Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: 'I'm a bit obsessed with learning the market'

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You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4

Dishonored review (2012)

This gorgeous and ambitious Grand Theft Auto 4 total conversion swaps Liberty City for a Fargo-style slice of rural Wisconsin, featuring backroads and a pizza delivery job gone wrong

CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: 'I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely'

Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source'

Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game

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Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction

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The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release

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The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025

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Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'

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The best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga

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5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft

I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet

Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out

This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes

The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year

After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)

Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'

Guild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences'

Path of Exile 2 director says players exploiting system to become in-game millionaires 'ruined Christmas for me' and joked that he's 'lost all sympathy' for everyone who took advantage of it

Nobody needs to grind for 100 hours to see how Path of Exile 2 has redefined the action RPG loot hunt

Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, has died

If you like puzzle platformers, multi-dimensional traversal, and ducks—I have the game for you

Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI

The greatest FPS mode of all time is endangered

Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign

Don't be put off by its name—Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart is actually a very fun dungeon crawler with a unique spin

'London is ready to level up and lead the world in esports': Mayor of London wants to use big events to stimulate economy and create opportunities for young people

MrBeast is co-writing 'the book event of the year' to 'get a whole generation psyched about reading again'

Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'

Logitech G305 X Superlight review

The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it

WoW's quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1's Mythic world bosses, though there's a catch

This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it

AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers

The best cosy cleaning sim I've played has just gone into playtest—if you like PowerWash Simulator, then this is the next game for you

Players have uncovered a mistake with GTA 6's cover art and we've got a re-run of the same old jokes: 'pre-order cancelled'

The gaming headset with one of the best microphones in the biz is now only $130

Slay the Spire 2 patch fixes RNG bug after a fan's '8 hour descent into madness' proves it exists—alongside heaps of other updates and a new Act 3 boss

Full list of The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature cheats for editing Fairy Sims or mastering their Apothecary skills

Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

Steam Next Fest's top played games include only 1 of over 500 demos with an AI disclosure

The devs of EVE Online's survival spinoff are on a 'side quest' to get it on Steam Deck: 'Our goal is to get this to as many players as possible'

Trump says Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel in the USA

Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'

World of Warcraft players will never have to leave the MMO once Blizzard adds Discord chat for guilds in the next update

The director of all six Sharknado movies has a new film, and it's a Dave the Diver live-action short