I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet

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Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount

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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out

This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes

The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year

After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)

Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'

Guild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences'

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Path of Exile 2 director says players exploiting system to become in-game millionaires 'ruined Christmas for me' and joked that he's 'lost all sympathy' for everyone who took advantage of it

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Nobody needs to grind for 100 hours to see how Path of Exile 2 has redefined the action RPG loot hunt

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Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, has died

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If you like puzzle platformers, multi-dimensional traversal, and ducks—I have the game for you

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Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI

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The greatest FPS mode of all time is endangered

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Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign

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Don't be put off by its name—Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart is actually a very fun dungeon crawler with a unique spin

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'London is ready to level up and lead the world in esports': Mayor of London wants to use big events to stimulate economy and create opportunities for young people

MrBeast is co-writing 'the book event of the year' to 'get a whole generation psyched about reading again'

Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'

Logitech G305 X Superlight review

The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it

WoW's quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1's Mythic world bosses, though there's a catch

This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it

AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers

The best cosy cleaning sim I've played has just gone into playtest—if you like PowerWash Simulator, then this is the next game for you

Players have uncovered a mistake with GTA 6's cover art and we've got a re-run of the same old jokes: 'pre-order cancelled'

The gaming headset with one of the best microphones in the biz is now only $130

Slay the Spire 2 patch fixes RNG bug after a fan's '8 hour descent into madness' proves it exists—alongside heaps of other updates and a new Act 3 boss

Full list of The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature cheats for editing Fairy Sims or mastering their Apothecary skills

Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

Steam Next Fest's top played games include only 1 of over 500 demos with an AI disclosure

The devs of EVE Online's survival spinoff are on a 'side quest' to get it on Steam Deck: 'Our goal is to get this to as many players as possible'

Trump says Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel in the USA

Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'

World of Warcraft players will never have to leave the MMO once Blizzard adds Discord chat for guilds in the next update

The director of all six Sharknado movies has a new film, and it's a Dave the Diver live-action short

A small band of Nightdive rebels united to make the System Shock remake after it 'ran out of money' midway through development

Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming

Melgeek Real81 review

Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under

Valve's latest SteamOS is out with 'initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware'

'Many people want to use VPNs for privacy—that is important—but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions': UK government considering VPN ban

SanDisk's latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don't even get Gen 5 speeds for that

Dave the Diver: In the Jungle's cutscenes are even hornier than they are in the base game

GTA 6 pre-orders open next week, and to celebrate Rockstar has revealed its official cover art

Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean

We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable

D&D-inspired Critical Role's homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: 'There's a lot of work being done'