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Steam Replay says 2025 releases accounted for 14% of the time we've collectively spent Steamilygamening this year
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Steam Replay says 2025 releases accounted for 14% of the time we've collectively spent Steamilygamening this year

Steam Replay, Valve's yearly roundup of where all of the hours spent playing games in the Steamy place have gone, has emerged from its hidey-hole yet again. 2025's edition is out now - you've likely already seen it if you've hopped into Steam since yesterday afternoon. Amid all the bits telling you that you've spent 1000 hours playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby thus far, the annual report's dished out some fresh stats about how old the games everyone across the platform's user base has been playin

We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer
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We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer

There won’t be any prizes for correctly guessing that Hollow Knight: Silksong’s first expansion, Sea of Sorrow, will involve a) a sea and b) some kind of adverse emotion. But there is mounting evidence that the watery DLC will restore, or at be inspired by, places and bugs that developers Team Cherry had previously left on Silksong’s cutting room floor – yet had been shown in in marketing for the main game as far back as 2019. Read more

Creative Assembly explain Total War: Warhammer 40,000's factions - the Eldar "play totally differently to anything we’ve ever done"
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Creative Assembly explain Total War: Warhammer 40,000's factions - the Eldar "play totally differently to anything we’ve ever done"

Creative Assembly have taken us a little deeper into the biomechanical contours of Total War: Warhammer 40,000’s faction design, with a new development roundtable video featuring principal creative director Ian Roxburgh, lead designer Simon Mann and product owner for battles David Petry. The short version: the starting faction balance is a question of both asymmetry and calculated familiarity. The Imperial Guard are for Total War traditionalists, with a straightforward emphasis on produc

Time is your biggest enemy in 2025's best mystery game. Well, time and ghosts...
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Time is your biggest enemy in 2025's best mystery game. Well, time and ghosts...

I don't know about you, but I plan to spend Christmas pinned to the sofa by a 15 tog duvet, watching through the family's boxset of Poirot mysteries. The duvet alone won't be sufficient, and like a modern day Giles Corey, I'll cry "More weight!" at a nearby sibling until they crush me with extra blankets. Only one arm will be free from the blanket stricture. This is for operating the remote, reaching for selection box chocolates, and petting the dog. After all, nothing says cosy like ensconcin