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Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of

Resident Evil Requiem Confronts The Franchise’s Burdensome Past To Save Its Future

Marathon already feels like the scariest game of 2026

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection: The Kotaku Review

Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day

Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 is about to sideline its protagonist, and that's a good thing

Marathon Players Have Invented Drone Warfare

One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down

Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually

Pokémon Pokopia Is At Its Best When It’s Giving Last Of Us

Battlefield developers laid off by EA months after Battlefield 6 'shatters records'

GDC 2026: All the news, previews, interviews, demos and more

Pokemon and Zelda made a baby with PickMon, Nintendo lawyers thrilled

Clair Obscur devs want 'fair solution' for 'L'Académie Clair-Obscur' comic controversy

If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk

Yakuza creator's new game Gang of Dragon is in trouble

Magic’s Turtle Team-Up makes the TMNT set the most beginner-friendly yet

Microsoft's CEO insists that Xbox, 'at its best, lifts the entire company' and that it will 'always' invest in gaming

Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode

Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it

Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot

Cyberpunk 2077 redemption complete: You can now literally crap yourself to death with an alarmingly well-thought-out mod

Dragon Slayer, one of the oldest Japanese RPG series, is being brought back to life after 40 years

Ghost Of Yotei’s Free Online Spin-Off Will Let You Play That Awesome Coin-Flicking Game With Friends

Marvel Rivals is enacting 'Victim Compensation Protocol' for everyone who has been negatively affected by the incentivised throwing epidemic: 'The system will automatically restore lost points'

Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join'

Where Winds Meet interactive map

This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: 'A reimagined classic, that's only a little bit janky'

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'

Three Pokémon Pokopia Upgrades You Should Buy Immediately

Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds

Master Chief voice actor demands White House remove his voice from 'disgusting and juvenile war porn' video

Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month

I've somehow created Cthulu's own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting

Battlefield 6, The Best-Selling Game Of 2025, Hit With Layoffs

Still humming with life 21 years later, Konami's Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era

GDC Festival of Gaming

Marathon Players Are Working Together To Unlock The Shooter’s Final Level

Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now

Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release'

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review

Epic Games Attempts to Clarify Google’s Muzzling of Tim Sweeney: ‘I’m Totally Free To Say Google’s Color Scheme Sucked’

Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Somehow, Someone’s Made A Bigger Pokémon Ripoff Than Palworld

Don’t Buy Pokémon Pokopia From Amazon

OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about 'surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization'

A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam

Master Chief Actor Calls White House Video Featuring His Voice ‘Disgusting And Juvenile War Porn’

'If we love this work, we have to protect it:' Heart Machine workers secure voluntary union recognition