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Ex-Overwatch Boss Jeff Kaplan Says AI Can’t Replace ‘Human Spirit’

BAFTA Games Awards 2026 nominees announced: the full list

Junji Ito’s classic horror short In Old Records is now a vinyl-exclusive audio drama

PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts

New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

Crimson Desert Reveals It Will Use Controversial DRM Just A Week Before Launch (Update)

'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off

Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy failed most of its students

Fans Think Resident Evil’s Leon Would Be A Cornball In Every Universe

Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'

Pokemon Pokopia has topped 2.2M sales in four days

Marvel Rivals Devs On ‘Gooner’ Skins: ‘We Didn’t Do That Kind Of Content On Purpose’

Mina the Hollower preview: Yacht Club's Zelda homage digs even deeper than Shovel Knight

Free on Epic Games Store now: A favorite Animal Crossing-like cozy sim

Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'

Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'

A24’s horror movie Undertone channels a viral internet trend

Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'

Valve argues mystery boxes are 'widely used' in the tangible world

A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'

One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is great B-movie fun

Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage

Modder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'

10 Tips To Know Before You Start Playing Monster Hunter Stories 3

The IGF 2026 Winners Are An Exceptional Selection Of Indie Games You’re Going To Want To Play

AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it

PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'

Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops

WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch

Mewgenics will have 'at least two' DLCs, and the 'small' one is almost a third as big as the base game

The Sims 4 modding community is disappointed by new 'microtransaction' marketplace

Overwatch Director Reveals His Next Game And It Looks Like Red Dead Redemption 2 Meets Rust

Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan Breaks His Silence On Leaving Blizzard: ‘There Was Too Much Focus On Lets Make Lots Of Money Really Fast’

Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'

How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's second act? You may need an actual brainworm to score a perfect 20/20 on our latest quiz

Nintendo Reveals The Secrets To Donkey Kong Bananza‘s Super Satisfying Destruction

Unions band together to launch new game industry conference 'by workers, for workers'

The latest Humble Bundle packs 9 CRPGs, including some of the best to ever do it, for a little over $20

The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'

Here's where to find Game Developer at the GDC Festival of Gaming!

Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign

Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games

StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game gets a release date

Valve says New York Attorney General's violent videogame fearmongering is 'a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before'