Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight

Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression

Former Assassin's Creed franchise boss sues Ubisoft for nearly $1 million, alleging 'constructive dismissal'

'Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales': New Blood chief says Blood West sold 'like 200% more' the day it was a freebie on EGS

Steam reportedly raked in a record-breaking $1.6 billion in December with Arc Raiders alone moving over a million copies

Once and for all, which game has the best art?

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FromSoftware-inspired RPG Lunacid is getting DLC, as its creator expresses bafflement at its success: 'This was supposed to be niche'

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Super Battle Golf improves the world's least interesting sport by letting you blast your competitors with orbital lasers

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You've got until Monday to get 80% off 2 of the best dungeon crawlers ever made

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Terraria's long-awaited 1.4.5 patch finally has a release date, and it's this month: 'start the countdown'

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Goblin Sushi is a cooking sim about a goblin who cooks sushi for other sushi-loving goblins

Fallout reunites with Magic: The Gathering for cards featuring characters from New Vegas, the TV show, and more Dogmeat

Skyrim mod The Rot Below promises a '3–6 hour dungeon experience' and is fully voice-acted

Minecraft-like Hytale got a huge dinosaur update just a few days after release

Armed robbers steal $100,000 worth of Pokéstock from New York City Pokémon store

Diablo-like No Rest for the Wicked has sold a million copies, and co-op is coming next week

This Thief fan mission has you play a blind character trying to steal back their sight, and honestly that's probably the least weird thing about it

The modern MMO's biggest enemy is difficulty, because pleasing everyone is basically impossible—and yet, they must

Netflix nabs streaming rights to the Legend of Zelda movie

Only diehard XCOM fans will have a chance at beating our latest quiz

To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide's last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free

The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now

Earth Must Die in this adventure game boasting a Dispatch-like voice cast of British comedy superheroes, and it releases later this month

Ambitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest

Hytale console commands to give yourself any item, teleport around the map, and swap between game modes

Nexus Mods quashes rumor of 2-year bans for linking the site on Discord: 'There does not appear to be any risk of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods links'

Forbidden Solitaire warns us to uninstall it 'before it's too late,' but I played the demo anyway and now I want more

Fortnite bans paid prize wheels in third-party games just days after Steal the Brainrot started selling them

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

Foxhole, the war MMO with months-long battles fought by thousands of real players, is evolving once again with planes, bombers, and paratroopers

There's a fantasy swordsmithing sim launching on Steam next week, which is a sentence I've been waiting to hear since browsing my dad's replica sword catalogs in 4th grade

Here we go: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once called it a 'last resort', but ChatGPT is about to get stuffed with ads

UK police chief resigns over AI intel embarrassment, blames 'political and media frenzy' rather than his force's failure to fact-check Copilot

Quarantine Zone contraband list and how to seize internal contraband

Facepunch Studios COO says he'll buy New World for $25 million, and he might not be joking: 'We're always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues'

The Sims 4 Royalty and Legacy: all the confirmed features in the next expansion

Arc Raiders almost had an auction house like Escape From Tarkov, but Embark nixed it because the game became 'just about coins'

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check review

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How to complete Modern Prometheus and find four zombie body parts in Quarantine Zone

I don't know why everyone's suddenly making games inspired by Spore, but this roguelike twin-stick shooter might be the best attempt yet at realising the lost potential of the cell stage

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its awards sweep, getting 8 out of 9 nominations at the GDCA

Taiwan signs deal to invest $250 ‌billion into US tech industry and slash tariffs on its exports

Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers

Arc Raiders has released its Cold Snap numbers, and only 8% of raiders managed to finish their Candleberry Banquet

With The Division 3 still in early development, series boss Julian Gerighty leaves Ubisoft to work on Battlefield instead

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain boils RPGs down into 9 different types of quests, but warns "more of one thing means less of another"

SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

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