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Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025

Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking

Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'

Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill

If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI

Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet

Approximately 2,555 days after a 'day one' giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago

British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament

Civilization 7's latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a 'special thanks' to players

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

Where to find mushrooms in Arc Raiders

As if being a gas station attendant in Roadside Research wasn't stressful enough, I'm also an alien who has to research humans while trying not to poop goop everywhere

I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly

'Gamers deserve clarity': UK Parliament debates videogame ownership while also beating the dead horse named Concord

The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite

EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all

I was fighting my inventory more than enemies in Arc Raiders until I discovered the magic space-saving button

Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future

Best weapons in Arc Raiders

Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself

This new Warhammer roguelike from the developer of Boltgun is also the official next game in the Vampire Survivors series

Windows 'update and shut down' reboot glitch finally fixed, saving tiny gaming laptop batteries everywhere

Creepers have no power over you now, someone has made a mod which forces them to ask you for permission before they explode

Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises

Technology IP firm files lawsuits against AMD for 'its extensive and unauthorized use of our semiconductor portfolio,' citing the move as a 'business highlight'

2025's best survival game just got a huge update that adds an ultra-hard mode and one of the community's most requested features

I was baffled when I found out Minecraft's most popular Marketplace mod just adds owls—but now I've tried it, I can't live without it

The Mailroom is a scarier version of Papers, Please, set in the Devil's corporate office that's full of frogs and toilet paper

The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now

Legendary FPS maker John Romero delivers the objectively correct answer when voting for the most satisfying weapon in gaming history: 'I strongly agree, Mr Romero'

'One of the chillest communities I’ve ever encountered': Arc Raiders solos are choosing love over war, and it's beautiful

After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'

Arc Raiders studio is returning loot to players who get hosed by cheaters: 'We're committed to building an environment where gameplay is about skill, teamwork, and fun'

Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd

Here are the Europa Universalis 5 unlock times for your region

It sure looks like World of Warcraft is getting its first premium currency after 21 years to monetize player housing in its next expansion

Sure, there might as well be a 'World Solitaire Championship' and it might as well be hosted by Stephen A. Smith

Pillars of Eternity's 10-year anniversary turn-based mode will sidestep the biggest issues I was worried it would have, and you can try it this week

The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'

Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3

I'm dying way less in Arc Raiders now that I know how healing actually works

Arc Raiders gives free money to everyone to say sorry for the weekend server struggles

Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026

Trump says that nobody 'other than the United States' should have Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips

Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't

Just Cause 5 would be a 'no go' according to the series' creator, as 'extremely few from the original team' remain at Avalanche Studios

The most dangerous thing in Arc Raiders is a ladder that leads to nowhere: 'My whole squad was wiped'

We need to commit—it's time crunchy, complicated RPGs made their mainstream comeback for good

How to complete Marked for Death in Arc Raiders

After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn't just 'critical,' it's 'existential for the business': 'Love is love and people are people'