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Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
News Square Enix is partnering with an AI research lab at the University of Tokyo to "improve the efficiency of game development processes."
'You can have the loot. My reward is justice': Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don't play nice
News Some of these self-appointed saviors don't have the keenest sense of where to aim their shooting iron, however.
An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game's box art before release, artist says: 'People's eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character'
News God forbid a horse knows its angles.
This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?
News Aside from another Hearthstone set, of course.
'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
News It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.
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
News Is leaving the safe combination on a post-it note that much worse?
Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
News We weren't imagining it. The maps are small.
The Arc Raiders roadmap promises a new map in November, a fresh Raider Deck battle pass for December, and more
News Also: new, horrible robots.
Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo's Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go
News While not directly relevant to the ongoing Palworld lawsuit, the refusal could strengthen Pocketpair's defense.
The Vampire Survivors online co-op update just arrived with a bonus Balatro collab expansion
News Playable Jimbo! Playable Jimbo!!
Heavy breathing intensifies as Battlefield 6 players find flyable scout helicopters in Portal
News The Little Bird flies again.
Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge says he hopes the next God of War is set in Egypt while making a hypothetical sequel sound pretty unhypothetical: 'I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great'
News My "Not aware of another God of War game" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames
News Are we all letting Valve off easy for its loot crate economy?
Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof
News 1v1 me at Canuial St.
After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating poop less nutritious
News The rare nerf to coprophagia.
Microsoft executives have been expecting the Xbox division to achieve 30% profit margins—almost double the industry average—since 2023
News Recent layoffs, closures, and cancellations have all been in pursuit of a seemingly unachievable target.
Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it's a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice
EXQUACKTION Don't let the meme game mask fool you.
This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia
News All this running and jumping stuff isn't half bad.
Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'
News Not all great tastes go great together.
Battlefield 6 players are ragging on its 'useless' smoke mortar and its pitiful little plumes: 'I've seen 13 year olds rip vape clouds bigger than this outside of Target'
News They'll never see you coming. Unless they look.
Duck-themed extraction shooter Escape From Duckov sold 500,000 Steam copies in its first 3 days
News Duckov's peak player count rivaled the Arc Raiders playtest over the weekend.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
