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Nine Sols, one of our best-reviewed soulslikes, is just $12 on Steam this week

How to get the Sigil of Valor in Crimson Desert

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

Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky

I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 for a Call of Duty zombie mod mash up and came away wondering how the heck I got this old

An unofficial PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess just released

The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle

How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'

GTA 6's multi-billion-dollar budget is 'a high-stakes game for big boys only,' Take-Two boss says, but he's 'cool with it'

Mixtape is at the center of another tedious culture war discourse, and I think I know why

Mixtape review: A gorgeous coming-of-age story that left me wondering why it's a videogame at all

My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development

Assassin's Creed producer assures fans 'there WILL be blood' in the Black Flag remake, and it won't be DLC

Help! The Millennium Bug made all the robots in my mansion go berserk, and only Homer Simpson can save the day

Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good

Find Your Words uses a way of communicating I've never experienced in a game before

Life is Strange's soundtrack is full of licensed bangers, and still hits even 11 years later

1000xResist developer added a video sequence 'out of desperation' but now they're bringing FMV back for their next game

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

Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'

Fortnite's new Peak skin costs almost 3 times as much as the indie game it's based on: 'That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers'

Fortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'

Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, is going free-to-play after nearly a decade

All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for May 2026

XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

The Slay the Spire board game is getting an expansion based on one of the PC game's most popular mods

Actual-play series Dimension 20 is partnering with White Wolf for a Vampire: The Masquerade show

Games Workshop just announced a book of 'insightful ork quotes' called Words of Waaagh

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban, says 'it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort'

My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15

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

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

Magic: The Gathering's next wizard university set feels like going back to school, because we sure are going to have to learn a lot of mechanics

Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically

Thank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn't doing a Harry Potter crossover set

Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch

Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'

Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'

What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit

Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2's 1st balance pass, saying these changes are 'the first of many': 'No change is necessarily permanent'

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

If you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years

Cities: Skylines 2's new developer celebrates the occasion with a debut patch all about death, making citizens pop their clogs around the clock and removing immortality in easy mode: 'Previously, about 80% of them never died of old age'

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

Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes is… what if it didn't?

Battlefield 6's first truly big map feels like playing a different, much better Battlefield

This Team Fortress 2 zombie mod looks so good, we almost thought it was official

This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter

Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

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

All Borderlands 4 Shift codes and how to redeem them

Indie publisher New Blood has listened to over 1,000 voicemails left on its old-school tip line, including suggestions like 'you ever think about making a game where you fight bugs?'

It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped

Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'

After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3

Invincible Vs may pack a punch for fans of the show, but I wish it had more going on outside its tight versus mode

Tekken players have spent years asking for FF7's Tifa only for rumours to suggest she's been poached by the biggest competition

Street Fighter 6 somehow patched its incest storyline to make it even shadier than it originally was

Fighting game YouTuber offers $10,000 bounty for upgraded netcode in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'

'Everybody should play every fighting game' says Invincible VS director: 'They're just fun'

Street Fighter 6's new DLC character is into incest, and somehow Capcom is making the whole thing even weirder

How to find the correct chemical agents for Anders in Directive 8020

Where to find the key code to Carter's PC in Directive 8020

The Sinking City 2 shifts the series to survival horror, and manages to be genuinely unsettling

'We want to start today by apologising': Phasmophobia is fixing issues with its Player Character update after a slew of complaints

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

Directive 8020 review: One giant leap for sci-fi body horror

Resident Evil Requiem just shadow-dropped a bonus roguelike mode, and it's absolutely fantastic

Dead By Daylight codes for May 2026

Resident Evil Requiem's director teases more Leon Kennedy: 'We could bring him back when he's 70'

The Sims 3 review: 'a joyful simulation, and celebration, of life and all its dramas'

Are you a real Sims series scholar? Put those decades of playing The Sims to the test with a quick round of trivia made for lifelong simmers

Full list of The Sims 4 Life & Death cheats for becoming a Reaper or maxing out your Ghost Mastery

Full list of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies cheats with skills, perks, and hidden reward traits

The new Moomin game is lovely, but also illustrates the limits of cozy comfort over the harsher lessons of a children's book

Petit Planet: All the key details on HoYo's Animal Crossing-like life sim

The Sims 4 cheats: Every cheat code and life hack you need

Petit Planet is exactly the Animal Crossing clone it looked like, but after 15 hours of it I'm shocked by how many new ideas it has too

Will you like Graveyard Keeper if you're a Stardew Valley and farm sim fan?

World of Warcraft 'Classic Plus', a version of the old MMO with modern updates, might actually be real as Blizzard hosts secret event with popular streamers

Discussion time: Are classic tab-target MMOs with loads of keybinds going out of style?

CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise

Old School RuneScape needs 'to do a bunch of work to stop the game exploding soon', as a problem from 2018 rears its ugly head

'I'm bleeding to death:' In 2009, Wurm Online was still the wild frontier of online gaming

Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year

Former Elder Scrolls Online boss was told in 2001 that 'There's already enough MMOs out there, no one is ever gonna play a new one'

The creator of Infinite Craft has a new game where you explore a secret-filled social hub as your mouse cursor

Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said

Why I love Deadlock's map, which has brought me back to the world of MOBAs long after I swore I'd quit

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

How OpenAI tore apart a team of Dota 2 pros

I just watched someone try to explain Deadlock to Joe Rogan for 6 minutes, and surprisingly, they kinda nailed it

Deadlock's latest update brings some huge movement buffs like jumping mid slide and 30% increased air control—it's a lot cooler than it sounds

After deciding to make a MOBA, Quantic Dream also decides to release it at the same time as the Marathon server slam, the first Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest, and the Steam Next Fest

Every Deadlock hero and all abilities

League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

Deadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'

Wordle is becoming a primetime TV quiz show, because the ultimate five-letter word is 'money'

Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week

Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: 'Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop'

2 hours with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was an uncomplicated burst of joy

Games like Wordle: Here's 15 more daily word games to satisfy your puzzle cravings

I found the Dark Souls of Wordle-likes and it's my new daily puzzle fixation

Combing through a house full of a dead loved one's possessions to figure out who they were feels like the anti-Unpacking

Barely Breathing is the most fun I've had as a parkouring fish in a long time

Portal 2: Community Edition promises to take the game's modding potential to new heights, and it's out in open beta now

Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release won't need to accommodate other game releases, director says—except GTA 6: 'That's a Goliath I don't want to take on quite frankly'

You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs

Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel

If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry

Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here'

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes

Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata

Debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs?

Diablo 4 boss loot tables for Season 13: Season of Reckoning

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

Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8

Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company

Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets yet another massive update adding a new line of warships and 'significant changes' to naval mechanics

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

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'

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

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