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Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build

It is notoriously easy to own more games than you have time to play on Steam, but one user has taken this phenomenon to the extreme.

Tom’s Hardware

Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes)

The new Bennett Foddy-style flailing simulator is "infuriating," "frustrating," "stupid," and most people seem to love it.

PC Gamer

9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game

Planet Centauri suffered a bug that's affected less than 100 game releases since 2015.

PC Gamer

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Dev says Steam bug ruined "more than 10 years" of work and tanked their game's 1.0 launch, Valve says oops and offers a Daily Deal slot "to help make up for lost visibility"

Sandbox game Planet Centauri stumbled out of the gate

GamesRadar

Exclusive: Stripe’s head of crypto departs to join Polygon Labs as chief product officer

John Egan played a key role in the development of Stripe’s crypto strategy, including both its acquisition of the stablecoin company Bridge and the crypto wallet developer Privy.

Fortune

From Web2 to Web3 Without the Pain: How Haust Network Is Building a Bridge for Millions with AI

Built on Polygon CDK with zkrollups and using the AggLayer to connect to EVMs across the multi-chain, Haust Networks helps newbies discover proper yield opportunities and experts to build sophisticated DeFi strategies with a minimum of fuss.

International Business Times

Borderlands 4 designer points to Baldur's Gate 3 as an RPG inspiration for Gearbox's new and improved buildcrafting: "I want to hit the end game and be doing billions of damage"

Gearbox says you can use Borderlands 4's characters "in a bunch of different ways"

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Pope Leo XIV Adds Gaming Lore To Vatican History By Autographing A Reverse-Holo Popplio Pokémon Card For Pilgrim

Pope Leo XIV added an unlikely footnote to papal history this month when he blessed a Pokémon card and autographed a second copy for a Danish pilgrim who produced the trading card during a July 5 audience at the Vatican.

Benzinga

The Pope got gifted one Pokémon card, signed another, and thought it was all a great laugh: 'He began showing it off to the guards'

Pope tried being chill. It's super effective!

PC Gamer

Avail Goes Full Stack to Capture $300bn Global Blockchain Infra Market

Dubai, UAE, June 17th, 2025, Chainwire

International Business Times

"We are going to do CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3," says Wizards of the Coast president, but Star Wars Jedi director's D&D action game is very different to Larian's RPG

Baldur's Gate 3's strengths and success are not lost on Wizards, president says

GamesRadar

Polygon Labs and market maker GSR launch DeFi-focused blockchain

The crypto market maker GSR is also helping incubate the project.

Fortune

I went to the UK’s largest spatial audio music festival and now I want a surround sound dome in my back yard

At the UK’s largest spatial audio music festival, I experienced the awesome power of L-Acoustics' concert-grade 12.1.4 sound system – and came away hopeful about the future of spatial listening

TechRadar

Can immersive audio work at a festival? We went to Polygon Live to find out

London’s biggest live 3D audio event showed us the potential – and limitations – of spatial audio in the wild

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Inverse

‘Final Fantasy 7’ Is Hiding A Sword That Grows To Meet The Moment

According to the character's creator, Final Fantasy 7's Sephiroth has a pretty hilarious secret to his iconic Masamune sword.

The Guardian - UK

When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out

As industry giants trade beloved brands like commodities and AI offers easy content, independent games outlets are rising up. Here’s why they’re sorely needed

Inverse

The 'Thunderbolts' Team Was Almost Totally Different

Who needs a Taskmaster?

PC Gamer

Gaming website Polygon lays off union staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet

Vox Media has sold Polygon, the gaming site it founded in 2012 as "a new kind of website, built on new technology, backed by a new kind of media company."

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $25 million bet on Miden, a former Meta engineer's privacy blockchain

Miden used to be part of Polygon Labs, one of crypto’s biggest blockchain development firms.

PC Gamer

Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind last year's massive Pokémon leak

The 2024 'teraleak' saw a huge trove of previously unreleased Pokémon material released to the public, and Nintendo wants to know who's responsible.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft's defense against The Crew lawsuit doubles down on a point we've heard many times before: You don't actually own your games

Ubisoft claims consumers were given "clear and conspicuous" notice that they were only buying a "limited license" to access the game.

GamesRadar

Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game"

The Crew players "received the benefit of their bargain and cannot complain now that they were deceived," Ubisoft argues

International Business Times

Expert's Take: The Beginning Of The End Of Crypto's 'AOL Era' With Polygon Labs

Crypto has evolved significantly in recent years, and for a senior expert at Polygon Labs, the sector is at a critical turning point wherein it can finally end its "AOL era."

MusicRadar

“Would you believe that an artist is actually singing on stage if you hear them behind you? No, it would sound like a joke”: The challenges of live immersive audio with Nitin Sawhney and Polygon Live

In the studio as the Ivor Novello awarded producer prepares for the UK's biggest spatial audio festival

PC Gamer

Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close

Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.

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