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Saints Row 1 designer reckons the series is 'dead,' adding that Embracer 'ghosted' him after a comeback pitch: 'I wish things were different'

I'm blue, dabadee

Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle

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There could be a new God of War project involving new Kratos' voice actor Christopher Judge revealed 'late summer', but nobody should feel great about how that news broke

Freebies

Zenless Zone Zero codes for February 2026

Crystal clear

All active Where Winds Meet codes and how to redeem them

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Nioh 3 has sold over 1 million copies in two weeks, breaking Team Ninja's record and carrying the series to 10 million sales

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13-year-old Decima engine allows Death Stranding team to 'accomplish many things that would be difficult to achieve elsewhere'

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Newly announced action game Become lets you play as a sentient sperm trying to reach the egg, and yes I am just writing about it because of the name

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In a desperate attempt to undo the damage of accidentally wiping their fiancée's Red Dead Redemption 2 save, someone paid $159 to enlist Arthur Morgan's voice actor to apologise for them

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Turn water into goo and yourself into a cloud in this fantasy adventure with 102 million spell combinations: 'The core ethos when it comes to solving puzzles is to do it your way'

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Life is Strange developer Don't Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

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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

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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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'

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

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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

You're Bard

The next Witcher spin-off game is about Dandelion sharing his version of Geralt's adventures with the world: 'you might encounter a stuffed unicorn'

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Surprise: Slay the Spire 2 is bringing 4-player co-op when it hits early access on March 6

Speedcrawling

If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs

Toil & Trouble

The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic set includes a deck inspired by the videogames

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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

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

pretty city

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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High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: 'Skip school. Call out sick from work. It's finally happening. And we're not lying'

NEWS

DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are 'death traps' and is planning a Labs test dedicated to 'vehicle improvements'

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After breaking Winston's heart last week, Overwatch players have abandoned Talon in this week's vote, and it's all down to the cat

TWIB

Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

Black Market

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

Golden Key

All Borderlands 4 Shift codes and how to redeem them

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We're getting even more free lootboxes and a double XP weekend in Overwatch just for playing the game

FOV 90

The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now

Run

Marathon: Everything we know about Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter

'Our team is still fully committed and working hard on 2XKO' says Riot as it announces two new characters days after mass layoff announcement

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The best Smash Bros.-like on Steam just added a character who can shop for items and go fishing in the middle of a match, in case you thought fighting games were too one-note

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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

HOW TO

How to get the shotgun in Resident Evil 2 Remake

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Capcom pleads with its community once again to avoid sharing Resident Evil Requiem leaks: 'We really want everyone to enjoy the game's story and experience as much as possible'

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A Resident Evil Requiem pull-up bar bundle sold out in Japan in less than five hours, and honestly, it just makes sense

Dead good

Dead By Daylight codes for February 2026

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'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips'

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Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record

Fine &

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

Gnoming around

Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop game that everyone with a PC and at least one other friend should check out

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Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team's Valentine's Day reveal turned out to be Layers of Fear 3

Renovations

A beginner's guide to installing Stardew Valley mods: SMAPI, Stardrop, and more

Updated!

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

Cosmic Life

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

Cheat The System

All the Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy cheats you need to attain a noble lifestyle without the effort

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Stardew Valley fan left their Switch running for 'over 3 weeks straight' to sleep for 1,000 years, waking up to immortal villagers, giant mushrooms and debris everywhere

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The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data

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

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WoW dev was surprised that players 'like being jumped' by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where 'going AFK might get you killed'

DIY

An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

Blood Red

Everything we know about Crimson Desert

DINO DIESEL

Everything we know about Ark 2

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WoW lead says they 'lost something along the way' by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution

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WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons

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EVE Online rolls out 'AI-powered assistance feature' for new players, promises it 'does not produce game content, create art, or replace creative work'

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MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt

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Blizzard isn't going to let World of Warcraft players suffer from outdated character customization for long, but it's going to take some time to fix

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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

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

LOCKED AWAY

I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead

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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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One of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago

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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

PC-88

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

Lollapunlooza

This musical RPG is doing important work by letting you beat up music snobs, but I really stuck around for the painful (brilliant) puns

Wowed

Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody's being weird about it online, it's kinda perfect

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Warlocks have taken the throne as Diablo 2's best class 26 years later, and Blizzard seems to be OK with letting them have their fun for now

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Renewed hopes of a Nier: Automata sequel as the cult action RPG's 9th-anniversary livestream ends with a teasing message

Free keys

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them

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The best Geralt, Doug Cockle, completed The Witcher 3, got the best ending, and was driven 'bonkers' by the Bloody Baron quest

Code loot

All Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Shift codes and how to redeem them

All aboard

Honkai: Star Rail codes for February 2026

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Diablo 2 player discovers the key to immortality on the new warlock class is to use a pet demon as a shield

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

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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