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The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters'
News Love bite.
Former Assassin's Creed director doesn't think the current way of making big budget games is 'tenable': 'I think the future lies in smaller teams'
News "There's this theory that says that whenever humans create something that surpasses a hundred people, it completely changes the dynamic of it."
Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources
News "You could, for example, attempt to monopolise Iron Slabs by hiring all Merchants on routes that export them."
If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access
News Terra Invicta aims to be the last word in preparing Earth for alien invasion.
Valorant's latest update adds a new pistol to spice up early rounds, as Riot plans to take 'a holistic look' at the shooter's arsenal through 2026
News Riot wants to continue "putting the emphasis back on gunplay".
If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover
News Behaviour Interactive's second collab with Netflix lets you play as the series' fleshy villain.
A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen's creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: 'The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft "axed" Chris Roberts' Freelancer'
News Freelancer: The Nomad Legacy is available now.
An innocuous video about how FromSoft protagonists are 5 feet 7 inches tall led to me becoming weirdly fixated about videogame character height this year
News That's the long and short of it.
Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year
News Roberts Space Industries' sim keeps raking in the cash.
2025 saw game developers scrambling to avoid heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong
News Will 2026 be the same?
Celebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods
Splatter Claus How does the Doom Slayer open his presents? He rips and tears until it is done.
Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'
News "Another studio in Japan were going to do it, take our code and do GTA: Tokyo."
Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos
News "At one point, I gave a talk about that, and the slide for the talk is just a big bowl of spaghetti."
If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3's director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it's out next year
News Let's hope it doesn't suck.
EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void
News Numbers go up (in smoke).
The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.'
News Aspyr also had what it believed to be vital trade secrets redacted from documents.
Clair Obscur's famously small (but not that small) developer isn't interested in becoming less not-that-small: 'I think it's good to have limitations when you are creative'
News "We love making games more than we love managing, so we want to keep doing that."
Battlefield 6 fans suspect EA used generative AI in a cosmetics pack for the shooter: 'I would literally prefer to have no sticker than some low quality AI generated garbage'
News Image of a double-barrelled M4A1 leads to suspicions that EA is using gen AI.
An indie dev worried about being seen as a ripoff after discovering a game similar to the one they were making, but then the original dev responded: 'Don't be discouraged'
News "There's plenty of room to do Gunforged better than I did," says its creator.
Since everyone got mad about yellow paint again this year, here are 5 alternatives I propose to help players find their way around in 2026
Bright side Yellow Fever.
Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster
News Play Bio Menace like it's 1993. Or at least, how your time-ravaged brain remembers it.
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live
News Ogryn and bear it.
This dystopian free-running sim set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
News Vholume is Straftat meets Mirror's Edge.
