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‘It’s like Balatro’ is the most overused comparison in indie games, and yet I can’t help but return to it every time I talk about Ball x Pit. There are no cards, no poker, no jokers, no bananas, no Jimbo, no tarot, no Ben Starrs, but it is a roguelike where you craft careful combos to make the numbies go higher than you could possibly believe. I put more hours into Ball x Pit on my Steam Deck last year than any other game, and just when I thought I was out, developer Kenny Sun and Friends pulls me back in with its…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive doesn’t plan on expanding significantly following the breakthrough success of its debut launch.Talking to Edge Magazine for issue #419, Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche and lead programmer Tom Guillermin were asked whether Sandfall’s next game will be bigger than Expedition 33, and they had a pretty decisive answer.”No, I think it’s good to have limitations when you are creative,” said Broche. “It’s the best way to be the best version of yourself. We could scale up now we have a lot more money, but I would say it’s not tempting for us,…
After a year of Early Access exclusivity on the Epic Games Store and Xbox/PC Game Pass, 33 Immortals is set to land on Steam this summer. Its wider release appears to be far from the end of the road for the massively multiplayer roguelike raid simulator, too, with another content-heavy update set for the same time. But is it too little too late for the game that blends the action of Hades with the boss battles of a modern MMO? That depends. From Thunder Lotus Games, the fine folks behind Sundered, Jotun, and Spiritfarer, 33 Immortals launched to a solid…
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase says it’s planning to crack down on players exploiting the newly retooled proficiency system with punishments as severe as permanent account bans.In a tweet, NetEase warned players against using an exploit that’s been around for a long while now, but which has seen an uptick in frequency since last week’s update. It’s often called “lord farming,” and in the simplest of terms, it involves hanging out in spawn and spamming skills to farm proficiency, a process that’s been mistakenly expedited due to recent changes to the proficiency system. (In case you’re wondering, it’s called lord farming…
The winter abates, the days begin to lengthen, the snowdrops creep forth from their burrows, and the raiders of ARC Raiders carry on raiding Arcs. Developers Embark have also done another round of interviews, in which they discuss plans for ARC Raiders updates in 2026, and in particular, address the question of whether to implement a player-trading menu and/or some kind of auction house feature. Right now, you can only officially barter with NPC merchants. Briefly, the developers are concerned that such features would sabotage how players themselves organically assign value and significance to particular items. They worry it…
What’s in the Hytale roadmap? After an incredibly rocky development period spanning over a decade, marked by a company buyout, subsequent cancellation, and now an early access release, Hytale’s launch signals the start of a brand-new era for Hypixel Studios. With Hytale players already starting to ask for features like controller support and a working mana system, the community wants to see a Hytale roadmap to help make the wait for upgrades and improvements more bearable. The developers have stressed that the early access launch is a four-year-old build of the game and that there’s still plenty of work to…
A large batch of concept art said to be from the upcoming Fable game has been shared online.According to MP1st, the images – which it claims are from the portfolio of an unnamed artist who worked on the upcoming Playground Games title – show various locations and gameplay elements.Some of the roughly 30 images show the protagonist looking out over the horizon at a large city. One of the images includes a sign which says ‘Bloodstone’, a location from Fable 2.Other images show the protagonist travelling through a sewer area, shots of a swamp village, the same village following a…
We just got our first major update for the year on Riot’s long (long, long) awaited League of Legends MMO, as former World of Warcraft producer Raymond Bartos has announced that he’s joined the project. Bartos’s announcement highlights his reuniting with engineer Orlando Salvatore, after the two worked together on some of the better-received features of modern WoW, including Plunderstorm and the gear update.”From my very first conversation with Riot,” Bartos says on Twitter, “I immediately gravitated toward their values—and I was genuinely impressed by how clearly those values showed up throughout the interview process. It made it obvious that…
Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” is a series of articles on Pathologic 3, inspired by Quintin Smith’s peerless retrospective for the original game. The following contains abstracted discussion of my own experiences of disease.
When can you download Arknights Endfield? Right now, in fact! While we’ve still got a little while to go until we can start our industrious journey on Talos-II, developer Hypergryph has given eager players the ability to pre-download Arknights Endfield ahead of launch. If you’ve been counting down the hours until release in your time zone, this is all the preparation you need. No matter the strength of your internet connection, there’s still plenty of time to install Arknights Endfield so you can get into the gacha game at the exact time of release. This pre-download requires a little more…