Games

Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'

Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace

Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler

Phantom Blade Zero just dropped a huge secret: Hong Kong legend Donnie Yen has been guiding its kungfupunk stunts since 2023

A long-lost Lord of the Rings action RPG makes a surprise return to Steam

GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'

Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks

All active Blox Fruits codes in August 2026 and how to redeem them

1666: Amsterdam has the makings of something brilliant but I came away from its preview with a bad feeling as its early access release creeps too close for comfort

Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A 'sci-fi horror' collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg

Can you play Big Walk alone or with randoms?

Thimbleweed Park 2 is 'not really a sequel, not really a prequel,' but it is finally happening

Cyan releases teaser for the first new Myst game in 20 years, then breaks the news that it's not actually being made

A classic Giger-inspired adventure game just got a sequel

A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it's not one I particularly like but you can't beat the price

If you like puzzle platformers, multi-dimensional traversal, and ducks—I have the game for you

This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it

Dave the Diver: In the Jungle's cutscenes are even hornier than they are in the base game

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

Fortnite Showdown: Rivalries explained, map secrets, mythic weapon locations and more

Fortnite teases its next collab with Toy Story, but while fans are wondering where Woody is all I want to know is whether we'll be able to play as the aliens

After layoffs, Fortnite's future is shakier than it has ever been

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

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

Stardew Valley comes to Magic: The Gathering and fans aren't taking some of the new artwork well

Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores

Magic's Marvel Super Heroes set fixes the biggest problems of its Spider-Man cards

Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game

Magic: The Gathering's Marvel Super Heroes set brings back completely uncontroversial and universally beloved comics event Civil War

Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: 'I saw the game the day it went up on Steam'

It's time for Garfield's official Magic: The Gathering crossover now

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

I know all you pirates are busy with Windrose, but you should drop anchor and check out this new pirate-themed city builder

After his city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'

This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade

Hardcore FPS immediately becomes Steam top seller as devs list '10 reasons not to buy' it

Believe the hype for Wardogs, possibly the next great multiplayer FPS

Battlefield 6 player claims to have received Steam refund after 470 hours due to surprise mode removal

Overwatch's old battle passes are finally coming back permanently starting next month, but some of the rewards will be left out

Payday has come to Fortnite, because today's cool gamers are 'discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways'

Hit markers are an FPS crutch

Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'

id co-founder John Carmack revisits Doom at QuakeCon: 'Still a great game after all these years!'

Bethesda 40th anniversary sale knocks 50% off Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations just a month after launch

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

I suck at fighting games, but Marvel Tōkon has the sauce

Marvel Tōkon beta start time and everything you'll be able to play

Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release

Another self-own for Sony: Marvel Tōkon's PC version is unavailable in over 100 countries thanks to our old friend PSN again

The internet is agog at Captain America's hog

Rules of Engagement: The Grey State's new gameplay trailer gives us a glimpse into the Horrorverse - and it’s genuinely terrifying

Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it

'I would die': Obsession star Inde Navarrette would love a role in Resident Evil

Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'

Silent Hill producer believes shaking up the series was necessary to win over players because 'at best, only about half of the original users will return with a remake'

Remakes are the backbone to Capcom's success as they provide 'financial resources' for new Resident Evil games or standalone ideas like Pragmata

'A new version of Amnesia: The Dark Descent' may be coming later this year

Silent Hill: Townfall takes place in 'the perfect storm'—a remote Scottish town that stands on the edge of the age of the internet

Silent Hill: Townfall's director finds it 'utterly terrifying to be the next one in the series' but is still confident fans will enjoy the experience

Absolutely everything you need to know about romance and marriage in Fields of Mistria

Fields of Mistria's cast has me head over heels in a way no farm sim has since Stardew Valley

Juniper romance walkthrough: The full Juniper gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the arrogant witch in Fields of Mistria

March romance walkthrough: The full March gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria

Oh no, crafting an engagement ring in Fields of Mistria requires getting really deep into the mines!

Fields of Mistria officially becomes the best farm sim since Stardew Valley with its 1.0 update today

Fields of Mistria 1.0 changes: What's new in the full release version?

Fields of Mistria marriage candidates and gift guide

Cringe '90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed

Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty

In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible

Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once

WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey

WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev

WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?

Former WoW designer says Blizzard had no way to measure maximum player DPS while building early raids—so the studio enlisted its strongest sickos to grind target dummies

The rumors were true, Dungeons & Dragons' first 'Universes Beyond' crossover will be with World of Warcraft

Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were

Valve finally gives Deadlock a proper ranked mode, warns that matches will be 'very rocky' to start

Faker becomes an honorary Korean police officer to help discourage online gambling

Riot quickly backpedals on paid old-school skins in League of Legends Classic after backlash

League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style

Riot delays 'last hit indicators' in League of Legends ranked mode after fan response: 'We want to get more data and feedback'

Riot teases League of Legends Classic, with a full reveal coming in two weeks

Don't let Deadlock's MOBA tag scare you off—there's a quick play mode for dummies which is the perfect entry point

Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting

Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'

Big Walk review: A thoughtful puzzle game that takes co-op communication to new levels

This week's most compelling new Steam game is Horse Magnifier, which is about magnifying horses

Big Walk has sold 1 million copies, making it a bigger hit than Untitled Goose Game

Big Walk: So, what's the deal with that number puzzle?

Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: 'We consider it an important part of the game's design that you can only hear players who are close to you'

'Sorry about this!' Big Walk is already fixing its biggest complaint

One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis

Big Walk ignores 'friendslop' trends, and is better for it

CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team 'to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development'

After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms

Xbox's CEO teased that she's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, so now we have to guess what it's called

Persona big boss says 'I think we have to do' remakes of the series' most-neglected games

Sovereign Tower review: A brilliant management game elevated by a sublime time travel mechanic

The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield's Neon thinks Bethesda's galaxy was just too big: 'I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts'

Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever

Stop waiting for the Game of Thrones CRPG of your dreams and settle for the pleasant eurojank compromise instead

BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2

That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year

The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action

Dawn of War 2’s The Last Stand mode is still the best co-op MOBA that never was

Company of Heroes is back, and so is my urge to ruin friendships

I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked

StarCraft 2 development ended 6 years ago, but Blizzard still won't stop messing with it

Dawn of War 2 review (2009)

Demigod review: 'A fantastically imaginative gameworld of gods, dinosaurs and giants'

More than 10 years after Ubisoft took it down, one of our favorite games of 2010 is back on Steam