You can tell Ball x Pit was a hit because Genshin Impact made a minigame ripping it off in record time

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Crimson Desert reviewed worse with critics than players because critics didn't have enough time to play the game, suggests CEO at the company that gave critics less time

Pearl Abyss Europe CEO says Crimson Desert's magic is off the beaten path

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(dragon’s dogma pawn at the grocery store) ‘tis an item we require in every aisle! a divide and conquer scenario would work best, seems

I've been mulling over this for a while, but if you're a game journo who has worked under Valnet and want to confidentially share your views on how the company is managing its publications and treating workers, I am all ears. Signal: kerrblimey.43 Email: chris.kerr@verticalslice.news DMs open

A few weeks ago, a couple of Nintendo Switch Reddit communities rallied around a player who said "I'm dying" of ALS, and said the Ocarina of Time remake would be the first game he actually finishes. I spoke to him about his situation and what games mean to him: www.gamesradar.com/games/the-le...

A dying man's quest to finish the Zelda Ocarina of Time remake: "This will be the first, and likely only, video game I actually beat"

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is especially meaningful to one player

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Not enough was said of the nepo baby that is the Charm stat in Persona 3

it has been an honor and privilege to field ashley's wild pitches and edit her even wilder copy. in a field full of stellar talent jockeying to be heard, ashley's voice remains absolutely one of a kind. to use her own words, i am fly-swatted to see her go. let our loss be your gain: hire ashley

ashley bardhan@ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 2w ago

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

Hire Ashley. I'm just learning of this change while on vacation. Ashley was an invaluable part of the GamesRadar+ US news team and regularly contributed outside her byline and to other verticals. The site will be worse without her.

ashley bardhan@ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 2w ago

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

just for context: doing this will get you fired as a games journalist

Jesse Gomez@itsjessegomez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Only 100 functioning Silent Hill: Townfall CRTVs were made, sent out to different influencers before the games release, and someone's already selling theirs for over $300 😬 It's a cute toy, but savage to be like "I do not need it".

This just in: Unspeakable horrors have befallen Discord's mascot after fans responded to the company's age verification with torrential art

If I added up every affix on every armor set I ever used in Nioh, Nioh 2, Nioh 3, and Wo Long, the sum still wouldn't make me give a single solitary shit

The Quigadook@quiggy.itch.io · 2w ago

an unironic game design opinion i have is that 5% and 10% are percentages for cowards. never give me a 10% damage boost, what does that even mean. double my damage and make me die instantly

The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

hey quick question: who's gonna make those new destiny games

Circled the opinion wagons with two other accomplished players to lay out our boldest thoughts on Slay the Spire 2, six months in. www.pcgamer.com/games/card-g... feat. @woodwould.bsky.social

After 894 hours in Slay the Spire 2, these are our 12 strongest opinions

Our three editors have hundreds of runs in Slay the Spire 2. These are their verdicts after 6 months with the game.

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Hey Austin, why were you so frustrated with Mortal Shell 2? Well www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

The worst experience I've had with a game all year: How catastrophic bugs in Mortal Shell 2 nearly killed it for me

Opinion | It's not me, it's you

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"Over on the Old School RuneScape subreddit, players are celebrating the death of Elderwood like it's an upstart gladiator that just got gutted in the Roman Colosseum after insulting all their mothers." www.gamesradar.com/games/mmo/ch...

ChatGPT employee makes a "RuneScape clone," immediately gets slapped by Jagex lawyers, then acts like he's leaving some great legacy behind in a goodbye post surely written by AI

Elderwood died as it lived: quickly

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48% of women say the gaming community and culture do not welcome or represent them www.gamesradar.com/games/48-per...

48% of women say the gaming community and culture do not welcome or represent them

Almost half of the women we surveyed don't feel comfortable in gaming spaces

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Mortal Shell 2 was developed and tested in a magical alternate reality where nobody anywhere has vision problems

fromsoftware is going to add PvP romance to the duskbloods, because they said they're making games just for me now actually :) 💓 www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

FromSoftware's first-ever player romance builds on "the maidens in Elden Ring," says Hidetaka Miyazaki: "It's a transient, ephemeral love, which is maybe a motif I'm striving for"

Sorry, Ranni, I'm moving on in The Duskbloods

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For @gamesradarplus.bsky.social I wrote about GTA and the constant, quiet negotiation of coupledom: "Neither is a loose cannon in fake-Florida. Instead they're a pair of nunchucks, holding each other steady and reeling each other in." www.gamesradar.com/games/grand-...

GTA 6 might be single-player but the coupled-up life changes everything

The power of two

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I did not like The Duskbloods at all, and I was winning: "It's you, two other Bloodsworn, and three summons chucked into a small arena like marbles in a blender. Skill is not high on the list of factors that determine the winner." www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

The Duskbloods network test was not good between lag, stuttering, and bad PvP

The Duskbloods is the first FromSoftware game I've immediately disliked

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My 30s have seen me actively avoid more information + screen time that can o n l y harm me. No value in it, nothing actionable, nothing memorable, no learning to be had, just Bad Shit bleeding in. Your head is not a vessel for all the world's problems but social media so badly wants it to be.

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m quoting this not because of the rest of the thread but this idea in particular: how much time we spend looking at things that are bad and make us feel bad

All I know is what I see, and what I see is dozens upon dozens of executed publishing agreements w/ anti gen-ai clauses. It's not as accepted as the corps selling the ai tools want us to think. From my perspective, the indie industry is fully anti-ai. (thanks to @woodwould.bsky.social for the chat!)

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I also had a great chat with @haleyfax.bsky.social about her experience with dev/pub contracts and AI clauses, and it certainly lines up with what I've heard from devs www.gamesradar.com/games/echoin...

I also had a great chat with @haleyfax.bsky.social about her experience with dev/pub contracts and AI clauses, and it certainly lines up with what I've heard from devs www.gamesradar.com/games/echoin...

Echoing Palworld dev, video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts because gamers hate it and it's a copyright landmine: "I think we're going to see lawsuits"

"Don't touch it. It's not worth the legal liability"

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And the whole shebang www.gamesradar.com/games/surviv...

10 years of No Man's Sky: How Hello Games and Sean Murray keep getting away with it

Interview | In a time of "consumable" games, Hello Games sees "real beauty in keeping those things alive"

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Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Spoiling the crap out of my favorite interview in ages because I need everyone to read what Sean Murray said about No Man's Sky www.gamesradar.com/games/surviv...

Spoiling the crap out of my favorite interview in ages because I need everyone to read what Sean Murray said about No Man's Sky www.gamesradar.com/games/surviv...

The Elder Scrolls 6 demo had a surprise guest at Bethesda HQ: a giant inflatable rat set up by protesting employees to watch Xbox execs who oversaw "devastating layoffs" www.gamesradar.com/games/the-el...

The Elder Scrolls 6 demo had a surprise guest at Bethesda HQ: a giant inflatable rat set up by protesting employees to watch Xbox execs who oversaw "devastating layoffs"

"It's up to us to stand up for each other and protect the future of our careers and the game industry"

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i uninstalled love and deepspace after nearly two years 🐺 it was kind of motivated by infold canceling valko before he got to take his rightful place as my bulgarian wolf husband 😿, and kinda because i'm tired of no one understanding "what women want" www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/im...

I'm boycotting Love and Deepspace for killing my virtual boyfriend, and so are 251,000 other loyal widows

This is the War on Valko

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Granblue Fantasy Relink is just a big grocery store where the only payment that is accepted is whoopass