Stardew Valley creator revealed a cut farm map and expects fans to be upset about it
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Stardew Valley, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone released a special video whose headline news was the confirmation of two new marriage candidates. But alongside that, he took viewers on a tour...
CRPG Esoteric Ebb with devils and drunk sphinxes launches March 3 on Steam
Swedish solo developer Christoffer Bodegard has revealed a trailer for his CRPG *Esoteric Ebb* and announced a release date of March 3. The game is being pitched as "Disco-like" – a term Bodegard claims he...
Banquet for Fools is leaving early access on March 5th
Indie studio H J Games is preparing to fully release Banquet for Fools – a party-based open-world CRPG leaving early access on Steam on March 5th, 2026. The game is being made by just two...
A fan added X-Men to Baldur's Gate 3 with Wolverine, Storm, and more mutants
Players are constantly adding new races and subclasses to Baldur's Gate 3. Some are based on official D&D rulebooks, others are homebrewed creations. One fan, however, took things further and turned Tav and companions into...
An artist is recreating Fallout TV show scenes in the style of the classic games, and the results are uncanny
A Twitter user going by Goat Boy (@goat_boy11) has been posting handcrafted animations and "dioramas" styled after Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 for a while now – and in 2026, it reads like a genuine...
New Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you have dinner with Count Strahd in his castle
Modder Baldur's Gate 3 user Ocelot has released a mini-campaign called Dinner With Strahd – A Curse of Strahd Story Mod, which lets you take a break from saving Faerûn for a dinner party with...
Blizzard will immortalize 300 Diablo II: Resurrected players on a monument at its office
Blizzard announced a major challenge for Diablo II: Resurrected players. With the release of the Reign of the Warlock expansion, the studio is launching a competition with a one-of-a-kind reward – winners will have their...
A first-time Fallout player found 10,000 caps in the first hour – and it's not a bug, it's a rare Luck 10 event
The Luck stat in the Fallout series is more than just a number on a character sheet. It's a system that literally rewrites the rules depending on how many points you invest in it, producing...
Developer shows how Esoteric Ebb transformed after signing with a publisher
Kristoffer Bodegård, a solo developer from Sweden, shared a side-by-side comparison of inventory screenshots from his CRPG Esoteric Ebb – one from 2023, when he was working alone, and the current version made with the...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 photo mode turned players into big-headed monster makers
The photo mode in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is so unrestricted that it's spawned genuine monstrosities – courtesy of both the developers during testing and players after release. Sandfall Interactive published a dev blog detailing...
Baldur's Gate 3 player uncovered the chilling meaning behind the game's iconic music through cut content
When players first launch Baldur's Gate 3 and reach the character creation screen, they're asked to design the Dream Guardian – a mysterious figure who visits the protagonist in their sleep. What few people realize...
You can rob caravans and get thrown in jail in Crimson Desert
Pearl Abyss has built a full crime system into Crimson Desert, something that was hinted at in trailers as far back as when the "Threaten" prompt first appeared next to NPCs. A recent overview video,...
Solo developer is building Temple of Eternal Suffering – a grim ARPG roguelite about escaping an ever-shifting dungeon
A Steam page has gone live for the game Temple of Eternal Suffering – a dark action roguelite set in a grimdark sci-fi world, built entirely by a single developer, and the level of polish...
Bethesda turned the White House into a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 simply because there were no quests planned there
The White House ended up as a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 for a remarkably pragmatic reason – Bethesda's team simply had no quests planned for that location. Lead artist Istvan Pely explained that the...
New Witcher 3 DLC may be set near Velen rather than Zerrikania, rumor suggests
Rumors about a mysterious third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt keep surfacing online – and at this rate, the hype surrounding it might start rivaling that of Half-Life 2 Episode 3. CD Projekt...
A Witcher dev accidentally "killed" an important character, and a tester had to replay the game to save him
Development of the original The Witcher hit a major testing roadblock after one of its designers accidentally consigned a key NPC to the void for good, breaking the game's epilogue and triggering hours of debugging....
Crimson Desert won't scale to the player – enemy difficulty is fixed per region
Pearl Abyss has revealed a key detail about the difficulty system in Crimson Desert – enemy levels are fixed and do not scale with the player character. The information came from content creator Mats Katage...
Avowed launches on PS5 with major update adding New Game+, photo mode, and three character races
Obsidian Entertainment released the RPG Avowed on PlayStation 5. As previously reported, players can purchase it for $50 instead of the initial $70 that PC and Xbox gamers paid. Alongside the PS5 release, developers launched...
Real Los Angeles skyscraper stands in for Vault-Tec headquarters in Fallout series
Sharp-eyed viewers of Fallout season 2 noticed that the sinister Vault-Tec Corporation headquarters looked suspiciously familiar. For good reason – the show's creators used the real (W)rapper Tower in Culver City (essentially Los Angeles), with...
Former Diablo developers release Darkhaven demo, aiming to revolutionize the ARPG genre
Blizzard veterans who worked on Diablo 1 and 2 have embarked on creating an action RPG "unlike any other." Moon Beast Productions unveiled Darkhaven in late January, and now a demo is already available on...
