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Wait, there was a new live-action Witcher movie? Starring Dolph Lundgren? On Netflix? In October?

Polish analyst adds fuel to rumors that The Witcher 3 will get new DLC in 2026 to set up The Witcher 4

Electronic Arts shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Saudi-led takeover

Hollow Knight: Silksong player discovers Hornet's taunt does damage, proceeds to spend hours trying to beat every boss with it: 'This is like watching Sisyphus push the boulder and win'

Like a good ol' southern potluck, South of Midnight had me going back to play for seconds, and then thirds, thanks to all its little details

The games industry pays tribute to the late Vince Zampella: 'Thank you, Vince—You were one of the good ones'

007 First Light, IO Interactive's James Bond game, is delayed 'to ensure the experience meets the level of quality you players deserve on day one'

Microsoft's year of shame

'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout

Hideo Kojima says Super Mario Bros. 'was the catalyst that brought me to the game industry', and made him realise 'this medium would one day surpass movies'

Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'

Roadtrip RPG Keep Driving teaches you that a hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met, and that friend might have weed

Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos

Turns out that Fallout: New Vegas beta stuffed with cut content also contains early versions of the DLCs with some big differences

Danganronpa creator says his latest game 'might truly become the last grand, 200-hour game story in human history written entirely without AI'

They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons

If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3's director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it's out next year

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is one of the worst-rated movies of the year just like Borderlands was last year

EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void

I almost learned something in RV There Yet? but I was too busy smoking cigarettes and driving over big rocks

Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users

Marvel Rivals wants to go big for 2026, and the team has 'already planned more than a year ahead'

The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.'

Acer Predator Orion 3000 review

Goodbye text fringing: LG's new RGB Stripe panel might solve one of the last remaining issues with OLED gaming monitors

Acer Predator Orion 7000 review

Swen Vincke warns Divinity newcomers that they probably shouldn't play the early games in the series: 'They're a bit outdated by now,' which is putting it very mildly

I played dozens of retro games this year, and these are the ones I still whole-heartedly recommend going into 2026

Vince Zampella, the co-founder of Infinity Ward and head of Battlefield, dies in car crash

World of Warcraft: Midnight's new solo-friendly Prey mode will have bosses attacking you out of nowhere: 'There's going to be some really mean stuff that we're going to do to you'

How to get the Arcane Pickaxe in The Forge

2K Games chokes out another WWE game just 2 years after launch

The ill-starred Perfect Dark reboot had 'entire chapters' completed before cancellation, says Joanna Dark's voice actor, who 'did not see it coming… it was devastating'

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 made some of us fall in love with parrying, and as our resident parry sicko, I won't say 'I told you so'—actually no, wait, I will

Clair Obscur's famously small (but not that small) developer isn't interested in becoming less not-that-small: 'I think it's good to have limitations when you are creative'

The horse girl sickos have done it again, this time raising $800,000 for a farm that houses some of Umamusume's real-life horse counterparts

Battlefield 6 fans suspect EA used generative AI in a cosmetics pack for the shooter: 'I would literally prefer to have no sticker than some low quality AI generated garbage'

An indie dev worried about being seen as a ripoff after discovering a game similar to the one they were making, but then the original dev responded: 'Don't be discouraged'

Hideo Kojima says MGS2 was never about AI 'but rather a future I didn't desire' of data gaining a will of its own and 'unfortunately we're heading there'

I am desperately trying to wrap my head around this upcoming heterosexual omegaverse game

Since everyone got mad about yellow paint again this year, here are 5 alternatives I propose to help players find their way around in 2026

Out of all the new games I've played in 2025, Grounded 2 deserves a special nod simply because it makes me like a genre that I really don't like: multiplayer survival

Blue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher

Skateboarding games had a huge 2025, but it was the controversial Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 that I couldn't put down

Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster

Roguelite city builder Super Fantasy Kingdom has been a big success, and now its developer can afford a luxury he's always dreamed of: 'A real winter jacket'

Fortnite has quickly pulled its latest accolades trailer after letting a saucy foreplay reference slip through the cracks

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'

Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 22, 2025)