Latest articles by Justin Wagner
GOG says it's 'proud to give Horses a home' after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won't let it forget the time it rejected another horror game
News Horses won't be leaving GOG, but it isn't the first game to get this treatment from big storefronts.
Step aside, Doom: Mad lad plays Minecraft using a receipt printer for reasons known only to him and God
News Beyond creative mode.
Magic: the Gathering's Monster Hunter reveal went so poorly that the whole thing is delayed: 'Back to the drawing board'
News Swing and a miss.
Baldur's Gate 3 is 'an inspiration' for CD Projekt, but it's all-in on big open worlds: 'We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did'
news Open worlds aren't as novel now as they were when The Witcher 3 came out, but CDPR isn't keen to abandon its signature style.
Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'
News The Steam Machine's price isn't certain yet, but don't expect it to come subsidized.
This absurdly stylish side scroller feels like playing two different genres of retro shooter at the same time, and I love it
News You got your Contra in my Wild Guns.
The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
News Time for my 100th playthrough of Dark Crusade.
A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero
News The trooper changes invite comparison to, of all games, Heroes of the Storm.
A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game
News The story of a toe, a door, and a very elusive bug.
One of the best horde shooters of all time is free to keep on Steam this weekend
News Vermintide 2 is worth a lot more than $0, so get in while the rat-killing's good.
Hytale honcho says early access will be $20 because 'charging more didn’t feel right': He doesn't think the game is good yet, but 'my team and I will push hard to make it good, then great'
News The Minecraft-inspired RPG may finally release after all, and Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme isn't keen to muck it up.
Nvidia reminds us it's not a gaming company anymore, but 'an AI data center infrastructure company'
News Doesn't have the same ring to it, somehow.
In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it
News Fess up: Which one of you was it?
I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer
News It's not the one with Tim Curry, but it's still a chance to hear Grinder again.
MrBeast's pop up theme park in Saudi Arabia looks to be a masterclass in cynicism
News Beast Land is officially open, and the resulting discourse will be familiar to anyone who's heard about MrBeast doing anything.
Sure, why not: The next videogame movie will adapt friendship-ending indie Chained Together
News The film is currently being developed by production and sales group Anton.
The sequel to one of my favorite 3D platformers always had a janky PC port, but a huge fanmade patch just dropped in hopes to fix it
News Modder Wemino has already released ambitious fanmade patches for F.E.A.R. and the original Alice, and now they're on to Madness Returns.
Ubisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno'
News The venerable city builder has long been praised for its gorgeous artwork, which seems to make this sting all the more.
The best artillery-themed party game is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and you can get all the series' best entries for less than five bucks
News Take a break from Quiplash and kill your friends with bombs. In Worms.
Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'
News Can't we just go back to the Zork school of NPC dialog?
Escape from Tarkov fans are scrutinizing alleged sympathies for the Russian invasion of Ukraine within Battlestate Games: 'If I could refund it I would'
News Images are circulating which suggest a concerning relationship between Battlestate Games and a controversial group of Russian gun enthusiasts.
Shortly after Concord's resurrection by fans, it looks like Sony might be about to kill it again: 'Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being'
News But as for the Concord fans, they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Escape From Tarkov shoots to the top of Downdetector, debuts on Steam to ‘Mixed’ reviews as players struggle to log in: 'Best extraction shooter that you CAN'T play'
News Tarkov's long-awaited launch on Steam is being hamstrung by error codes, authentication issues, and more.
