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Tempest Rising's next update will add massive superweapons that'll let you 'unload devastating payloads onto the enemy'
News Orbital strikes and earthquake machines coming to Slipgate Ironworks' RTS.
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gets free patch alongside War Sails DLC that's so big, the 17,000 word update run more than twice the length of Age of Empires 2's 'legendarily long' patch notes
News Also adds deserters, random events and "fast mode".
22 years since launch, a classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure from the developer of Bloodlines is finally coming to Steam
News Prepare to enter the Temple of Elemental Evil…again.
Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: 'This part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years'
News Activision's shooter was last beaten at its own game in the US by the original Gears of War.
Embracer Group sells publisher Arc Games and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios, but once again clings on to the publishing rights for Remnant 2
News Old-school MMO Fellowship has its rights transferred to Coffee Stain.
After splurging on EA, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is reportedly tightening its pursestrings, due to 'financial distress' caused by numerous troubled projects
News Embracing change.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 dev admits some damage buff combinations are 'already insane', but its latest patch deliberately opens 'a huge can of worms' by increasing the netcode cap anyway: 'for now, have fun'
News "The game damage numbers should not be restricted by netcode", Saber believes.
Magic: The Gathering's original art director says one of its most famous expansions was a protest against the Satanic Panic: 'I was getting really tired of the judgmental, holier-than-thou attitude coming from a lot of conservative so-called Christians'
News Dark magic.
Demonschool's credits go one step further than names and job titles, adding full descriptions for designer roles: 'We wanted to give people proper, actual credit'
News "Credits are basically a free space."
The Chinese Room's co-founder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'
News "We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored."
Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue 'one of the most important updates we've ever released'
News The patch fixes The Crew's equivalent of the Y2K bug.
Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there's 'always that danger' that the industry will get 'overly focussed on making money'
News "There's still a big ceiling creatively to create these living narrative experiences," Houser says on *checks notes* Sunday Brunch.
Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: 'Sorry it took so long. We've only been making the largest free content video game ever'
News Early access is available to download now.
This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I've played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck
News Sektori is a blistering kaleidoscopic nightmare.
Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide's 'most popular' maps into Vermintide 2, but 'things are not as before'
News Return to the Reik shakes up an old favourite.
Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
News Microsoft is working with the Internet Archive's Jason Scott.
Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one
News Also adds photo mode and first-person driving.
Cities: Skylines 2's bicycle update adds a lot more than just bikes, as Colossal Order prepares to hand over development to a new studio
News On yer bike.
5 months after launch, cooperative shooter FBC Firebreak finally has integrated voice chat, but its Vampire Survivors-style wave mode is delayed until next year
News Rogue Protocol now coming in January 2026.
This mech themed XCOM-like just got a gargantuan update that overhauls its campaign, redesigns its overworld, and adds personalities to pilots with 'over 100' unique traits
News Phantom Brigade 2.0 is out now.
Doom: The Dark Ages' latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets
News Rip and share.
After bagging a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 quest designer for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt snaps up BioShock 4's former narrative lead to work on Cyberpunk 2
News Liz Albl joins CD Projekt Red.
Forget Half-Life 3, the talking rat in Fatekeeper's latest trailer is the best thing you'll see this week
News Rat's entertainment.
Borderlands 4 has a 'very stupid' glitch that lets you unlock a character's most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don't expect it to be around long as Gearbox says 'we're on it'
News The glitch will "change the build meta for every build" according to the YouTuber who brought it to attention.
