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Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt — its first major update since it launched in early access last year — has been a disaster. When players logged in last Friday to try it out, they immediately realized the game had become almost comically difficult. Killing weak monsters in the opening hours of the campaign took ages, and the new Huntress class felt limp. Reddit exploded with posts titled...
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Blue Prince is exceptionally good—"one of the best puzzle games in years," PC Gamer's Chris Livingston enthused in his 92% review. And he's not the only one who thinks so: Balatro creator LocalThunk is so taken by the game that he's basically demanding Geoff Keighley give it a Game of the Year nomination in the 2025 Game Awards.LocalThunk made his first declaration of Blue Prince love on Bluesky, writing, "Blue...
According to a new report from game industry research firm Newzoo, interest in the battle royale genre is on a downward slope.That might seem like a counterintuitive observation when Fortnite, Warzone, PUBG, and Apex Legends are still huge games, but it probably has more to do with their competitors calling it quits. According to Newzoo's Game Performance Monitor (which includes official and estimated data from 37 markets excluding China and...
PC Gamer editor Lauren Morton wrote in February that "desktop pets are so back," and holy cow she was not wrong. One of the biggest games on Steam right now is a little doodad that puts a cute white kitty on your screen who baps an imaginary bongo drum every time you click or type.Bongo Cat, as it's called, is really just that simple. Add it to your Steam account—it's...
In our Blue Prince review, Chris Livingston called the run-based room drafter one of the best puzzle games in years—a work of "incredible craftsmanship and elegance" that's worthy of all the fevered notebook scribbling required to unravel the mystery of its shifting mansionscape. And by the looks of things, Chris isn't alone.So far, Blue Prince is the best-reviewed game of 2025.It is only April of course, but earning a critical...
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows players will spend dozens of hours traversing the sprawling provinces of central Japan. Now they’ll be able to turn off their brain during those long treks through the rolling hills of the countryside, thanks to a feature introduced — or should we say, reintroduced to the franchise — in the first proper patch for the game. Released Tuesday morning on all platforms, the version 1.0.2 update for...
It's easy to go without extra energy in those first few levels of REPO, but you'll need some sort of power source for expensive new weapons as things ramp up. That's where Energy Crystals come in, providing a finite number of charges for your Semibot's growing arsenal.Keep in mind, these little yellow power-ups are separate from the stamina upgrades Semibots can purchase at the Service Station between levels. Energy Crystals...
January’s Nintendo Switch 2 reveal event took the wraps off the console, but left a lot of details unanswered until now. After the initial reveal, I put together an analysis of the possible pricing for the console, using Nintendo’s own historical pricing strategies to guide my thinking. My conclusion then was that it would cost $399. I… was wrong. The Nintendo Switch 2 will debut in June starting at $449.99,...
As if Canada didn’t have enough reasons to hate Donald Trump, the reality-TV-star-turned-politician’s excessive tariffs will delay Switch 2 pre-orders not only in the United States but in the Great White North as well. Statement from Nintendo of Canada:Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in Canada will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the U.S. Nintendo will provide...
Say “Predator period piece” three times fast — or say it slow, because that’s what Predator: Killer of Killers is. A three-episode animated miniseries from the director of Prey, featuring Predator attacks in three different periods of humanity’s past. A newly released trailer for the show has all the gore, ominous de-cloaking, and weird clicking sounds you could want from the franchise. The series — which takes place in historical...