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Best Open-World Adventure Games That Let You Play At Your Own Pace

Updated on July 1, 2026, by Vlad Mazanko: We’ve updated this list to include additional entries for sprawling adventure play: Horizon Zero Dawn and Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.

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"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures

The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of "demoralizing", "low-effort slop" that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they'll still let people deploy the chatbot technolo...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 7
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10 New Steam Genres That Exploded In Popularity Over The Last Five Years

Categorization is very important for a platform like Steam. After all, there are 1000s of games on there, you can't expect people to sift through them all to find what they want. So, there needs to be a way to categorize them. Steam mainly does this through genres and tags.

2 months ago πŸ‘ 4
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EA changes Battlefield 6 XP Boosters for the better, only to yet again reveal the change was an error and take it back

For the second time in a month, Battlefield Studios has altered the in-game language explaining how Battlefield 6 XP Boosters work, only to renege and claim it was done in error. This time, however, it's made players even more aggravated because of the way the message was delivered. Read more

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Hideo Kojima's OD Is Reportedly Safe From The Imminent Xbox Layoffs

It's officially July. That means today marks the start of a new financial quarter, one expected to begin with widespread layoffs and potentially even studio closures throughout the Xbox ecosystem. However, OD, the Xbox-published game from Hideo Kojima, is immune from what's to come.

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Persona is getting the live-action show treatment at Netflix, Star Trek: Picard and 9-1-1 writer attached as showrunner

With Persona 4 Revival and Persona 6 on the horizon, fans of the long-running RPG series will be eating well in the near future, but a live-action Netflix show might be a more divisive offering. Read more

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007 First Light studio IOI facing layoffs as Xbox pulls funding for Project Fantasy RPG

Xbox has pulled out of a deal to fund and publish the online fantasy RPG - Project Fantasy - that's in development at Hitman and 007 First Light developer IO Interactive. Read more

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Anime Card Farm codes (July 2026)

With the genre showing no signs of slowing down, these Anime Card Farm codes might be the only way to make good progress out of the gate. Given it's another in a long line of AFK/works offline tycoon-style games, you won't really have to do much to pull some top-tier cards, but ACF codes can at least speed things up a...

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Developers at a Ubisoft studio have gone on strike in response to the publisher's latest round of sweeping layoffs

Developers at Ubisoft Barcelona - which works on Rainbow Six: Siege following recent company restructuring - have gone on strike. Read more

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Dragon Age Creator Says AI Is A "Virulent Plague"

Generative artificial intelligence is incredibly controversial across all fields, but especially so in creative-fuelled ventures like video games and other media.

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EA Game is Permanently Shutting Down This Month

Another EA game is about to lose most of its online functionality, rendering it obsolete for those still playing an older game in an annual franchise. Unlike EA's recent shutdown of Battlefield Hardline, which only affected PlayStation and Xbox consoles and not PC users on Steam, this latest title is being impacted acr...

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Revisiting Haven, the RPG update that turned a straight love story gay - and made it better as a result

Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kaan Serin explores how the acclaimed Haven found new meaning when it introduced the option to gender swap its leads two years after launch. To catch up on everything you might have missed this year and in Pr...

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