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Absolum's first update dares you to unravel the threads of fate, introducing rule modifiers, corrupted biomes and improved mounts into 2025's best beat 'em up

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As the Legacy of Kain remasters continue, a new game emerges—a 2D action-platformer

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That new Metal Gear Solid collection won't include Metal Gear Online, but it will have Peace Walker's essential online co-op

Tomb Maker

Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'

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Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there

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Brace for more Belmont: Konami says Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is just 'the beginning of numerous new products around Castlevania'

LIKE A DRAGS-ON

Yakuza Kiwami 3 spoils an interesting remake with odd changes and an abysmally misjudged recast

Crystal clear

All active Where Winds Meet codes and how to redeem them

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Hurry, you have less than 1 week to move to Norway and have a baby with someone: 'Lie together today, get GTA 6 free from us in 9 months'

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'We never had plans to update Peak at all': Aggro Crab reveals that it doesn't want 'to be a studio that works on one game forever'

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After just 2 years on sale, 7 '90s-era Jurassic Park games are getting delisted this March

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The world's first 'standardized gaming test' will see if you can beat an '80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it'll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don't cheat

Ctrl+Del

I've never felt smarter than playing this nostalgic horror puzzler that has me changing file types on a '90s computer to solve mysteries

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One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century

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What's the next step in these adventure game puzzles?

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Valve needed to 'verify' footage of the 'alien orgy' in Earth Must Die before it was allowed to launch on Steam

Killer jokes

Earth Must Die review: An inventive adventure game that's just a bit too obsessed with orgies

INFECTIOUS

Pathologic 3 review: One of the most compelling mystery adventures since Disco Elysium

Let us spray

I'm tired of running the same Fortnite loadout—both SMGs and snipers need a major buff

Shock horror

Shockwaves, we miss you. Please come back to Fortnite

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Fortnite bans paid prize wheels in third-party games just days after Steal the Brainrot started selling them

Drop in

Fortnite Chapter 7 map guide: Where to land, boss locations, mythics and hot-air balloons

Super looter

The best weapons and loadout for Fortnite Chapter 7

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The day after Epic enables microtransactions in Fortnite islands, one of the most popular games on the platform rolls out a $37 'gift pack' and in-game gambling

epic journey

2025 was Fortnite's most topsy-turvy year ever with soaring peaks, miserable lows, and a raging AI debate

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Fortnite has quickly pulled its latest accolades trailer after letting a saucy foreplay reference slip through the cracks

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Fortnite players are accusing it of using AI-generated art: 'I'm done with this game'

Keep rollin'

All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for February 2026

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The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers

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Warhammer World, Games Workshop's pub-slash-hobby store celebrating the venerable wargame, is coming to the US

Not to jinx it

The League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games

NEWS

Godzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers

NEWS

Warhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles

BEAK PERFORMANCE

Forget space marines and orks, the secret best faction in Warhammer 40,000 is a tribe of cannibal chicken aliens—and yes, I will elaborate

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Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?

LORE & ORDER

Confused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide

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WotC says there are no plans for a Harry Potter Magic set, 'The Magic Multiverse has its own school of Magic at Strixhaven'

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Hearthstone's 'year of change' begins with a twist on one of WoW's biggest expansions, and a bucket of free cards

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Just under two weeks from its release date, devil's bargain deckbuilder The Killing Stone announces it will be launching into early access instead

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7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables

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The Monster Train 2 DLC is very good: the Railforged, a challenging new mode, and a mechanical spider factory

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Get ready to battle bruxae and swipe sorceresses in Reigns: The Witcher, out next month

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Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing so many damn Magic cards, 'destroying the long-term value of the brand'

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Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month

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Fallout reunites with Magic: The Gathering for cards featuring characters from New Vegas, the TV show, and more Dogmeat

Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers

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Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'

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'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'

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Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources

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The city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures

Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

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Cities: Skylines 2 finally gets its asset editor in a parting gift from the series' original developers

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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

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Despite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history

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Hellscreen, the FPS with a rear-view mirror, has left Steam early access two episodes short of its original plan: 'This is a bittersweet experience for me'

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Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'

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The Overwatch dating sim and its associated rewards are back for a limited time, but it's still got far fewer romances than its China-exclusive counterpart

SQUANCH

High on Life 2 review

TWIB

Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

Black Market

Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?

Blaze it

High on Life 2: all the key details on the wacky FPS's squanchin' sequel

Retired

How to get past the security guard in High on Life 2

Lugblob

How to find a way into the Human Exhibit in High on Life 2

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Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation

Great expectations

I don't understand what Riot wants from 2XKO

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Riot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'

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After a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3

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Fatal Fury fans accuse new City of the Wolves trailer of being filled with AI slop: 'All that Saudi money and can't pay someone a couple bucks to make real s**t'

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'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout

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World's most powerful 92-year-old wins Tekken 8 tournament for the elderly

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Tekken boss announces retirement after 30 years in the most Harada way imaginable: a lengthy social media post and hour-long mixtape

Carry on campaign

Why I love Injustice 2's story mode

Infected

Resident Evil Requiem: All the key details on RE9's return to Raccoon City

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The first two Dino Crisis games are on Steam for the first time and half-price, but packaged with Enigma DRM

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Silent Hill: Townfall ditches tradition and goes full first-person survival horror

Fine &

All active Dandy's World codes in February 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox

Bigger Nightmares

Reanimal review: Astonishingly bleak and oblique survival horror

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One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling'

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'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'

Dead good

Dead By Daylight codes for February 2026

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Controversial PS2 survival horror Rule of Rose absolutely deserves a remake or re-release, but Bloober Team isn't doing it

Castle Keys

All Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them

Your Hire-ness

How to become a noble in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy

Secret Spinner

How to complete Anansi's Trials in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy

Dame of Thrones

A public peeing scandal couldn’t stop my rise to power for long in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy

Too sweet

How to complete Cupid's Confections in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Bella Note

How to unlock Lady and Tramp in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Travel Agent

Is the new farm sim Starsand Island worth playing in early access?

Star-eyed

Starsand Island is the first can't-miss cozy game of 2026 and it's already taken over 20 hours from me

That's ruff

How to prepare for the Puppy Love update in Disney Dreamlight Valley

GROUP UP

Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?

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Chappell Roan is a RuneScape sicko who absolutely loves the 'medieval synth sh*t' of its soundtrack

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This Lost Ark skin turns your warrior into a stereotypical gamer, complete with Mountain Dew gut and a pair of slides

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Players discover once again that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies that make everything work

BALLIN'

Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: 'Once you start playing, you just can't stop'

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Guild Wars 2 finally gets the long-awaited option to create fashion templates, so why is the community so angry?

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After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing 'better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'

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Player housing tools are so good, WoW's design director hopes the game will have quests where you build things in the future: 'We really want to use them'

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Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft's player housing in the future, but 'we have to be conservative at the start with these things'

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All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last

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Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands

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Deadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2

Mightily small

Deadlock's littlest guy makes size matter in a way it almost never has in a MOBA before

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Deadlock players are modding the weirdest characters into the game, including Linguini and Remy, Hatsune Miku, and LeBron James: 'Skin walker Linguini cannot be unseen'

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Deadlock's next hero is Venator, a special agent of the Vatican who has 2 guns—also a grenade, a bear trap, and a crossbow that shoots holy stakes

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Deadlock's newest hero, Silver, gets a soft rework just as I was getting used to her

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Deadlock's newest hero has the luxury of two kits, multiple knockback attacks, and the ability to turn into a werewolf every 30 seconds

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Deadlock now lets you avoid certain heroes when queuing for a game, but you can't avoid the newest ones

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I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler

DETHIEVED

Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson

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A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store

Sherl-oak Holmes

Little Woody is an adorable 2D puzzle game with a great short demo that you can check out now, but be warned: It'll leave you wanting more

Inkle co-founder says WW2 puzzler TR-49 is 'our best launch, ever, in 14 years,' and they made it in just 9 months

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TR-49 review: A tense and beautifully written mystery, told entirely on a bizarre 1940s computer

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ARG developer finds out his email hint system doesn't work anymore because young people don't know how to use email

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Blue Prince, the best game of 2025 (don't check our GOTY just trust me) is on sale on Steam for under $20 for the first time

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After Netflix pulled the rug from under Monument Valley 3 six months after launch, its developer says it's a 'PC first' studio: 'we can build more direct relationships with our audience and community'

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Divinity: Original Sin 2 easter eggs hinting Baldur's Gate 3 would be Larian's next game had to be toned down: 'Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit'

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'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment'

euro vision

The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece

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THQ's Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered

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Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal

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Final Fantasy 14's Valentine's Day event is a Mario Party-lite encounter that reminded me it's actually quite fun to do some socializing in an MMO

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Three years after its last update, the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets a new patch that includes a new caparison for your horse

Wishmaster

Next and current banners in Genshin Impact

All aboard

Honkai: Star Rail codes for February 2026

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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign

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Dawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'

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Total War: Warhammer 40,000 surpasses Steam wishlist milestone, with over 1 million people ready to fight for their dessicated corpse of an Emperor

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The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least

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I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer

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Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month

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Dawn of War 4's 'guiding star' was the first in the series, but 'you're not trying to recreate the old game, you try to recreate the feeling'

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If humans ever live on Mars, will they 'bend the knee to Earth's institutions' or turn the Red Planet even redder? Mars Tactics puts the answer in your hands next year

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Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer