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2026
In the absence of a new Deus Ex, indie imsim Tokyo Walled City may scratch that stealth 'n' stolen passwords itchoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Tractor-battling teenage road trip RPG Keep Driving is getting official mod support via Steam Workshop later this monthoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Single player games might require age verification if they use Steam under EU Kids Act's current draft, according to MEP's senior policy adviseroriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritualoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Denuvo are suing a prolific cracker for bypassing their DRM on 26 videogames, despite not knowing their real identityoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Control Resonant review: A superbly strange action-RPG that'll make you feel tiny and godly at onceoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Baldur's Gate 3 Act Two Expansion mod, out now in beta, adds a whole new region to explore after dealing with the Shadow Curseoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
"Publishers are afraid of certain parts of the world": Saber Interactive's message to North American studios is to get their head out of their own geographyoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
"Nearly everyone" laid off at Hyper Light Drifter devs Heart Machine after publisher drops unannounced gameoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Escape a roundabout as a stoned tuk-tuk driver in Zero Parades' free Director’s Cut update, which will add about 40,000 new words to the RPG next monthoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Twitch CEO expects GTA 6 online multiplayer will launch next year, which if accurate would leave only the PC port's arrival point up in the airoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Three different 4X strategy games, three different solutions to "that inherent problem" of disappearing explorationoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
"If the player trusts you enough, they are not going to savescum": Why the makers of some of the best RPGs on PC want you to get used to failingoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
"We will not force it": The Blood of Dawnwalker's sequel might drop the timer mechanics, says director, but I hope they stick aroundoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Guild Wars 3 dev wants you to be able to take a break for months at a time and know you're "not going to be left behind"original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West delisted from Steam in the UK, Sony say they're "working with Valve to address the issue"original ↗
17 Sept 2026
"15 years ago, people understood it was an unfinished game": As Endless Legend 2 hits 1.0, Amplitude reflect on how early access has changedoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Low poly horror Tumblebee combines the joy of tumbling bees with the not-joy of being chased by huge spidersoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Dog in the Machine reinvents the domino tactics of Into The Breach as a mecha dog show, with players teaching their hounds tricksoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy appear to be making fresh redundancies, as one staffer says he's "helping wrap things up here in the HR department"original ↗
16 Sept 2026
"A dried husk of a product": former Doom producer berates Microsoft for making Halo a "mid-tier" game and mourns the "financialisation" of AAAoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
"We're trying to make it easier": Valve confirm the Steam Frame is just the start of plans to get Steam games working on compatibility-challenged ARM PCsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
"They often don’t make it in the door": Wardogs studio Bulkhead check for "anti-crunch messaging" on prospective hires' social media, CEO saysoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember has a demo out, as Koei Tecmo carve an early 2027 release date into some hulking demons from Chinese mythologyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition adds 50 minor factions in return for breaking your mods, but fear not, players who stick to the old version will get legacy DLC for freeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing pushoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
15 Sept 2026
Marathon's next major update runs a few months further away, permanent PvE in hand, as Bungie ditch their "strict seasonal schedule"original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Paradox's grand strategy game Afterworld hasn't got a fixed history, it changes with every playthroughoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15soriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Lies of P's sequel is a Wizard of Oz homage called Wonders of O, going by a Neowiz trademark, and probably not a videogame based on a famous work of French eroticaoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standaloneoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
As Civilization 7 devs Firaxis prepare to unleash the nukes, the strategy game's latest update whips out a fresh take on the classic Real Earth maporiginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
14 Sept 2026
"We track every server you enter": the Wardogs devs are "coming down hard" on XP farms and cash exploits, even as they encourage people to grindoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Valve decided that cutting the Steam Frame’s specs to avoid price rises wasn't "the right product choice" for the VR headsetoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic onesoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077original ↗
14 Sept 2026
This week in PC games: become a magic girl in Kernel Hearts, a dog commando in Fright Train, or a capital class warship in Sublightoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content labeloriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Sony letter spells the end for unreleased The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod, its creator saysoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Roblox plan to grow their absurd gaming empire even further by letting devs release games as "standalone apps", potentially via Steam, Epic, and GOGoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
A StarCraft open-world shooter that's "Deadwood in space", Diablo 5, and a new classic-ish World of Warcraft branch out this year make up Blizzard of revealsoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure gamesoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
13 Sept 2026
12 Sept 2026
"Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designeroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battleoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding salesoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driveroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
GTA 6 online mode appears to receive Rockstar's first public acknowledgment, via mention of in-development "32 player format" in legal docsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Gamesoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Do a bit of visual programming and watch your party of heroes conquer an evil tower in Dungeon Automataoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Shroom and Gloom is a positively mycelial roguelike double deckbuilder that's now out in early accessoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High dev KO_OP share that they are laying off staff in the only, remotely good statement I've seen in a whileoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Stylised XCOM-like tactics game Ex Sanguis straps Othercide's obsession with timelines to a leaner roguelike campaignoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
"We’re going to become the new legend": Naoki Hamaguchi on making Final Fantasy 7 Revelation as if it's the last ever Final Fantasy 7 gameoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Skyrim’s official IKEA crossover mod might be the most deftly-assembled Elder Scrolls gag ever, if not an ad blueprint other corps should followoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Ubisoft games on Steam may soon no longer require the pesky Connect launcher, thanks to a new tool the publishers are testingoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
"We want to invite people into this big tent with this grimdark setting": Creative Assembly on how they plan to ease strategy newbies into Total War: Warhammer 40,000original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Bargain with demons and boat with the dead in joyful RPG heist quest anthology Thousand Hellsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the Belmontsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Steam beta update adds a new Big Picture view, screensavers, and a little treat for desktop Steam Machinesoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
As final hearing over GTA firings begins, Rockstar reiterate they "reject the claims" made by union and will defend themselves "vigorously"original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint switches publishing allegiance from PlayStation to Xbox, probably increasing the chances it'll hit PCoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Wanderburg, a bullet heaven where you drive around a Frankensteinian hybrid of a castle and a tank, is out in early access todayoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Pile cards on top of each other and watch the magic happen in the textured and chunky roguelike deckbuilder Stack Orderoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Lovely anime Sherlock series The Apothecary Diaries is getting a PC game spin-off, with Maomao chasing down another court conspiracyoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Blood of Dawnwalker's troubled power fantasy has me yearning for a more desperate, systemic vampire survival simoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary update will let you rule space stations, built floating orbital bases and go on holiday to the sunoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Cult classic shoot-em-up Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has a remake out noworiginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Unionised Blizzard workers vote through contract giving them a say on genAI adoption and protection against layoffsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Blood of Dawnwalker devs Rebel Wolves are already looking for someone to help write a sequel, so here's where I'd like to see its vampy tale go nextoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Zombiepunk action RPG Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears, hands and teeth, even if it is a smidge overwhelmingoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
I'm not saying Fallout 4 modding drama gets to people, but here's Breaking Benjamin's singer begging concertgoers to try his AI-assisted first person modoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
"You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own souloriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
FromSoftware's first experiment with, of all things, horse armor DLC runs awry, as Elden Ring players manage to spawn free duplicate items in multiplayeroriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
"Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketshiporiginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Steam achievements for Persona 6, Fable, Stranger Than Heaven and a host of other upcoming PC games appear to have leakedoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
8 Sept 2026
Humanity's best friend is coming to Old School RuneScape, and seeing a low-poly shiba has me temporally disorientedoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
PowerWash Simulator devs FuturLab laid off staff and cancelled an unrevealed project earlier this year, but certainly kept quiet about itoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUsoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
"Justice at last feels within reach": Final hearing in Rockstar and fired GTA devs' legal battle will kick off with a union rallyoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Trump regime's Tetris ripoff yanked from White House website after Tetris Company declare they "take copyright infringement very seriously"original ↗
8 Sept 2026
"Material uncertainty" hangs over the future of Life is Strange developers Don't Nod beyond January 2027, as negotiations over potential layoffs beginoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
"20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scaleoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
It's still very much possible to make good Skyrim mods "without any use of AI" in 2026, declares the maker of a new DLC-sized Black Marsh expansionoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied diggingoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Combat and socially agonised teens impress in Persona 4 Revival, the RPG that series director Kazuhisa Wada feels a "duty" to makeoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R.original ↗
7 Sept 2026
"We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris Companyoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
"You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization 7's Arc of Tomorrow update aims to be a proper Cold War simulatororiginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
6 Sept 2026
Deliver packages in foresty mountains and avoid thieving boars in the Death Stranding-adjacent and quite calm-looking Pinetrailoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Laser Guy is a twin-stick "anti-shooter" about a stressed out game developer who can't stop shooting laser beams from his eyeoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
The ESRB wouldn't let Valve release the cinematic trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, so what did they do? They "leaked" it, obviouslyoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026