Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'

"We're planning to continue improving and patching the game after launch." ...

22 years later, this classic Half-Life zombie survival mod shambles onto Steam with all new features

Zombie Panic! arrives with a new fatigue system, reworked maps and "zombie vision". ...

Reverse-engineering Marathon's visual mood board magic

If extraction shooters are games in which you duck out of the fray between matches to look at what you just collected, ...

What are we all playing this weekend?

Saturday. We meet again. I see you've brought your old friends Blustery Wind and Chill In The Air with you. I expected ...

What we've been playing - "I have learned the hard way that trusting others is a suckers game"

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, ev...

This Monkey D. Luffy Body Pillow Will Haunt Your Dreams

Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever

The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard. ...

Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one

Baby Steps' designers accidentally made an impossible challenge, so players set out to pro...

Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI

At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see. ...

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Review

The lyrics to the rap song about John McAfee, annotated

Virtual insanity. ...

Marathon's murderous audio change was an 'overcorrection,' Bungie admits, promises to pull it back in an upcoming update

Nobody liked that. ...

The Steelseries Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 Wireless Gaming Headset Drops to $156.59 for Today Only

30% more battery life compared to the original gen 1 model.

Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones Which CEO Admits Are Better

Embark's CEO says 'most' of the in-game voice lines are now recorded by real actors

Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'

Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't. ...

How to beat Vantom in Slay the Spire 2

Take down Vantom as fast as possible before this fight gets too slippery to beat. ...

Let Them Eat Skins: Fortnite Players Are Calling For A Boycott Over V-Buck Price Hikes

No one's buying Epic's defense of shrinkflation

How to beat the Doormaker boss in Slay the Spire 2

Make quick work of the Doormaker or else face its replenishing health. ...

Should you eat the Byrdonis Egg in Slay the Spire 2?

Eating the egg gives a short term gain, but taking it under your wing can pay off bigtime....

Arc Raiders Boss Says Bungie Did a 'Really Good Job' Addressing Feedback After 'Heavily Criticized' Marathon Playtest

Patrick Söderlund, CEO of Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios, is praising Bungie after the Marathon team managed to e...

'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right

There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve. ...

Embark CEO Says 'Some' Arc Raiders AI Voice Lines Were Re-Recorded by Humans Post-Launch: 'There Is a Quality Difference'

Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund says Arc Raiders now contains fewer AI voice lines than it did at launch after the team re...

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Gaming Headset Drops Below $250 for Today Only

Our favorite gaming headset features swappable rechargeable batteries.

Pokopia Fans Are Making Other Pokémon Games’ Iconic Landmarks

The Mystery Dungeon series lives on in Pokopia players’ islands

Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'

Disco Elysium was one-of-a-kind when it came out in 2019, but that won't be the case for Z...

Marathon Rolled Out A Change, Everyone Got Mad, Bungie Admits They Messed Up

Update 1.0.0.4 made gunshots much louder and that has made the game deadlier for many

Japanese furniture brand reveals the Electric Gaming Bed 2, the 'forbidden layout' built for the 'supremely decadent'

Wouldst thou like to recline deliciously? ...

Starfield's composer says the game will become 'legendary', Todd Howard's a 'visionary', and maybe you 'were just not ready for it'

"Eventually people will understand his vision." ...

'It Is Getting Very Hard to Keep Players From Going All Over the Place' — Yes, the Donkey Kong Bananza Devs Are Watching Your Speedruns

At the 2026 Game Developers Conference, Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura and programmer Tatsuya Kurihara talk...