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'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

The fourth Steam Scream Fest is here, and there's a lot more on sale than just horror games

Psychopomp is one of the best games you can get for under $10 on Steam, and its newly-revealed sequel looks even better

EA employees are reportedly frustrated by a mandate to use AI, mocking the policy in Slack and suspecting it's being used as justification for layoffs

Here's an RTX 5090 that you can water cool, without worry about breaking a $2000 graphics card

Multiple police cars showed up to a school after surveillance system monitored by AI flagged a bag of Doritos as a gun: 'AI is not the best'

The demo for Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 is a tantalising slice of what could be the next great Warhammer strategy game

'I would stay as far away from the Founders Edition 5090 as I possibly can,' says one experienced repair tech, as a key internal connector can't be sourced for replacement

After OG dev blasted the Halo remake, the 'father of Master Chief' says he thinks it looks just swell, actually: 'Gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it'

The Outer Worlds 2 dunks on you with a 'Consumerism' flaw that secretly makes you stupid if you bought its $100 version for early access: 'Promotions and sales have riddled your brain'

Like scratching scratchers but don't actually want to blow money on the lotto? Try the demo for Scritchy Scratchy, a ridiculously moreish clicker game

A brainrot-themed Roblox game is taking a brainrot-themed Fortnite game to court for being 'a copy'

The Outer Worlds 2's toothless satire of capitalism should be a disappointment to everyone, except Microsoft

EA confirms free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale is coming out tomorrow

Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy

Jurassic World Evolution 3 feels like it forgets that you're raising dinosaurs, not zoo animals

Best Black Friday PC gaming deals 2025: The best discounts on the best gaming gear

Black Friday gaming headset deals 2025: discounts and deals on headsets galore

It's opposite day in CS2: Accounts full of previously run-of-the-mill reds are now worth upwards of $90,000, while one of the most sought-after knives drops $10,000 in value

Black Friday gaming keyboard, mouse, and controller deals 2025: The very best offers on all things clicky

Modders have already patched fast travel into Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and they might even be able to make its linear detective segments skippable for replays

The best horror games to play over Halloween

Black Friday gaming chair deals: The best places to park your posterior for the best prices

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2025: The best discounts on laptops at every size and power level

Disney Dreamlight Valley The Winter Ball Update: Everything you need to know

A Polish LARP event will let you live out Frostpunk in real life for a few hundred euros: 'Drag injured teammates through volcanic fumes… comfort the dying while your own fingers go numb'

Black Friday SSD deals 2025: the fastest PC storage at the lowest prices

Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'

Black Friday graphics card deals 2025: The best GPU offers in the biggest sales event of the year

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025: all the prebuilt PC rigs worth your cash

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2025: Cheap screens for 4K, ultrawide, 1440p and high refresh 1080p

Battlefield 6 dataminers claim mysterious 'granite' files related to this week's patch could be a shadowdrop for its battle royale mode

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 27 (#1591)

The GOAT of Elden Ring weapon mods made it so we can actually use the sick golden ghost weapons Margit killed us with so many times

Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 27, 2025)

Emergency dispatch simulator 911 Operator is free on Steam for a limited time

Europa Universalis lead says design documents stifle creativity: 'You end up with a bunch of idea guys who write all the documents and the rest are there to follow'

Silent Hill f's lead actor streamed the game and had a language-transcending horror experience that's gotten over 1.6 million views

Boltgun 2 will let you play a Sister of Battle

Escape From Duckov quacks past 300,000 concurrent players only 10 days after release

Europa Universalis 2's launch was a desperate gambit for Paradox's survival: 'It needs to be done so it's sold in the US market before Christmas, because we need the money else we cannot pay people'

It's Helldivers 2's Liberty Day, so break out your shovels and play Arrowhead's patriotic new Whack-a-Terminid browser game before it's gone

Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur's Gate-inspired RPG doomed by 'bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay'

Debate: What's the greatest JRPG soundtrack of all time?

The Outer Worlds 2's weirdest weapon is a flashing rainbow sword that turns combat into a rhythm game I'm terrible at

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 26 (#1590)

Darktide's narrative will be expanded as part of future updates: 'We are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game'

A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'