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Over the weekend, Chris Wilson, co-founder of Path of Exile developer Grinding Gear Games, surprised ARPG devotees with an unexpected announcement. During an hourlong interview with Diablo designer David Brevik in celebration of Diablo 2's 25th anniversary, Wilson revealed that he's started a new game development studio, and that he's already got a new game project underway.An official filing says that Wilson's capacity as Grinding Gear Games director ended in...
The Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG Hytale is cancelled, but it's not necessarily dead. In the wake of Riot's decision to pull the plug on development last week, Hypixel Studios co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme has expressed interest in the possibility of bringing it back to life, and says he's willing to put his money—a lot of money—where his mouth is.Hytale was revealed to the world in 2018, when it had already been in...
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Season 9 of Diablo 4, Sins of the Horadrim, will have you face off against old foes and experience an escalating end game with its release on Tuesday, July 1. With every new season of Diablo 4 comes new seasonal mechanics and content. In Sins of the Horadrim, you’ll be able to create customized spells, explore strongrooms inside Nightmare Dungeons, and craft powerful jewels to improve your builds. Additionally, players...
One of the most contentious parts of Overwatch 2 may just be something that players have not so lovingly named Counterwatch. It's the act of swapping heroes mid-fight to counter strong enemies, and it can be enough to send some players into a swirling rage. It's pretty fundamental to Overwatch 2, but for Stadium it's a different story."No hero swapping has been one of the core foundational pillars of the...
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Tony Hawk’s been skating professionally for more than 40 years, and he doesn’t mind his fans being nostalgic for earlier parts of his career. If those fans want more remasters and remakes of past Tony Hawk games, including Tony Hawk’s Underground, he’s more than happy to give them what they want — if it’s within his power. But he wants to give them more than just fond memories repackaged, he said...
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Crispy critters, Atomic Heart is officially a franchise. Formally announced at Summer Game Fest 2025 (alongside the tie-in MMO The Cube), Atomic Heart 2 portrays a new and improved Facility 3826 — a Soviet-Silicon Valley surrounded by flying cities and inhabited by scientists who, for some reason, are… sending whales to the moon? Eager to make sense of all this, I spoke via video call with Robert Bagratuni, CEO of...
Honkai: Star Rail’s patch 3.4 is coming soon, and this one has a lot of highly anticipated new stuff. This patch has the Fate/Stay Night collaboration, as well as buffs for old characters, so it’s going to be a pretty good one! Below, we explain when Honkai: Star Rail maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release time of version 3.4. We’ve also added some details about what to expect from...
Project Hail Mary, an adaptation of the science fiction novel of the same name from The Martian writer Andy Weir, is set to be released on March 20, 2026, but Amazon MGM Studios has already shared a full trailer for the film. Rather than mostly focusing on Matt Damon growing potatoes on Mars, the movie from 21 Jump Street directors and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse writers Phil Lord and Christopher...
It’s been more than a year since Marvel Animation revived X-Men: The Animated Series in all of its splashy operatic 2D glory. X-Men ’97 was a triumph, not just in the Marvel canon but in an entire year of TV. As the producers and artists behind the series explain in the new book X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series, translating the ’90s Fox show for new...
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I am ashamed to admit that, while I bought Baldur’s Gate 3 immediately at the launch of its early access period in October 2020, it took me just short of five years to finish my first playthrough of the game. A combination of insufficient hardware and different life priorities got in the way, but my attention and interest in the game never waned. Baldur’s Gate 2 is probably the most...