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Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

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Despite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history

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Fallout Star Walton Goggins Must Need Money Bad

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Overwatch fans are desperately trying to solve a mystery with its newest hero, but Blizzard already revealed the answer

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Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC

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Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work

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Rust's 'Pivot or Die' update was meant to shake up the meta, but it's a nightmare for solo survivors that leaves me no choice but to die

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Monster Hunter is getting a Magic: The Gathering collab, and I think I speak for all fans of cool lizard art when I say: Hell yeah

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Megabonk developer withdraws from 'Best Debut Indie Game' nomination at The Game Awards for a pretty good reason: 'It's not my debut game'

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Valve accidentally steps on the make-up deal it offered to the indie game whose 2024 release was ruined by a Steam bug: 'I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed'

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Megabonk dev rejects The Game Awards nomination, says vote for other indies

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Obituary: Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman has passed away at 62

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Counter-Strike 2 modders surprise drop an excellent Halo 3 multiplayer pack, accidentally proving how badly Valve has squandered Source 2

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Stephen King's The Running Man has a smarter ending than either movie

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Megabonk Dev Officially Withdraws It From The Game Awards [Update]

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Over 20 hours of Elden Ring lore videos are being crammed into one big book by Souls YouTuber VaatiVidya

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Homer Simpson Clones Are Invading The Real World And You Can Blame Fortnite

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The ‘Tiny Penis’ Gesture Backlash Brigade Has Claimed Another Victim

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Report: Sony Wants To Beat Nintendo In Japan And Players Are Benefitting

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'

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PlayStation early Black Friday deals include big PS5 price drops

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The world wasn't ready for Kirby Air Ride in 2003

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MTG's Monster Hunter Secret Lair Superdrop gets an official release date

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Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur's Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: 'honestly, what the f**k'

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Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google's CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: 'We do give people those rights'

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Silent Hill f's Game of the Year snub, explained

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Lessons from EA's 37-year live service hopes for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

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A Game Riot Nearly Killed Has Been Saved

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It’s time to rethink the Best RPG category at The Game Awards

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The Game Awards' 2025 GOTY nominations bolster Steam sales

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2 wild Varanasi theories that explain S.S. Rajamouli's mysterious new movie

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The DC movie leftover Blue Beetle is on Netflix, where it belongs

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Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out'

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion Rounds Out A Banner Year For Game Pass

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Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025

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Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos

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Call Of Duty Black Ops 7: The Kotaku Review

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Dispatch’s Best Scene Is As Funny As It Is Violent

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The Binding Of Isaac Meets Pokémon Is A Chaotic Feast I Will Continue To Gorge On

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How to find and kill a Matriarch in Arc Raiders

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Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in

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Anthropic reports the first 80-90% 'AI-orchestrated' cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical

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All the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the second half of November

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Portable 15-Inch Gaming Monitor Cheaper Than Budget Controller, Now Lets You Play Switch on Big Screen

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Black Panther 3 is Sinners director Ryan Coogler's "next movie"

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The PS5 Will Be As Cheap As It Was 5 Years Ago For Black Friday

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A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres

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PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans

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Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood

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No, The Game Awards Aren’t Rigged

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