Fallout designer Tim Cain thinks influencers have changed how people make and play games: 'more people seem to be abdicating their own judgement to that of people they see online'

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One-time Google competitor Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, throws in the towel after almost 30 years: 'Jeeves' spirit endures'

13h

After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3

13h

New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures

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After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'

16h

South Korean Supreme Court orders Dark and Darker dev Ironmace to pay $3.84 million to Nexon

17h

Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said

19h

GameStop reportedly wants to buy eBay, a company with four times its market value

19h

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay's most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding

20h

Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on

21h

I've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

22h

Fortnite Droid Tycoon beginner guide: How to upgrade, expand, and rebirth

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Marathon (1994) and Marathon (2026) are at opposite ends of FPS history, but playing them at the same time I'm finding they have a lot in common, despite their vast differences

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sold 250,000 copies and 'broke even on development costs' in 1 day

Blizzard decides 'Limitless Rage' barbarian items should actually have a limit after watching them rampage through Diablo 4 dealing quadrillions of damage

The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories

Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button

Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories 'pointless' and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth 'which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story'

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

I didn't think a 2D platformer could be scary, but oh boy did this game about a forsaken nun in a dead world of demon cockroaches prove me wrong

Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'

Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?

Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: 'The critique is fair ... we got work to do'

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Razer Kiyo V2 X review

The new PC games of May 2026: Forza, Subnautica 2, and early access games galore

This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

The cozy game launches of May are dominated by a bunch of hotly-anticipated sims

Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film 'takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2' without actually engaging any of the characters

ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming

Valve on the Steam Machine delays: 'Obviously we're bummed that this is the state of things'

Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version

It's not confirmation of a Pragmata sequel, but Capcom has teased that its latest venture could have a future among its pantheon of iconic franchises after a tough development

As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric

'We undercalled the level of enthusiasm': Apple's Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but 'we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment'

A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard's made it for, that doesn't mean I feel good about it

If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered

Total War: Warhammer 40k's map reveals fill me with faith that Creative Assembly can handle the setting's absurd scale

GameSir G7 Pro 8K Aimlabs Edition review

Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve's been importing a whole heap of 'game consoles'

EA now lets you pre-order battle passes in Battlefield 6 for exclusive rewards, because of course it does

Alienware AW2726DM review

Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

The Empire's most OTT lord finally gets his due, portrayed by a YouTuber hamming it up in Total War: Warhammer 3

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will have destructible terrain elements: 'That forest, if you don't like it, you don't have to keep it'

Subnautica 2 is the latest behemoth to mess with other games' launch plans at the last minute: 'we need to dodge the Leviathan'

Robot Watch: The weirdest and wildest things bots did this month including self destructing, playing ping pong, and pooping NFTs