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In Am I Nima, you must find and fuse words to convince your mother you're really her daughter

19h ago·1 min read·83 words

Whoops! Sand: Raiders of Sophie's server slam got so slammed it isn't coming out tomorrow anymore

20h ago·1 min read·64 words

You'll be able to change some parts of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's story, but no matter what there's only one ending

23h ago·1 min read·98 words

Big Walk was born during a COVID lockdown out of a distaste for birthday party Zoom calls

1d ago·1 min read·76 words

Dragon's Dogma 2 is getting a frosty Dark Arisen expansion, plus two big updates that fix some of the things you moaned about back in 2024

1d ago·1 min read·158 words

Square Enix whip out the defibrillator to bring back Kingdom Hearts 4 from the brink with a new trailer and promise of a PC release

1d ago·1 min read·92 words

Before Darkness Falls is an Aliens: Dark Descent-style tactics game from former Frostpunk devs, and I did enjoy dying in its depths

1d ago·1 min read·123 words

The Guild Wars games have always been set in a world abandoned by the gods, in new MMO Guild Wars 3, you'll see why they left

1d ago·1 min read·149 words

Playing its mystery-drenched demo suggests I'll like everything about About Fishing, except the fishing

1d ago·1 min read·146 words

Yes, you have a gun in Gen Atlas, but Fumito Ueda doesn't want you to think it's a shooter

1d ago·1 min read·183 words

Just like Luftrausers before it, Wind Runners is proving I'm too careless a pilot to survive a bullet-hell dogfight

1d ago·1 min read·136 words

Star Trek: Outposts Unknown's demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn't last a day in RimWorld

2d ago·1 min read·102 words

Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs

2d ago·1 min read·77 words

Stealth's been replaced with scrappy swordfighting in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, but what I really miss are the rat swarms

2d ago·1 min read·123 words

Resident Evil Veronica is the remake I'm most excited about, because the original was such a mess

2d ago·1 min read·82 words

To the delight of its skateboarding aliens, I have failed to solo Saturday morning cartoon-styled co-op roguelike Maximum Thunderness as if I have four hands

2d ago·1 min read·88 words

This week in PC games: some enormous space sims and strategy games, plus a cheery prop hunt where you paint your own camouflage

2d ago·1 min read·183 words

"Trust that we're going to be smart about this" Amazon Game Studios boss says of 007 First Light sequels, while insisting he didn't confirm who'll publish them

2d ago·1 min read·147 words

"We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game

2d ago·1 min read·71 words

Bleak, disquieting action game Virtue and a Sledgehammer blends family heartbreak with stout wall-smashing in its new demo

2d ago·1 min read·75 words

One of Subnautica 2's ousted execs is now working on a sequel to ship-scavenging horror game Duskers

2d ago·1 min read·64 words

"It is alive": the makers of 2024 horror GOTY Mouthwashing are back with perhaps the most dreadful World War tank sim you'll ever play

2d ago·1 min read·173 words

Valheim 1.0 release date announced, so prepare to ward off "ancient evils and lurking threats" in its treacherously icy final biome

2d ago·1 min read·83 words

Play a parasitic brain mushroom in Signet City, the first-person fungalpunk RPG from the creator of Citizen Sleeper

2d ago·1 min read·92 words

The Sunday Papers

3d ago·1 min read·64 words

Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober Team are boldly going where few horror devs have gone before in Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a "psychological thriller" starring Ro Laren

3d ago·1 min read·136 words

Self-cloning strategy game The Alters is getting a 20 hour terraforming expansion that plays with the problem of age

3d ago·1 min read·165 words

Ukrainian-made Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City 2 finally has a release date, and you can play the first hour right now on Steam

3d ago·1 min read·151 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

4d ago·1 min read·168 words

It's not an Imposter, it's a spin-off: multiplayer backstabbing game Among Us has spawned a single player detective story

4d ago·1 min read·86 words

Brace yourself, Mr Bond: 007 First Light is getting some pirate king DLC alongside New Game+ and extra TacSim challenges

4d ago·1 min read·149 words

Square Enix reveal Final Fantasy 7: Revelation, the final part of the remake trilogy, coming to PC in 2027

4d ago·1 min read·162 words

Assassin's Creed creator's forgotten fantasy game 1666: Amsterdam will finally release this year, over a decade after Ubisoft ripped it from his fingers

4d ago·1 min read·87 words

"Overwhelming power": Fumito Ueda's giant robot game gets an official title and, wait a minute, is that a gun?

4d ago·1 min read·111 words

Tupac Shakur joins Snoop Dogg in Stranger Than Heaven, which also has a release date once you've finished getting over the whole dead rapper cameo business

4d ago·1 min read·88 words

"A new hunting ground for the ultimate apex predator" - Alien: Isolation 2 gets its first proper trailer

4d ago·1 min read·81 words

MIA action-adventure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin resurfaces in the hands of noted katana enthusiasts Platinum Games

4d ago·1 min read·170 words

Capcom announce Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake, a new first-person version of the 26-year-old Dreamcast hit

4d ago·1 min read·46 words

Lexispell is Balatro for people that love spelling bees and hate gambling

5d ago·1 min read·96 words

Rust's latest update asks you to say goodbye to your old outdated face and hello to your new, handsome one

5d ago·1 min read·103 words

Development on Prologue: Go Wayback is ending as PlayerUnknown Productions lays off an unspecified amount of staff

5d ago·1 min read·92 words

Unknown Worlds outline a bunch of incoming small Subnautica 2 updates including predator behaviour adjustments and proximity chat

5d ago·1 min read·69 words

"We didn't have the content needed to do it justice at the time": Helldivers 2 is finally getting a roguelite system Arrowhead experimented with pre-launch

6d ago·1 min read·89 words

Witcher devs' Project Hadar will make you feel all of the open-world emotions, a new job ad suggests, though sorry it still isn't a cosmic Japanese horror game

6d ago·1 min read·157 words

Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest, and its XCOM-ish star warring isn't too far, far away

6d ago·1 min read·78 words

Bond rights holders Amazon MGM have "a great relationship" with 007 First Light devs IO Interactive, but say it's "still too early to discuss future projects"

6d ago·1 min read·113 words

"One discovers, one guides, and one strikes the final blow": Ikumi Nakamura's new yokai-hunting game Kemuri is turning co-op into a ritual, somehow

Jun 3·1 min read·119 words

God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6

Jun 3·1 min read·180 words

Forza Horizon 6 gets customisable interiors thanks to a modder who couldn't resist swapping the seats of their beemer

Jun 3·1 min read·112 words

"The difference is not just that you can’t fight back, it’s that you feel like you shouldn’t": Alien Isolation's lead designer wants you to "respect" the dinos in The Lost Wild

Jun 3·2 min read·219 words

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used "AI-assisted tools" during development, but swear "any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans"

Jun 3·1 min read·76 words

Control Resonant release date? Yeah that's nice, now move aside so I can look at its system requirements and ohhh that's a lot of SSD space

Jun 3·1 min read·132 words

Texturetown is a Frankenstein's MMO created by remixing Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and other dead MMOs

Jun 3·1 min read·122 words

Marathon season 2 launch plagued by anteaters, monkeys and weasels, with Bungie dishing out free gear to say sorry for the server issues

Jun 3·1 min read·73 words

Rayman Legends was a timeless 2D platformer with beautiful art, but I'll grudgingly admit that its remake is an improvement

Jun 2·1 min read·112 words

Silent Hill: Townfall wants you to "fear the truth behind the static" when it arrives in September

Jun 2·1 min read·121 words

Copy animals' movements to turn into them, or fuse them to travel further in Mimic Meadows

Jun 2·1 min read·109 words

Dungeon Lurker's crunchy, grimey pixel art hides a metatextual secret beneath its roguelike, dungeon crawling veneers

Jun 2·1 min read·85 words

Pick your favourite Greek god and build a metropolis in their name in the strategy city-builder Theos: Cities of Myth

Jun 2·1 min read·86 words

Turn-based RPG Entropy offers up a world abandoned by the gods that looks like a PS1 game fished from a toilet

Jun 2·1 min read·139 words

Marathon season 2 kicks off with a "PvP-lite" mode that sounds more like a sidestep for those after PvE

Jun 2·1 min read·104 words

Silver Pines is a rotoscoped side-scrolling survival horror game that splices Silent Hill with Flashback, and it's out on October 8th

Jun 2·1 min read·118 words

Time to Wake Up is an eye-catching puzzle adventure where your surroundings shift with every blink

Jun 2·1 min read·101 words

Mym's Sword is a delightfully ominous Zelda-style action platformer with magic rings and knife-wielding raccoons

Jun 2·1 min read·131 words

After a week of playing on nothing but Panther Lake laptops, it's safe to say that Intel has its gaming mojo back

Jun 2·1 min read·191 words

"Flip the script": Capcom veteran casually pitches a Resident Evil 'creature collector' about curing the undead

Jun 1·1 min read·124 words

Former Dragon Age lead says product placements could help combat "overreliance on microtransactions" and I agree because every game should make you pick a watch colour

Jun 1·1 min read·108 words

Minesweeper: Next-Gen adds layers of unholy tessellation and recursive sorcery to a blameless cult classic

Jun 1·1 min read·103 words

Baldur's Gate 2 remake reportedly in development at Wizards of the Coast, possibly alongside a revamp of the first game

Jun 1·1 min read·56 words

"Make the past less permanent": Tattoo Removal Simulator is a surprisingly poignant take on the PowerWash clean-up genre

Jun 1·1 min read·71 words

Factorio's next major update will be a swansong, as Wube Software "shift the focus onto long term support" and new projects

Jun 1·1 min read·86 words

Nvidia unveil their first all-in-one laptop processor, with support for DLSS, ray tracing, frame gen, and all those other RTX features you love and hate

Jun 1·1 min read·183 words

Tekken 8 game director bids goodbye to Bandai Namco following series boss Katsuhiro Harada's exit last year, but doesn't do an hour-long DJ mix

Jun 1·1 min read·99 words

This week in PC games: Summer Game Fest, the Gothic remake, and the policing of furry Chicago

Jun 1·1 min read·185 words

Fable's delay into 2027 is the right move, but it'll make looking through the window bars at GTA 6 on consoles slightly more painful

Jun 1·1 min read·115 words

The Sunday Papers

May 31·1 min read·107 words

007 First Light review - a flowing thriller that blends occasional sandboxy spying into an exotic rollercoaster ride

May 30·1 min read·81 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

May 30·1 min read·80 words

Catch the scalpers who get rich flipping Pokémon TCG cards in this very vindictive shop management game

May 29·1 min read·93 words

"They have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet": How the unlikely EVE Online x Google DeepMind AI partnership landed with players

May 29·2 min read·218 words

007 First Light's launch bugs and fixes prove disappointingly short on material for James Bond quips

May 29·1 min read·150 words

"Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody

May 29·1 min read·76 words

Sci-fi RTS ZeroSpace combines StarCraft with Mass Effect RPG choices and look, they've got a Homeworld guy doing the mechs

May 29·1 min read·114 words

The Witcher 4 is the work of over twice as many CD Projekt staff as The Witcher 3, in a fresh display of how blockbluster team sizes have ballooned

May 29·1 min read·82 words

Stop Killing Games-backed bill that'd bar publishers from switching off game servers without thinking of players passes California State Assembly vote

May 29·1 min read·110 words

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is getting a roguelike mode, a Thieves Guild, and a sprawling underworld with unique terrain

May 29·2 min read·207 words

Amidst ongoing legal proceedings, Rockstar devs have publicly formed a union with the IWGB

May 28·1 min read·99 words

Red Frame is a Witnessian puzzle game where every red frame you find has a conundrum for you to solve

May 28·1 min read·107 words

Here's a choose your own adventure RPG from a former Capcom dev who spent six years in a remote Japanese mountain village making it

May 28·1 min read·120 words

The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, out today, wants you to figure out what the greatest RPG of all time really is

May 28·1 min read·105 words

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, not to be confused with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, sees North Korea invade South Korea

May 28·1 min read·138 words

Planet Zoo 2 is on the way later this year, adding in aquatic animals as a big win for mola mola lovers

May 28·1 min read·114 words

Bungie are making it easy for you to try Marathon by launching its new season with a free week, right when veteran players lose all their best gear

May 28·2 min read·202 words

Krafton have reportedly agreed to pay Subnautica 2's devs that $250 million bonus, following strong early sales

May 28·1 min read·93 words

The Steam Deck OLED's price hikes have killed its status as the best deal in PC games hardware

May 28·1 min read·77 words

Witcher 3 modders have already added Geralt's new sword from the Songs of the Past expansion to the base game

May 28·1 min read·118 words

The demand for weapons in Subnautica 2 reveals the difficulty of separating open worlds from conquest

May 27·1 min read·118 words

Paralives is possibly the first ever videogame with a character editor that gives people motion sickness

May 27·1 min read·144 words

007 First Light's PC performance isn't quite martini-smooth, but it's a damn sight better than that stuttering reveal footage

May 27·1 min read·83 words

007 First Light is now out in full, and I hope the masses are ready to face the most difficult decision of their lives

May 27·1 min read·125 words

Helldivers 2-esque war against a giant evil robo-eye beckons in No Man's Sky's The Swarm update, invading the galaxy right now

May 27·1 min read·93 words

After 10 years of work, modders have remade classic RPG Ultima Underworld in Unity with 3D models, new sound effects, and controller support

May 27·1 min read·149 words

Geralt's back for one last Roach ride in long-rumoured The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion Songs of the Past

May 27·1 min read·88 words

Red Dead Online wasn't a missed opportunity in the eyes of Take-Two's boss, but I'd say it's proof that following the GTA train doesn't guarantee the world

May 27·1 min read·164 words

There are a million ways to deliver ore in Starminer, a real-time space strategy sim with zero-G physics - just beware your greed doesn't attract the aliens

May 27·1 min read·105 words

The first, cinematic look at Marathon season 2 paints it as the horror game it always should have been

May 26·1 min read·109 words

Yerba Buena, out today, is a Portal-esque puzzle platformer where your weapon of choice is copying and pasting physics

May 26·1 min read·98 words

Unsanctioned GTA Online modding platform Rage:MP is shutting down thanks to a cease and desist from Take-Two

May 26·1 min read·96 words

Remedy's new CEO doesn't want to "change the DNA" of the Control studio, but he does still think their games "could give a lot more"

May 26·1 min read·136 words

At long last, Dead by Daylight welcomes Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees, and he's now available for some beta slashing

May 26·1 min read·127 words

Life Below sees you restoring a dying sea floor, yet it makes for a surprisingly cosy city builder filled with touches of vibrant life

May 26·1 min read·162 words

Skyblivion's gorgeously revamped Ayleid ruins are all done and dusted, the folks behind the Oblivion Remake mod have announced

May 26·1 min read·86 words

"It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap

May 26·1 min read·144 words

After seven years of development, Paralives is out in early access

May 25·1 min read·83 words

Most of Bungie's staff were reportedly unaware of the decision to end active development on Destiny 2 until it went public

May 25·1 min read·120 words

Hop aboard Running Train, a lush Japanese train sim that's out in early access now

May 25·1 min read·84 words

The opening mission of 007 First Light leaked online, so IO have fought fire with fire by offering up the game's first 13 minutes

May 25·1 min read·112 words

Your first look at Unreal Engine 6 comes courtesy of a much shinier looking Rocket League teaser

May 25·1 min read·90 words

The Sunday Papers

May 24·1 min read·150 words

In Crimson Desert's latest update, you can pick up baby wyverns as pets, throw your fish in a pond, and shut those pesky outlaws up

May 23·1 min read·82 words

"God is dead, and Heaven has gone corporate" in Grindset T.V., an overstimulating speedrunning game by way of Cruelty Squad

May 23·1 min read·121 words

Paralives continues to sound promising with a roadmap outlining free updates The Sims would normally charge for

May 23·1 min read·135 words

Say goodbye to birds and hello to dragons in Wyrmspan, a scalier take on beloved strategy card game Wingspan

May 23·1 min read·96 words

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch picks up where Daemonhunters' XCOM-ish gorefest left off

May 23·1 min read·86 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

May 23·1 min read·98 words

Half-Life: Alyx is convincing me I don't have the knees for VR gaming, or perhaps I should stop cowering behind cars quite so often

May 22·1 min read·127 words

Your allies in turn-based tactics game Menace can now be completely wiped out by the [REDACTED], but at least the new patch gives us battle tanks

May 22·1 min read·140 words

Dang, I can't hang with the Wang in Zero Parades, so ZA/UM's thought violation gun won't stop going bang

May 22·1 min read·70 words

"You build a little squad of allied characters": Warhammer Survivors' spin on bullet heaven brings a lovely touch of chaos to the battlefield

May 22·1 min read·120 words

Destiny 2 is getting its final update in June, and the team reportedly face "significant" layoffs as soon as it's out the door

May 22·1 min read·98 words

"If they turn off, they might not be able to turn them on again": The charming reason behind Dawn of War 4's excitable, dancing mech

May 22·1 min read·138 words

Baldur's Gate 3's Wyll gets "the autonomy he deserves" in deciding whether to break his pact with Mizora, thanks to a chunky companion quest overhaul mod

May 21·1 min read·130 words

After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview

May 21·1 min read·125 words

Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe"

May 21·1 min read·157 words

Dragon Age: Inquisition's lead narrative designer is making an adventure game world "where the ordinary starts to feel like it is hiding something"

May 21·1 min read·131 words

Stop Killing Games petition on game server switch offs will get a reply "before the summer", European Commission promise during latest debate

May 21·1 min read·137 words

Squabble over Disco Elysium's legacy continues as Hopetown studio recruit another ex-ZA/UM dev while dropping a new trailer on Zero Parades' release day

May 21·1 min read·94 words

Prophet Margin is a holy city-builder that combines the joy of trade routes with the terror of God

May 21·1 min read·179 words

New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve

May 21·1 min read·152 words

New Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon games will release by early 2029 say Ubisoft, who're also dumping cash into a "first playable generative AI experience"

May 21·1 min read·116 words

Roguelike FPS offshoot Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into early access with its own dangers, its own dwarves, and at last, its own identity

May 20·1 min read·177 words

It's not you, would-be Subnautica 2 fish murderers, it's our creature encounters not feeling "fair, readable, and engaging" enough, say Unknown Worlds

May 20·1 min read·97 words

Deus Ex, Saints Row and TimeSplitters might be lent out to external partners, Embracer say, possibly paving the way for new entries

May 20·1 min read·111 words

"Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"

May 20·1 min read·147 words

The rumours were true, Warhorse are making an open-world Lord of the Rings RPG alongside a new Kingdom Come game

May 20·1 min read·160 words

Hasbro cancel Dungeons and Dragons action game helmed by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order director, leaving studio hunting for new publishing deal

May 20·1 min read·77 words

"Seven or eight years is not that unusual": Diablo 4 lead says AAA games are taking longer to make, which is bad news for junior applicants

May 20·1 min read·110 words

The long awaited Civilization 7 Test of Time update is here, bringing a huge suite of changes with it

May 19·1 min read·82 words

Johan is like if Sekiro were about a medieval manuscript of a rabbit came to life that's on a quest for revenge

May 19·1 min read·95 words

Take a nice long look at some Paralives gameplay ahead of its early access launch next week

May 19·1 min read·77 words

Subnautica 2's EULA is causing a bit of a ruckus, but Unknown Worlds say they're "looking into" the current terms

May 19·1 min read·92 words

Outward 2 lines up a July release date with the promise that even your dusty old potato of a PC can run it

May 19·1 min read·88 words

Arc Raiders turns to Denuvo Anti-Cheat in hopes of curbing foul play, Embark say they're "working to ensure minimal impact on performance"

May 19·1 min read·95 words

Shelve your hopes to play Ghost of Yōtei or Saros on PC, as PlayStation boss reportedly confirms plan to stop porting narrative-driven singleplayer games

May 19·1 min read·178 words

"It was chaos": How The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are learning from decades of CD Projekt's documentation mistakes

May 19·1 min read·196 words

"That lore terrifies me": Ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek isn't interested in writing a Half-Life 3, as he wouldn't touch a sequel "with with a 10-foot pole"

May 18·1 min read·103 words

Sure, a new GTA 6 trailer would be nice, but it doesn't have a hope of matching the cultural significance of GTA 4's second reveal

May 18·1 min read·111 words

Extraction shooter spinoff EVE Vanguard will let you salvage ships destroyed in EVE Online, then flog the parts back to their owners

May 18·1 min read·194 words

Subnautica 2 mod makes creatures killable, despite its devs' desire to convince players to "use non-violent and more creative solutions"

May 18·1 min read·92 words

This week in PC games: Tokyo-drifting in Forza Horizon 6, communist grifting in Disco Elysium follow-up Zero Parades, or dystopia tifting in puzzle game Phonopolis

May 18·1 min read·85 words

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is both bootleg Disco Elysium and a spirited interrogation of fake culture in all its guises

May 18·1 min read·121 words

Skyrim now runs on Fallout 4's Pip-Boy and computer terminals, as modder delivers the one port Bethesda haven't thought of yet

May 18·1 min read·82 words

I didn’t think Forza Horizon 6’s custom garages would lead me to miss mucking about with my motor on Mexican driveways, but they have

May 17·1 min read·82 words

The Sunday Papers

May 17·1 min read·50 words

Palestinian pseudo-stealth game Dreams on a Pillow paints a difficult, poetic picture in its first look at gameplay

May 16·1 min read·90 words

Mixtape will be safe from a music licensing related delisting, ensured by its developer paying extra for the privilege

May 16·1 min read·98 words

Sleepover is a cosmic horror visual novel about the last person on earth and the stranger who shows up at their front door

May 16·1 min read·105 words

Fence off a free-spirited horse that can't stop eating grass in the daily puzzle game enclose.horse

May 16·1 min read·115 words

For its 24th anniversary, Final Fantasy 11 is getting a free trial upgrade that lets you play it for as long as you like

May 16·1 min read·122 words

Subnautica 2's no-killing ethos "will be a continued point of resistance" among players, say Unknown Worlds, but they have no plans to change it

May 16·1 min read·105 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

May 16·1 min read·100 words

EVE Online's Cradle of War expansion wants to make the space MMO more welcoming to new players, before killing them in galaxy-wide omniconflict

May 15·1 min read·107 words

Forza Horizon 6 will unleash the Wankel-powered Furai to kick off its Festival Playlist car additions

May 15·1 min read·74 words

Lego 2K Drive is being delisted in a matter of days despite only being a few years old - grab it before it's bricked over

May 15·1 min read·78 words

Come dribble with me over this pitch for Total War: Redwall, in which Shrimp 'n' Hotroot soup is a vital strategic resource

May 15·1 min read·92 words

"This is gonna break your mods": Stellaris is getting nomad empires, aka "moving planets", despite Paradox previously deeming this "impossible"

May 15·1 min read·143 words

California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote

May 15·1 min read·103 words

Subnautica 2's first update will add a sprint button, because players are building their bases too big: "they might want to go a little bit faster"

May 15·1 min read·196 words

Forza Horizon 6 makes a viable Steam Deck game, assuming you can find room to park it

May 15·1 min read·174 words

Forza Horizon 6 is lightweight enough to perform on just about any PC - though its new ray tracing modes slam on the brakes

May 15·1 min read·177 words

Exodus' former studio head James Ohlen touches on why he left Archetype Entertainment: "I was running on fumes"

May 14·1 min read·91 words

Moss: The Forgotten Relic is a shinier, VR-less fusion of the two beloved puzzle platformers that's out this summer

May 14·1 min read·101 words

For Control: Resonant's creative director, the series has always been "the Remedy version of an RPG experience"

May 14·1 min read·103 words

More gorgeous laser puzzles await you in The Talos Principle 3, the "final chapter" in the series

May 14·1 min read·95 words

"We will probably get some flack": Subnautica 2 may feel polished for an early access game, but it was important for the team it launched unfinished

May 14·1 min read·114 words

Bungie set a date for Marathon season 2 and ramp up the challenge for the end of the current one

May 14·1 min read·70 words

Canned Lord of the Rings MMO now formally cast aside, Amazon claim they've still got a game "that does justice to Tolkien's world" in the works

May 14·1 min read·64 words

After seven hours in early access, Subnautica 2 feels more like a remake than a sea-quel, but it has plenty of room to grow

May 14·1 min read·128 words

I've cruised from St Louis to Chicago in American Truck Simulator's Illinois DLC, out today, and visiting the Windy City doesn't disappoint

May 14·1 min read·154 words

Forza Horizon 6 review - the king is dead, long live the drift king

May 14·1 min read·156 words

Alabaster Dawn is the kind of 2.5D action-RPG spectacle that makes you question the need for "true" 3D

May 13·1 min read·18 words

Lenovo’s most powerful RTX 5090 gaming PC just dropped to a record-low price

May 13·1 min read·13 words

"I dunno if I'm cooking or becoming cooked": Iron Lung and Dusk dev David Szymanski is making a giant ant shooter set inside mountains of trash

May 13·1 min read·26 words

Baldur's Gate 3 modders remaking the original Baldur's Gate show off a revamped Candlekeep as a taste of how their work's evolving

May 13·1 min read·22 words

Subnautica 2 is Steam Deck Verified, as is Forza Horizon 6, Mina the Hollower, and Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

May 13·1 min read·22 words

"If David Lynch made shooters" is Black Ops veteran David Vondehaar's catchphrase for his new game that isn't a "Call of Duty killer"

May 13·1 min read·23 words

"Unofficial builds of Subnautica 2 are currently circulating online," Unknown Worlds confirm, just days before the ocean survival game's early access release

May 13·1 min read·22 words

The Steam Controller is actually a scream controller, because Valve couldn't resist making it cry out in memey pain when you drop it

May 13·1 min read·23 words

UK MPs claim GTA 6 studio Rockstar "refused to properly engage with staff" during legal wranglings over dev firings

May 13·1 min read·19 words

"Everyone would hate you": Stardew Valley creator is "open" to adding adultery and NPC divorces, but he's against it "on a moral level"

May 13·1 min read·23 words

Valve's next Steam UI target is the Community Market, with more details and, yes, a wider layout

May 12·1 min read·17 words

"I just find AI to be creatively soulless": Casey Hudson on the controversial tech and Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic

May 12·1 min read·22 words

Head beneath the waves and pull up "corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare" in the ocean-fear inducing KEROGEN

May 12·1 min read·17 words

KingFish is a co-op roguelike where one of you gets to play a city builder while the other plays an action game

May 12·1 min read·22 words

Hark! Sega's mysterious and vague "Super Game" is dead, though its Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi reboots live on

May 12·1 min read·20 words

"It's expensive and it doesn't age": Why Ken Levine didn't aim for realistic graphics in BioShock, and won't for Judas either

May 12·1 min read·21 words

I've walked the waterlogged streets of The Sinking City 2, and we might finally have a Cthulhu survival horror game to rival Resident Evil and Silent Hill

May 12·1 min read·27 words

"Let's finish it": After a 20-year wait, Nightdive would complete the SiN Episodes shooter series if its upcoming remaster is a success

May 12·1 min read·22 words

Microsoft Israel boss leaves after investigation into whether IDF contracts broke Microsoft's code of ethics

May 12·1 min read·15 words

Wordle's getting a TV adaptation made in partnership with Jimmy Fallon’s Electric Hot Dog, please pray for our guides writers

May 12·1 min read·20 words

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes review - an iffy take on the sci-fi series that had me contending with Cylons, sabotage, and STDs

May 11·1 min read·22 words

Oblivion's persuasion wheel has spawned another wacky gamejam, cue sentient cheese struggling to three-point turn gracefully past dancing French rats

May 11·1 min read·20 words

The strange parade of Stardew-style horror farming games continues with Besmirch, in which there is far too much smiling

May 11·1 min read·19 words

California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert

May 11·1 min read·18 words

Former Epic tech director announces The Immense Engine, his AI-heavy "European alternative" to Unreal

May 11·1 min read·14 words

This week in PC games: Subnautica 2 early access, a Battlestar Galactica roguelite, and Directive 8020 disproving the old saying about space and screaming

May 11·1 min read·24 words

Forza Horizon 6's PC version leaks early, allegedly rumbling out of the garage via a Steam upload mishap

May 11·1 min read·18 words

"His voice and delivery was human": Darkest Dungeon developers will "never, ever" use genAI to replace narrator Wayne June

May 11·1 min read·19 words

The latest Crimson Desert patch lets you ride a special lion to a claw machine which spits out chairs and special hats

May 11·1 min read·22 words

"We tried something different": Looking back on SiN Episodes: Emergence, the Valve-backed shooter that tried and failed to kick off an age of episodic gaming

May 10·1 min read·25 words

The Sunday Papers

May 10·1 min read·3 words

Rejoice, Doormaker haters, for Mega Crit have removed him from Slay the Spire 2 in favour of a brand new boss

May 9·1 min read·21 words

AlteredBlood+ is a movement shooter set at the end of the universe where the key to survival is soaking up your enemies' blood

May 9·1 min read·23 words

Paranormal Activity: Threshold is as dead as its ghosts, as the game gets canned because Paramount couldn't wait any longer

May 9·1 min read·20 words

Europa Universalis 5's latest patch notes took up 72 pages on a Google Doc so I think it might be a big one

May 9·1 min read·23 words

Psychonauts developer Double Fine are the latest Microsoft-owned studio to unionise

May 9·1 min read·11 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

May 9·1 min read·7 words

"They were totally game to play ball": how Zachtronics almost made a Star Trek engineering sim

May 8·1 min read·16 words

"A handful of bottlenecks" remain for Morrowind remake mod Skywind, but it's still progressing steadily towards release

May 8·1 min read·17 words

Family Reunion is a dinnertime simulation game that captures the wonder and boredom of being a loosely disciplined 7-year-old

May 8·1 min read·19 words

Rally Point: What's it like to be in charge of the Xenonauts? Um. Two?

May 8·1 min read·14 words

Helldivers 2's galactic war will include more "multi-week themed campaigns" and "branching outcomes" starting this summer, Arrowhead reveal

May 8·1 min read·18 words

Fallout 1 and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind now run on Fallout 4's Pip-Boy and computer terminals, thanks to a modder

May 8·1 min read·21 words

2K lay off staff at Project Ethos while touting "a renewed direction and vision" for their by-the-numbers hero shooter

May 8·1 min read·19 words

"Your infidelity will no longer be broadcasted to everyone as it happens" declares Crusader Kings 3's latest patch, unless you made a baby at a certain time

May 8·1 min read·27 words

Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release might slip beyond 2026, but at least we're getting a crafting system that summons skeletons to beat you up when you use it

May 8·1 min read·29 words

"Leon must die forever" screams Resident Evil Requiem's new endgame battle rush mode, out now for free

May 8·1 min read·17 words

Still hoping to snag a Steam Controller after it sold out? You'll have to literally join a queue to get one

May 7·1 min read·21 words

The World of Darkness grows bigger with a first look at Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish and a Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn reveal

May 7·1 min read·24 words

With Mixtape out today, the tiny number of coming of age games gets just that little bit bigger

May 7·1 min read·18 words

Embark are testing kernel-level anti-cheat in Arc Raiders to help put a stop to its ongoing cheating problem

May 7·1 min read·18 words

Yacht Club Games "make-or-break" moment Mina the Hollower gets a May release date

May 7·1 min read·13 words

Amberspire review - a strategy game dedicated to the dicey ecopoetics of urban sprawl

May 7·1 min read·14 words

Brigador Killers mixes GTA and Syndicate to make a cyberpunk sandbox where you build your own insurgency

May 7·1 min read·17 words

As well as adding all of Hades 1 into Hades 2, the Zagreus' Journey mod now brings new boons, story beats, and more

May 7·1 min read·23 words

Will: Follow the Light review - a pretty Arctic adventure, but tedious puzzles leave it lost at sea

May 7·1 min read·18 words

Morrowind in Elden Ring mod is now "mostly playable", despite the fact its creator's "entire existence has been consumed with interpreting gibberish code"

May 7·1 min read·23 words

Who owns the Wizardry RPGs? We do, say both Drecom and Atari as an unusual IP acquisition splits custody of the genre-forming series

May 7·1 min read·23 words

Civilization 7 devs Firaxis finally slap a release date on the Test of Time update, acting on "over a year's worth of listening" to moans about the Age system

May 7·1 min read·29 words

Like fleshy, diaper-wearing cars, infants in The Sims 4 have been "tuned up", making them faster to feed and change, and it's easier to clean up their poop

May 7·1 min read·28 words

Stranger than Heaven, out this winter, sees the Yakuza devs blend Snoop Dogg into a musical adventure/Tojo Clan origin story that looks fascinatingly quirky

May 7·1 min read·24 words

Assassin's Creed is being adapted for theatre by a former Cirque du Soleil director, offering two hours of parkour across several eras

May 6·1 min read·22 words

Make actual songs with singing garden gnomes in Offbeat, a jobbing composer sim that doubles as an audio production tool

May 6·1 min read·20 words

EVE Online will be used to help train Google DeepMind's AI tech, as company take a minority stake in the former CCP Games

May 6·1 min read·23 words

Valve release the Steam Controller's CAD files, so you can channel your inner Archie from Balamory and design mods or accessories for it

May 6·1 min read·23 words

Thief, Dishonored and Philip Marlowe combine in Noirmancer, a stealth sim that lets you wipe minds with a snap of your fingers

May 6·1 min read·22 words

Xbox boss bumps some of her Microsoft CoreAI buddies up into leadership jobs, but hey, at least they're stopping some of their Copilot gubbins

May 6·1 min read·24 words

11 years after vanishing from Steam, sneaky WW2 strategy gem R.U.S.E. gets a surprise Definitive Edition with Deck support and all the DLC

May 6·1 min read·23 words

IWGB union "have no reason to believe fresh redundancies are taking place" at MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy, following latest layoff report

May 6·1 min read·23 words

Horizon Hunters Gathering lines up a second playtest for this month with better onboarding and tougher challenges

May 5·1 min read·17 words

Dead as Disco is out in early access to fill the Hi-Fi Rush and, weirdly, Batman: Arkham series shaped hole in your heart

May 5·1 min read·23 words

"Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in

May 5·1 min read·19 words

Phasmophobia's latest update is live now, taking the horror out of the character models and leaving it in the ghosts

May 5·1 min read·20 words

Star Wars: X-Wing and MechWarrior veterans release In The Black, a "serious" space combat sim with Newtonian physics

May 5·1 min read·18 words

Motorslice, out today, looks to pick up where Mirror's Edge, Nier Automata and Shadow of the Colossus left off

May 5·1 min read·19 words

Eerie visual novel Schrödinger's Call explores the pain and joy of relationships via phone calls to purgatory

May 5·1 min read·17 words

"They responded only to the press": Wizards of the Coast miss deadline for recognising Magic: The Gathering Arena union

May 5·1 min read·19 words

Please Rockstar and Take-Two, push GTA 6's price up to $80 for the good of "the entire industry", Bank of America beg

May 5·1 min read·22 words

Choose between Buddhist Star Trek, rad vinyl music, and forest fire deathgames in this week's PC releases

May 5·1 min read·17 words

Artius: Pure Imagination is Sonic the Hedgehog for art students in a post-AI world

May 4·1 min read·14 words

Space Hauler is a full scale space flight sim set around Saturn where every single button in your ship is functional

May 4·1 min read·21 words

"It meant we got the design right": Resident Evil Requiem's producer on the DLSS5 Grace Ashcroft debacle

May 4·1 min read·17 words

Unlike Destiny 2, Marathon's creative director says you'll "always be able to uncover the mysteries of Tau Ceti's past"

May 4·1 min read·19 words

Crimson Desert's latest patch will help with your post-game buff build boredom through boss fight do-overs and more

May 4·1 min read·18 words

Wolfenstein meets Metroidvania in Wolfhound, an 8-bit ode to yesteryear with zombies and Nazi mechs

May 3·1 min read·15 words

The Sunday Papers

May 3·1 min read·3 words

I tested the MSI Cyborg 14 gaming laptop by carrying it for 105 miles through the mountains of Wales

May 2·1 min read·19 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

May 2·1 min read·7 words

Subnautica 2's early access PC system requirements are on the punishing side

May 1·1 min read·12 words

Obsidian are delisting the original version of The Outer Worlds in favour of the swankier (but pricier) Spacer's Choice edition, and lobbing some grenades at you too

May 1·1 min read·27 words

Alas, you and I will never look and sound as good as Rebounder

May 1·1 min read·13 words

Morrowind turns 24 today, so come Nerevar and celebrate as an Elder Scrolls tax collector with this huge OpenMW quest mod

May 1·1 min read·21 words

Total War: Warhammer 40,000's map destruction is "the biggest mental shift" for the strategy series in years, but "we've kept it to areas where it really works"

May 1·1 min read·27 words

Subnautica 2's early access has chased a campervanning game about starting fires and hacking PCs into an earlier release

May 1·1 min read·19 words

"Turning solitary AI dreams into a social, playable reality" is the aim of Roblox's new upscaling tech, which will make sentient blobs photorealistic

May 1·1 min read·23 words

Kingdom Come devs respond to Lord of the Rings game rumour: "I cannot disclose details but I can tell it is a huge, immersive RPG"

May 1·1 min read·25 words

Subnautica 2‘s early access will introduce you to a massive squid monster, before the first post-launch update sends you into its lair

May 1·1 min read·22 words

A plumber's worst nightmare and man's best friend combine in the Journey-sounding social platformer pipedog

Apr 30·1 min read·15 words

Vampire: The Masquerade finds new undead life in Oaths and Ashes, a visual novel RPG set in Berlin

Apr 30·1 min read·18 words

From the co-creator of Celeste comes City of None, a metroidvania about a wooden adventurer in a dying metropolis

Apr 30·1 min read·19 words

After a year of messy legal shenanigans, Subnautica 2 has an early access release date

Apr 30·1 min read·15 words

From Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator's devs comes a game with "a giant, screaming man whose meat you can legally drive through"

Apr 30·1 min read·22 words

Greedfall studio Spiders' liquidation is a "premeditated and deliberate choice by Nacon’s management" claim union as they call for a boycott

Apr 30·1 min read·21 words

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era hits early access today with the start of a narrative campaign, six factions, a map editor and multiplayer

Apr 30·1 min read·25 words

Following in Fallout's footsteps, British post-apocalyptic survival jaunt Atomfall's now getting a TV show too

Apr 30·1 min read·15 words

American Truck Simulator cruises into Illinois with a fresh expansion releasing mid-May, as SCS also tease a new truck

Apr 30·1 min read·19 words

I'm enjoying the boreal cyborg world of spooky FPS Industria 2, which launches on PC today and also has an excellent diegetic crafting screen

Apr 29·1 min read·24 words

"Those of us who joined in the early 2000s, we had it very good": Monument Valley boss says it's getting harder to give workers full-time stability

Apr 29·1 min read·26 words

Why aren’t there more PC-first gamepads? Valve don’t know, but they "did see an opportunity" for the new Steam Controller

Apr 29·1 min read·20 words

“We’re a number on a ledger": ex-Elder Scrolls Online studio head says Microsoft cancelling Project Blackbird was a "missed opportunity"

Apr 29·1 min read·20 words

Warren Spector's newly solo-friendly stealth game Thick as Thieves will launch as a four-hour "introductory campaign" that only costs a fiver

Apr 29·1 min read·21 words

MindsEye's mission about Build a Rocket Boy's alleged "saboteurs" is a rather meh Hitman impression that saw me waste 30 minutes swearing in a warehouse

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

While you wait for Subnautica 2, here's a moody Bioshock-esque strategy game in which you can put Big Daddies on crabs

Apr 29·1 min read·21 words

Even GTA 6's price needs to feel "reasonable", says Take-Two boss: hiking past $70 to match inflation "doesn’t make a whole lot of sense"

Apr 29·1 min read·24 words

"A next-gen Steam Deck would do the same": Valve are already eyeing Steam Controller hardware upgrades to reuse in future handhelds

Apr 29·1 min read·21 words

Cyberpunk 2077 gets a whole new ending thanks to a mod aimed at folks keen on riding off into the sunset with potential partner Judy Alvarez

Apr 29·1 min read·26 words

Solve a murder mystery by flying people around on your giant crane in the Disco Elysium and Chinese folktale inspired The Crane Rider's Tale

Apr 28·1 min read·24 words

Windrose devs ask for some grace as they prepare to set sail towards a six month wait for the next big update

Apr 28·1 min read·22 words

Greedfall and Steelrising developer Spiders look set to close their doors, according to a recent report

Apr 28·1 min read·16 words

The Blood of Dawnwalker gets a late summer release date, system requirements, and another, very Witchery, gameplay look-in

Apr 28·1 min read·18 words

What do Marathon and The Lord of the Rings have to do with each other? PvPvE gameplay, apparently

Apr 28·1 min read·18 words

"We've heard a clear frustration": Arc Raiders update adds a beach holiday map while patching the gun balance to ensure "all players are challenged by weapon attrition"

Apr 28·1 min read·27 words

Garry's Mod sequel S&box is already having to deal "with people using AI in obvious, low quality ways", confess developers Facepunch

Apr 28·1 min read·21 words

Our Steam Controller second opinion: what works, what doesn't, and what Valve should add for the next one

Apr 28·1 min read·18 words

Helldivers 2 isn't a cosy game, but the tranquil forests and beefed up exosuits of its latest patch might convince you it is

Apr 28·1 min read·23 words

As the Steam Controller breaks cover, Valve say they're hard at work on the Steam Deck 2 and keeping current Decks in stock

Apr 28·1 min read·23 words

The War to End all Wars is a colony sim now, with an Acceptable Losses gauge

Apr 28·1 min read·16 words

"We're just as impacted as everyone else": Valve explain Steam Machine delays and why the Steam Controller is coming out sooner

Apr 28·1 min read·21 words

"This isn’t just something that affects Wizards of the Coast" - Magic: the Gathering Arena team vote to unionise for protection against layoffs, genAI and forced crunch

Apr 28·1 min read·27 words

Steam Controller review: even without a Steam Machine mate, this is a smartly crafted gamepad that puts PCs first

Apr 27·1 min read·19 words

Valve have confirmed the Steam Controller price and release date, though the Steam Machine is still in RAM price purgatory

Apr 27·1 min read·20 words

Hallow Blade is like a first-person Greatest Hits of From Software, offering a sunken interconnected kingdom of forests, crypts and castles

Apr 27·1 min read·21 words

The droids you're looking for are busy polishing X-Wings in PowerWash Simulator 2's Star Wars DLC, due out this summer

Apr 27·1 min read·20 words

Alleged would-be Trump assassin once made an "atomic fighting game", which Steam have now yanked from sale

Apr 27·1 min read·17 words

Following about 50 Assassin's Creed Hexe devs reportedly being taken off the game, Ubisoft say team switches are "a standard part of how we operate"

Apr 27·1 min read·25 words

This week's standout PC game is an astronaut epic from Life is Strange and Vampyr creators Don't Nod, made in partnership with the European Space Agency

Apr 27·1 min read·26 words

Epic Games are honouring refunds for Fortnite's D4vd cosmetics after singer charged with murder

Apr 27·1 min read·14 words

This beefy 850W Asus ROG Strix 80+ Platinum PSU is a third off from Amazon

Apr 27·1 min read·15 words

Starfield modders fix Terran Armada progress blocker bug that punishes you for visiting one particular space station

Apr 27·1 min read·17 words

The Sunday Papers

Apr 26·1 min read·3 words

ShatterRush is obviously an indie take on Titanfall, but considering the lack of threequel, I'm sure you won't mind

Apr 25·1 min read·19 words

Crymelight is a Hades-esque roguelike that sends the white rabbit chasing Alice to hell to face her sins and fight for her freedom

Apr 25·1 min read·23 words

Chuba! Star Wars: Galactic Racer's release date has been accidentally revealed early

Apr 25·1 min read·12 words

After losing its creative director, it looks like Assassin's Creed Hexe has lost its game director now too

Apr 25·1 min read·18 words

Final Fantasy 14's next expansion ushers in an ice age and adds in an Evangelion crossover for good measure

Apr 25·1 min read·19 words

I’ve accidentally drilled a hole in my desk with Logitech’s RS H-Shifter, but it’s given me a new appreciation for slamming up the gears

Apr 25·1 min read·24 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Apr 25·1 min read·7 words

"We will do better": Blizzard are sorry World of Warcraft's prop hunt patch launched with an X-ray vision exploit and plenty of other pesky bugs

Apr 24·1 min read·25 words

Mega Crit are tinkering with Slay the Spire 2's difficulty in a new patch, while weighing further changes to everybody's favourite villain, the Doormaker

Apr 24·1 min read·24 words

Tie yourself up in wriggling loveknots in this graceful and silly merpeople sex game

Apr 24·1 min read·14 words

Microsoft will reportedly invite 7% of their US workers to retire early, as the Xbox division talk up "strong cost discipline"

Apr 24·1 min read·21 words

"A wordless world that speaks": Lofsöng is like a Playdead game set in a Brutalist nuclear exclusion zone

Apr 24·1 min read·18 words

Masters of Albion and Sintopia show god games are nothing without a deity's twitchy fingers

Apr 24·1 min read·15 words

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first birthday is here, cue an anniversary patch giving everyone in the J'RPG special hairdos

Apr 24·1 min read·19 words

Woot have knocked 72% off this potent analog gaming keyboard

Apr 24·1 min read·10 words

Save 35% on one of the best budget racing wheels of all time for console and PC sim racing

Apr 24·1 min read·19 words

Don't miss The Third Shift, a Game Boy horror museum that cleverly entangles Resident Evil-style CCTV perspectives with point-and-click investigation

Apr 24·1 min read·20 words

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's gun toting, bird flipping, violent sheriff featuring DLC gets a release date

Apr 23·1 min read·18 words

Land ho, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced's system requirements have washed ashore

Apr 23·1 min read·12 words

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced doesn’t include the Freedom Cry DLC, Ubisoft say they made a “clear choice” to focus on Edward’s adventure

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

What is best in life? A free Conan Exiles update that completely revamps the game's graphics and more

Apr 23·1 min read·18 words

"The best game ever": Old World designer dreams of making a sequel to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri that "renews the mechanics"

Apr 23·1 min read·21 words

Europa Universalis 5 is getting its first big DLC in May, a race to save the crumbling Byzantine Empire

Apr 23·1 min read·19 words

GTA: Carcer City, a San Andreas mod which turns Rockstar's dark snuff game Manhunt into a full-on open world, has a demo out

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

£69 for one of my favourite wireless office mice is quite the steal

Apr 23·1 min read·13 words

"Unlocked the toilet door in the Euro Trash mission to prevent soft-locks" read Samson's latest patch notes, which also introduce special drift cars

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

This 512GB SanDisk Ultra Micro SD card has dropped to its best price in months on Amazon

Apr 23·1 min read·17 words

Crimson Desert's latest patch adds new difficulty options, lets you adopt a pet bird, and unglues cats from shoulders

Apr 23·1 min read·19 words

Ecco the Dolphin: Complete revealed, a mixture of remaster and brand new game spanning every Ecco game from the 8 to 16-bit era

Apr 22·1 min read·23 words

A little bit Black & White, a little bit Fable, Molyneux's citybuilder Masters Of Albion has the potential to break free of its influences – but it has a lot of work to do

Apr 22·1 min read·34 words

How many pampered hikers can you freeze in alpine tycoon game Above the Snow?

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

After an hour in the beta, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is both a limp Mass Effect and a leaden interpretation of a very good TV show

Apr 22·1 min read·26 words

The next Frostpunk game isn't a city builder, 11 Bit Studios reveal, alongside a modern "reimagining" of survival game This War Of Mine

Apr 22·1 min read·23 words

Ubisoft have reportedly cancelled Alterra, a life sim blending Animal Crossing with Minecraft, after almost three years of dev work

Apr 22·1 min read·20 words

A legend gets cheaper as the Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse cuts 22% off from Amazon

Apr 22·1 min read·16 words

£520 for this Asus Prime RTX 5070 GPU and a free copy of Pragmata feels like a solid deal at the moment

Apr 22·1 min read·22 words

Adding naval warfare in time for Crusader Kings 3's Silk and Silver expansion would have blown Paradox's "schedule out of [the] water"

Apr 22·1 min read·22 words

Steam, Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite risk "becoming onramps to abuse, extremist violence, radicalisation or lifelong harm", claim Australian government

Apr 22·1 min read·19 words

Arcade roguelike KAZ will probably break my arrows keys, and yet here I am wanting to play another round

Apr 21·1 min read·19 words

Casualties: Unknown is Noita for furries, and oh so deliciously miserable

Apr 21·1 min read·11 words

Take a flight to the uncanny valley with Aion 2, the MMO all about verticality that's going global this year

Apr 21·1 min read·20 words

"Mythology, by its nature, is told and retold": Hades 2 dev on changing its controversial ending

Apr 21·1 min read·16 words

Endless Legend 2's answer to the common 4X problem of "goldfish" AI is a cunning system of badges, from Pleasant to Bully

Apr 21·1 min read·22 words

Enshrouded approaches the Roblox event horizon with the addition of Adventure Sharing in its latest update

Apr 21·1 min read·16 words

Call of Duty won't hit Xbox Game Pass at launch going forwards, as Microsoft's subscription service gets a price cut

Apr 21·1 min read·20 words

Unionised Build a Rocket Boy staff take legal action against MindsEye studio, accusing management of breaking the law with "invasive" surveillance software

Apr 21·1 min read·22 words

"Not all machines are twisted mechano-socialists": Helldivers 2's latest warbond brings back a mech suit from the original game

Apr 21·1 min read·19 words

Off the Grid studio Gunzilla faced a forced shutdown petition over alleged unpaid bills, and are accused of owing one company over $100,000

Apr 21·1 min read·23 words

How to buy a used graphics card: spotting scams and dodging duds in the memory shortage crisis

Apr 20·1 min read·17 words

This week in PC games: the "final" Molyneux game, ski resort management, Game Boy horror and a glamcore heist sim

Apr 20·1 min read·20 words

The shake up to Arc Raiders Expeditions may turn the extraction shooter into a week-long bloodbath, but it could pair well with the "significant changes" planned for its skill tree

Apr 20·1 min read·30 words

The games industry will never "get back to normal", lament Tony Hawk devs Iron Galaxy, as they make another round of layoffs

Apr 20·1 min read·22 words

If Windrose isn't quenching your sealord fantasies, maybe carving out your own Libertalia in pirate citybuilder Corsair Cove will

Apr 20·1 min read·19 words

Soulframe's latest major update is a broadside of pirate weapons, class abilities and outfits, plus falling alien skytowers

Apr 20·1 min read·18 words

There's a hefty Amazon Resale discount going on AMD's excellent Ryzen 5 9600X

Apr 20·1 min read·13 words

The horrible Construct cyborgs of tactics game Menace are getting a rework for "style" and "variety", while the devs put a bullet in the promotion tax

Apr 20·1 min read·26 words

The Sunday Papers

Apr 19·1 min read·3 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Apr 18·1 min read·7 words

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director "really proud" the gay romance he pushed for, which is somehow totally different to "woke" games' representation, is up for awards

Apr 17·1 min read·26 words

"It's been an interesting year": the jailed creator of Fortune's Run has passed parole and is back working on her Deus Ex-style FPS

Apr 17·1 min read·23 words

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a strong comeback for a strategy RPG series with few modern competitors, though it could explain itself better

Apr 17·1 min read·26 words

With the right settings, Pragmata can hack it on the Steam Deck - more or less

Apr 17·1 min read·16 words

Battlefield 6 will have big maps up the wazoo by the time 2026 is done, including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks

Apr 17·1 min read·26 words

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is "not an RPG", Ubisoft assure level-up haters in alleged leak that also spills the release date

Apr 17·1 min read·22 words

Rally Point: Genre-crushing choose-your-own strategy Heart of the Machine might be peak Arcen

Apr 17·1 min read·13 words

After a month of haggling with players, Mega Crit make Slay the Spire 2's beta patches official, with big character reworks alongside new art and scoring systems

Apr 17·1 min read·27 words

Firaxis reveal Civilization 7's not good enough at building attack maths, tanking its late-game performance - a patch/tutor is here

Apr 17·1 min read·20 words

Phasmophobia is getting an Alan Wake 2 crossover event next month, which would be cool if it wasn't one time only

Apr 16·1 min read·21 words

Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor

Apr 16·1 min read·24 words

Whip out your old film camera and enter a Makoto Shinkai-esque world in Opus: Prism Peak, which is out today

Apr 16·1 min read·20 words

"I'd say mission achieved for this one": Stop Killing Games on the latest European Commission public hearing

Apr 16·1 min read·17 words

"War is our reality": 4A reveal Metro 2039, a horror FPS inspired by Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Apr 16·1 min read·17 words

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint's latest update lets you two-time a pair of warring factions or ignore them completely

Apr 16·1 min read·17 words

YouTuber who showcases "adult-oriented" Resident Evil Requiem and Stellar Blade mods claims Capcom's laywers asked him to take down over 1,000 videos

Apr 16·1 min read·22 words

Even with ray tracing to buff out its bots, Pragmata performs a treat on PC

Apr 16·1 min read·15 words

The Outer Worlds and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag share an unlikely lesson: we make our own pirates

Apr 16·1 min read·17 words

Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone, making it easier to spot when game discounts are at their discountiest

Apr 16·1 min read·26 words

"We had this problem before in the games we created with CD Projekt": Blood of Dawnwalker CEO defends use of AI voice placeholders to save time

Apr 15·1 min read·26 words

If you need more Shakespeare with your Slay the Spire, check out demon lawyer deckbuilder The Killing Stone

Apr 15·1 min read·18 words

Euro Truck Simulator 2's rumbling into the heart of Turkey with the freshly announced Soul of Anatolia expansion

Apr 15·1 min read·18 words

Samson's second update continues to swat serious bugs, and its street races have been tweaked into ideal day-ending money-makers

Apr 15·1 min read·19 words

Revisiting Atomfall’s pasty-pocalyse survival jaunt a year on, I’ve finally been seduced by its hallucinated monks and jarred brains

Apr 15·1 min read·19 words

Horror RPG Look Outside's chunky new 2.3 update gives you even more reason to share soup with the cursed folk living in your basement

Apr 15·1 min read·24 words

If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release

Apr 15·1 min read·21 words

With DLSS 5, Nvidia look to rewrite the truth before our eyes

Apr 15·1 min read·12 words

Beautiful, flawed MMO Book of Travels is now a $5 singleplayer RPG, in a break from the industry trend of killing off struggling online games

Apr 15·1 min read·25 words

Star Trek: Resurgence isn't going to live long and prosper - it's being delisted from Steam around three years on from release

Apr 15·1 min read·22 words

Labyrinth.os is a dungeon crawling ode to late '90s and early 2000s uncanny CGI

Apr 14·1 min read·14 words

"You cannot create art like this": The Blood of Dawnwalker director on making AAA games that aren't just interested in money

Apr 14·1 min read·21 words

Hades 2's second post-launch patch adds in more prophecy conclusions and flirtier friends

Apr 14·1 min read·13 words

I hope you're hungry, because Dosa Divas storms out of the kitchen today

Apr 14·1 min read·13 words

"I wanted you to feel bad": former Battlefield audio designer recalls punching himself to record more realistic gunshot screams

Apr 14·1 min read·19 words

Disney yank a bunch of games from Steam, including bonafide classics Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance

Apr 14·1 min read·24 words

Marathon's next experimental mode goes all in on sponsored kits, which sounds great for scaredy-cats like me

Apr 14·1 min read·17 words

Phew, American Truck Simulator's latest beta update will tow me back to the road when I inevitably roll it trying to take a turn at 80 mph

Apr 14·1 min read·27 words

STALKER 2’s latest update adds an easily missed new questline, while dispersing accidental mutant crowds

Apr 14·1 min read·15 words

Idols Of Ash review - a terrific spelunking horror game that makes you choose between a rock and a giant centipede

Apr 14·1 min read·21 words

Warhammer Classics initiative re-releases 28 vintage Warhammer and W40K games, with seven out on Steam for the first time

Apr 13·1 min read·19 words

"This is the most reasonable and wise thing to do": survival shooter Road to Vostok's dev plans to recharge a bit before tackling fixes and larger updates

Apr 13·1 min read·27 words

No, Fable's release window chicken hasn't been kicked down the road, Playground Games say following report of potential GTA 6-related delay

Apr 13·1 min read·21 words

"I couldn't protect it" Pete Hines says he left Microsoft-owned Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it be "damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused"

Apr 13·1 min read·27 words

This week in PC games: sci-fi shooter Pragmata, 2.5D platformer Replaced, and the most wishlisted game on Steam compete with illuminated manuscripts

Apr 13·1 min read·22 words

Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds

Apr 13·1 min read·24 words

The Sunday Papers

Apr 12·1 min read·3 words

Roblox is introducing a subscription service that encourages more shady practices, is it? Sounds about right

Apr 11·1 min read·16 words

The Pines asks what would Alan Wake look like if it was about therapy, and I kind of want to know the answer

Apr 11·1 min read·23 words

GTA 6 dev Rockstar have seemingly been hacked again, but they don't seem all that worried

Apr 11·1 min read·16 words

Following mass layoffs, Epic are reportedly putting their hopes on a Disney extraction shooter

Apr 11·1 min read·14 words

Crimson Desert's latest update beckons you to abandon the last of your attention span with its new 4x cutscene speed option

Apr 11·1 min read·21 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Apr 11·1 min read·7 words

While it plays its roguelike autobattling safe, Skull Horde does put a smile on my flaming skeleton head

Apr 10·1 min read·18 words

Swashbuckling co-op survivor Windrose sets sail into early access next week, which means it's time to battle Blackbeard and a big flower

Apr 10·1 min read·22 words

Rust 2 isn't in development, Facepunch boss confirms after suspicious Steam page sparks speculation

Apr 10·1 min read·14 words

Crimson Desert has more endgame busywork coming with boss rematches and enemy reinforcements, plus Pearl Abyss are making Pywel's distant towers even sexier

Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Epomaker HE68 Lite gaming keyboard review: a properly cheap mechanical board with premium tricks

Apr 10·1 min read·14 words

"There is a new narrative from haters," Off the Grid studio boss says of accusations Gunzilla haven't paid workers on time, claims full-timers' salaries "have never been delayed by more than a week"

Apr 10·1 min read·33 words

Over the Hill looks like SnowRunner's cosy off-roading cousin, and its new trailer shows off muddy motoring in Algeria ahead of release later this year

Apr 9·1 min read·25 words

Convince a giant robotic head on a stick it's not human in Prove You're Human, the new game from 1000xResist developer

Apr 9·1 min read·21 words

Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car

Apr 9·1 min read·18 words

Build the city of your dreams, and your graphics card's nightmares, in hyper-shiny mayoral sim City Masterplan

Apr 9·1 min read·17 words

Galaxies Spring Showcase: How to watch and what to expect

Apr 9·1 min read·10 words

District 9 director's studio Gunzilla accused by former staff of not paying employees "for many months"

Apr 9·1 min read·16 words

Baldur's Gate 3's second act should get a playable new region this year, assuming this custom campaign mod doesn't hit any more roadblocks

Apr 9·1 min read·23 words

Road to Vostok's hot start on Steam has "secured the entire production budget" the Finnish survival shooter needs for "years to come", dev says

Apr 9·1 min read·24 words

Samson devs announce big patch to start fixing its "unacceptable" launch bugs, and boy am I glad to see it'll add in multiple saves

Apr 9·1 min read·24 words

From the C: to the /Mnt/s, Linux is better than ever for PC gaming – and easier to switch to from Windows

Apr 8·1 min read·22 words

PUBG: Battlegrounds' new PvE mode is all about fighting off an alien invasion, and/or hiding in a big man-made dirt hole

Apr 8·1 min read·21 words

RPS Verdict: In its best moments, Samson is like a goon-battering GTA 4 roleplay mod, but in its worst it's horribly broken

Apr 8·1 min read·22 words

Pokemon battles with space cows, dinosaurs and gaseous blobs are the premise of No Man's Sky's latest update, dubbed Xeno Arena

Apr 8·1 min read·21 words

Forza Horizon 6's full map has finally been revealed, and while Tokyo doesn't engulf half of it, I'm still seeing plenty of appealing asphalt spaghetti

Apr 8·1 min read·25 words

"Framerate Estimator" evidence in Steam's new update points to more detailed performance tests than Valve's Verified programmes

Apr 8·1 min read·17 words

Just Cause studio's canned dragon-riding fantasy romp AionGuard "would have been Crimson Desert", reckons former Avalanche creative head

Apr 8·1 min read·18 words

The widening of Steam continues with another UI beta, this time for the mod hotspot Workshop

Apr 7·1 min read·16 words

I want to live in Nippets' charming, silly hidden objects world

Apr 7·1 min read·11 words

How does Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope deal with sharing his work in this era of AI? A severe lack of posting

Apr 7·1 min read·22 words

The Myst lifts over Call of the Elder Gods, granting it a May release date

Apr 7·1 min read·15 words

007: First Light's Bond isn't cool enough to look away from explosions, but he will be trying to find his place in a "risk-averse and data-driven" world

Apr 7·1 min read·27 words

Frostpunk 2's next bit of DLC literally turns up the heat with yet another environmental disaster to deal with: volcanoes

Apr 7·1 min read·20 words

Beyond Words is Scrabble meets Balatro, and it's left me feeling like I've gone ten rounds with a dictionary

Apr 7·1 min read·19 words

Pillars of Eternity's turn-based mode is finally out in full, and Obsidian have also kindly turned off the invisible treadmills

Apr 7·1 min read·20 words

This week in PC games: gritty GTA 4-coded brawler Samson, Ancient Greek bull defender Minos, and a wobbly violinist battles some stairs

Apr 7·1 min read·22 words

"We're not doing zombie animals", says State of Decay 3 studio head, but you can turn a tea kettle into an undead-attracting bomb

Apr 7·1 min read·23 words

"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can learn from XCOM 2

Apr 6·1 min read·28 words

The best videogame characters who came back from the dead

Apr 6·1 min read·10 words

The Sunday Papers

Apr 5·1 min read·3 words

Crimson Desert's latest update makes sure you can always look at Kliff's generic mug and makes running much less annoying

Apr 4·1 min read·20 words

Have a gander at this cut Elden Ring scene showing a smidge of DLC boss Miquella's past

Apr 4·1 min read·17 words

Comedy games are alive and well in Horse Magnifier, a game where you do just that

Apr 4·1 min read·16 words

Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two have seemingly laid off their head of AI and several of the department's staffers

Apr 4·1 min read·20 words

As House Flipper Remastered Collection's playtest gets going, the original is free to pick up for the weekend

Apr 4·1 min read·18 words

"I was chomping at the bit to crack the code": How procedural maps became XCOM 2's biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn't manage it in Enemy Unknown

Apr 4·1 min read·26 words

Marathon isn't deathmatch gone wide, it's multiplayer Alien: Isolation and every other player is a xenomorph

Apr 3·1 min read·16 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Apr 3·1 min read·7 words

Warren Spector's Thick as Thieves gets a bit less interesting as it ditches PvPvE for solo and co-op play

Apr 2·1 min read·19 words

Skyblivion isn't "dead in the water", the Oblivion remake mod's lead says, a recent call for extra hands is about maintaining "good momentum"

Apr 2·1 min read·23 words

Xenonauts 2 hits 1.0 after almost three years of early access and paves the way for mods galore

Apr 2·1 min read·18 words

Mega Crit are working on three new Slay the Spire 2 modes, just don't place any bets on them all making it in

Apr 2·1 min read·23 words

Raise up the decapitated head of the goddess of love in a flower pot in the charmingly silly Tomak: Save the Earth Regeneration

Apr 2·1 min read·23 words

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor's upcoming DLC is bringing back the original's seasonally appropriate Egg Hunt mode

Apr 2·1 min read·16 words

Linux has gotten a 3% usage bump in a month, latest Steam hardware survey suggests  - though, it's still miles off Windows

Apr 2·1 min read·22 words

Pride precipitates a dizzying fall in Ascenders, a climbing game spin on Darkest Dungeon

Apr 2·1 min read·14 words

Crimson Desert is now a survival game, thanks to this mod based on an alleged secret "food consequences" system

Apr 2·1 min read·19 words

Steam store "refresh" is out in beta now, enwidening images and adding infinite scrollage to the homepage

Apr 2·1 min read·17 words

Nintendo's legal fight with Palworld suffers a reversal as the USPTO reject their patent on character-summoning battle mechanics

Apr 1·1 min read·18 words

Starcrafty strategy game Stormgate is about to lose its multiplayer modes, due to an AI company buying up Frost Giant's server provider

Apr 1·1 min read·22 words

The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month

Apr 1·1 min read·18 words

Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami partners with Stellar Blade devs Shift Up to make "smaller, experimental titles alongside a large-scale flagship"

Apr 1·1 min read·21 words

Is a blizzardy Skyrim return persuading me to retry Elder Scrolls Online? Not really, but naval combat and underwater exploration might

Apr 1·1 min read·21 words

Arc Raiders patch protects your precious custom loadouts by lowering the odds of spawning late in a server full of freeloaders

Apr 1·1 min read·21 words

MindsEye's new mission will feature "evidence of the sabotage" the studio have faced, CEO claims - I double-checked and the quotes came before April Fools

Apr 1·1 min read·25 words

Bungie have killed off a speedy movement exploit in Marathon's latest update, and they'll do it again if they have to

Mar 31·1 min read·21 words

Vultures - Scavengers Of Death is a turn-based, extraction take on Resident Evil, and it's out next month

Mar 31·1 min read·18 words

The Long Dark comes to an end today, except it's not "the end" only "an end"

Mar 31·1 min read·16 words

Indirectly build your empire by paying heroes to do the work you don't want to in the RTS city-builder Crown of Greed, out today

Mar 31·1 min read·24 words

This ergonomic gaming mouse has plunged down to $60 on the final day of the Amazon Spring Sale

Mar 31·1 min read·18 words

The discourse machine whirs to life as Zero Parades: For Dead Spies gets a May release date

Mar 31·1 min read·17 words

Major French consumer group sue Ubisoft over always-online game shutdowns with the backing of Stop Killing Games

Mar 31·1 min read·17 words

Turn your Steam library into a cosy room of physical games with a special shelf for dodgy sale purchases in Boxroom, which has a demo out

Mar 31·1 min read·26 words

The impossible alchemy of Lucid Blocks is a reminder that 99% of videogame crafting is boring

Mar 31·1 min read·16 words

Adult games may be an unintended beneficiary as FTC pressure payment providers like Visa and Mastercard not to debank Trump supporters, but I doubt it

Mar 31·1 min read·25 words

In the final days of the Amazon Spring Sale, the beefy AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is 37% off

Mar 30·1 min read·18 words

Crimson Desert's Kliff was originally so Scottish he was named after a MacBeth character, and his actor pushed Pearl Abyss to make him less "stoic"

Mar 30·1 min read·25 words

Ancient version of GTA 4 with a cut zombie mode, ferry assets and DJ lines reportedly found at car boot sale

Mar 30·1 min read·21 words

This potent low profile Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL keyboard is discounted on both sides of the Atlantic

Mar 30·1 min read·17 words

Screamer’s multiplayer chases unleash the racer’s full chaotic potential, trapping you inside a relentlessly boosty, bashy, and boomy washing machine

Mar 30·1 min read·20 words

"0.63 is the perfect default delay": Bungie, Respawn and Firaxis game developers talk NPC barks, grenade timing and other questions of craft

Mar 30·1 min read·22 words

This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus

Mar 30·1 min read·24 words

Epic's mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will "solve" the problem

Mar 30·1 min read·23 words

"It is meant to be lived in" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers "months" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics

Mar 30·1 min read·21 words

Crimson Desert's latest patch adds new mounts, makes slapping NPCs with trees a crime, and reportedly junks the infamous AI paintings

Mar 30·1 min read·21 words

The Sunday Papers

Mar 29·1 min read·3 words

"I think it’s unfair to kind of geofence the genre": Original Stalker designer talks Eurojank in not-so-Euro games

Mar 28·1 min read·18 words

Steam's latest update sounds like a step in the right direction for regional pricing woes

Mar 28·1 min read·15 words

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator claims Warhorse have laid him off in preference of using AI going forward

Mar 28·1 min read·18 words

Embark devs playtested Arc Raiders too viciously, so they found a system that let them be Care Bears one day and aggressive the next

Mar 28·1 min read·24 words

A year on from launching Wanderstop, Ivy Road are closing their doors after struggling to fund their next game

Mar 28·1 min read·19 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Mar 28·1 min read·7 words

Save $450 on this sublime 32-inch 4K 240Hz Samsung QD-OLED monitor in the Amazon Spring Sale

Mar 27·1 min read·16 words

PUBG: Blindspot is going offline forever after just two months in early access, despite Krafton's record Battlegrounds revenues

Mar 27·1 min read·18 words

This capable Logitech G703 Lightspeed is down to £53/$60 in a handy Amazon discount

Mar 27·1 min read·14 words

Crusader Kings 3 update 1.19, out now in beta, delivers the ledger and an accolade rework - it also stops dead people wearing straw cloaks

Mar 27·1 min read·25 words

Slay the Spire 2's 'anti-infinite' balance patch has now itself been patched, much to the relief of some Silent and Necrobinder players

Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

Pearl Abyss boss admits the studio "could have done a better job" with Crimson Desert's totally underwhelming story

Mar 27·1 min read·18 words

Play a reclusive witch living on a flying fish in this enchanting, Zelda-ish photography game

Mar 27·1 min read·15 words

With Bloodlines 2 behind us, it's time for a new open world Hunter: The Reckoning RPG from the creators of RoboCop: Rogue City

Mar 27·1 min read·23 words

Resident Evil Requiem's photo mode is now here, as part of a patch ordering Leon and Grace to pull more emotive faces

Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

One of our favourite Steam Deck cases is 15% off in the Amazon Spring Sale

Mar 27·1 min read·15 words

Star Wars Zero Company forces you into permadeath so you can see "what's on the other side of the experience"

Mar 26·1 min read·20 words

If Pragmata's fake New York looks AI-generated to you, good, it's meant to, but the tech itself hasn't touched the game

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Nutmeg is a deckbuilding football management game with a cute spin on the beautiful game

Mar 26·1 min read·15 words

Dying Light: The Beast's new Restored Land update lets you turn the game into a gritty walking sim

Mar 26·1 min read·18 words

Vaunted's tactical combat looks fine, but I'm most interested in the consequences of rewriting history when one of its dodgy mercenaries bites the bullet

Mar 26·1 min read·24 words

STALKER 2: Cost of Hope is a "massive nonlinear expansion" that includes the Chornobyl power plant visit the base game never made time for

Mar 26·1 min read·24 words

For better or worse, Max and Chloe are together again in Life is Strange: Reunion, which is out right now

Mar 26·1 min read·20 words

Saros director won't say whether it's coming to PC, following report Sony plan to stop porting over their big singleplayer guns

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Titanfall and Black Ops 3 enjoyers might like a new "movement shooter" the Splitgate devs are hoping to start playtesting soon

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Island city-builder Nova Roma releases today, and I'd have drowned all my Romans already if it weren't for those pesky gods

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Coexist with a capricious, rusty moon in Amberspire, the new isometric city-builder from the creator of The Banished Vault

Mar 25·1 min read·19 words

I was the untitled goose in Big Walk, the balmy new open world co-op puzzler from House House

Mar 25·1 min read·18 words

Crimson Desert might be an open world jumble of loose ends, but I can't resist its sexy towers and ghost trains

Mar 25·1 min read·21 words

This SSD enclosure is one of my most-used PC gadgets, and you can get it for 30% off

Mar 25·1 min read·18 words

The Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG, one of the dual-mode gaming monitor pioneers, has hit its lowest-ever price

Mar 25·1 min read·17 words

My go-to PC game controller is getting Spring sale price cuts - and so is its cheaper wired version

Mar 25·1 min read·19 words

Painted Kingdoms combines real-time strategy with firefighting on lavish maps made entirely of paper

Mar 25·1 min read·14 words

This Slay The Spire 2 PvP mod lets you battle friends mid-run to see who's made the better deck

Mar 25·1 min read·19 words

Pretend you own an undelayed Steam Machine with this fine Steam Deck dock, now 33% off in the Amazon Spring Sale

Mar 25·1 min read·21 words

Fortnite producer says Epic's mass layoffs will impact the game in ways the remaining teams "cannot even fully understand"

Mar 25·1 min read·19 words

Cornwall is overrun with mutant fish people and you are a fisherman with a nailgun in the boomer shooter BRINE

Mar 24·1 min read·20 words

As seminal oddball indie Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP hits 15 years of age, you can pick it up for less than a coffee

Mar 24·1 min read·24 words

PlayStation are reportedly shuttering another first-party studio, this time from Call of Duty vet Jason Blundell

Mar 24·1 min read·16 words

Masters of Albion is getting a closed beta test so you can tell Peter Molyneux if he's full of it again

Mar 24·1 min read·21 words

Tycoon god game Sintopia is Black & White above, Dungeon Keeper below, and it's releasing in April

Mar 24·1 min read·17 words

EverQuest Legends is the 1999 MMO you know and love born again with more respect for your time

Mar 24·1 min read·18 words

Following Epic's mass layoffs, a bunch of Fortnite modes are going offline and arcade racer Horizon Chase Turbo's downloads will be pulled

Mar 24·1 min read·22 words

"A decline of unprecedented scale and speed" is hitting UK game development, trade association report finds

Mar 24·1 min read·16 words

"I'm sorry we're here again," says Epic Games CEO as Fortnite maker lays off over 1000 employees

Mar 24·1 min read·17 words

It Has My Face, my favourite sci-fi assassination sim about being stalked by a clone of yourself, has a 1.0 release date

Mar 24·1 min read·22 words

"The thing we are trying to stop keeps happening": Highguard and other high-profile demises keep making the argument for Stop Killing Games

Mar 24·1 min read·22 words

Fantasy tactics RPG Wartales is getting a "dense, reactive" capital city in the next DLC expansion, yours to save or destroy

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

Solve a crab housing crisis and fight a Dreadhog in part one of Runescape's big Havenhythe expansion, which is out now

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

I love the pulpy floral palace of Journey of the Garden Rose, a 3D action fairytale with giant insect swordfights

Mar 23·1 min read·20 words

Resident Evil Requiem devs Capcom say they'll use AI to "improve efficiency and productivity", but not to generate game assets

Mar 23·1 min read·20 words

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review: another skippable CPU series

Mar 23·1 min read·18 words

Minecraft Dungeons 2 will dungeon-crawl through the blockworld yet again when it launches later this year

Mar 23·1 min read·16 words

This week in PC games: a new Hooded Horse city-builder, some PS2-style horror, a school-day RPG and an absolutely tremendous catfish

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

Crimson Desert devs Pearl Abyss take a first stab at control improvements with their latest patch, say Intel Arc GPU support's in the works

Mar 23·1 min read·24 words

Your citizens don't stay put in Stellaris-style 4X strategy game Final Vanguard - start a war and "entire waves of refugees can emerge"

Mar 23·1 min read·23 words

Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

RPS Verdict: Anime racer Screamer slides sideways into success with its colourful, characterful driving

Mar 22·1 min read·14 words

The Sunday Papers

Mar 22·1 min read·3 words

Crimson Desert is raising some AI-brows with a bevy of suspiciously generated-looking art

Mar 21·1 min read·13 words

If you ask Yoshi-P, kids don't care about Final Fantasy anymore because they're taking too long to come out

Mar 21·1 min read·19 words

God is dead and I am a bullet hell boss of my own making in the physics-based dicerolling roguelike DeeSicks

Mar 21·1 min read·20 words

All those upcoming spin-offs aside, Pocketpair apparently aren't all that interested in a Palworld "media empire"

Mar 21·1 min read·16 words

"This progress will not be linear": Mega Crit outline their patching process for Slay the Spire 2 after ruffling some feathers

Mar 21·1 min read·21 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Mar 21·1 min read·7 words

Funi Raccoon is another wonderful pile of rubble to sift through on your computer

Mar 20·1 min read·14 words

"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty

Mar 20·1 min read·21 words

Crimson Desert is "like riding a bike", says Pearl Abyss PR boss, possibly in the sense that bikes also don't run on Intel Arc GPUs

Mar 20·1 min read·25 words

Following a demo, DLC-sized New Vegas mod Fallout Chicago is aiming for a full release in 2027

Mar 20·1 min read·17 words

"A balancing paradigm I often look at is Starcraft": Total War: Medieval 3 won't lean too hard on rock-paper-scissors combat, says creative director

Mar 20·1 min read·23 words

Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV show is about assassins roaming Ancient Rome and its hero might meet Nero

Mar 20·1 min read·17 words

New Slay The Spire 2 patch will "make infinites harder to achieve" by letting the Doormaker eat your cards, amongst other surprises

Mar 20·1 min read·22 words

US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

"So that we don't flood the game with amazing loot": Marathon director defends Cryo Archive's weekend-only release in the name of balance, queue times and player prep

Mar 20·1 min read·27 words

SteamOS update preview brings "initial support" for the Steam Machine, plus new power and Bluetooth tricks for Steam Decks

Mar 20·1 min read·19 words

CD Projekt Red's Hadar has moved onto the prototyping stage age, as The Witcher 4 team expands

Mar 19·1 min read·17 words

Crimson Desert can perform well on PC, but you’ll need to win its crash lottery first

Mar 19·1 min read·16 words

Marathon's Cryo Archive drops tomorrow and it sounds like almost every aspect of it will be a pain in the shell

Mar 19·1 min read·21 words

Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features

Mar 19·1 min read·14 words

"We're not perfectly replicating the real world, that would be crazy": The invisible design behind Firewatch's pine cones and picture frames

Mar 19·1 min read·21 words

Shenmue 3 Enhanced is a shinier version of Yu Suzuki's opus with a new camera option that harkens back to the original

Mar 19·1 min read·22 words

Dark Scrolls is a dungeon scroller from the Gunbrella devs, starring fantasy staples like an obligatory thief and "Rat with saxophone"

Mar 19·1 min read·21 words

Vampire Crawlers invites you to an average Italian countryside with an April release date

Mar 19·1 min read·14 words

Hoarder is just a beautiful Polish cleaning sim from a former Darkwood dev, until you find the staircase to the very different game beneath

Mar 19·1 min read·24 words

Fortnite adds buildable Star Wars islands, so you can finally make a Mos Eisley Cantina full of flossing Jawas

Mar 19·1 min read·19 words

Our early verdict on Crimson Desert: bad bugs, great cats, and an open world that could use a big bucket of yellow paint

Mar 18·1 min read·23 words

Mass Effect-like space RPG Exodus drops another in-game trailer, much to the misfortune of Biggs "The Bolt" Keil

Mar 18·1 min read·18 words

Ahead of Hollow Knight: Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion, Team Cherry have gotten their Traditional Chinese and German translation ducks in a row

Mar 18·1 min read·23 words

I made s'mores from cats and dogs in Lucid Blocks, a version of Minecraft held together by dream logic

Mar 18·1 min read·19 words

FBC: Firebreak's last major update has arrived, bringing new Control maps, a price drop and a free-for-friends version to help keep servers populated

Mar 18·1 min read·23 words

"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out

Mar 18·1 min read·28 words

"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling

Mar 18·1 min read·17 words

Arc Raiders studio co-founder resigns following sexual misconduct claims, but Embark say a legal review "did not substantiate" the allegations

Mar 18·1 min read·20 words

“Not even the littlest bit": GTA 6 publisher CEO doesn't think genAI will level the playing field for smaller devs

Mar 18·1 min read·20 words

Nvidia DLSS 5 critics have the tech "completely wrong", CEO Jensen Huang insists, arguing it's somehow "very different than generative AI"

Mar 18·1 min read·21 words

A day after Unknown Worlds' ousted CEO gets reinstated, Subnautica 2 gets an early access release date

Mar 17·1 min read·17 words

Death Stranding 2's PC launch comes with a tougher new mode and, staying true to the brand, live-action cutscenes

Mar 17·1 min read·19 words

The very Rimwold-esque Going Medieval hits 1.0 today after almost five years of early access

Mar 17·1 min read·15 words

MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy and IO Interactive announce their publishing divorce, won't stay together for the Hitman crossover

Mar 17·1 min read·20 words

Huzzah! Satisfactory version 1.2, now in beta, lets you actually pause your game, and you can take selfies now too

Mar 17·1 min read·20 words

Bethesda reveal Starfield's Terran Armada DLC: it's about a space robot army and drops alongside a beefy free overhaul of the base game

Mar 17·1 min read·23 words

Far Cry's name is very ironic, if you're an armchair etymologist

Mar 17·1 min read·11 words

"You're not doing parkour off a roof, but the principles were the same": How the makers of Firewatch pulled from Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, and Bioshock to tell a new kind of story in a walking simulator

Mar 17·1 min read·38 words

Helldivers 2 update is set to unleash new missions to combat Illuminate alien exostorms and battle some fresh squid enemies this week

Mar 17·1 min read·22 words

Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI filter turns all your favourite Resident Evil Requiem characters into yassified Instagram models

Mar 17·1 min read·17 words

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin is a free-to-play open world anime RPG with flying pigs and minecart levels

Mar 16·1 min read·18 words

Judge orders Subnautica 2 bosses be handed back control of company after Krafton found guilty of "wrongfully usurping control"

Mar 16·1 min read·19 words

New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo

Mar 16·1 min read·18 words

"We don't reuse enough": Far Cry 4 director says developers need to stop doing "pointless work" and learn lessons from Elden Ring and Like A Dragon

Mar 16·1 min read·26 words

The best extraction shooters on PC or: how I learned there are other games like Arc Raiders

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

Morrowind remake mod Skywind still looks like it could help my Skyrim-addled brain properly fall in love with the weirdest Elder Scrolls in latest showcase

Mar 16·1 min read·25 words

This week in PC games: Crimson Desert and Death Stranding 2 plus frogs, cubes and one amazingly menacing chicken

Mar 16·1 min read·19 words

Gotham Knights studio Warner Bros. Games Montréal appear to have laid off staff

Mar 16·1 min read·13 words

Everybody fights, no-one goes AFK in Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War, the new FPS from the makers of Warhammer 40K Boltgun

Mar 16·1 min read·21 words

Fallout Chicago, a DLC-sized New Vegas mod about the Brotherhood of Steel fighting a union mob, has a first demo out now

Mar 16·1 min read·22 words

Skyblivion project lead says the massive Oblivion remake mod is "in a great place" during its first proper showcase of 2026

Mar 15·1 min read·21 words

The Sunday Papers

Mar 15·1 min read·3 words

Embark have been replacing Arc Raiders' AI voice lines with real people, but that doesn't mean they've sworn off using it behind the scenes

Mar 14·1 min read·24 words

Eye of the Match is Papers, Please, Severance, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2 mixed up into an enticing concotion

Mar 14·1 min read·19 words

Hunt witches and question what's right in the murky but compassionate sounding WITCHHUNTER.exe

Mar 14·1 min read·13 words

Marathon's next update will help your vault feel roomier, and Bungie outlines their plans for higher-end PCs

Mar 14·1 min read·17 words

Fear not, phobia havers, Slay the Spire 2 will be catering to you in a future update

Mar 14·1 min read·17 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Mar 14·1 min read·7 words

Latest Slay The Spire 2 update stops you having over a billion HP, while tweaking the deckbuilder's mod support

Mar 13·1 min read·19 words

Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer

Mar 13·1 min read·22 words

Xbox Full Screen Experience shows a potential glimpse of how Project Helix will work – though right now, it’s a flawed PC platform

Mar 13·1 min read·23 words

There's no secret Cyberpunk 2077 DLC coming, CD Projekt say, immediately setting themselves up for more nagging about secret Witcher 3 DLC

Mar 13·1 min read·22 words

QPAD Mark Model 3 gaming mouse review: cute screen, but a middling mouse

Mar 13·1 min read·13 words

Combine 40 runes into your own, extremely broken spells in Paper Mario-style RPG Rhell, out now on PC

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Rooftops are jumped, skulls are thumped and a man falls on his wet bum in Thief-esque Project Shadowglass' latest trailer

Mar 13·1 min read·20 words

The latest Whiskerwood update finally lets you stop hungry mice from raiding your food warehouses – though they might riot over it

Mar 13·1 min read·22 words

The Night can steal your face in Victorian mansion horror Cordura, aka Phasmophobia meets Dishonored

Mar 13·1 min read·15 words

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is adding a bulldozing new class, while fellow spinoff Rogue Core gets an early access release date

Mar 13·1 min read·21 words

Moonlighter dev's next haunt is ReVamp, a tower defence roguelike where Dracula is cursed to defend his castle forever

Mar 12·1 min read·19 words

Hazard Pay is a block-pushing puzzle game you can really sink your mop into

Mar 12·1 min read·14 words

Behold Subnautica 2's fancy fresh windows that come as part of its new procedural base building system

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

I am going to be playing this rap album that's also a walkthrough of indie classic Cave Story on repeat

Mar 12·1 min read·20 words

Don’t know your FSR Diamonds from your DirectStorages? Here’s what all that Project Helix tech-speak actually means

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

Ex-Overwatch director reveals a multiplayer lovechild of Read Dead and Rust, which I hope boasts nude shootouts

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

Co-op Shadow of the Colossus and hero looter shooter: the genres Arc Raiders devs' thought it was during development

Mar 12·1 min read·19 words

A week from its release date, Crimson Desert swallows some Denuvo DRM

Mar 12·1 min read·12 words

PEGI announce plans to slap higher age ratings on games with loot boxes, daily quests, and paid battle passes soon

Mar 12·1 min read·20 words

"We're going to lay off 1,000 people and that's going to be on you": Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan says redundancy ultimatum led to his Blizzard exit

Mar 12·1 min read·26 words

"Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit

Mar 11·1 min read·21 words

PETA and Edmund McMillen are trolling each other again, as the activist group hand Mewgenics a "Hero to Animals Award"

Mar 11·1 min read·20 words

Learn about real-life rewilding in "idle city-builder + creature collector" Grow Wild, which is taking playtest sign-ups

Mar 11·1 min read·17 words

Thanks for injecting me with 500 cursed Black Knight Ultra Greatswords

Mar 11·1 min read·11 words

Marathon update makes UESC enemies weaker, but they're still messing me up at every opportunity. Bungie have "no plans to change that"

Mar 11·1 min read·22 words

Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic is getting a Community Edition with Source upgrades and Ubisoft's blessing

Mar 11·1 min read·17 words

Intel’s new, "fastest ever" desktop CPUs put their focus back on game performance

Mar 11·1 min read·13 words

Come experience the original LucasArts vision for Star Wars Battlefront 3 in the leaked First Assault beta, finally playable on PC

Mar 11·1 min read·21 words

New tactics RPG Never's End blends Final Fantasy with the turbulent spell combos of Divinity: Original Sin

Mar 11·1 min read·17 words

Why did Dispatch's devs push through to make it despite initial disinterest from investors? "Arrogance and stupidity"

Mar 10·1 min read·17 words

Mega Man's voice actor says he won't be returning in Dual Override over non-union contract concerns

Mar 10·1 min read·16 words

Nightdive re-announce SiN Reloaded with the promise that it's coming out this year

Mar 10·1 min read·13 words

As of today, your RuneScape subscription will be just that little bit more expensive every month

Mar 10·1 min read·16 words

It's not a mirage, Crimson Desert's system requirements are here, and don't seem half bad

Mar 10·1 min read·15 words

Epic are hiking Fortnite V-Buck prices to “pay the bills”, because those server farms don't run on peanuts

Mar 10·1 min read·18 words

Regions of Ruin: Runegate is a pleasantly pixelly RPG about rebuilding a lost dwarven kingdom, and it’s out next month

Mar 10·1 min read·20 words

Capcom reveal Resident Evil Requiem story DLC and minigame while dangling sweaty carrot of Hot Uncle Kennedy romance sim

Mar 10·1 min read·19 words

New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2

Mar 10·1 min read·20 words

Jurassic Park, parkour and Five Nights At Freddy's meet in Terrible Lizards, in which you must go faster

Mar 10·1 min read·18 words

Battlefield 6 developers face layoffs despite making one of the best-selling games of 2025

Mar 9·1 min read·14 words

Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has a new studio, Unbound, who are making original games for PC and console

Mar 9·1 min read·19 words

Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation

Mar 9·1 min read·8 words

"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union

Mar 9·1 min read·21 words

Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds

Mar 9·1 min read·18 words

A Nioh 3 boss made me so pissed off that I smashed a hole into my desk

Mar 9·1 min read·17 words

“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion

Mar 9·1 min read·17 words

A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

Mar 9·1 min read·19 words

This week in PC games: John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake, and a myth-inspired match-3 game where you combine three dogs into Cerberus

Mar 9·1 min read·27 words

Slay The Spire 2 update fixes some spectacular multiplayer bugs, like the relic that gives infinite block

Mar 9·1 min read·17 words

Website that let Marvel Rivals players pay each other to throw matches pivots to "transparency initiative" after NetEase get mad

Mar 9·1 min read·20 words

The Sunday Papers

Mar 8·1 min read·3 words

I really wish Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart wasn't called that, but its flirtatious dungeon crawling has still charmed me

Mar 7·1 min read·22 words

Oh no, Wikipedia has been turned into a gacha card game and I can already feel my time slipping away from me

Mar 7·1 min read·22 words

Menace's first roadmap, while light on details and dates, is here to give you an idea of what's on the way

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon

Mar 7·1 min read·19 words

NetEase has reportedly pulled funding from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio and next game Gang of Dragon

Mar 7·1 min read·17 words

'The teenagers have it coming' I tell myself as I set another spike trap in this Greek myth-infused tower defense game

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

Marathon's story is told like it's a single player game and that's no good when my friends are talking on Discord

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Mar 7·1 min read·7 words

After trying Subtractive Runemixer, I can't unsee the links between RPG element systems and colour theory

Mar 6·1 min read·16 words

The school bus is unleashed in Wreckfest 2's latest update, which also introduces car upgrades and waypoint races

Mar 6·1 min read·18 words

World of Darkness lovers take note: new "Hunter" game accidentally released as a RoboCop: Rogue City update

Mar 6·1 min read·17 words

Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense

Mar 6·1 min read·19 words

Massive Skyrim mod Lordbound is now semi-canon, thanks to a new Bethesda-approved expansion from its devs

Mar 6·1 min read·16 words

You won't have any standing armies in Total War: Medieval 3 at first, so better get chummy with the commoners

Mar 6·1 min read·20 words

Marathon's credits include the artist whose work Bungie used without permission

Mar 6·1 min read·11 words

Bungie ask Marathon critics to delay "full reviews" till the release of an endgame zone, and I am wistfully reminded of Vault of Glass

Mar 6·1 min read·24 words

Microsoft's next console will play PC games too, and it's currently codenamed Project Helix

Mar 6·1 min read·14 words

Rally Point: Whiskerwood suggests that, even without the violence, colonialism is a scam

Mar 6·1 min read·13 words

Pragmata gets a release date change once again, albeit in a good way this time

Mar 5·1 min read·15 words

Almost 10 years on from the first one, Ruiner is getting a sequel, and this time with co-op

Mar 5·1 min read·18 words

Prepare your decks once more, Slay the Spire 2 is now out in early access

Mar 5·1 min read·15 words

Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month

Mar 5·1 min read·18 words

Two genres and seven years on, Remedy attempt to define what a Control game even is in the lead-up to Resonant

Mar 5·1 min read·21 words

One of Marathon's more controversial mechanics brings back a neat idea from Anthem

Mar 5·1 min read·13 words

Activision pressured Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward to make a game about Iran invading Israel, claims former developer

Mar 5·1 min read·19 words

Resident Evil Requiem's mystifying Final Puzzle is case-closed after its solution was discovered by accident

Mar 5·1 min read·15 words

With Marathon's release imminent, Bungie say it's got "no pay for power" microtransactions and confirm seasonal rewards will stick around

Mar 5·1 min read·20 words

"In a sense, we're kind of victims of ourselves" says Crimson Desert's chief marketer, who reckons it plunged over the announcement Kliff too early

Mar 5·1 min read·24 words

Ubisoft talk up "unique, darker" Assassin's Creed Hexe, also promise their Invictus multiplayer game is making progress

Mar 4·1 min read·17 words

Trump administration reportedly debating whether to force Riot Games owners Tencent to divest stakes in US game companies

Mar 4·1 min read·18 words

Corpses in the censored Japanese version of Resident Evil Requiem are full of terrible darkness

Mar 4·1 min read·15 words

"Gary will no longer attack the player from beyond the veil" says The Outer Worlds 2's latest patch, which also makes a death pit work as intended

Mar 4·1 min read·27 words

Sony will no longer release their biggest PlayStation games on PC, claims report, starting with Ghost of Yōtei

Mar 4·1 min read·18 words

Planet of Lana 2 review - a grander, more dynamic platformer sequel that keeps hold of its heart

Mar 4·1 min read·18 words

Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection

Mar 4·1 min read·14 words

The Division 2's new Realism Mode chops back the HUD, ammo and health regen, and is free for a month

Mar 4·1 min read·20 words

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now back on Steam as a separate entity to Counter-Strike 2

Mar 4·1 min read·15 words

Logitech G325 Lightspeed gaming headset review: cheap wireless cans that don’t sound too shabby

Mar 4·1 min read·14 words

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a charming 2000s, Windows XP take on the Vampire Survivors formula

Mar 3·1 min read·16 words

And there it is: Highguard is shutting down next week

Mar 3·1 min read·10 words

The Sims 4 is going the way of Roblox with a new marketplace where anyone can make moola from their custom creations

Mar 3·1 min read·22 words

One of the Legend of Grimrock designers is making a spaceship puzzler inspired by System Shock

Mar 3·1 min read·16 words

Bungie lay out their Marathon season plans, which yes, includes forced resets for everybody

Mar 3·1 min read·14 words

It's time to pick up the reins, as the 13th century horse courier game The Legend of Khiimori is out in early access

Mar 3·1 min read·23 words

Fantasy RPG Esoteric Ebb is "the most exciting game Disco Elysium has inspired", says former ZA/UM writer

Mar 3·1 min read·17 words

Witcher 3 REDkit modding whizz expands Kaer Morhen to match its Witcher 1 equivalent, with references galore

Mar 3·1 min read·17 words

How Steven Spielberg, a Pinhead bust, and Robert De Niro's sex appeal gave us the horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying

Mar 3·1 min read·20 words

Capcom yank Resident Evil 4 Remake's Enigma DRM, which had reportedly impacted the horror flick's performance

Mar 3·1 min read·16 words

Resident Evil Requiem gains an arachnophobia mode done right, with everyone's favourite steam engine subbed for spiders

Mar 3·1 min read·17 words

Well, that looks like it could be a Fallout: New Vegas remaster tease from a Fallout 76 support studio

Mar 3·1 min read·19 words

Tekken and Pac-Man owners Bandai Namco announce major restructure with investment from Sony

Mar 2·1 min read·13 words

The original Cities: Skylines is getting a new Race Day expansion next week, as Paradox parade the fact the series is turning 11

Mar 2·1 min read·23 words

I swapped my gaming headset for IEM earphones, and I am in love

Mar 2·1 min read·13 words

Hooded Horse's terrific 4X strategy game Old World is getting another big DLC expansion set in south Asia

Mar 2·1 min read·18 words

Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons "game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down this month

Mar 2·1 min read·19 words

This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery

Mar 2·1 min read·19 words

Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"

Mar 2·1 min read·16 words

Maybe it's time to accept the real Bloodborne remake is the friends we made along the way, following report FromSoftware said no to one

Mar 2·1 min read·24 words

Nearly a year on from release, Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 modders provide a rare update on their Halsin romance

Mar 2·1 min read·20 words

Bungie share top feedback from Marathon's playtest, including PC performance, UI issues and ammo shortages

Mar 2·1 min read·15 words

The Sunday Papers

Mar 1·1 min read·3 words

Mightreya is a crunchy, meaty, complicated anime-superhero fusion of Devil May Cry and Gravity Rush

Feb 28·1 min read·15 words

I still can't tell you what's going on in Hypnos but its demo's scenic megastructure world is one I want to keep exploring

Feb 28·1 min read·23 words

One former Highguard level designer thinks it's struggled because Wildlight "leaned too far into the competitive scene"

Feb 28·1 min read·17 words

As Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy gets an early gameplay look-in, Rogue Trader gets an infinitely brief DLC teaser

Feb 28·1 min read·18 words

While you wait for a release date announcement, have a gander at Nivalis' opening moments

Feb 28·1 min read·15 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Feb 28·1 min read·7 words

Marathon might be the perfect 2026 shooter in that I feel like I'm stuck in a giant Nvidia graphics card

Feb 27·1 min read·20 words

Teardown's multiplayer update rolls out next month, so start packing a voxel lorry with mates and explosives

Feb 27·1 min read·17 words

The Steam Deck is an adequate vessel for Resident Evil Requiem, despite missing desktop-grade smoothness

Feb 27·1 min read·15 words

Steam Deck OLED prices will rise in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan next week, but it's tough to tell whether that's a harbinger of wider hikes

Feb 27·1 min read·25 words

New Frostrail video delivers more survival train horror shooting plus weird underground Tomb Raider temples

Feb 27·1 min read·15 words

Netflix's $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner has been dramatically gazumped by Paramount, to the tune of $111 billion

Feb 27·1 min read·19 words

A Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 multiplayer mod is in the works, and you can try an experimental version already

Feb 27·1 min read·19 words

Nvidia recall Resident Evil Requiem-branded GeForce driver after users report GPU fan, clock, and performance problems

Feb 27·1 min read·16 words

ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley's 1.7 update

Feb 26·1 min read·20 words

What went wrong with Highguard? The "hubris" of its developer's leadership, say former staff in a new report

Feb 26·1 min read·18 words

Thwack, debt-driven driveabrawler Samson's just clocked us with an early April release date-laced punch

Feb 26·1 min read·14 words

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's latest update adds in the incredibly red, claw-machine-arm-toting Techmarine class

Feb 26·1 min read·15 words

Tales of Kenzera: ZAU's next venture is an extraction platformer fusion of Lethal Company and Garry's Mod called FixForce

Feb 26·1 min read·19 words

Look for your lost documentary making sister in an ancient fungus filled Antarctica in the walking sim horror Cryptica

Feb 26·1 min read·19 words

Action RPG Grim Dawn is getting a 5.5 km² expansion, a free update and shapeshifting to mark its 10th birthday

Feb 26·1 min read·20 words

Colony sim Going Medieval, aka friendlier Rimworld, hits 1.0 release in March after 16 major updates

Feb 26·1 min read·16 words

Assetto Corsa Rally's latest update adds laser-scanned Monte-Carlo stages and won't stop shouting about SNOW

Feb 26·1 min read·15 words

Resident Evil Requiem's zombie nightmare runs like a dream on PC

Feb 26·1 min read·11 words

The mysterious Assassin's Creed Hexe has a new creative director, claims report, as Ubisoft say goodbye to the legendary Clint Hocking

Feb 25·1 min read·21 words

Put some FEAR in your STALKER 2 with the debris-flinging CinematicFX mod

Feb 25·1 min read·12 words

Four years after the last one, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2's enhanced editions have a new patch out in Steam beta

Feb 25·1 min read·21 words

Recovering Helldivers 2 players should check out the cowboy robot gunplay of Far Far West, which has a demo

Feb 25·1 min read·19 words

Blood-drunk shooter Ultrakill is back with a whole hellworld full of lies, portals and non-Euclidean spaces

Feb 25·1 min read·16 words

Resident Evil Requiem review - a cathartic cross-breed of creeps and carnage

Feb 25·1 min read·12 words

Amazon ditch publishing duties on ex-Forza Horizon devs' story-driven open-world racer

Feb 25·1 min read·11 words

“Sapkowski is a kleptomaniac with mythology” - How Reigns: The Witcher coaxes out the improv chaos of Geralt's universe

Feb 25·1 min read·19 words

A "Cowboy Coalition" battle NCR corporate imperialism in this freshly released Fallout: New Vegas quest mod

Feb 25·1 min read·16 words

Styx Blades of Greed publishers Nacon file for insolvency, will "assess all possible solutions" to "protect employees and "preserve jobs"

Feb 25·1 min read·20 words

Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it

Feb 24·1 min read·20 words

Looking for Fael is The Witness for people who need more Tetris in their life, and you can try it for yourself now

Feb 24·1 min read·23 words

The devs behind The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Prototype are back as a sort-of new, just as radical studio

Feb 24·1 min read·20 words

Insomniac finally lock in a Wolverine release date on PS5, so start placing your bets on a PC port launch window

Feb 24·1 min read·21 words

Don't fancy trying Marathon this weekend? Lucky you, as there's now the chance to have a go at Horizon Hunters Gathering

Feb 24·1 min read·21 words

Seven towns that will never turn out to be Silent Hill all along

Feb 24·1 min read·13 words

Death Stranding 2's system requirements have washed ashore, and they're pretty reasonable

Feb 24·1 min read·12 words

Stop Killing Games campaign offer update on latest EU meeting in livestream from parliament, while emphasising bipartisan MEP support

Feb 24·1 min read·19 words

Cicadamata" is the most exciting FPS I've played in years - come try the demo

Feb 24·1 min read·15 words

Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo

Feb 24·1 min read·19 words

Come chase your clone through an exquisite, comicbook-inspired world of seashells and ancient machines

Feb 23·1 min read·14 words

Ubisoft announce a trio of Assassin's Creed veterans will lead the series' "next era"

Feb 23·1 min read·14 words

"What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam

Feb 23·1 min read·22 words

Play Nazi fugitive Guess Who in detective note-shuffler The Ratline's Steam Next Fest demo

Feb 23·1 min read·14 words

Nier Automata's Yoko Taro is writing an Evangelion anime TV show

Feb 23·1 min read·11 words

Resident Evil Requiem is this week's headline PC game but don't forget the Witchers, pirates and pinballs

Feb 23·1 min read·17 words

"They've ghosted me": Saints Row design director says he believes the series is "dead" after pitching prequel

Feb 23·1 min read·17 words

Ubisoft CEO touts “disciplined workforce management” while defending giving his son the keys to Assassin's Creed

Feb 23·1 min read·16 words

Tencent reportedly shutter open world game studio which had drafted in former Assassin’s Creed director

Feb 23·1 min read·15 words

What's on your bookshelf: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and GSC Game World's Mariia Grygorovych

Feb 22·1 min read·11 words

The Sunday Papers

Feb 22·1 min read·3 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Feb 21·1 min read·7 words

Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring, replaced by an AI exec who promises no "soulless AI slop"

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7X Wireless Gen 2 gaming headset review: good listener, bad talker

Feb 20·1 min read·14 words

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3X Wireless gaming headset review: sweet sounds for PC and handhelds

Feb 20·1 min read·14 words

US Supreme Court strike down majority of Trump's tariffs, so hopefully that's one less hardware buying headache to worry about

Feb 20·1 min read·20 words

XCOM designer Jake Solomon reveals "Life Sims + The Truman Show" game... while announcing his studio's closure

Feb 20·1 min read·17 words

I can't say I enjoy this 19th century turd-collecting game but it did make me laugh when I patted my horse to death

Feb 20·1 min read·23 words

Fogpiercer is a tactical game that recognises the true joy of artillery is using it to give your enemies a little shove

Feb 20·1 min read·22 words

The best SSDs for the Steam Deck

Feb 20·1 min read·7 words

Stop Killing Games campaign hope to "signal that we're not just going away" by setting up online game preservation NGOs

Feb 20·1 min read·20 words

Ubisoft cut staff at Splinter Cell devs Ubisoft Toronto, as part of their push to save €200 million

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Following layoffs, Highguard devs Wildlight announce it's getting a new airship base and door-opening dart gun

Feb 19·1 min read·16 words

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties mod swaps Goh Hamazaki's face, ditching likeness of actor accused of sexual assault

Feb 19·1 min read·19 words

Train! Stunt! Game! Denshattack! Has! A! Demo! On! Steam!

Feb 19·1 min read·9 words

ZA/UM's Zero Parades is Schrodinger's Disco Elysium follow-up, and it keeps yelling at me about communism

Feb 19·1 min read·16 words

Destiny 2's next big update has been delayed so it can undergo "large revisions" so large and revisiony it'll need a new name

Feb 19·1 min read·23 words

Former developers of one of 2024's best Soulslikes are stuck in a purgatory of unpaid salaries

Feb 19·1 min read·16 words

No Azure for Apartheid call on Microsoft to cut ties with ICE, amid reports of agency deepening reliance on company's cloud and AI

Feb 19·1 min read·23 words

The Elder Scrolls 6 runs on a new version of the Creation Engine, his Howardliness confirms

Feb 19·1 min read·16 words

I may indeed offer my soul to The Killing Stone, an Arctic mansion mystery card-battler from the makers of The Blackout Club

Feb 18·1 min read·22 words

Sorry, Woodstock's off; or, how I gave everyone dysentery in Transport Fever 3

Feb 18·1 min read·13 words

"Creativity is the key": how PC hardware's smaller manufacturers are navigating the RAM shortage disaster

Feb 18·1 min read·15 words

Cyberpunk platformer Replaced catches another delay for "final tweaks" based on demo feedback

Feb 18·1 min read·13 words

If you can't beat AI, become one in Hooded Horse strategy RPG Heart of the Machine, which hits 1.0 release in March

Feb 18·1 min read·22 words

Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges"

Feb 18·1 min read·16 words

Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas

Feb 18·1 min read·16 words

You can now play Avowed as Small Person With Big Magic Stick

Feb 18·1 min read·12 words

SSD prices in yet more trouble as two of the biggest hard drive makers have already sold out their 2026 stock

Feb 18·1 min read·21 words

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown's survival RPG retelling inspires many emotions, but mostly makes me feel old

Feb 18·1 min read·19 words

As Highguard's website goes dark, a report emerges that the not-so-indie shooter was funded by Tencent

Feb 17·1 min read·16 words

Titanium Court is a play, a match three and strategy game, a dream and a nightmare, and deeply compelling

Feb 17·1 min read·19 words

Hyper Scape lives! Or at least it might, if one group of folks seeking to revive the game can get it working

Feb 17·1 min read·22 words

Despite its live service predecessor, you won't have to worry about microtransactions in the impending Crimson Desert

Feb 17·1 min read·17 words

Assassin's Creed Shadows' new update will let you literally spring into action and check for pointless granular stats

Feb 17·1 min read·18 words

"We have not stopped supporting Pride," Runescape developers say. However, they don't plan to create new Pride quest content in 2026

Feb 17·1 min read·21 words

Crusader Kings 3 devs Paradox are working with a mystery modder on spreadsheeting up the inbred monarch grind

Feb 17·1 min read·18 words

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now grabbable for free and optimised for modern PCs, thanks to dedicated fans

Feb 17·1 min read·17 words

Ahead of The Witcher remake, the Witcher 1's lead story designer has just wrapped up a 26 episode dev commentary

Feb 17·1 min read·20 words

Yep, the Steam Deck OLED going out of stock is due to the AI-fuelled RAM and storage shortages, Valve confirm

Feb 17·1 min read·20 words

Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting some absolutely murderous cats

Feb 16·1 min read·10 words

If Mewgenics is too appalling, you might prefer the turn-based charms of Dobbel Dungeon

Feb 16·1 min read·14 words

It's "hard to push innovation" in racing games compared to other genres, reckons Star Wars: Galactic Racer creative director

Feb 16·1 min read·19 words

Hardsuit's canned Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 refuses to fade away, as leaked gameplay videos show what might have been

Feb 16·1 min read·21 words

Mewgenics' early mods include an incompetent auto-battler that shamelessly mimics my playstyle, more cat hoarding, and good poop

Feb 16·1 min read·18 words

Holy hardware specs Lego Batman, they've sliced Legacy of the Dark Knight's recommended RAM in half

Feb 16·1 min read·16 words

This week's new PC games are a treasure trove of the scary, eerie and occult, plus a charming Star Trek game

Feb 16·1 min read·21 words

Silent Hill 2 remake devs Bloober Team reveal Layers of Fear 3 via creepy poetry reading

Feb 16·1 min read·16 words

The Sunday Papers

Feb 15·1 min read·3 words

RPS verdict: The Fallout TV Show season 2

Feb 14·1 min read·8 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Feb 14·1 min read·7 words

Nioh 3's first big patch "partially" fixes an issue which can make it impossible to heal mid-fight

Feb 13·1 min read·17 words

Steam reviews letting you attach your PC specs is another Steam Machine prep play and you can't convince me otherwise

Feb 13·1 min read·20 words

Despite being "a significant change", Legacy of Kain: Ascendance's devs insist it'll still appeal to clapped-out Soul Reaver enthusiasts

Feb 13·1 min read·19 words

No AI tricks here - G-Sync Pulsar’s clarity boosting monitor tech looks like the real deal

Feb 13·1 min read·16 words

"The hardest game in the world to make" - How Darkhaven hopes to rebottle Diablo 2's lightning by channelling Minecraft

Feb 13·1 min read·20 words

A first-person walk around a foggy Scottish town in the 90s: Silent Hill: Townfall is certainly serious about instilling dread

Feb 13·1 min read·20 words

Untitled John Wick Game is a gun fu Baba Yaga brawler, and a weird cousin to Untitled Goose Game until proven otherwise

Feb 13·1 min read·22 words

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse sees Dead Cells' devs bring back vampire whippage, and Konami say it's just the start of a revival

Feb 13·1 min read·21 words

Get your trunks on kids, Kojima's taking us to the beach when Death Stranding 2 comes to PC next month

Feb 12·1 min read·20 words

Make what you will of ZA/UM's Zero Parades with this lengthy look at gameplay ahead of a demo later this month

Feb 12·1 min read·21 words

Peter Molyneux plays the hits in an in-depth-but-not-too-in-depth gameplay trailer for Masters of Albion

Feb 12·1 min read·14 words

Pick up a dose of joy in Lil Gator Game's underground, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom-esque expansion In The Dark, out now

Feb 12·1 min read·22 words

A day after launch, Starsand Island's devs address those user agreement, modding, and fake review concerns

Feb 12·1 min read·16 words

ShipShaper is a chill boat builder with a demo you can use to make sleek sloops or beastly barges

Feb 12·1 min read·19 words

Epomaker G84 HE gaming keyboard review: magnetic switches on a budget, kinda

Feb 12·1 min read·12 words

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties sets up an intriguing path, but RGG will need to prove it’s worth joining them on that road

Feb 12·1 min read·24 words

I recreated every katsu curry recipe in Romeo is a Dead Man and almost none of them made me better with swords

Feb 12·1 min read·22 words

Diablo 4 is getting a warlock class, Diablo 2 is getting a warlock class and Diablo 2: Resurrected is now on Steam

Feb 12·1 min read·22 words

1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks

Feb 11·1 min read·12 words

Cyberpunk platformer Replaced has a demo out, and it's wonderfully atmospheric when you're not plummeting a short distance

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

Come shout down dystopia in the demo for Amanita's fancy cardboard mind control puzzler Phonopolis

Feb 11·1 min read·15 words

Reanimal review – the dollhouse horror of Little Nightmares gives way to a grimier tale of war and slaughter

Feb 11·1 min read·19 words

Romeo is a Dead Man's most beguiling spectacle is its astral fish tank menu

Feb 11·1 min read·14 words

No Man's Sky's latest update is all about rubbish-flinging spacetrashpeople with gravity guns and interstellar trucks

Feb 11·1 min read·16 words

"This is the best case scenario": Microsoft withdraw DMCA takedown notice on voxel sandbox Allumeria

Feb 11·1 min read·15 words

Discord promise they won't force everybody to do a face scan following outrage at new age verification policy

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

“Unleash the Kraken,” bellows Skull and Bones, which somehow still exists

Feb 11·1 min read·11 words

For its first anniversary, Monster Hunter Wilds gets a collab with its kid friendly cousin, and the promise of some DLC

Feb 10·1 min read·21 words

Modern classic dungeon crawler board game Descent is getting its first, very TTRPG-sounding, video game adaptation

Feb 10·1 min read·16 words

New Subnautica 2 video shows off a convenient and social dive elevator, while promising that multiplayer won't ruin single player

Feb 10·1 min read·20 words

Besiege's next expansion goes where no medieval contraption has ever gone before: space!

Feb 10·1 min read·13 words

Embark would like you all to play nice in Arc Raider's temporary PvE event Shared Watch, which starts today

Feb 10·1 min read·19 words

Dark Pictures sci-fi horror Directive 8020 will open its doors in May, letting some evil fleshslime loose

Feb 10·1 min read·17 words

MindsEye studio reportedly installed monitoring software on staff PCs without their knowledge, as execs continue alleging sabotage

Feb 10·1 min read·17 words

Romeo is a Dead Man review – an offbeat action game that finds its groovy, gory rhythm

Feb 10·1 min read·17 words

Pretty platformer sequel Planet of Lana II gets a pretty good Steam demo tomorrow, ahead of its surprise March release

Feb 10·1 min read·20 words

Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse review: a new standard in customisable clickery

Feb 10·1 min read·14 words

The Dark Rites of Arkham review - pure Lovecraftian point and click fan service

Feb 10·1 min read·14 words

Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

Feb 9·1 min read·17 words

Valve's made it much easier to tell when a game's leaving Steam Early Access

Feb 9·1 min read·14 words

A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet

Feb 9·1 min read·17 words

Team Ninja fix a terrifying "very rare" Nioh 3 bug that corrupts your save when you pray at shrine checkpoints

Feb 9·1 min read·20 words

If you want nothing more than to hollow out a brutalist alien monolith, then tower defence mining game Iter-8 is for you

Feb 9·1 min read·22 words

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review - a stuffed remake defined by its own grim connections

Feb 9·1 min read·17 words

Helldivers 2 rolls out the cyborgs as a barrage of bloodcurdling binary heralds the Machinery of Oppression update

Feb 9·1 min read·18 words

Games Workshop had a Warhammer FTL clone pulled from Steam over some overly Space Marine-esque shoulderpads

Feb 9·1 min read·16 words

Horses devs accuse Epic of making "provably incorrect statements about the game’s content", after store exec's declaration of love

Feb 9·1 min read·19 words

High On Life 2, Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Romeo Is A Dead Man go head to head in another crowded week for PC games

Feb 9·1 min read·24 words

What's on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted's Marcia Shange

Feb 8·1 min read·9 words

The Sunday Papers

Feb 8·1 min read·3 words

Don't like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say "that most likely won't change"

Feb 7·1 min read·20 words

Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: "Artists put their hearts into their work"

Feb 7·1 min read·21 words

Square Enix's baffling murder mystery social game Killer Inn gets a quick, free-for-all playtest ahead of its release next week

Feb 7·1 min read·20 words

Throw pool, dice and stickers into a blender and you get STICKER/BALL, a roguelike that relishes in chaos

Feb 7·1 min read·18 words

Exodus' writer wants to make the Mass Effect successor's side quests so good you won't care if you're rewarded for doing them

Feb 7·1 min read·22 words

I'm certain the pirates in strategy game Menace are laughing at my mistakes

Feb 7·1 min read·13 words

What are we all playing this weekend?

Feb 7·1 min read·7 words

If you're struggling to play tactics sim Menace, it could be because your antivirus is randomly deleting files

Feb 6·1 min read·18 words

Square Enix announce Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, sequel to one of 2023's best horror mystery games

Feb 6·1 min read·16 words

Razer BlackShark V3 gaming headset review

Feb 6·1 min read·6 words

If you think open worlds are too big, play Shrinko / if you think open worlds are too small, play Shrinko

Feb 6·1 min read·21 words

Mewgenics developers reckon going for a full launch over early access is "a weird thing now"

Feb 6·1 min read·16 words

Mewgenics review - a roguelite where sacrificial arse maggots and frightful defecation are the keys to success

Feb 6·1 min read·17 words

“You gotta let some of the chaos in”: Diablo 2's art lead explains what he doesn’t like about Diablo 4

Feb 6·1 min read·20 words

Rust gets rusty boat building, so you can sail in search of ghost ships, floating cities and tropical islands

Feb 6·1 min read·19 words

Today's Highguard major update delivers a new hero who's a wolf in all forms including physical, awoooo

Feb 6·1 min read·17 words

"Never say never" - Civilization 8 could be a proper early access game, comments Civ 7 producer

Feb 6·1 min read·17 words

An online cooperative game originally spun off from Assassin's Creed Shadows has reportedly been cancelled

Feb 5·1 min read·15 words

Dosa Divas is almost done simmering, as it gets a new demo and eyes up an April release

Feb 5·1 min read·18 words

Embark smooth over Arc Raiders' Expedition rough patches with a cheaper entry point for its second bout

Feb 5·1 min read·17 words

Sniper Dan is a delightful-looking, "family-friendly" blend of Sniper Elite and Where's Wally?

Feb 5·1 min read·13 words

Horizon Hunters Gathering is a co-op action take on the robo dino series that borrows from Fortnite, Hades and Monster Hunter

Feb 5·1 min read·21 words

Arma 3's King of the Hill mod inspired the Battalion 1944 devs' new 100 player shooter, deploying in early access this year

Feb 5·1 min read·22 words

GOG "won't be making absolute statements in either direction" about their future approach to AI use

Feb 5·1 min read·16 words

Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form

Feb 5·1 min read·15 words

As extra DLC chat lingers, The Witcher 3 gets a Witcher 4-inspired quest mod designed to give you a taste of Ciri's adventures in Kovir

Feb 5·1 min read·25 words

Fallout: New Vegas' Van Buren remake mod Revelation Blues has a new name and a second demo dropping soon

Feb 5·1 min read·19 words

"This has been heartbreaking" - laid-off Ashes Of Creation devs won't get final paychecks and compensation, says former comms head

Feb 4·1 min read·20 words

Yapyap is a jolly bit of gang wizard vandalism with a touch of Dark Messiah

Feb 4·1 min read·15 words

The Steam Machine is still "on track" for its original release window, according to Valve’s chosen chipmakers

Feb 4·1 min read·17 words

With its new season update trailer, Apex Legends would like you to know it has invented windows

Feb 4·1 min read·17 words

Nioh 3 review - A superb blend of soulslike splendour

Feb 4·1 min read·10 words

The Pale Piper is Silksong with no combat, a wondrous Playdead-style world, and all the hope bleached out

Feb 4·1 min read·18 words

Amazon's Fallout countdown delivers possibly the only thing more pointless than a New Vegas or Fallout 3 remaster

Feb 4·1 min read·18 words

Epic will lean harder on Fortnite to drive third-party sales on Epic Games Store, with 100 licensed tie-ins a year

Feb 4·1 min read·20 words

Generative AI plays "zero part" in GTA 6, Take-Two boss confirms, but the company do have "hundreds" of AI "pilots and implementations" on the go

Feb 4·1 min read·25 words

Classic Fallout homage Atom RPG is getting a sequel in which you try to stop another apocalypse

Feb 4·1 min read·17 words