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Doom: The Dark Ages hits PC, PS5 and Xbox on May 15

Doom: The Dark Ages hits PC, PS5 and Xbox on May 15

Doom: The Dark Ages is set to come out on May 15 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. It’s a single-player sandbox experience with an emphasis on exploration, bloodshed and upgrading skill trees, introducing massive mech battles and a ridable cyber dragon that spits fire on command.Doom: The Dark Ages is the largest Doom game id Software has ever made, but to be perfectly clear and possibly assuage some fears, it’s not open-world. In fact, the directive for developers was to edit down everything — controls, levels, menus, upgrade paths — in order to emulate the reactive rush that…
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Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans

Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans

When it comes to new horror games, there are times of feast and famine, and this past year we gorged until our bellies bulged and our mouths dripped with gruesome grease. In 2024, we received a rich spread of dark experiences from solo creators, indie teams, AA developers and AAA studios in a vast array of genres and visual styles. There was a fantastic Silent Hill 2 remake and beefy updates to contemporary classics like Phasmophobia, Alan Wake 2 and The Outlast Trials, and there was also a steady cadence of brand-new horror franchises expanding the genre in unexpected ways.First,…
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Tis the season for the Steam Winter Sale to take all your money

Tis the season for the Steam Winter Sale to take all your money

It's here! The Steam Winter Sale is underway now and runs through January 2. That leaves you plenty of time to internally debate whether you really need to buy yet more games and ultimately convince yourself that yes, in fact, you do.Several notable titles from the are once again seeing similar discounts this season. Baldur's Gate 3 is 20 percent off and you can buy it for $48. At $27, Cyberpunk 2077 is half off and Elden Ring is $36, which is 40 percent off.If you've already had your fill of Elden Ring, you can save 40 percent on a…
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Steam Replay 2024 is available now so you can compare your Balatro playtime with friends

Steam Replay 2024 is available now so you can compare your Balatro playtime with friends

, Valve’s take on for games you’ve played through Steam, is available now for your perusal. Valve’s offered the year-end presentation since 2022, and it can be a pretty revealing glimpse into how time-consuming most games have become in the last two years (or how much one game can really stick in your craw).You can access the data dump directly through the Steam app, your or the web. For 2024, Valve tracked the number of games and demos you’ve played, the number of achievements you’ve unlocked, your longest gaming streak and the games you spent the majority of your time…
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The Last of Us Part II Remastered comes to PC on April 3, 2025

The Last of Us Part II Remastered comes to PC on April 3, 2025

As has been rumored for a while (and in line with Sony's promise to share exclusive titles in a timely fashion) PlayStation's The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is coming to PC on April 3, 2025, developer Naughty Dog announced. "We're all thrilled to bring The Last of Us Part 2 to the PC audience, including all the great new features we added in the Remastered version for PS5," said game Director Matthew Gallant.The PC version was made with Naughty Dog's development partners Nixxes Software and Iron Galaxy Studios. It will contain the same Remastered features added for PS5,…
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Blue Prince preview: Build your own escape room and then live there

Blue Prince preview: Build your own escape room and then live there

Blue Prince has been making the rounds at physical and virtual conventions like EGX, Gamescom and the PC Gaming Show, and it’s already high on the puzzle community’s figurative list of most anticipated titles for 2025. It was just featured in the Day of the Devs showcase before The Game Awards, one of its highest-profile debuts yet. So, if you’re getting excited about Blue Prince for the first time, hello and welcome to the club. There are snacks in the parlor — but in order to eat them, first you’ll have to build the parlor.In Blue Prince, you are the…
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Sleight of Hand gameplay trailer showcases occult card strategy in a noir world

Sleight of Hand gameplay trailer showcases occult card strategy in a noir world

Since its announcement in March, it's sounded like Sleight of Hand should be a fantastic stealth-action game in a magical noir setting — and now it looks that way, too. Its latest trailer, revealed in the Day of the Devs 2024: Game Awards Edition stream, showcases witchy card-slinging gameplay on the gritty streets of Steeple City for the first time.In the stream, creator Joshua Boggs describes Sleight of Hand as, "If you took Metal Gear Solid and replaced the guns and tools with cards." This is followed by a shot of the protagonist, Lady Luck, trying to sneak past a…
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Here are the 14 most interesting titles from the Day of the Devs Game Awards stream

Here are the 14 most interesting titles from the Day of the Devs Game Awards stream

The latest Day of the Devs showcase has come and gone, but the stream placed a spotlight on a whole bunch of promising indie games. The event is curated by Double Fine and iam8bit and this digital showcase highlighted dozens of in-progress titles to keep an eye on. The virtual show included some world premieres and release date announcements, along with a bunch of new trailers about games we already knew about.We winnowed down the list to our 14 favorites, so it’s a baker's dozen plus one. These are all vastly different titles, with their own publishers, genres, budgets and…
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Get trapped on a pirate ship or in Dracula’s castle in Escape Simulator 2

Get trapped on a pirate ship or in Dracula’s castle in Escape Simulator 2

The first Escape Simulator solved the biggest problem with VR puzzle games. Once you’ve solved everything, the game’s over. Unless you can erase specific memories a la Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind style, there’s zero replayability.Pine Studio’s Escape Simulator added a custom builder mode where the community could build and share their own escape rooms with other players. Since the Internet has some of the most imaginative and insane minds on the planet creating custom games for the world, Escape Simulator is one of the few virtual puzzle games that you can keep playing. Now, Escape Simulator 2 is…
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Cities: Skylines II is free to play until December 9

Cities: Skylines II is free to play until December 9

If you’ve been on the fence about buying the urban landscape sim Cities: Skyline II (and given the response following its launch, who could blame you?), here’s your chance to take it for a free test run. Paradox Interactive announced on that players can play the city building game for free for a limited time.Cities: Skylines II is available to play from now until December 9. The free version is available to download and play for free on and .Colossal Order and Paradox’s sequel to its hit city construction experience got off to a very rocky start more than a…
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