2026 Has Already Seen More Games Added To Steam Than All Of 2025, And It’s About To Get So Much Worse
24,000 titles are expected by the end of the year, but this could be nothing compared to 2027
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Veteran Players Manage To Kill New RuneScape In Just Two Weeks
RuneScape Reignited was set to launch in early December
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Silent Hill And Metal Gear Publisher Konami Does ‘Not Believe The Market Will Shift Significantly’ Because Of AI
The idea-making process of developers 'cannot be replaced easily,' the company insists in new financial report
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More Surprise Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Footage Reveals One Of The Coolest Moments From The Original
Dark Link was one of the top 10 highlights of the N64 classic
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Everything You Need To Know About Street Fighter’s Post-Credits Scene
Kitao Sakurai’s fighting game adaptation sets up a sequel with a familiar face
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Warhammer: Boltgun 2 Is Basically A Perfect Sequel To One Of 2023’s Best Shooters
More guns, more enemies, more variety, and better levels makes this one of the best boomer shooters around
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Amazon Casts Leads in Fourth Wing TV Series
The adaptation of Fourth Wing, the best-selling romantasy series by Rebecca Yarros, is still in the early stages of production. Fans have been eager to find out more, especially about the casting. At last, they can stop wondering who will play their favorite characters, as…
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10 Games With Permadeath That Are 10/10 Masterpieces
There’s something reassuring about knowing you can pick up some extra lives in a video game, ever since the days of Super Mario Bros. and Pac-Man. When your character dies, the action resumes right where you left off — or pretty close to it. You don’t lose much progress. Things…
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'Interview With a Vampire' Meets 'Bridgerton' in this 2025 Horror Masterpiece
Rice built The Vampire Chronicles on the backs of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, works where the undead defy societal and sexual norms. Interview with the Vampire is a messy, queer love story, with an unreliable narrator sharing centuries of relationship…
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Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick's Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Fairytale Is Officially Back on Streaming
No matter the differences, Pinocchio works because it taps into the universal desire to belong. At its core, it's the story of a puppet who longs to be a real boy, but this desire comes with its own set of challenges.
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'Avatar: Seven Havens' Episode 6 Ending Explained: What the Anomaly Reveals About Pavi and Nisha
It’s bad enough that everyone in the world of Avatar: Seven Havens is living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but Ellora is now officially on the brink of collapse. After the first three episodes of Book One: Survival introduced the new Avatar and her long-lost twin, episodes 4,…
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The 10 Best Low Fantasy Books
Fantasy is a broad genre of fiction, and low fantasy might be one of its most slippery corners. The term can describe anything from stories where magic barely exists — like Game of Thrones — to tales in which the supernatural quietly intrudes on an otherwise recognizable world,…
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34 Years Later, the Best-Ever 'Far Side' Quote Will Still Leave You Speechless
Larson didn’t do deep. He didn’t do inspirational. Many of his cartoons required you to think, but not because they were thoughtful in the lofty sense. They required thought because Larson’s work was brilliant, and you sometimes had to figure out what the punchline was. For…
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53 Years Later, The Greatest Closing Line In Sci-Fi History Is Still The Best Book Quote Of The 1970s
Every once in a while, I come across a line that feels bigger than the book that birthed it. Of course, there are classics with years of literary study behind them that speak volumes on the nature of society, technology, or the world writ large. But few are quite as elegant or…
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The Batman Part 2 to Resume Filming With New Director
Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to help finish filming The Batman Part 2 while director Matt Reeves attends to an ongoing family matter.
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The New Street Fighter Movie Gets Savaged By Critics, But Not Everyone Hates It
From an 'incoherent mess' to the 'natural zenith of an arcade player’s imagination'
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Massive GTA 6 Banner In Paris Censors All Of The Guns
Grand Theft Auto is a franchise that famously includes guns, but this big advertisement for it in Paris cut them out
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Battlefield 6 Gets Slammed For More Slop Slipping Through: ‘Charging Players $$$ For AI-Generated Content Is Peak Disrespect’
Operators with five guns and misspelled patches have fans shaking their heads
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