Gaming

2026/08/07 Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: ‘Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is’
2026/08/07 Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users
2026/08/07 You can get a PCIe 5.0 SSD for a PCIe 4.0 price with this SSD deal, but you have to take a gamble on delivery from Germany
2026/08/07 The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it’s ‘one of the most ergonomic things ever made’
2026/08/07 The genius director behind the most unhinged thriller of the century officially returns in 3 weeks
2026/08/07 The makers of the glorious Othercide have another tactics RPG bloodbath out in September, with a playtest live now
2026/08/07 If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you’ll need to manually update instead
2026/08/07 Target is Slicing Open Pokémon Card Boxes Before They’re Sold in a Bid to Deter Scalpers, Fans Say
2026/08/06 Hideki Kamiya Credits Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 For Inspiring This Okami Gameplay Moment
2026/08/06 DLC For Newest Pokémon Game Reinforces Its Biggest Problem
2026/08/06 Dwayne Johnson’s $200 Million Sci-Fi Flop Is Officially A Global Streaming Sleeper Hit
2026/08/06 Legend of Zelda Movie Finds Its Ganondorf in First Major Update in Ages
2026/08/06 How to unlock all legendary and mythical Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia
2026/08/06 New Ghost Recon Game Officially Revealed by Ubisoft at 25th Anniversary Event
2026/08/06 PlayStation 5 consoles now warn players of physical disc termination, rumor says
2026/08/06 Switch 2 Sales Down Year-on-Year After 2025’s Explosive Launch, Though Nintendo Insists Adoption Still Compares ‘Favorably’ to Original Switch
2026/08/06 The Movie That Warner Bros. Tried to Kill Officially Releases in Theaters in 3 Weeks
2026/08/05 Destiny 2 players are learning how to crack into its infamous content vault by tinkering with old game builds
2026/08/05 Chris Pratt’s 157-Minute Action Thriller Changed Hollywood Forever, and It’s Streaming Now on Netflix
2026/08/04 Embrace the great Tech Pause
2026/08/04 ‘Madden’ and ‘Apex Legends’ Publisher Is Now Officially Owned by Saudi Arabia
2026/08/04 Steam Meme Game Made in Days Almost Turned Teen Into a Millionaire
2026/08/03 Samsung, who’ve been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing, reckon components will only get more expensive in 2027
2026/08/03 MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it’s not made by Samsung or LG
2026/08/03 A round of applause please for the 250KF Plus making this RTX 5080 gaming PC deal actually reasonable
2026/08/03 ‘Deck de France’ is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck
2026/08/03 FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to ‘be reasonable’ because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: ‘That would be putting the cart before the horse’
2026/08/03 This week in PC games: Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk, and Marvel Tōkon, plus a round table RPG, some flammable robots, and a flock of lovestruck pigeons
2026/08/03 Video Game Release Dates: The Biggest Games of August 2026 and Beyond - IGN
2026/08/02 American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
2026/08/02 Wonder Man showrunner says scheduling issues aren’t to blame for cancellation
2026/08/01 10 anime that delivered better endings than Attack on Titan (#1 is pitch-perfect)
2026/08/01 Pokémon Go August 2026 Spotlight Hour schedule
2026/08/01 Pokémon Go raid schedule for August 2026’s legendary and Mega Pokémon
2026/07/31 Take the plunge into 4K gaming with this curved, 32-inch OLED for only $630
2026/07/31 All Genshin Impact 7.0 livestream codes
2026/07/31 Mchose K7 V2 Ultra+ review
2026/07/31 Dungeons & Dragons is Getting an Official Star Wars Expansion
2026/07/30 ‘ESO Is Here to Stay’ — The Elder Scrolls Online Content Delayed to 2027 Following Xbox Layoffs, but Dev Insists the Game Isn’t Going Anywhere
2026/07/30 Meta continues to insist AI spend is totally justified, potentially blowing over $8 billion on data centers
2026/07/30 ‘We Are a Little Bit Masochistic’ — Developers Are Running Scared of Baldur’s Gate 4, but Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Studio Owlcat Would Consider It a ‘Great Challenge’
2026/07/30 After Pathfinder and One of the Best Warhammer 40,000 Games Ever Made, Owlcat’s Next Step Is to Top Them All — and It’s Grown to 600 People to Do It
2026/07/30 After Playing 4 Hours of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, I’m Convinced It’s the Shake-Up the Racing Genre Needs
2026/07/30 EXCLUSIVE: How The Expanse: Osiris Reborn’s Progression System Works, Plus Brand New Screenshots
2026/07/30 The action epic fantasy that Paramount tried it kill is a officially a global streaming smash hit
2026/07/29 Battlefield 6’s Successful Launch Nets EA CEO $38 Million Payday After Layoffs to Development Team
2026/07/29 Live-action MCU Venom gets positive update from Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige
2026/07/29 Keychron’s gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques ‘firmware you can’t read, can’t audit, can’t change’
2026/07/29 ‘The Library’ skulls and terminal locations in Halo Campaign Evolved
2026/07/28 ‘Only the survival of our studio would make us consider such a painful action’: Tim Schafer announces Double Fine layoffs just 3 weeks after Xbox cut it loose
2026/07/28 Sega is letting fans play one of 2027’s most exciting new games early
2026/07/27 Spider-Man: Brand New Day Projected to Beat Out the Odyssey With Biggest Opening of 2026
2026/07/27 ‘We Didn’t Want to Be Spread Thin’ — Avengers: Secret Wars Is the Only MCU Movie in 2027 as Kevin Feige Promises Quality Over Quantity
2026/07/27 15 Years Later, Call of Duty: Black Ops Fans Discover Zombies Content That Never Made It Into the Game
2026/07/27 Nintendo just debuted the hardest boss in its 136-year history
2026/07/27 After leaving Epic Games last month, its former ‘Unreal evangelist’ is now building his own game engine
2026/07/27 Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there’s no end in sight
2026/07/26 Marvel casts a new Black Panther for Black Panther 3
2026/07/25 Modding wizard creates Grand Theft Auto multiverse that lets players travel instantly between Rockstar’s first three games: ‘We got inter-GTA portals before GTA 6’
2026/07/24 13 years on, unfinishable survival game Project Zomboid is getting a major update with an expanded Kentucky map, animal husbandry, and revised crafting
2026/07/24 “Let’s make a better world”: Denshattack’s developers on counterculture, biker gangs, and the optimism of fighting a mecha with a train
2026/07/24 The biggest dinosaur movie of the year officially arrives in 3 week
2026/07/24 Is Intel back? Company’s latest earnings report remarkably different in tone to 12 months ago
2026/07/23 The second biggest purchase in video game history just got closer to happening
2026/07/23 Steam dev says 99% of this game’s players are pirates, but that’s not the most surprising part
2026/07/23 MSI celebrates 40 year anniversary by unveiling a SEVEN GRAND LAPTOP
2026/07/23 ‘You Have to Rebuild Trust in People Who Had a Bad Cloud Experience 5 Years Ago’ — Amazon Luna Now Part of Prime Video
2026/07/23 ‘I Was Like, Oh, Could We Do That Again?’ — Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger Reveals Star Austin Abrams Almost Died Shooting That Zombie Scene From the Trailer
2026/07/23 Agefield High: Rock the School Preview: Bully Fans Waiting for a Worthy Follow-Up…Should Keep Waiting
2026/07/22 Pokémon’s big rival blows one Pokémon out of the water with a legendary reveal
2026/07/22 Indie game gets last minute Steam delay while Valve reviews its ‘dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs’
2026/07/22 Star Wars Zero Company is going all in on Clone customisation, but my favourite armour is restricted to the Deluxe Edition
2026/07/22 Avatar: The Last Airbender officially has its first terrific video game
2026/07/20 Overwatch’s Quick Play Hacked weekend has me hoping 6v6 finally comes back for good
2026/07/20 15 years before Dishonored, Thief devs considered letting Garrett shrink himself rat-sized so he could scurry through drains and mouse holes
2026/07/20 ‘What an Amazing Privilege’ — Sauron Actor Charlie Vickers Says He Wept On The Rings of Power Season 3 Set to Forge One Ring
2026/07/16 Where to find the Nangan region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
2026/07/16 PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: Duke Nukem special anniversary celebration
2026/07/16 This AliExpress-sourced $5 USB hub has been described as ‘mildly dangerous’ for your PC, thanks to a nasty power issue
2026/07/16 Turns out Microsoft’s Secure Boot was little better than a busted lock for about a decade
2026/07/15 As Sony prepares to end game disc production, GOG jumps up to remind PC gamers that you can just make your own
2026/07/15 Fourth Wing Author Rebecca Yarros Announces Threshing Day, New Book in Empyrean Series
2026/07/15 Pick up a Big and Tall Gaming Chair for Less Than $140 With Free Shipping on Amazon and Save Hundreds Compared to Other Name Brands.
2026/07/15 ‘I Wish the Script Quality Was a Little Higher’ — Fallout: New Vegas Senior Designer Says He’s ‘Embarrassed’ by Amazon Adaptation’s Dialogue
2026/07/15 The best gaming headset out there right now has just received a tidy $19 discount at Best Buy
2026/07/14 How to get Ancient Bone in Palworld
2026/07/14 I reckon Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the series’ best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it’s ‘One of the most underestimated games in the series’
2026/07/14 Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations review
2026/07/14 ‘Worse than our expectations’: IBM’s shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn’t adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes
2026/07/13 A Silent Hill fan is making a PC port of Silent Hill: Downpour that restores a cut boss battle and plenty more
2026/07/12 Going from skull-cracker to safecracker in Dishonored 2
2026/07/12 Elder Scrolls Online studio echoes id Software, claims to now be the same size it was 10 years ago following Xbox layoffs
2026/07/12 Moana’s poor box office performance proves this Disney remake wasn’t necessary
2026/07/12 After The Odyssey, Matt Damon can’t wait to get stranded again: ‘I’ve seen those memes’
2026/07/12 We’re not quite done with 2026, but here are 9 videogame bangers that have defined the year so far
2026/07/12 Analyst says Sony going all-in on digital is like the death of PC disc drives: ‘Not a single person is complaining about it today’
2026/07/12 The Sunday Papers
2026/07/11 Soulframe devs confirm ’the beaver will be okay’ after high-stakes TennoCon gameplay reveal
2026/07/11 Warframe devs say adding Matt Mercer is a ‘dream come true’
2026/07/11 Warframe is showing love to tabletop games with this ‘legally distinct’ RPG
2026/07/11 Warframe players, it’s time to become a Banshee main again
2026/07/11 Assassin’s Creed officially has 3 brand-new games coming soon
2026/07/11 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 creators refused to make the sequel fans expected
2026/07/11 Steam has raked in an estimated $11.1 billion gross revenue so far this year, says market analyst—its ‘biggest-ever six months’
2026/07/11 All the new Warframe and Soulframe announcements at TennoCon 2026
2026/07/11 You can play Warframe’s fantasy successor, Soulframe, for free right now
2026/07/11 Fantasy action-RPG Soulframe is open to all players for a limited time, with a new dark progression path, wolf mounts, and a Warsongs origin quest on the way
2026/07/11 Assassin’s Creed remake made a huge mistake cutting the best part of Black Flag
2026/07/11 After Space Marine 2 ’literally changed everything’, Saber Interactive has been inundated with offers from major licenses: ‘We are in a very fortunate position to turn down more than we can accept’
2026/07/10 Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 2 million copies in 1 day and achieves the ‘highest concurrent player count ever recorded for an Assassin’s Creed title’ on Steam
2026/07/10 Whether you have a need for speed or require retina-melting brightness, I’ve got two cracking deals on budget gaming monitors for you
2026/07/09 AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than ‘conventional servers’ by 2027
2026/07/09 Black Flag’s combat may have been a total cakewalk, but at least it had its novelty
2026/07/09 Hooded Horse’s new strategy game Rogue Carrier has you captaining a research ship on a planet where the seas boil with violent squid
2026/07/08 All 16 Mayan stone locations in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 All 26 treasure map locations in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 How to access Black Flag Resynced’s new content in order
2026/07/08 How to beat all four legendary ships in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 How to complete the Art Lover quest in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 How to get all 12 Ultimate Ship Plans in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 How to get all 32 outfits in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 How to get Data Fragments in Black Flag Resynced
2026/07/08 MindsEye developers protest against a fan event their own studio is hosting
2026/07/08 Help, I can’t decide if Stardew Valley in 3D is amazing or horrifying
2026/07/08 Marvel Rivals’ Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more ‘fun’ approach to the game
2026/07/08 Pokémon Winds and Waves leaks tie back to one of the series’ most unfortunate creations
2026/07/08 Arkheron, a competitive PvP action game, will open its closed beta next week—and I’m getting that Battlerite nostalgia just looking at this thing
2026/07/08 I Spent 120+ Hours Testing 12 Wired and Wireless Gaming Headsets Side-by-Side to Find the Best Sound Quality, Comfort, and Features for Every Type of Player in 2026.
2026/07/08 Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
2026/07/08 Subnautica 2’s first major update addresses the game’s biggest controversy
2026/07/08 Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores
2026/07/08 Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer’s regime spreading the company “too thin”, while claiming a “a healthy Xbox” could weather the RAM storm
2026/07/07 Pokémon Winds & Waves rumor of “300 new Pokémon” has fans divided
2026/07/07 I played 4 hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker and it borrows a heck of a lot from The Witcher 3, for good and bad
2026/07/07 Xbox’s historical layoffs hit Doom and Quake developer hard
2026/07/07 2025’s best puzzle game is now officially an esport with a $20,000 prize pool
2026/07/07 New Cyberpunk DLC confirmed for Apex Legends after Respawn and CDPR teasers
2026/07/07 One of the decade’s most underrated RPGs just got even better
2026/07/07 This action RPG’s more-with-more-on-top excess is as fun as expansion design gets
2026/07/07 My cozy game of the month is a moth-watching game where you can explore whimsical forests and uncover more about these fuzzy legends
2026/07/07 While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane’s staff must negotiate their own future
2026/07/07 Analysts think SK hynix’s DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
2026/07/07 It looks like Blizzard’s escaped Xbox’s grim reset scythe for now, though there’s still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027
2026/07/07 Asus ROG Strix XG129C review
2026/07/07 A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there’s a fix
2026/07/07 Xbox’s layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff
2026/07/06 Undead Labs’ New Mystery Owner Won’t Have to Bring State of Decay 3 to Xbox Game Pass — Report
2026/07/06 French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares ‘Players have rights too!’ over the death of physical discs
2026/07/06 Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging ‘unreasonable and excessive noise’ from data center
2026/07/06 ‘If You End Starfield, I Am Leaving’ — Fans Mourn Bethesda’s Sci-Fi RPG Amid Xbox Layoffs, With the Focus Now Seemingly on Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake
2026/07/06 Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps ‘shifting’ as a result
2026/07/06 Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union
2026/07/06 As Xbox Tries to Sell or Close Arkane, the Future of Marvel’s Blade Remains Unclear, With Reports Suggesting It Was Delayed Internally and Is Running Over Budget
2026/07/06 “It’s much further along than we originally planned”: Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going “swimmingly”, despite DLC delays
2026/07/06 Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo’s latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
2026/07/06 Xbox is laying off 3,200 people and dumping 4 studios in ’the most significant restructure in Xbox history'
2026/07/06 Cheaters have infested Meccha Chameleon as dishonest players scan images and auto paint their models
2026/07/06 Stop judging games by their sales figures, says Tekken’s Katsuhiro Harada: “That’s exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s never actually developed games"
2026/07/06 Xbox Boss Asha Sharma Announces 3,200 Layoffs, Including 1,600 Today, With 4 Studios Leaving for New Management — Read the Email to Staff in Full
2026/07/06 Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k’s first Inquisitor was called ‘Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau’ and he’s still too powerful to be retconned
2026/07/04 What are we all playing this weekend?
2026/07/03 Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker
2026/07/03 Mouthwashing’s follow-up is self-described ‘friendsweat’ where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: ‘We’re definitely not quite at Peak, but we’re not trying to make Arma either’
2026/07/03 Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: ‘We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!’
2026/07/03 One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG’s Summer Sale
2026/07/01 Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump’s wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign “to make the galaxy safe again”
2026/07/01 Exodus’ character creator won’t let you totally mess up its protagonist’s “established look” with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
2026/07/01 “Low-effort slop”: The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on “vibe-coding” and now require genAI disclosures
2026/07/01 Xbox claim they’re “not reducing [their] investment in games” despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft’s total workforce are in the firing line
2026/07/01 “Keeping this under wraps has been torture”: Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder’s festering world
2026/06/30 Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators
2026/06/28 The Sunday Papers
2026/06/27 Joy Malignant is a photobashed, dice-based RPG where every choice you make affects how your faceless body looks
2026/06/27 Civilization 7 devs talk 20th century leaders, controversial historical figures, and dealing with colonialism in 4X strategy games
2026/06/27 Star Wars Eclipse “literally cannot be finished” if layoffs go through, its devs reportedly say
2026/06/27 From Hydro Drift Ninjas to Sonic Napoleons: I spent far too long definitively ranking Tokyo Xtreme Racer’s best opponent names
2026/06/27 What are we all playing this weekend?