Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show

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Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'

GTA 6 preorders foretold by a Best Buy leak have not come to pass

The problem with bodycam shooters

All Will Rise devs 'definitely expect some pushback from Western audiences' over its depiction of violent resistance and ecoterrorism

The creator of OpenClaw used $1,300,000+ of OpenAI tokens in 30 days, which is a hell of a perk

'The company’s current business model is unsustainable': CEO of Bitcoin ATM operator blames increasing regulation for bankruptcy

'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review

'We are not a killing game,' says Subnautica 2 dev: 'Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill'

How to get Troilite in Subnautica 2

You can thank a bad Dungeons & Dragons DM for one of Shin Megami Tensei's coolest mechanics

This 'very distracting' PC has been filled with screens displaying 15,000 animated gifs in a glorious, migraine-inducing 13 hour+ loop

Exodus is going all-out with its bizarre interstellar physics, and you can learn more during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase and the PC Gaming Show

Take-Two's CEO says AI's not in the business of making hits, 'datasets by their very nature are backward looking', but that doesn't mean AI can't be 'super helpful'

Overclockers squeeze a record-topping 9.2 GHz out of a 14900KF, just 800 MHz shy of the ten gigs that Intel promised us all those years ago

How to get the Bioscanner in Subnautica 2

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review

How to get the Feedback Resonator upgrade in Subnautica 2

'I understand that fear': Ex-Google CEO loudly booed by stadium full of students after talking about AI

Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too

How to get Atacamite in Subnautica 2

How to get Conduit Crystal in Subnautica 2

Acemagic Retro X5 review

'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

Take-Two CEO says the original Borderlands' art style overhaul cost a year of dev time and $50 million: 'Had we not done that, Borderlands wouldn't have been a hit'

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Steam week in review: metroidvanias are still coming thick and fast, but has the world moved on?

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Nintendo 64 emulator just implemented rollback netcode for the entire library: 'It was honestly not that hard'

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Terraria devs reveal the game's average playtime on PC is over 100 hours as it passes 70 million copies sold

Directive 8020's new Turning Points system transforms it from a simple sci-fi survival horror into a compelling, gory puzzle

What would be your go-to gaming soundtrack to recommend to a non-gamer?

Scott Miller, founder of Apogee, has over 1,000 hours in World of Warcraft and always plays a warrior in any RPG: 'I like to get right in their face and pound away'

Demigod review (2009)

Debate: What truly is the easiest character to cosplay?

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director weighs in on the real-time versus turn-based debate, saying that younger players 'increasingly favour more real-time experiences in games'

Star Citizen's latest alpha update brings a 'full reset' to its universe, as Cloud Imperium Games promises to crack down on player exploits and duplication issues

Civilization 7's imminent update will add one of history's most famous conquerors for free, in Firaxis' latest bid to coax you back to its controversial sequel

This indie action RPG looks like Minecraft but plays like Dark Messiah, letting you boot enemies off ledges and body slam them into walls of spikes

Forza Horizon 6 has hit a higher peak player count than Forza Horizon 5 and it's not even out yet

It's time for Garfield's official Magic: The Gathering crossover now

Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'

Lego racing game 2K Drive will be delisted next week, but online multiplayer won't shut down until next year

Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are 'a lie,' says publisher

Ancient MMO Final Fantasy 11 still has new things on the horizon 24 years after launch

Check your inbox: Steam Controller reservations are coming through

GTA roleplayers built a secret Boiler Room rave beneath Los Santos, complete with DJs, club photographers, biker security, and a custom party drug

MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose

This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime's house with magnetism