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'Stop Killing Games' Comes Roaring Back After YouTube Drama And Now Industry Lobbying Groups Are Pushing Back

Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with 'Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns' and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer

Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes

Square Enix leads 'major investment' into Vaultbreakers developer BetaDwarf

Every big announcement from Anime Expo 2025

EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'

Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult

5 Essential Tips For Getting Started In Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Is Getting A Second Season, And The Writer Can't Wait To 'Make The Whole World Sad'

'Night City lives on'—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series' next protagonist

Fans Think Smash Bros. 64 Is Coming To Switch Online Thanks To Months-Old Blurry Backgrounds

The Bubbline romance comes back to life in a brand new Adventure Time comic

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders

The Finest Cosplay Appearing At Dokomi 2025

I hit one of Australia's biggest retro fairs and PC gaming was nowhere to be seen, though collectors told me that's down to one of its major retro strengths

Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'

Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order

Grow a Garden has added new pets, mutations, and a seed even better than the Candy Blossom as part of its newest update

'The true value of entertainment lies in its uniqueness:' Nintendo is well aware that rising development costs are very bad news

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 7

Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely

'The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores

Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work

'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat

'Game Pass is an unsustainable model': Arkane founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus after mass layoffs

Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September

Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now

Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6

Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft

Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'

Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards

European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims the proposal 'would curtail developer choice'

Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've put the best of this new generation head-to-head and we have a winner

Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on

Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10

Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore

What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'

Can you guess gaming's weirdest currencies in our latest quiz?

I’m playing Mario Kart World every day, so I guess it was a good launch game

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Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9

Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee