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Larian says Divinity's character customisation will be 'even better' than Baldur's Gate 3's: 'More colors, more options, more control'

Sonic the Hedgehog is everywhere when it comes to merch, but finally some more underrated characters are getting airtime thanks to Steady Hands

Here's that noir thriller built in the original Half-Life engine you asked for

The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters'

Former Assassin's Creed director doesn't think the current way of making big budget games is 'tenable': 'I think the future lies in smaller teams'

Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources

After Netflix pulled the rug from under Monument Valley 3 six months after launch, its developer says it's a 'PC first' studio: 'we can build more direct relationships with our audience and community'

Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again

Original Fallout lead Tim Cain reckons vitriol around games has always been around, but it's 'more hostile' these days: 'I see lot of people arguing past each other, even if that means denying that the other group even exists'

'Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't': Valve gives a box of sweets to Steam's biggest breadwinners every year, and Peak's devs finally got one after years of jealously watching their Slay the Spire office mates enjoy GabeN confections

Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: 'We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats'

Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

'I can finally do the thing I wanted to do in every previous game': Divinity's head of design teases a new mechanic without saying what it is

If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access

Valorant's latest update adds a new pistol to spice up early rounds, as Riot plans to take 'a holistic look' at the shooter's arsenal through 2026

If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover

A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen's creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: 'The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft "axed" Chris Roberts' Freelancer'

Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience

Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'

Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to'

Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it's right on the money

Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards

Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again

Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game

The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release window

You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does

For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space

Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis

Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go

Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros

Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator'

'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'

Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it's a 'big year for games ending in 6' ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: 'I'm practically living off hopium and copium at this point'

Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?

Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system

Hell is Us review

'There is zero point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation

My Arc Raiders 2026 wishlist consists of new mobs, modes, and map conditions

9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026

Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'

I've just found a new cutesy Balatro, but instead of a deck of cards you get to tend to a garden and harvest flowers

Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception

AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs

Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we've run the numbers and AMD's CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia

Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'

Intel's new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called 'Core G3 Extreme' and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores

Seems like everyone forgot the 'Consumer' part of the Consumer Electronics Show this year