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Canadian politician calls on government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselves

Future Capcom games will have Onimusha to thank for RE Engine's gnarly dismemberments

Someone leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer and now I feel even worse, because it looks really good

The next Mass Effect would have had 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match', according to BioWare veteran

Which Mass Effect DLC is best, and how to play them in order

How Mass Effect: Andromeda built on the series' legacy

Major events in the Mass Effect timeline

How BioWare went back in time to make Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Years later I'm still annoyed at how Mass Effect did Wrex dirty

I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it

'Overcooked broke you apart and Stage Fright is there to put you back together'

Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow

A great indie studio is making a sequel to one of my favorite adventures 17 years later, for one simple reason: 'We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending'

Subnautica 2 fans can finally hunt and kill those pesky Nibbler Mangos—in Dave the Diver's crossover DLC

Steam is about to start getting some of the best Japanese pixel art in gaming history

Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail

One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it

Toem 2 review: A sweet sequel that's a tad too easy to be memorable

Fortnite is coming to Linux once Epic improves Easy Anti-Cheat

This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)

Battle royale goes grunge: there's a new PUBG game and it's set in the '90s

Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues

Indie dev earns Reddit love after telling people not to buy their game because it's going on sale soon

The Fortnite-Overwatch crossover means we're talking about Tracer's butt again

It took a while, but Overwatch's iconic heroes have finally been bitten by the collab slop curse

Epic keeps jamming more incredible shotguns into Fortnite, and it might be the best meta ever

Best weapons in Fortnite battle royale, including a funky shotgun-sniper hybrid

Black Library veteran Toby Longworth gives us his tips for voicing the perfect Space Marine

We asked the voice of Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Garro in Warhammer 40k who his favorite character to play is

Dark Sun, D&D's most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027

One of my favorite Warhammer 40,000 books is getting an unexpected sequel

Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k's first Inquisitor was called 'Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau' and he's still too powerful to be retconned

Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game

I've found 12 deals on board games you'll actually want to play this Prime Day, which means you can start an argument with your loved ones from just $16

Down with tactical rocks

Today I learned the real reason Warhammer 40k's iconic 'Land Raider' got its name and it ain't because it raids the land

Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing

Pirate poker battler Piroker has a playtest you can sign up for now

After 894 hours in Slay the Spire 2, these are our 12 strongest opinions

Magic: The Gathering's next big crossover is with itself

Balatro developer LocalThunk turns up on Discord to talk about the 1.1 update and life after burnout: 'I truly am having the best time making the game now'

Hearthstone just got its first new class in four years: Warcraft's fire-breathing panda Monk

Post Malone breaks into his $2 million The One Ring, stressing out a whole room of Magic: The Gathering players: 'our insurance doesn't cover that card'

Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast

The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers

Wait, how did Lego beat Minecraft to making a city builder?

After playing a bit of Lego Skylines, it seems like a city builder for people who care less about traffic jams and more about decorating

Manor Lords celebrates 4 million copies sold with a new major update which gives players the chance to become 'a cow-herding mogul'

Corsair Cove review: The best pirate game I've played this year

Forget Black Flag Resynced, the best pirate game of 2026 might be a logistics-heavy city builder

You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4

Boldly go where no gamer has gone before in a new Star Trek colony builder that just dropped a demo

You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot

The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount

Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud

EA has reportedly put DICE and Respawn to work on a new Star Wars: Battlefront game

How to clear a compound in Modern Warfare 4 DMZ

How to get electronic sensors in Modern Warfare 4 DMZ

Holy crap, they're making Serious Sam: The Third Encounter

Modern Warfare 4 players declare 'broken' on DMZ perk that lets you self-revive after full death

How to find a dynamic op phone in DMZ in Modern Warfare 4

Don't get hit with the BIOS update hammer for COD MW4 like my colleagues—here's how to ensure you can play multiplayer and DMZ

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review-in-progress, DMZ edition: An expansive extraction shooter that wants you to succeed

Riot needed absurd player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' for 2XKO, dooming it from launch

Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'

Riot is ending development of its 2XKO fighting game

Marvel Tōkon's simple but effective combo trials are an elegant tutorial solution that I wish more fighting games had

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls review – A great fighting game suffering from some uniquely PC problems

Marvel Tōkon's first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn't done much for its Steam reviews

Marvel Tōkon devs vow to fix performance issues for launch day next week: 'To our PC players, message received'

Marvel Tōkon's developer has apologised to PC players for the beta's performance issues, with only a week until launch

Blade and Magik lead as Marvel Tōkon's most popular characters during its beta

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival review–Rough around the edges

What's the scariest PC horror game of all time? Nominate your favs and we'll pit them against each other

Amnesia: The Dark Descent's co-founder explained the 'the dynamic of Steam' to Red Barrels after Outlast's sales slowed down

No publishers wanted Outlast because they'd 'rather invest $50,000 in 10 mobile games' so Red Barrels relied on public investment programs and their own savings instead

The Outlast Trials' initial playtests went poorly: Designer says 6-year development took 'a f**king long time' and 'a s**t-ton of prototypes'

Clive Barker says he's 'genuinely astonished' by Hellraiser: Revival: 'I'm proud as f**k at the end result'

Outlast designer says that one playtester was so upset by the horror series they 'ran out of the studio to go cry outside' and didn't return

This game about grinding mute lumps of shapeless flesh has made me realise I've been hornswoggled by capitalism

Expect plenty more Silent Hill over the next few years, as Konami has plans for 'second and third waves' of new games in its revived horror series

I played 20 cozy game demos in Steam Next Fest and these 5 made it onto my wishlist

Cozy solarpunk life-sim Loftia is offering an in-depth demo as part of Steam Next Fest

Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'

Be warned: Nivalis Nights may not be the cozy game you expect: 'If you want a cozy existence in this city, you're going to have to earn it'

'I was nice to you three times in a row, so can I have one sex please?': Why Nivalis Nights intentionally avoided transactional romances

Nivalis Nights review: An avalanche of fascinating characters carrying a decent shop sim on their backs

7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack

Live from Nivalis Nights: A nightly photo journal of my cyberpunk noodle bar

Agony! Two life sims I really want to play launched back to back

Star Wars: The Old Republic lead writer calls out BioWare for snubbing the MMO

Everyone gets a free ticket to World of Warcraft: Forever today as Blizzard stress tests the servers ahead of launch day

Great moments in PC gaming: Being brainwashed in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Discussion time: Do you think zone chats in MMOs are forces for good, or evil?

Less than 2 weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited, Jagex is scrapping the whole thing

World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content'

WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading

World of Warcraft: Forever won't destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: 'The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions'

Why alts are part of World of Warcraft: Forever's core progression plans

110 million votes later Nurse Harrow has finally made it into Deadlock, with special thanks to a particularly dedicated player who 'cast exactly 1,000 votes for her'

3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years

Deadlock surpasses Team Fortress 2's all-time concurrent player count peak as it adds a chess wizard

Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted

Deadlock isn't a MOBA or a third-person shooter anymore—City Never Sleeps has turned it into a horror game

Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness

Deadlock's new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you

The Rat King has arrived

Triple-A Minesweeper is a gleeful send-up of blockbuster gaming's worst habits, from yellow paint to characters who talk too much

You should buy Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

Talos Principle 2 is $3

$30 extra for early access?

More weird asymmetrical co-op moments

Free puzzle game 20 More Somehow Even Smaller Mazes follows the original 20 Small Mazes with an additional 20 (somehow even smaller) mazes

Co-op puzzle game We Were Here Tomorrow is out next month, so you've got time to practise your communication skills

The latest co-op indie game to take over the internet is like one of my favourite board games, just with bombs

My favourite soundtrack of 2026 so far is tucked in one of this year's biggest sleeper hits

How to dual wield in Cyberpunk 2077

How to get King's outfit in Cyberpunk 2077

'No other studio in the world did it better' than BioWare at its peak, says former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider

As Final Fantasy 14's doors remain closed, surviving players are stepping in to keep everyone's crops alive

Great moments in PC gaming: Debating John Cleese in Jade Empire

The best and worst BioWare companions

Now more than ever, Knights of the Old Republic is a refreshing take on Star Wars

Knights of the Old Republic 2 was great because it peeled back Star Wars' black-and-white morality

Dragon Age 2 review

I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be

Semifinals: The brutal war to determine the best RTS unit of all time needs your votes

Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it

Does Blizzard's revival of its classic games signal a return of the 'old Blizzard?'

Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time

The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy

Tempest Rising has just launched an expansion that lets you play as the bad guys

After Warcraft 3's first new campaign in 23 years, let's normalize releasing new DLC for ancient RTS games

Stronghold 4 boasts castles aplenty and a rogue's gallery of weirdos to pit them against