One of our favorite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth game prequel where you're a Combine assassin preying on the human resistance

Brigador devs think it's crucial that their abrasive, hardcore mech sims aren't for everyone: 'I think we make boy slop, but that's okay'

What was the first videogame song that you ever heard?

Meccha Chameleon celebrates 15 million sales by teasing a 'collaboration with a famous Japanese star'

Marvel Rivals players suspect Captain America's summer sausage has already been downsized

Hasbro should stop looking for a Baldur's Gate 4 studio and take a leaf out of Larian's book by trying something new

Darktide's new Skitarii class is its most unique yet, but it also advances our understanding of Warhammer 40k lore

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'Chibi tumba loonuck' may sound like gibberish, but The Sims have their own language. Can you translate the simlish phrases in our latest Sims series quiz?

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The launch of Commodore's social media-free privacy-first 'dumbphone' was apparently responsible for 'Our biggest week'

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Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations surprised to find one power user churning out thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fics

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Counter-Strike 2 might be the biggest game on Steam, but Global Offensive is breaking player count records since it went standalone again

Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strike—and the last one was made by Remedy

Modders made a Fallout 4 quest in a weekend for charity, and it features iconic Elder Scrolls actor Wes Johnson

Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider is pitching a heist RPG that's 'make or break' for his studio

Somehow, the $1,000 Asus ROG Ally Xbox X is the best value gaming handheld I can think of right now

This little orb's going to be sitting on my minimap for the rest of WoW's current expansion, and I couldn't tell you why

Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker

Mouthwashing's follow-up is self-described 'friendsweat' where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: 'We're definitely not quite at Peak, but we're not trying to make Arma either'

Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: 'We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!'

One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG's Summer Sale

The latest Chinese PC gaming hit is an indie game that spent the last 8 years growing into something you've never played before

Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, 'a testament to what CD Projekt does best'

EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source

New Sims 4 update cuts back on excessive notifications—you can finally silence your phone, and the grim reaper will try to recruit you less

Another player has swiped a colossal discount on GTA 6, paying just $2 thanks to a forgotten Best Buy card

Remember your Paradox account? No? Well you might want to look into that because it could be deleted next year

Where to find the Festival Loop speed zone in Forza Horizon 6

Razer Seiren V3 Pro microphone review

'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days

Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit

Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'

Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light

Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's development got so bad that it almost turned its devs away from the industry for good: 'I could feel myself coming apart at the seams'

SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over

Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game

Clair Obscur is flawed on purpose, says director: 'Games that try to be perfect, that try to fix all their flaws—they're usually just really boring'

Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant

'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'

Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake

How many of these games with pixel art styles can you identify?

The internet is agog at Captain America's hog

The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action

Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'

Lord of Hatred upgraded Diablo 4 into one of the best action RPGs out there, but its new season ignores everything that made it great

Following the success of Mouthwashing, developer Wrong Organ wasn't ready to make a better 'story game,' so it's making a 'gameplay game' instead

'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs

Rust gets even more cutthroat by adding its own version of apartment rentals

Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027

Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source