Steam week in review: Another online shooter winds down weeks after launch, as robot cowboys take over

Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'

Former Elder Scrolls Online boss was told in 2001 that 'There's already enough MMOs out there, no one is ever gonna play a new one'

Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: 'I know where this is going'

A Utah age verification law targeting VPN users goes into effect this week

Skyrim has been the most-played 'Unsupported' game on Steam Deck for 5 months

Nearly 40 years after launch, NetHack just got a 5.0.0 release with over 3,000 patch notes

A group of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players hijacked the top leaderboard ranks not for glory, but to promote their expertise at making the strongest character builds

In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck

XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

The creator of Infinite Craft has a new game where you explore a secret-filled social hub as your mouse cursor

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Writing one of Final Fantasy 14's sauciest songs required its lyricist to consult the tomes—Wikipedia's incredibly thorough BDSM page

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There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent

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Plants vs. Zombies review (2009)

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There's an extreme lack of good quality, easy-to-find video game figures, and after seeing people make their own I'm tempted to try it myself

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You're not crazy, that one sewer puzzle in Half-Life 2 really was harder 22 years ago

Fallout designer Tim Cain thinks influencers have changed how people make and play games: 'more people seem to be abdicating their own judgement to that of people they see online'

One-time Google competitor Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, throws in the towel after almost 30 years: 'Jeeves' spirit endures'

After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3

New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures

After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'

South Korean Supreme Court orders Dark and Darker dev Ironmace to pay $3.84 million to Nexon

Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said

GameStop reportedly wants to buy eBay, a company with four times its market value

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay's most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding

Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on

I've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

Fortnite Droid Tycoon beginner guide: How to upgrade, expand, and rebirth

Marathon (1994) and Marathon (2026) are at opposite ends of FPS history, but playing them at the same time I'm finding they have a lot in common, despite their vast differences

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sold 250,000 copies and 'broke even on development costs' in 1 day

Blizzard decides 'Limitless Rage' barbarian items should actually have a limit after watching them rampage through Diablo 4 dealing quadrillions of damage

The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories

Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button

Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories 'pointless' and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth 'which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story'

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

I didn't think a 2D platformer could be scary, but oh boy did this game about a forsaken nun in a dead world of demon cockroaches prove me wrong

Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'

Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?

Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: 'The critique is fair ... we got work to do'

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Razer Kiyo V2 X review

The new PC games of May 2026: Forza, Subnautica 2, and early access games galore

This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

The cozy game launches of May are dominated by a bunch of hotly-anticipated sims

Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film 'takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2' without actually engaging any of the characters

ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming

Valve on the Steam Machine delays: 'Obviously we're bummed that this is the state of things'

Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version