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Meta is closing 3 VR studios and laying off roughly 10% of Reality Labs as it shifts focus from the metaverse to AI wearables, it's next sure-fire, can't-miss idea

How to get iron in Hytale

It's January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux

Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames and collectathon fetch quests

Hytale surges to the most-watched game on Twitch, attracting over 420,000 viewers with its long-awaited launch

Larry Hryb, better known as Xbox hype man Major Nelson, has been laid off from Unity less than 2 years after joining the company

EA delays Battlefield 6's next season a month to 'further polish and refine Season 2,' and the only words I want to hear next are 'bigger maps'

Judge denies interim pay for fired Rockstar employees, but the decision 'does nothing to suggest that Rockstar will not be found guilty of unfair dismissal when the case goes to trial,' union says

How to play with friends in Hytale

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

One of the most intriguing plotlines in Fallout season 2 may have just been spoiled by checks notes Funko Pop

Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 looks great and all but I'm surprised at just how much extra power it demands from your graphics card

Blizzard has big plans for World of Warcraft's player housing, and you won't have to wait long to see what's next: 'This is a system that we're not just setting up to last for the launch of Midnight, but for years to come'

Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt

Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead

Arc Raiders' Cold Snap event is over, which means I have my sights set on the next possible event: a toxic swamp and maybe even a volcanic eruption

CES 2026 might have been a damp squib in many areas but not when it comes to gaming monitors

With memory in short supply, Gigabyte unveils high-capacity set-up that can support up to 256 GB of DDR5-7200 and is bound to cost the prettiest of pennies

Some of my favourite ever dungeons feature in this enormous and absurdly cheap tabletop RPG bundle

Rhythm Doctor review

The next Helldivers 2 warbond brings suppressed weapons and stealth tech to turn your helldives into sneaking missions

I've put Nvidia's new DLSS 4.5 to the test: Here's how to enable it yourself and whether you should

Larian's main focus for Divinity is 'to see how far we can push the diversity of companions' so intra-NPC relationships can feel more natural and complex

Arc Raiders has surpassed 12 million players worldwide: 'a milestone we owe entirely to the players', and to celebrate, Embark is handing out a free golden pickaxe

Dwarf Fortress issues a 'naked dwarf fix' after accidentally turning players' pride-and-joy into bearded nudist colonies

If I could change one thing in Arc Raiders this year, I'd abolish late spawns

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Lian Li offers purely aesthetic replacements for its white PSU power cables because they 'carry a noticeable purple hue'

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Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for consumer PCs spotted in a near retail-ready Dell laptop

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Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there

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Even after its success, Embark design lead is still lukewarm on AI usage for Arc Raiders: 'I don't think it's fallen any way or the other'

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PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

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Arc Raiders has officially nerfed two of the strongest weapons, the Trigger Nade and the Kettle, as previous stats created 'an unfair dynamic that favours using 3rd party software'

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My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

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Trump announces that AI companies must 'pay their own way' for energy consumption to prevent consumer utility bills from going up

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Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem update has launched a DLC to add more trials that put your skills to the test, but most importantly it adds particle effects for when you're riding a horse

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In a bid to meet the memory supply crisis head on, SK Hynix announces it will invest nearly $13 billion into fresh AI packaging facility

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TikTok hit Quarantine Zone finally launched today and made the mistake of giving me a large medical hammer

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Blue Prince, the best game of 2025 (don't check our GOTY just trust me) is on sale on Steam for under $20 for the first time

Anthem is finally, officially dead

Peter Molyneux's final game is coming in April: 'Masters of Albion is the culmination of my life’s work,' he says, not that he's overhyping it or anything

'Steam is winning with its ease of use,' GOG's new owner says, but he's not interested in picking a fight: 'I think much can be done in GOG without losing its core values and the way it operates'

Embark dispels myths about Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking: 'We don't make any value or moral judgments … it's a bit of a blunt instrument'

Indie dev is delisting his AI game from Steam because his new girlfriend convinced him it's evil: 'The game existing in its current form is a disgrace to all game makers and players'

The day after Epic enables microtransactions in Fortnite islands, one of the most popular games on the platform rolls out a $37 'gift pack' and in-game gambling

All Devil Hunter codes for January 2026: Extra fiend and clan rerolls

'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'

One modder has already got Doom running inside the voxel-sandbox Hytale, and it's not even out yet: It plays 'a bit like a broken keyboard'

Arc Raiders removes a hidden first-person exploit just 1 day after it was uncovered: 'This feature was never meant to be player-facing'