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Tiny PS5 build reduces size of original console by 60%, making it look like a mini PC while slashing its power draw and temps too

MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means

'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes

Blizzard doesn't intend to rework Diablo 4 over and over again, but it also doesn't want to leave behind 'stuff that no one wants or cares about'

If you don't already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they're part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greats

This is where I found the Anvil blueprint in Arc Raiders

Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep

Telltale-style adventures are back: Dispatch has sold more than a million copies in 10 days

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'

Bend fire and lightning with Avatar's Azula in Magic: The Gathering

The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place

My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that

Balatro's new merch is just as unhinged as we've come to expect

Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply 'great imagery'

One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an 'independent production company,' but its original boss is nowhere to be seen

World of Warcraft director says it's not getting easier in Midnight because it's coming to consoles: 'There's no reason for us to hide anything about this'

The Séance of Blake Manor review

I think I've found the best early loot spot in Arc Raiders and nobody seems to know about it

Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo's journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: 'When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided to do it properly'

'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is

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'