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Playing Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally all weekend turned me into a happy lump of swaddled gamer joy

Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes

3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio

Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon

Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard'

Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of

Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day

One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down

Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually

If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk

Microsoft's CEO insists that Xbox, 'at its best, lifts the entire company' and that it will 'always' invest in gaming

Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode

Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it

Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot

Cyberpunk 2077 redemption complete: You can now literally crap yourself to death with an alarmingly well-thought-out mod

Marvel Rivals is enacting 'Victim Compensation Protocol' for everyone who has been negatively affected by the incentivised throwing epidemic: 'The system will automatically restore lost points'

Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join'

This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: 'A reimagined classic, that's only a little bit janky'

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'

Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds

Master Chief voice actor demands White House remove his voice from 'disgusting and juvenile war porn' video

Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month

I've somehow created Cthulu's own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting

Still humming with life 21 years later, Konami's Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era

Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now

Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release'

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review

Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about 'surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization'

A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam

You can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher's office to play it in person

An hour of puzzle-solving in the quirky world of Big Walk is the most fun I've had in co-op in ages

Dragon Age creator says he 'had to take out half' of the quests in Dragon Age 2 once he found out they only had 16 months to make it: 'BioWare as a team did not know how to make a small game'

My favourite virtual co-working game has received its first content update, and the new minigame will no doubt derail my productivity for a bit

Discord fixes bug that caused app to take upwards of two whole minutes to launch

Nintendo and Lenovo seeking refunds for tariffs, after Trump's use of an economic powers act was found unlawful

This 3D printed, laptop-carrying 'suitcase' is not just a thing of beauty but it's also a neat solution to the dearth of eGPUs

What does the Golden Compass do in Slay the Spire 2?

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026)

The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective

Hytale lead says they're pushing for modding in part because they 'hire from the community': 'We're building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things'

One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out 'a bit meaner than expected' in hindsight: 'To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users'

CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'

Tell me: What's the worst videogame song you've ever had to listen to?

I'm determined to turn my house into a museum with these stunning wildlife identification paintings from Holly Sweet Illustration

This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat 'em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update

Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason

The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws