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NewsMay 6

NetHack 5.0 Ships 11 Years After 3.6, Replacing Yacc and Lex With Lua and Rebasing the Roguelike on C99

The DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, ending an 11-year wait since 3.6.0 and folding more than 3,100 fixes, a Lua-driven dungeon and quest pipeline, and full C99 source into the 39-year-old roguelike.

4 min read3 sources

NewsMar 22

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Poncle Launches Vampire Crawlers Demo as the Vampire Survivors Studio Prepares Its First Spin-Off for an April Release Across Six Platforms

Poncle's card-based turn-based spin-off Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard has a playable demo on Steam ahead of its April 21 launch at $9.99 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and mobile.

3 min read4 sources

NewsMar 17

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Slay the Spire 2 Sells 3 Million Copies in Its First Week of Early Access, Shattering Steam Records for the Roguelike Genre

Mega Crit's sequel hit 574,000 peak concurrent players on Steam and generated an estimated $75 million in its opening week, nearly matching the original's entire lifetime sales.

3 min read3 sources