ConnexionAll active Blade Ball codes in May 2025 and how to redeem them in Roblox
Look sharp on the Blade Ball field with the latest codes for free wheel spins and more.
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All active Dandy's World codes in May 2025 and how to redeem them in Roblox
Top up your Ichor supply to explore Gardenview Center.
Stop messing with team deathmatch
The perfect game mode already exists!
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Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet
Leif was a historian, a fountain pen connoisseur, and a kind soul who brought a remarkably eclectic background to his time writing about games.
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Paradox is bringing back White Wolf for tabletop RPGs and at least one videogame
White Wolf, which was effectively shuttered in 2018, will serve as co-publisher of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
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Most players 'know next to nothing about how games are made': New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions
It's now easier than ever to make "broad incorrect assumptions" about how games work.
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'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live
The Splitgate 2 servers were taken offline just hours after the beta began, and they're still not back.
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Larian insists it did not accidentally leak Divinity: Original Sin 3, it was just a glitch on X
A brief and unexpected change to the studio's social media handle had followers pretty excited.
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Secretlab's Memorial Day sale means the best gaming chair is cheaper than Black Friday
And the desks are on discount, too; a real two-in-one.
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Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel: 'If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes'
The art rock legend says he stands with Microsoft workers protesting the company's support of the Israeli military's ongoing attacks in Gaza.
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Nubby's Number Factory is like Balatro if it were a plinko roguelike and instead of Jokers had items like Squirmy, Pedro, and A Ton of Feathers
I can see this taking over my life.
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This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs?
I've long wondered this myself.
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If there was one non-AI Computex trend this year it's that everything needs a damned screen in or on it
We heard you like screens...
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REPO will feature 'moon phases' as part of the new update, ramping up the difficulty every 5 levels
Uh oh, I'm in danger.
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Computex has made me finally care about PC cases and it's not just because of rig envy
A use case for a useful case.
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Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
"Games are so meticulously crafted."
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I've swapped Windows for the latest SteamOS build on my Legion Go S and I'm not going back
This feels like what the Lenovo Legion Go S was built for.
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'They listened! They listened!': Stalker restores Soviet monument after angry fans tanked its Steam reviews, and they couldn't be happier
I guess he really will live again.
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Bugtopia is my next insect idle game obsession and I promise I'm not mad about the grind at the beginning which makes you sell your own bugs
I don't want to have to sell my friends.
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The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless headset is now at the best price I've seen at only $229
But will it improve my parry-game?
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Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'
Oh, and it will try to escape its servers—what could possibly go wrong?
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Noctua finally cracks the case market with a fan-equipped chassis that 'can substantially reduce noise' and now I want an all-Noctua rig
The new case is a collaboration with Antec.
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'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever'
A lack of experience can sometimes be a blessing.
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This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people's emails you're going to be well-served
Do you think Bureau 121 ever has to go on mandatory team-building retreats?
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The voice actor for FF14's Alphinaud finally reaches Heavensward, sees his own work after 10 years in all its 'jumpscare' glory
"I can see why people had the jumpscare when they started this."
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Audeze's Summer B-Stock sale might come with some 'minor cosmetic blemishes' but the astounding Maxwell headset will still sound incredible
The Audeze Maxwell is the best high-end headset you can buy, with wireless connectivity and planar magnetic drivers which just sound 🥰.
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If you never played the original The Witcher RPG then here's a heads-up—the censorship-free Enhanced Edition is now dirt cheap
A dark fantasy RPG with 57,500 'Very Positive' reviews
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PNY and Palit have stolen my heart at Computex with their clean and shiny RTX 50-series graphics cards
*Snaps fingers* Have you finished polishing my Chrome GPU, yet?
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FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Though the acquisition went ahead in 2023, the FTC has continued to appeal until now.
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HTC Vive makes impending tariffs a sales event, giving US consumers one last chance to jump into VR before the price hikes
"Order by 5/31, we'll cover the tariff cost!"
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Valve certifies the Lenovo Legion Go S for SteamOS, improves AMD compatibility, controller support, and officially brings 80% limiting to SteamOS in 3.7.8 update
More AMD devices supported by the platform can only be a good thing for competition within the handheld PC gaming space.
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Three Warhammer games are free to keep as part of this year's Warhammer Skulls event
Two strategy games and Malum Caedo Teaches Typing are all available for free.
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Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet—but it's a big one.
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Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 23
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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A live-action Elden Ring movie from A24 and Alex Garland is in the works
It's real: Garland is writing and directing it, and George RR Martin is involved.
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'We hear you': RoadCraft dev will address early negative feedback with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a 'Hard Mode' with systems like fuel management
It's been a bit of a bumpy road for the new game from the SnowRunner dev.
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Elden Ring Nightreign director says the game was built for squads of three and 'doesn't collapse if it's a solo player,' but admits that duos have gone 'kind of overlooked'
It might take two to tango, but ideally you're open to a third if someone brings up Elden Ring.
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Super People, the 'PUBG with superpowers' battle royale that closed in 2023, is somehow back from the dead and doing a closed beta test in June
After crashing out of early access, Super People is headed back to early access.
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