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Live-action Far Cry TV series starring It's Always Sunny's Rob Mac will mimic the games' standalone format, with each season given 'a new setting following a new cast of characters'

2025 Steam Awards nominations are open, and I wonder if Valve's wonky personalized suggestions will affect the results—you'll know they did if Bongo Cat gets nominated in the 'story-rich' category

Battlefield 6 player hits max rank with 'death trap' jeep everybody hates, and it only cost his sanity: 'It’s a bad vehicle'

'It wasn't fun for the first 7 years' says maker of fantasy sim Tavern Keeper, which spent more than a decade in development

'Most of the innovation in gaming has happened on PC' says EVE Online studio boss: 'When I love a game, it's so deeply PC'

Steam's first-ever Black Friday sale makes a surprise appearance to fill the gap left by the Steam Autumn Sale

Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway

How to win at Gift of the Gab in Where Winds Meet without tearing your hair out

How to solve the wall puzzle in Where Winds Meet

Ghost of Yotei star Erika Ishii wants the world to know their pick for Game of the Year is not Ghost of Yotei: 'Blue Prince, all day, every day!'

Escape from Tarkov director says the launch week's wobbles were 'actual stress testing not only of our servers but also our mind and nerves'

The Chinese Room's cofounder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'

'These reports are misleading': Google denies claims that Gmail is scraping your emails to train its AI

Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 director wants to usher in the age of 'JRPG 3.0', which will change 'the genre's structure and presentation at a fundamental level'

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor Jennifer English has advice for AI pushers: 'Don't'

'It's rumor and speculation. There's nothing to it': Intel's Lip-Bu Tan dismisses worries that the company's new hire gave it TSMC's 2 nm IP secrets

It turns out that I've been carrying heavy items wrong in Arc Raiders for over 50 hours, though the best method is far from intuitive

Bloodborne sees a massive performance boost thanks to PS4 emulator update, with hunters' dreams becoming more accessible on Steam Deck

Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue 'one of the most important updates we've ever released'

Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it's no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company

Less than 15% of you have revived a fellow player in Arc Raiders, and we've gotta bump up that depressing number

Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there's 'always that danger' that the industry will get 'overly focussed on making money'

Arc Raiders' basic weapons are way too strong, and it's starting to overshadow even its legendary guns

Forgotten gacha game Tower of Fantasy is launching a new server to de-RNG itself into a purer MMO

Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: 'Sorry it took so long. We've only been making the largest free content video game ever'

Xbox full screen experience is no longer just for handheld gaming PCs, but the feature is rolling out gradually and we're not having much luck with workarounds

Arc Raiders player loses 100,000 Raider Coins-worth of items fighting the Matriarch in the worst way possible: 'I will not top this death anytime soon'

Udo Kier, star of Red Alert 2 and Hideo Kojima's OD, dies aged 81: 'There will never be another like him. Udo, rest in peace'

The world's busiest toilet temporarily made detective sim Shadows of Doubt a murder-free zone: 'You can't always legislate for the fact that everyone's going to need a wee at midnight'

Two Point Museum lets you run wild in its biggest (and hairiest) DLC to date and players can sink their claws in for free this week

The $4,000 limited edition Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090, rated to 800 W, is officially out and oh it's sold out already never mind

How to complete Communication Hideout in Arc Raiders

Baldur's Gate 3 is 'an inspiration' for CD Projekt, but it's all-in on big open worlds: 'We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did'

Great moments in PC gaming: Chilling in my Zen Garden in Plants Vs. Zombies

Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'

This absurdly stylish side scroller feels like playing two different genres of retro shooter at the same time, and I love it

This GTA 6 fan's fascinating deep-dive into co-protagonist Jason's military background is a must-read for all you lore heads out there

Confession time: Which game soundtrack actually made you cry?

I grew up thinking Pyramid Head was one of the scariest video game villains ever, but thanks to cosplay, I no longer have to hide in fear

This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I've played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck

Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide's 'most popular' maps into Vermintide 2, but 'things are not as before'

Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard

Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one

The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least

Constance is a metroidvania that wants its monsters to mean something

The League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games

Why I love Injustice 2's story mode

Mod fixes 17-year-old lip-sync bug in Fallout 3 and New Vegas

'A big document of stealth' requested by Todd Howard from a designer of one of the best stealth games of all time was the blueprint for Skyrim's most beloved playstyle

A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero