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The Riven remake, with new content and VR support in Unreal Engine 5, promises ‘an homage to its roots and a leap into the future’
The remake of Riven, the sequel to Myst—which was actually called Riven: The Sequel to Myst when it first arrived in 1997 but is apparently now just called Riven—is set to arrive later this year with a “meticulous, from-the-ground-up” do-over that promises new puzzles, an expanded story, and of course the trademark Myst aesthetic all…
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A year after being removed from Steam, Dark and Darker is coming to the Epic Games Store
The extraction-dungeon crawler Dark and Darker still isn’t available on Steam, but developer Ironmace is getting ready to bring it back into the public eye by way of a different digital storefront: The Epic Games Store. “With increased confidence in the quality of our game, we have started preparations on introducing Dark and Darker to…
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Valve is improving how Steam Family Sharing works—but if your brother gets banned for cheating, so do you
Family Sharing is a pretty great feature on Steam: Simply put, it lets you share your game library with friends and family, so if you and your brother and your mom all want to play Helldivers 2, for instance, you don’t all have to buy it separately—as long as you don’t want to play at…
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Easy Anti-Cheat washes its hands of the Apex Legends hacking disaster that saw streamer accounts hijacked live: ‘There is no RCE vulnerability within EAC’
The day after the North American finals of the Apex Legends Global Series was postponed because of a mid-match hack against two players, Easy Anti-Cheat has issued a statement saying “there is no RCE vulnerability” in its software that was exploited to carry out the attack. The first hack, against Noyan “Genburten” Ozkose of DarkZero,…
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Eric Barone drops the biggest Stardew Valley 1.6 update patch note yet: A new Meadowlands farm type with ‘chewy blue grass that animals love’ and some bonus chickens too
As PC Gamer’s BaroneWatch enters its ninth day, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has shared what is expected to be the final individual patch note for the Stardew Valley 1.6 update before it goes live. And folks, this is a big one: The update will include an all-new farm type called Meadowlands Farm. Stardew Valley…
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The Steam Deck’s most played games
Valve has revealed the list of the top 100 most-played games on Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024 and it’s yet another trophy for Baldur’s Gate 3, which claimed the top spot despite only being available for half that time. The list is sorted by highest daily active player count, and unsurprisingly it’s…
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Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update will add a 1-week honeymoon period for newly-married players that will keep their spouses ‘from laying in bed all day due to being upset’
The steady drip-drip-drip of Stardew Valley 1.6 patch notes continued apace today as creator Eric Barone revealed yet another change coming to the game. This one is all about wedded bliss, which will now have a “honeymoon period” that will keep everyone happy about their nuptials—for a while, anyway. Marriage in Stardew Valley brings practical…
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Along with fixing a glitch that’s been bugging players for 8 years, Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update will also fix a glitch that’s been bugging Eric Barone for 8 years
“Ever notice that swinging the sword downward put you at a big disadvantage?” Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone asked earlier this week on Twitter. “It’s always bugged me, but I had tuned it that way so that the area of effect would match the visual. For 1.6, I decided that game feel is way more…
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Nightingale devs are ‘not happy’ with the current state of the game, fixes for disconnections are coming—but the offline mode still doesn’t have a timeline
Three weeks after the launch of the neo-Victorian survival game Nightingale, Inflexion Games boss Aaryn Flynn says there are aspects of the game the studio isn’t happy with, but that fixes and improvements including a new patch aimed at eliminating disconnections from the game are on the way. Nightingale got off to a strong start…
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The Steam Spring Sale is live
If you pay attention to our running list of Steam sale dates you’ll already know this, but if you don’t then maybe you won’t—or maybe you just forgot, that happens too. Regardless, it’s that time of year again and here’s your reminder: The 2024 Steam Spring Sale is live. There’ve been multiple Steam sales and…