Games

Control Resonant should run well on mid-tier PCs, but you're going to have to clear out some serious SSD space

GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF

Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day

18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first custom map, MGS3's Groznyj Grad

'There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3' promises Saber Interactive executive

Onimusha: Way of the Sword proves the parry formula is far from stale, you just need to get freaky with it

Peak studio Aggro Crab is publishing a sick-looking platformer about a blue collar guy doing dirty work on an alien world

Onimusha: Way of the Sword starts off slow, but stick with it: You'll be rewarded with some of the best action combat of the decade

Grand Theft Auto 6's controversial refuelling action reportedly takes about 10 seconds to perform, which Rockstar's co-studio head says is 'pretty fast for a fill-up'

Age Twisters is a simple yet charming spin on the co-op adventure that aims to feel like watching a Pixar movie

'I would love that but we're cheap and poor': Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about his upcoming cowboy survival game, The Legend of California

The new Rusty Lake game is a grim, sinister tale of family, destiny, and cooking: I fed a man porridge filled with dead bugs and he told me it tasted good

Thimbleweed Park 2 is happening because Ron Gilbert's friend knows a rich guy who's a big fan of the original and wanted more

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

How to throw a LAN party in 2026

Here's the Wardogs release time for your region

Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work

Half of France's premier FPS sibling duo just put out the most exhilarating parkour game I've ever played, and it's only $8

Left 4 Dead 2 writer says Valve intentionally 'leaked' its cinematic trailer to get around ESRB rules: 'I think we can't get trouble for that now'

As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day 'hype dies down'

Stalker 2 studio is raffling keychains made from a shot-down Russian helicopter to raise funds for mine removal in the real-world Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

PUBG's new spin-off game is 'faster, meaner, and more aggressive' with sword hands and 'a little bit of light cannibalism'

'Can I cry?': Stalker 2 devs say its 2.0 update's engine overhaul was a nightmare—but worth the effort

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

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

Over 1,000 cut voice lines from Resident Evil 4 and Requiem reveal more about Leon Kennedy, the zombies he fights, and a lowkey bromance

The Halloween game has a sex minigame in it, except no it doesn't, because it was apparently removed

Here's 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year's Opening Night Live

Silent Hill: Townfall is the most Scottish game I've ever played and the most effective horror game I've seen in ages: 'It made sense for us to dig deep into our upbringings, into our past, and try and build a place that felt believable'

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

Alien: Isolation 2's Gamescom demo kept its cards close to its chest, but I'm definitely ready to be terrified again

Resident Evil 2's director believes Capcom has become 'completely numb to how scary' recent games have been and wants a 'non-horror mode'

Hello Neighbor's multiplayer spinoff has been 'temporarily shut down' after a hacker wiped player progression and demanded the game's 'removal from sale across all platforms'

Konami is aiming for a new Silent Hill game every year with producer Motoi Okamoto trying to quell fears by promising fans that they 'will be able to provide positive kinds of surprises'

Petit Planet's delightfully cosy galactic take on Animal Crossing is the closest we'll ever get to the life sim on PC

Haunted Chocolatier's development has been 'very productive' in recent months, Eric Barone says: 'Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do'

Fields of Mistria review: The best farm sim of the past Stardew-chasing decade

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

20 years later, veteran WoW director says players outsmarted him completely in Ahn'Qiraj: 'All that work, and there was still an instant tell'

Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die'

8-year Old School RuneScape saga comes to a close with former dev sentenced for stealing $400K in gold and items from players

Confession time: Alright, come clean—how tidy are your bags in your MMOs?

Guild Wars 3 is a lot smaller scale than Guild Wars 2 because of the new approach to combat and movement: 'You would probably see about 20 players in a large combat scenario'

Guild Wars 3's approach to combat and movement is like nothing I've ever seen in an MMO before: 'One of our big goals when we make a new game in the Guild Wars franchise is to set out and try new things'

New Final Fantasy 14 site update stabs the final pin into my conspiracy board, leaving me 99.9% sure I know what the new physical ranged job is

5 top tips from World of Warcraft housing creators for making amazing masterworks

Blizzard doing 'a thorough scrub' of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come

In a sea of failed live service games, I'm shocked to see someone trying to make a MOBA

Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready

League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals

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'

This free lockpicking puzzler you can play in your browser is unexpectedly one of the most thrilling games I've encountered this year

AI is 'just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers

Big Walk is a new co-op puzzle game classic

This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators

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?

Less than a week after launch, The Blood of Dawnwalker developer is already getting to work on the sequel

Thousand Hells is a 'tactical narrative' feast of infernal storytelling, but its defeats can feel brutal

Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's final story patch is exactly what the game needed, and has the 4-month wait for Evercold suddenly feeling a whole lot longer

Skyrim co-lead says Bethesda making Starfield instead of TES6 came out of nowhere: 'It was very much: Guess what, team? We're making this space game'

Persona 1 and 2 remakes are something Atlus will 'probably eventually do', which is great, but the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games are sitting right there

Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving

'If you're designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:' The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff

A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser

Brütal Legend is available free in honor of Tim Curry

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'