-stakes mechanics.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Orbit Review

Orbit is a 2–4 player racing game where players manipulate eight moving planets and limited propulsion to visit all planets and return to their home planet first.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Divinity Announcement Has Driven Way More People To Larian's Previous Games

Divinity announcement at The Game Awards 2025 significantly boosted sales of Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2.
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fromKotaku
2 months ago

Diablo Meets Stardew Valley In This Neat Life Sim Action-RPG

Emberville blends farming-sim town rebuilding with action-RPG dungeon crawling, featuring notable voice talent, dynamic combat, bosses, and an inheritable skill tree.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Divinity Will Have Co-Op At Launch

Divinity will include co-op with no hard player limit, modding will allow expansion, and the game will avoid generative AI art.
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fromKotaku
2 months ago

Gambler's Table Review: Can't Stop Flipping, Won't Stop Flipping

The goal of Gambler's Table is to click a coin to flip it over. And then flip it again. And then again. And again. And again. When this coin lands with the money symbol facing up, you get a dollar. When it lands heads up, showing a skull, you get a skull point that can be used to buy hats.
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fromKotaku
2 months ago

10 Games To Play On Your Phone Instead Of Doomscrolling

Short, high-quality mobile games provide a satisfying, non-terrifying distraction from doomscrolling and fit into spare moments like commutes, coffee breaks, and evenings.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Terraria 1.4.5 Update Will Finally Arrive This Month

Terraria 1.4.5 launches January 27, adds an RC Car and Palworld content, changes NPC housing rules, and fixes nearly 900 bugs.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

All Hytale Weapons: How To Craft And Upgrade Swords, Bows, And More

Early in your Hytale journey, you're going to need weapons. While you might just want to explore, gather some resources, and build the base you and your friends have envisioned for your Hytale multiplayer sessions, Hytale still features dangerous mobs that can strike at any minute. You'll need a way to defend yourself and even defeat those mobs, as they can drop some valuable materials that you need for other recipes.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Helldivers 2's Latest Warbond Will Let You Go Quiet Or Loud

Helldivers 2 Redacted Regiment Warbond adds silenced weapons, a C4 backpack with remote detonation, stealth armor, lure mines, an insertion smokescreen, and cosmetics.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

Board Is Tabletop Tablet Gaming-but With Physical Pieces

Board is a physical-digital hybrid gaming system aimed at children, offering varied launch titles, mixed family reception, and uncertain future content pricing and durability.
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fromDefector
2 months ago

'Hades II' Is At War With Itself | Defector

Transistor is a concise, emotionally driven sci-fi action-adventure that balances a tight six-to-eight-hour story, precise design, evocative art, and a strong soundtrack.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Doesn't Just Want To Be People-Pleaser With Next Game

Creatively, we've always let our North Star be our own personal taste in terms of what we think is cool--what it is we enjoy and want to see. I've seen too many TV shows and books be swayed trying to please a lot of people, and in the process you end up losing the heart of what's there,
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