A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel

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I am the law, man, thanks to this mod for Red Dead Redemption 2

The remarkable story of Unreal 2, the sequel rescued from development hell by dooming it to failure: 'There was just no way we could succeed'

After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net, and it's all thanks to a 'slam dunk case of trademark infringement'

Robot watch: The weirdest things the clankers did this month including moonwalking themselves to death, losing a fight to a step, and drowning by the dozens in Sydney Harbour

Paralives is home to the kind of architectural creative freedom I haven't felt from a life sim since The Sims 2

Bungie spills the beans on combat tuning for Marathon Season 2, and it's bad news for shotgun lovers and thermal snipers

007: Nightfire review (2003)

A burnt-out Final Fantasy 14 playerbase is noticeably more chipper after its latest reveal, even if we've seen nothing come of it yet

Our Baldur's Gate 3 quiz gauntlet is complete—now try a bonus round on romance, literature, and classes

Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: 'I saw the game the day it went up on Steam'

It seems Terraria's developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than 'adjusting a few numbers'

Pragmata's developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a 'huge compliment', though I'm not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection

A conversation with Infinity Ward about Call of Duty

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Legend has it that The 7th Guest's creators were 'fired' on the spot after pitching the game—it's 'hyperbole,' but not entirely untrue

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An EVE newbie got an impossibly rare $7,000 ship out of a free loot box, leaving him set for life in the space MMO: 'Everyone gets this for free, right?'

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The Witcher 3 sold another 5 million copies over the last year: 'This cements its place among the best-selling videogames in history'

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Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies

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Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2's final update: 'My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating'

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Game Pass success story: It turns out that when you make things cheaper, more people will buy them

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Balatro publisher Playstack could soon belong to the same private equity firm that owns Fandom and GameSpot

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StarCraft 2 development ended 6 years ago, but Blizzard still won't stop messing with it

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Fable 4 is delayed into 2027 and we all know why

An Arc Raiders player demonstrates how to kill a Bastion in 16 seconds without a Deadline—now I'm questioning my own skills

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 promises more 'grounded' cosmetics, and I feel like I've heard this before

Amazon bins an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees, because they were burning through too many costly tokens

CDPR is aiming to 'release 3 Witcher games within a 6 year period' but don't expect any expansions for the upcoming trilogy

One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model

007 First Light review

AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'

Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don't let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory

An Overwatch poster has been spotted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, leaving some to speculate a collaboration is on the horizon

I'm sorry, but I'm here to say that I really do not enjoy parrying stuff in videogames

Cozy cleaning sim Moldwasher is perfect for fans of PowerWash Simulator, or any life-long haters of the fungi Stachybotrys Chartarum

I absolutely agree with 33% of you when it comes to your choice of freaky Subnautica 2 critters

It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams

Anbernic claims quiet memory size downgrade in its retro handheld devices is 'an unexpected error' without addressing criticisms over speed decreases

'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors

It looks like the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld powered by Intel's new Arc G-series chips will have a pinch of ROG Xbox Ally to it

This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards

Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone

007 First Light has sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and claims the victory of 'fastest selling title in IO Interactive's history'

Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'

Overwatch's general manager has ignited player hopes for an animated series after revealing that he 'would not rule out' other narrative experiences in the future

Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld gaming PC with new Intel G-series chips looks a lot like a beefier Lenovo Legion Go S

In a sea of videogame movie adaptations, 28% of you are sick and tired of 'em and 24% of you are PC Gamer as hell

Where to find the Minamino region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again

6 months before the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar employees in the UK have formed a union