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id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'

2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'

'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic

'What the f**k': Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier's film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office

Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 2, 2026)

21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge

The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now

Can you guess which game these competitive rank crests are from?

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'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades

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One of BioShock Infinite's best narrative devices is its music

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Videogame merch is basically diet cosplay, and I'm desperate for more brands to get in on being more fashionably nerdy

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Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection

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Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free

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Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more

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On-Together is the first focus tool videogame I've used that understands the importance of partnered-up productivity

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February is surprisingly light on cozy game launches but we're looking forward to these chill picks you shouldn't miss

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Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'

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I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential

Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes

Terra Invicta review

Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'

The company that made a Dark Souls tabletop RPG is doing the same for Elden Ring Nightreign, and honestly, that's harder to imagine

A mega-mod is kicking GTA 5 into 2026 thanks to one hobbyist creator and roughly 20,000 aggressively placed trees and street props

Highguard adds an experimental 5v5 mode with longer respawns during raids, though it's 'not meant to replace 3s'

Deadlock now lets you avoid certain heroes when queuing for a game, but you can't avoid the newest ones

Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she's in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor's curiosity and years of research

Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live

Any remake of GTA 4 must preserve its minigames and misery

The best Elder Scrolls game that isn't an Elder Scrolls game is getting a big patch in February and free DLC in March

In a beautifully ironic twist, a YouTuber attempting a pacifist run of Bully discovered a secret weapon hidden for almost 20 years: 'I can see why they tried to lock it inside a building'

Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds 'by far the largest and most complex map we've ever made'

Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to

How to get every Pal in Terraria's Palword crossover

I watched Markiplier play Iron Lung for 45 minutes before watching Markiplier star in the Iron Lung movie for 2+ hours. Which was better?

Thousands of players flood into Team Fortress 2 Classified, the free 'TF2 Classic' mod that just launched on Steam

I've already put 10 hours into this upcoming RPG's demo because it has the best combat I've seen outside a FromSoft game

Roblox walks back some of its dramatic changes to avatar faces, but not enough to make everyone happy

Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: 'Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee'

Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'

There's a huge Arc Raiders duplication glitch which has players hoarding mountains of rubber ducks worth millions, 'I extracted with 2.8 million. Still confused'

Where to find Arc Synthetic Resin in Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders Bird City event times and modifier explained

Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on 'improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows' which is better than more AI

How to beat Franz the Dejected Assailant in Code Vein 2

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

You can now view the Computer History Museum's collection from the comfort of your own home, and it's full of retro blasts from the past

Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military

Darren Aronofsky wages war on art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce

DeepSeek has reportedly been given conditional approval by the Chinese government to buy Nvidia's AI GPUs