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I couldn't picture how Death Howl, a soulslike deckbuilder, could possibly marry the two genres—until I played its Steam Next Fest demo
News Then my face got smashed, now I'm a believer.
The 10 best games of Summer Game Fest 2025
BEST IN SHOW Our favourite announcements and reveals from another whirlwind weekend.
After 10 months, SAG-AFTRA union has reached a 'tentative agreement' with major companies including EA, Warner Bros, and Epic over AI voice acting protections
News SAG-AFTRA will remain on strike until the "agreement is reached".
Elden Ring Nightreign update aims to fix one Nightlord boss tanking your framerate—the other from going berserk and mashing you into paste with '72 consecutive attacks'
News No more crashouts from the Equilibrious Beast.
Even when he's meant to be talking about watches, Henry Cavill's downright giddy over producing Warhammer 40k's upcoming Amazon series, says it's 'a challenge I'm enjoying enormously'
News Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.
Turn-based RPGs are officially back in fashion, but I want more: It's time for modern developers to take another pass at FF12's gambit system
IF GAMBIT > THEN FUN Gambits, my beloved.
Of course, Team Cherry didn't deign to tell anyone that Hollow Knight: Silksong is arriving before Christmas in a weekend of showcases—but via a random Discord message
News Trailer? Uh, best we can do is a mention in an unrelated handheld ad.
Morbid Metal looks like a techno-amalgam of Risk of Rain, Warframe, and Devil May Cry—with a playable demo around the corner, and early access later this year
PCGS 2025 It’s all robot rock at the PC Gaming Show 2025
Blippo+ is an uncanny, Hypnospace Outlaw-style game where you must flick through an alien off-cable TV network full of 'cloned opera stars and spooky raconteurs'
PCGS 2025 Anything can happen in the next half-hour! Anything. Any. Thing.
All Systems Dance, a game about overthrowing a smarmy tech billionaire with the power of dance, is grooving its way to early access this August
PCGS 2025 Viva la resist-dance at the PC Gaming Show 2025
It's a real game—Lies of P: Overture, the Sekiro-like's first major DLC, shadowdrops during Summer Game Fest and is available now
News I've got no release dates to hold me down.
They put a revolver in Dark Souls—Mortal Shell 2 looks like it wandered out of an edgy teenager's heavy-metal fantasies, and I cannot wait to play it
News So stupid, so edgy, so sold.
Elden Ring Nightreign no-hit prodigy finds new, exciting ways to make us feel bad about all the runs we've thrown, beats the final Nightlord solo without a scratch
News First, dodge … then inadequate feelings ahead.
The Borderlands cup overfloweth with a huge sale—1-3, The Pre-Sequel, all their DLCs, and one very good Telltale game are available for $36
News Tiny Tina's Wonderlands isn't on the list, but other than that? It's all here.
You could cut the tension with a needle—7 SteamDB changes in the past week have Silksong hopefuls wondering if the final hour is upon us
News Do not ask for who the Skong tolls, it tolls for Skong.
Elden Ring Nightreign Executor build, tips, and best weapons
Blade and claw Plant your feet and become the beast.
WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
News As a FF14 and WoW player both, I don't think this is gonna go as well as they think it will.
I wasn't expecting a FromSoftware game, of all things, to be so gut-bustingly funny—but just like Helldivers 2, Elden Ring Nightreign turns death into a punchline
LAUGH TRACK Whomped in the Lands Between.
'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
News You're always being guided, you're just annoyed when you realise it.
'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics
News I dunno if "confidence" is the word I'd use to describe how I feel.
The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'
News 10 years on, and things are changing for The Elder Scrolls Online.
SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
News Deluded chanting: Shadow drop! Shadow drop!
FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline
News Nearly 12 months for somethin' to do.
