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Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered

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Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

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Blade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'

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Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia

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Fallout Season 2 Episode 2 recap: 'Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter'

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Commander Shepard actors will return for the new Mass Effect game 'with bells on' if BioWare asks them: 'Email the powers-that-be who make these games and say, Give us more Shepard'

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In a year where Obsidian released a pair of RPGs, its best game was an early access survival romp

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I plugged 12 game names into Google Translate and kept hitting go—how many can you guess the original title of?

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2025 saw game developers scrambling to avoid heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES

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Uh-oh, I think I'm finally all gacha'd out

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Celebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods

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Fallout season 2's second episode arrives at the best Wasteland location to date as Todd Howard praises the show for taking 'such amazing care to treat locations with this obsessive authenticity'

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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'