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Ghost Of Tsushima, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.7.2024
When the action-adventure game Ghost of Tsushima first launched on PlayStation 4 in 2020 it was pretty spectacular. The Assassin’s Creed-like title from Infamous developer Sucker Punch, set during the first Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274, delivered a wonderful take on a tried and true formula....
Apex Legends Cancels Most Controversial Battle Pass Change After Weeks Of Backlash
24.7.2024
Earlier this month, Apex Legends announced it would overhaul its battle pass system, resulting in a price hike for players and them no longer being able to use in-game currency to earn the pass for free. After a weeks-long backlash resulting in over 70,000 negative reviews on Steam, Respawn...
Once Human Devs Delete Post Asking Players To Leave Positive Steam Reviews After New Update Breaks Stuff
19.7.2024
Once Human’s post-launch rollercoaster ride continues apace after a new update broke certain items and bases in the game. While frustrating for players and another headache for the developers, the funniest part is that the fresh problems arose just as the developers were asking fans to boost...
Apex Legends Piles Up 10,000 Negative Steam Reviews As Players Fight Price Hikes
16.7.2024
Apex Legends has, over the years, been a bit of a hotbed for EA’s penchant for greed. In the past, Apex Legends has faced controversy over numerous collections and cosmetics hidden behind notably expensive microtransactions. . Now, EA’s reworking of the battle pass has landed the game in unusually...
Post-Apocalyptic Shooter Blowing Up Steam Has A Wild First Week
15.7.2024
Once Human is it hitting all the sweet spots to earn the customary 15 minutes of Steam fame. It’s a free-to-play survival crafting MMO about fighting through a world infested by a strange alien lifeform called Stardust, and its first week out has already been full of ups and downs. Read more
The First Descendant, As Told By Steam Reviews
9.7.2024
Korean mega publisher Nexon recently released its own take on the free-to-play looter shooter with The First Descendant. Since the birth of the genre over a decade ago, many titles have come and gone, but two of them have stood near the top pretty consistently: Digital Extremes’ Warframe...
Apex Legends Players Are In Full Revolt After Battle Pass Controversy
9.7.2024
Yesterday, Apex Legends announced the free-to-play battle royale would be embracing shrinkflation, splitting seasonal battle passes in half while still charging players roughly the same amount for them. Today, some long-time fans are calling it the last straw after months of other issues,...
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, As Told By Steam Reviews
1.7.2024
There’s a lot of pressure on Dawntrail, the newest expansion for Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV. As the first expansion after the game finished off a decades-long story with world-ending stakes in Endwalker, Dawntrail’s adventure in the tropical locale of Tural is a...
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, As Told By Steam Reviews
26.6.2024
Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring’s only expansion, and is therefore a really big deal. After years of anticipation, it finally landed last week, and players have been digging into it ever since. Evidently there’s a lot there, considering this expansion builds on one of the biggest games I’ve...
Elden Ring DLC Review Bombing Is Just The Latest Skirmish In A 10-Year-Old Debate Over Difficulty
24.6.2024
Despite warnings from reviewers and FromSoftware itself, fans are quickly finding out that Shadow of the Erdtree is extremely difficult. The expansion to 2022’s Elden Ring was released on June 21 and has gained a reputation for being tough, even for a FromSoftware game. This has led to the DLC’s...
Kingdom Hearts, As Told By Steam Reviews
21.6.2024
Kingdom Hearts fans waited nearly 20 years for Sora, Donald, and Goofy’s adventures through Disney worlds to come to PC, which they finally did back in 2021 via the Epic Games Store. But some fans waited even longer for most of the series to come to Steam on June 13. Whatever floats your steamboat...
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Wallet Proposal, Scribbled in 22 Minutes, Gets Positive Reviews
14.5.2024
After a technical proposal to improve Ethereum wallets met with some opposition, a familiar figure swooped in last week to devise an alternative
Helldivers 2 Community Rallies To Rescue The Game's Steam Reviews
7.5.2024
Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 was enjoying tons of success in the months since its February launch. Then, a few days ago, Sony announced that PC players had to link (or create) a PlayStation Network account to continue playing the game. This enraged fans who have been playing for months, resulting...
Helldivers 2 Boss Says Sorry After Game Gets Review-Bombed To Hell
3.5.2024
It’s been a terrible day for Helldivers 2 and the team behind it. Angry players swarmed the co-op shooter’s Steam page to review-bomb it like a giant hive of Terminids after a PlayStation Network login requirement was reinstituted on PC. “Ouch, right in the review score,” Arrowhead Studios...
How user reviews affect your game's Month 1 sales
1.5.2024
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Stellar Blade, Tales Of Kenzera: Zau, And More Of This Week's Reviews
28.4.2024
From side-scrolling Metroidvanias to upbeat, humorous soulslikes, from the depths of the sea to the stars above, this week’s reviews run the gamut. Read on to find out what we thought of this week’s releases. Read more
SEC reviews new rules for Bitcoin options trading
25.4.2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission is evaluating whether exchanges’ current surveillance and enforcement mechanisms can handle Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs)
Palworld, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.4.2024
It’s been long enough that we can probably stop calling Palworld “Pokémon With Guns,” right? Pocketpair’s monster-taming survival game has amassed millions of players, all while remaining legally distinct enough that The Pokémon Company’s lawyers haven’t come after them. But the jokes about...
SEC reviews Fidelity/Grayscale/Bitwise ETH trust proposals
4.4.2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reached out for public opinion regarding three NFTs. They include the Fidelity Ethereum Fund, the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, and the Bitwise Ethereum Trust. The fact that the SEC refuses to throw any light on the matter, according to Bloomberg, is...
Players Aren’t Happy With Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Microtransactions
22.3.2024
Dragon’s Dogma 2, the sequel to Capcom’s 2012 cult RPG, is out now and critics have been raving about the game’s expansive world and intricate systems. But some fans that have purchased the game aren’t too happy, and on Steam, user reviews currently have it sitting at a rating of “Mixed.” The cause...