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June 13
- Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
- Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
- Some RX 9070 XTs are reportedly slightly slower than others thanks to Samsung GDDR6 memory chips
- 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events
- 'Originally it was like, no, we are not interested': It apparently took 5.5 hours of hardcore pitching to get Thanos in Fortnite—and as you know, the rest is history
- Imagine how big Nvidia's GB200 AI superchip is in person. Nope, it's even bigger than that
- Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely
- 'We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping'—Dune: Awakening's PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies
- Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it 'would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source'
- Cities: Skylines 2's latest patch has introduced quays and piers after seeing players using makeshift substitutes: 'We know how challenging they can be to build'
- AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
- Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good
- Would-be Sims competitor Inzoi's publisher says Steam concurrents aren't as important as sales, which is only technically correct
- Redditor handcrafts retrofuturistic set up that wouldn't look out of place on the set of Alien, with precisely zero 3D printing involved
- Stellar Blade is doing better numbers than almost every other PlayStation port on Steam, and it's probably not just because of the nude mods
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 13
- Steam's store now lets you search for games by accessibility features like 'narrated game menus' and 'adjustable difficulty', and more than 5,000 games have already added their accessibility details to the database
June 12
- Dune: Awakening players have found a devious way to grief each other outside of PvP zones
- FromSoftware left hints for Elden Ring Nightreign's enhanced bosses update in the files and modders have already dug them up
- Konami announces Metal Gear Delta will include a new multiplayer mode, but don't expect Metal Gear Online 4 because 'the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot'
- 'I don't actually play horror games': Phasmophobia's lead developer had no intention of making a horror game but still kicked off a whole new genre
- Halo Infinite says 'screw it' and just becomes Halo 3 for a month—complete with grifball
- You can manipulate time itself in this ambitious MMORPG with soulslike combat
- Trump's AI czar echoes Jen-Hsun, says China's AI models are 'maybe three to six months' behind the US—while also arguing for ever fewer AI regulations in the US
- MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop
- Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with 'abominable intelligence' and bots
- There it is: Bloober Team is remaking Silent Hill 1 after everyone went gaga for its SH2 remake
- The Switch 2 has already sold 3.5 million units, making it Nintendo's fastest selling console yet—but I'm struggling to feel enthusiastic about this hardware launch
- 'The game should speak for itself': MindsEye's publisher denies developer claims of a conspiratorial 'effort to trash' it
- Resident Evil 9 Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi confirms Grace Ashcroft as the 'brand new lead character' but I'm still not convinced Leon Kennedy won't pop up out of somewhere
- Jurassic World Evolution 3's system requirements are graciously breezy and don't require a dino-sized SSD
- Some RTX 50-series gamers with EVGA motherboards are having to physically tape their graphics cards to boot up their PC
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 12
- Solasta 2 is switching to D&D 5th edition's 2024 rules update
June 11
- An Elden Ring Nightreign dataminer dove into the numbers to prove that reaching max level isn't as strong as it seems
- MindsEye hotfix promised for the end of this week as Steam rating sinks back down to 'mostly negative'
- Videogame voice actors strike 'suspended' following agreement with game companies: 'All SAG-AFTRA members are instructed to return to work'
- Splitgate 2 boss blames a former Call of Duty developer for $80 bundle, says he 'didn't intend for it to come off as shifting blame'
- 'A bottomless pit of plagiarism': Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement
- This absurd trolley conductor simulator gave me 3 separate Steam achievements for throwing grandmas from a moving public transportation vehicle
- New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect
- Grounded 2 will have an arachnophobia mode, even for its rideable spiders
- Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam's top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day
- OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear
- After beating Elden Ring Nightreign's bosses with 'mind control,' Twitch streamer PerriKaryal may turn her big brain to Nintendo next
- Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'
- Dispatch is the first Telltale-style game I've played that's delivering on the promise of playing a TV show, and it's even got a compelling management sim tucked inside, too
- Resident Evil Requiem isn't a first-person or third-person horror game—it's both
- Razer's first barebones kit is a big win for keyboard nerds and is cheaper than Corsair's new one
- Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
- This one-of-a-kind GPU is actually an entire prebuilt PC in disguise—with a memorable codename and everything
- Hideo Kojima's got a new game out soon, which you can tell because he keeps banging on about death and legacy: 'I am not going to pass the baton to anyone—I will rather crush the baton'
- US aviation is another industry looking to finally wave goodbye to frightfully persistent floppy disks
- They made Balatro for stock trading and I fear I may never write another article ever again
- Rainbow Six: Siege X is out today, meaning one of the best tactical shooters ever made is now free-to-play
- Haunted Chocolatier will be bigger than Stardew Valley, but that's all I can tell you because Eric Barone literally only said 10 words
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes its Story Mode even easier—or, if you feel like a true sicko, enough optional modifiers to make killing superboss Simon take over 2.8 actual years
- Elden Ring Nightreign players have made the mother of all charts, listing every boss and all their resistances and weaknesses
- Microsoft previews new super-sized Start menu for Windows 11
- A fresh benchmark for Nvidia's unannounced consumer APU suggests it's coming for Intel and AMD's finest and is maybe close to production-ready
- Dead as Disco is shaping up to be a Hi-Fi Rush successor worthy of the mantle—and it lets you dance, dance, bludgeon to your own custom tunes
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 11
June 10
- A big Civilization 7 update is on the way with 'large and huge maps,' Steam Workshop support, and a promise to keep working on it
- Mecha Break will have interactive space toilets because its developer wants to emphasize that players 'are acting as a pilot and not the mech itself'
- Splitgate 2 boss apologizes for the 'division' caused by his MAGA-style hat but still insists it wasn't meant to be political: 'There's division in the community, and for that I am truly sorry'
- World's most patient Nightreign players discover they can kill a boss by ringing an incredibly annoying bell 80 times
- 'It's the year of Obsidian': The Outer Worlds 2 game director says the studio isn't worried about releasing another RPG in the same year as Avowed
- As far as action RPGs where you're a girl with a big sword go, this one isn't half bad
- Despite its new easy mode, Lies of P will get a 'difficulty reduction' in a future update because too many players are getting wrecked by the DLC
- Team Ninja says Ninja Gaiden 4 is all about 'bringing together the stylish qualities of Platinum while retaining that distinct Ninja Gaiden feel'—and the studios 'wouldn't hold back' critiquing each other's work
- Embracer CEO who oversaw the staggering $2B blunder that led to studio closures and layoffs is now set to become its executive chair, focusing on 'mergers and acquisitions and capital allocation'
- 'My biggest fear is the direct comparison to Grounded 1': Grounded 2 executive producer opens up about the difficulty of following up an early access game with another early access game
- Sizzle and Stack is a cooking strategy game which truly captures the chaos of making meals for angry customers like no other
- Japanese book publisher 'urgently' reprints Dante's Divine Comedy because a gacha game where you can summon him has the weebs thirsting for that 14th century epic verse
- The Outer Worlds 2 game director says its writing has a 'less silly, darker tone' than the first game
- US peripheral maker cites 'global supply chain issues' as the reason for releasing its new gaming mouse everywhere except the US
- If you've ever wanted to play an NPC in a Hitman level then do I have the Steam Next Fest demo for you
- After 15 months and 3,800 hours of 'worst case' usage, one independent test finds OLED burn-in is now almost a non-issue
- I couldn't picture how Death Howl, a soulslike deckbuilder, could possibly marry the two genres—until I played its Steam Next Fest demo
- 'Here comes the giant list of cuts': It's a sad day for GTA 6's fan-made map project as players begin to lament the loss of the panhandle
- This medieval slasher looks like an '80s comic that inspired 100 death metal bands, and you should try its 10-minute Steam Next Fest demo
- Invincible VS might be hyperviolent, but the devs want to salve the sting of getting combo'd to death: 'We want you to be an active participant, even when you're getting hit'
- Dune: Awakening live coverage: Server status, launch info, and all the latest news
- This M.2 adapter for the new Switch 2 is pretty nifty and has me wondering if you could do an eGPU next (you can't)
- Post-Larian Wizards of the Coast threatens us with more 'CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3'
- After 10 months, SAG-AFTRA union has reached a 'tentative agreement' with major companies including EA, Warner Bros, and Epic over AI voice acting protections
- Dying Light: The Beast director explains how the team caved to popular demand, 'Let's give the players the guns if they want'
- Great, so now farms are going to be crawling with giant robobugs like something straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn
- The most convenient handheld gaming PC I've ever used is getting upgraded with an OLED screen, Ryzen HX 370, and a repositioned mouse nub (that's the best bit)
- Elden Ring Nightreign update aims to fix one Nightlord boss tanking your framerate—the other from going berserk and mashing you into paste with '72 consecutive attacks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 10
- Lisan al-Gaib! Sandworm-riding isn't a feature in Dune: Awakening, but players are doing it anyway
- Apple's new UI for Macs and iPhones 'combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve,' but it sure looks like an awful lot like Windows Vista circa 2007
June 9
- 13 years after it was first teased, and 2 months after committing to a 2025 release, Mewgenics is delayed into 2026
- Elden Ring Nightreign has an ultra-rare item with a 0.035% chance to drop and players are convinced it's the key to the game's biggest secret
- 'If Hitman is a single-minded killer and basically the bad guy of the game, Bond is the hero': IO Interactive talks about shifting priorities for its upcoming 007 game
- Introducing ‘The Rig’: everything under the hood of the PC Gaming Show’s top of the line PC build
- Medieval Dynasty fans should check out this third-person medieval city builder that just got a demo on Steam
- At Fate's End is a gorgeous action adventure where you can pull a 'legendary God Sword' from your throat to work through family trauma in duels with siblings who use their own spines as weaponry
- Techland boss says Dying Light 2 'forgot' what made the series special, but Dying Light: The Beast gets back on track: 'For us, this really is Dying Light 3'
- Drywall Eating Simulator is a game about 'interacting with society' that takes me back to my retail days
- I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is 'largely a solved problem'
- Even when he's meant to be talking about watches, Henry Cavill's downright giddy over producing Warhammer 40k's upcoming Amazon series, says it's 'a challenge I'm enjoying enormously'
- The Witcher 4's horses are so stunningly detailed they drove a real-life expert to happy tears: 'Oh my god they’re taking the horse seriously'
- Randy Pitchford has concluded that 'Borderlands 3 is better than Borderlands 2' after looking at a Twitter poll, but Borderlands 4 will be the best, for sure
- It's not an April Fool's joke anymore: Zotac goes ahead with its 'gamer fragrance' perfume, for a limited few, for a limited time
- The absence of Marvel's Blade during the Xbox Games Showcase has left me worried about Arkane—after a rough couple of years it needs a win
- 'MSI Afterburner is a bit PowerColor Afterburner now' as the dev had to buy another manufacturer's GPU to build support for AMD's RDNA 4 graphics cards into the next beta
- Atlus promises it hasn't forgotten how to make new Persona games, says it's 'actively preparing for' something I'd bet money is Persona 6
- Move over Ashcroft, Resident Evil 9 will have its T-virus poster boy back in the limelight according to notable Resi leaker: 'Leon Kennedy is not the only playable character but he is the main character'
- I grabbed the free demo of dark new fantasy RPG The Fall of Avalon: Tainted Grail and, boy, does it take Bethesda back to school
- Lian Li's new Hydroshift AIO cooler doesn't work properly on some motherboards but it will send you a replacement part if you can't get around the issue in the BIOS
- Xbox is headed to handhelds but its gaming-first UI will also land on existing ROG Ally and ROG Ally X and 'other Windows handhelds starting next year'
- Of course, Team Cherry didn't deign to tell anyone that Hollow Knight: Silksong is arriving before Christmas in a weekend of showcases—but via a random Discord message
- The Witcher 3 once had a suicide mission ending 'inspired by Mass Effect 2,' a quest where Geralt joined the Wild Hunt, and a version of its vampire-focused Blood and Wine DLC without vampires
- Switch 2 teardown shows that Nintendo hasn't learned a single lesson from the OG Switch when it comes to repairing it
- Awaysis, from the makers of the underrated Galak-Z, was inspired by the slapstick physics action of Gang Beasts having one glaring omission—it needed a giant sword
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 9
- Use watery powers to explore a fantastical desert in Fading Echo
- Blind Descent is an upcoming survival game about a hidden world deep beneath the surface of Mars
June 8
- Wanderburg is Howl's Moving Castle if it were a roguelike where you duke it out as a castle on wheels
- Hang out in cyberpunk bars and visit weird fish in Bernband’s alien city—a modern day reimagining of one of 2014’s coolest and most chill games
- Dead Reset is a terrifyingly gory sci-fi horror FMV adventure with a super-intriguing death-loop mechanic
- Mewgenics, the 'endless cat breeding RPG' from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, has a new bonkers trailer that'll leave you with more questions than answers
- Ascendant is a 'neon-drenched PvPvE fever dream' multiplayer shooter, that's like 'capture the flag if it were raised by wolves'
- I wasn't quite sure what a 'brinepunk roguelite' shooter is but, going by the latest Abyssus trailer, it just means sick hardware chewing through sea monsters
- Dinkum is a co-op farming game that's as Australian as trolling foreigners by making them eat Vegemite with a spoon
- PSA: Dune: Awakening's sandworm is 'currently missing', says Funcom, but 'we're working on it and he'll soon be back prowling the sands' (Update: the worms are back)
- Hotline Miami meets Gunpoint? Top-down hack 'em up DeadWire sets sights on September at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- GOG takes on the Steam Workshop with the official launch of one-click modding, and Skyblivion is headed to the store later this year
- Blumhouse's new multiplayer horror game Eyes of Hellfire has you trying to solve a curse and either 'escape the lodge with your friends, betray them, or die'
- Spooky farming sim Grave Seasons drops first-ever gameplay trailer at the PC Gaming Show 2025, but it's not your typical Stardew Valley-like
- Void/Breaker, a roguelike sci-fi FPS, is like having modding tools for your guns and it looks absolutely great for it
- Where do survival games go from here? Atmosfar's answer is a sci-fi road trip
- Bus Bound aims to be more than your standard public transport sim, it lets you use your sick bussing skills to change the city around you
- Love Eternal is a 'gravity-defying horror platformer' within which a teenager must escape the clutches of an angry ancient god
- I'm as surprised as you are, but Gears of War: Reloaded is showing every other major publisher how a remake should be handled
- Morbid Metal looks like a techno-amalgam of Risk of Rain, Warframe, and Devil May Cry—with a playable demo around the corner, and early access later this year
- Blippo+ is an uncanny, Hypnospace Outlaw-style game where you must flick through an alien off-cable TV network full of 'cloned opera stars and spooky raconteurs'
- Mycopunk, the co-op shooter of the summer, gets a release date at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- The first published game from the Vampire Survivors' devs is a ludicrous hack-n-slash you control by mashing your keyboard and, oh, it's out right now
- Endless Legend 2 is hitting early access in August, after which I won't be leaving my office for the rest of the summer
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's first new class is the cop from hell and his robot dog
- Open world failson walking simulator Baby Steps is clumsily waddling our way in a dirty onesie—play the Steam demo now
- Anno 117: Pax Romana will let you don your toga and mess around in Rome's golden age on November 13
- Nidhogg creator's open-world cycling sim Wheel World lets you ride a hotdog around a Moebius-coded Night City, and it pedals onto Steam next month
- When people need help, you answer the call… and then send out a superhero while you stay safely behind your desk in strategy adventure Dispatch
- Raise your very own Tower of Babel in Stario: Haven Tower's new demo, announced at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- After 5 years in early access, I didn't think hardcore FPS Ultrakill could surprise me more—but my jaw nearly hit the floor on seeing an upcoming levels
- Yep, you can be 'dumb' in The Outer Worlds 2, and it even comes with some benefits: like 'banging on a machine to get it to work'
- OK, I can see the vision for why they call this co-op roguelike shooter Guntouchables
- Starfield fans despair after it's a complete no-show at the Xbox Games Showcase: 'This game is done'
- Craft magical meals to feed fantasy hordes in card-based cooking sim Arcane Eats
- A giant cop has his eye on you in Militsioner, the most bizarre immersive sim I've ever seen
- Hell Clock, the Diablo-like action RPG based on a bloody passage of Brazil's history, is out next month
- Lost Rift is a base-building, survival sim, extraction shooter mashup that you can try at Steam Next Fest
- Paralives finally has a release date so I can finally go wild on its delightfully tactile building and endlessly cozy vibes
- TerraTech Legion is basically like if you got to drop your own deadly LEGO car into Vampire Survivors
- Pigface is a gnarly neo-noir FPS with freeform assassination missions and a demo that just dropped on Steam
- Vanquish the big bad, then chase them back through time and kill 'em again in EverSiege: Untold Ages, a co-op PvE loot-em-up
- I'm obsessed with goblinAmerica, an FPS where you play the goblin president crouch sliding through a psychedelic dream world
- If you yearn for 2006, steel yourself for Gears of War: Reloaded's multiplayer beta this coming weekend
- Stars of Icarus is a spunky co-op spaceship romp from the creators of Guns of Icarus, swapping steampunk for '90s anime
- Finally, a new game about being a deranged cult leader is coming to Steam in July—get ready for Worship
- Channel your inner Fist of the North Star in combo-obsessed beat 'em up, Spirit X Strike
- DarkSwitch is a fantasy city-builder where you construct a metropolis around a massive tree, but watch out for the fog that drives citizens mad
- Garbage Country seems like it's just about lo-fi beats to off-road to, but it's sneakily a tower defense game against post-apocalyptic trash bots
- The creator of DayZ has shown off DLC that basically turns survival game Icarus into a first-person monster-hunting game
- Live out your fantasy of sailing, surfing, and… stabbing shark monsters in Voyagers of Nera
- In co-op survival game Railborn, build the weirdest mobile train base anyone's ever seen and chug it around on an alien planet
- Obsidian wants to add a 'new layer of strategy' to combat in Grounded 2, resulting in tougher bugs, class-like archetypes, and the ability to dash
- Grounded 2's starter area is the size of the entire first game, and you can get around by riding ants and spiders—this might end up being my new favourite survival game
- The Last Caretaker is an oceanic first-person survival shooter that tasks you with rebuilding humanity in a drowning world
- A week in tactical RPG Demonschool includes karaoke, romance, dog adoption, lost sandwiches, cursed dolls, and lots of monster battles
- Pizza Bandit is a third-person shooter about an ex-merc who wants to run a pizza joint, but aliens have different plans
- Failbetter Games’ next venture swaps Fallen London for an alluring narrative farming simulator—the PC Gaming Show 2025 gives us our first look at its enchanting world
- Farever is the multiplayer Zelda-like you've been waiting for—check out its shiny trailer aired at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- Co-op zombie shooter No More Room in Hell 2 is bringing back the fan-favorite Broadway map to kick off its summer of updates
- Devolver's new multiplayer ragdoll robot rumble Botsu unleashes a free demo on Steam
- “An overlooked visitor will kill you”: No, I’m Not a Human is one of the weirdest horror games to have ever graced the PC Gaming Show—play its super unsettling demo
- Excellent subnautical society sim Barotrauma just announced its first expansion, and it looks like we'll be able to build Rapture
- Moonlighter 2's unlikely duo of cosy shopkeeping and intense dodge-rolling action looks ridiculously charming, and I'm already anticipating its upcoming demo
- Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults drops a quintessential ARPG trailer at the PC Gaming Show 2025—wishlist it now on Steam
- Self-cloning sci-fi survival game The Alters might look like a harrowing psychological experience, but at least you and your alt-universe selves can have a dance party
- The Outer Worlds 2 will have a Fallout: New Vegas-style radio system with tons of music and reactivity: 'They're gonna be cheering you on as a hero'
- Generation Exile, a turn-based city builder about managing a generation ship, releases a demo tomorrow—but it already has the best narrative choice of any game this year
- Modulus looks like a must-play factory game for anyone who loves a thousand little parts on a hundred conveyor belts moving in perfect rhythm
- Lead a factory colony on an alien world, or rise up against your corporate overlords, in Dawn Apart, a 'space colony and factory sim' coming to Steam later this year
- The Outer Worlds 2 has revealed its two most important factions: Angry authoritarian jocks and holier than thou science-bros who just want to solve a maths problem
- Kaizen: A Factory Story, the Japanese production line sim from the creators of SpaceChem, gets a demo later this month and a full release in July
- SkyRig is systems-builder for Factorio sickos set in the skies of a bulging gas giant
- EVE Frontier, CCP's survival MMO about rebuilding civilization among the ruins of a spacefaring empire, is getting a big update and moving into public alpha
- Train-hopping PvP sandbox Enginefall has a truly ambitious premise and I can't wait to backstab all my friends in it
- 'This is an Xbox' says Microsoft of its new handheld but, let's be honest, it's a PC
- Action platformer The Rogue Prince of Persia re-announces itself at the PC Gaming Show 2025 with a new breakneck baddie-slashing, boss-battling trailer
- A-freight of the dark? I'm already spellbound by Spooky Express, an adorable puzzle game about trains and also vampires
- All Systems Dance, a game about overthrowing a smarmy tech billionaire with the power of dance, is grooving its way to early access this August
- Necesse looks like top-down Terraria, and that's the magic combination to get my attention for its 1.0 release date reveal
- Hyper Games is back with another cozy Moomin adventure, and this time Moomintroll is the main character
- Drum up an army in the demo for Ratatan, a roguelike rhythm game with huge Patapon vibes heading to Early Access
- Mad Max one second, Cyberpunk the next—Terminull Brigade is looking like every roguelike everywhere, all at once
- Fresh Tracks reveals a release date for its rhythmic demon slaying with breakneck heavy metal and—wait, is that Peter Stormare?
- The Outer Worlds 2 'has more perks than Fallout: New Vegas,' says Obsidian—including one that turns you into a heart-collecting serial killer
- The remaster of classic D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights 2 is finally real, and releasing next month
- Far Far West is music to my ears: a 4-player co-op FPS with ghost bandits and elemental spell combos
- Ambrosia Sky is a narrative power-washing game with the heart of an immersive sim—try the Steam demo now
- Capy Castaway is a whimsical exploration adventure inspired by memories of childhood about a capybara and a crow trying to find their way home
- Invincible VS is the second amazing-looking superhero tag fighter to crop up in the last three days
- Tired of words? Double Fine's next game is a 'story told without words' that stars a walking lighthouse and its pet bird
- Laid-back camper sim Outbound cozies up with more than just van-life, it's got the full crafting and exploration game package
- Whiskerwood, a city builder about mice colonising the seas, contains a lot more revolution against oppressive imperial regimes than I expected
- The Outer Worlds 2 has a 'bad knees' perk that makes your old-man legs pop and alert enemies when you stand, and another that Obsidian fully admits makes the game 'pretty unplayable'
- What? Call of Duty is skipping over Modern Warfare 4 and releasing Black Ops 7 this year instead
- Cozy shop sim Trash Goblin invites you to build your own colorful doodads, but I'm convinced its real star is the smolderingly sexy Mushromeo
- Ninja Gaiden 4 looks sick, is out in October, and has the exact storytelling I demand from a ninja game: 'You're a wanted criminal now'
- This upcoming Korean action game looks like Splinter Cell mashed up with Lollipop Chainsaw, and I am absolutely here for it
- Dontnod's next game looks like Uncharted's platforming bits as its own thing, in space
- Steampunk RPG Clockwork Revolution has finally received another trailer after a basically 2 years of silence
- Persona 4 Revival is officially real, giving us our first look at 4K Charlie Tunoku in a remake with a very angry original voice cast
- I'm morbidly intrigued by No Ghosts At The Grand, which looks like Merge Mansion but with talking cats and it's a musical
- Age of Mythology: Retold's Japanese mythology-focused expansion just announced it's hitting this fall
- Enchanting puzzler Planet of Lana is getting a sequel next year, and I'm already convinced it's going to be more heartbreaking than the last just from its announcement trailer
- Obsidian announces a sequel to its backyard co-op survival game Grounded—and surprisingly, it'll be in early access next month
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle heads for the catacombs of Rome in its first DLC, coming in September
- If High on Life 2's skateboard shooting is as fun as they make it look in the trailer, the guns can yap all they want
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy has a suspicious dearth of killer rats
- Super Meat Boy 3D looks a bit like plasticine but I'm not hating it
- Bloober Team's upcoming horror game Cronos: The New Dawn just got even harder to survive as the 'body-horror monstrosities' can work together
- 'What if Blade was a witcher?' is the scary question asked as Blood of Dawnwalker from former CDPR devs announces 2026 release
- Game Freak reminds us that it's more than Pokémon with Beast of Reincarnation, a 'one-person, one-dog action RPG' about fighting robots and corrupted beasts in post-apocalyptic Japan
- AMD's baffling 'new' Ryzen Z2 APUs for handheld gaming PCs include a premium 'AI' model with an NPU and seemingly the ancient chip from Valve's Steam Deck
- All the announcements from the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase
- Ark: Survival Ascended celebrates 10 years of dino-dodging with a visual upgrade and letting you run around in your birthday suit
- Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy's slapstick walking simulator about a slob climbing a mountain, stumbles onto Steam in September
- Rust's recently added rainforest is so dense the developers changed how resources spawn because players couldn't find them: 'The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle'
- Amazon may have cancelled the Wheel of Time show, but the open world RPG ploughs ahead with talent from games like Dark Age of Camelot and Lord of the Rings Online
- I defeated a bird by talking to it about the Bible in this lo-fi first-person RPG where you're a 19th century daemon summoner
- Innkeep lets you play an extremely suspect fantasy innkeeper, though I'm sure the bloodstains on your apron can be easily explained
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 8
- Here's an alchemy shop-sim that is also a mech-builder deckbuilder
June 7
- 'Dominate the Waifu Industrial Complex': There's a new 3v3 movement shooter called Waifu Tactical Force because of course there is
- This 2018 early access survival game notorious for poop mechanics and penis sliders will finally go 1.0 this month
- I can already tell that this co-op firefighting game is going to lead to some hilarious highlight clips
- A Hitman co-op mode is in development, featuring two familiar faces from Agent 47's past
- Isometric stealth game Eriksholm continues to look gorgeous in a new video
- 3 years after it was announced, here's a look at the psychedelic horror game from Spec Ops: The Line's Cory Davis and Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails
- They're making an RPG based on The Expanse, and it's got Mass Effect vibes
- Ace Attorney meets Slay the Spire in this 'courtroom deckbuilder' about fighting for the rights of a murdered god
- I can't stop watching these Dune: Awakening videos of players having butt-puckeringly close calls with angry sandworms
- After years of radio silence, Gecko Gods has finally announced a release window and published a demo
- This puzzle game challenges you to tell a family’s story through organising photo albums and creating scrapbooks
- Cozy foraging game Out and About shares a new trailer as part of the Wholesome Direct, and there's a playtest you can take part in right now
- Balatro meets breakfast? This 'chaotic cooking roguelike' where you make omelets for picky customers and try not to enrage a giant chicken just launched on Steam
- If you like PowerWash Simulator, you might like this new game about blowing leaves
- I'm quitting PC Gamer to run a vending machine empire in the back streets of Japan after my idle game obsession shadow-dropped at the Wholesome Direct
- Haunted Paws lets you and a friend navigate a haunted house as two dogs trying to find their missing human friend
- Stress-free city builder Gourdlets is getting a 'fully-featured' multiplayer spin-off sometime this year
- Criminally underappreciated survival game Abiotic Factor is leaving early access with an update that adds buildable office cubicles and a spooky library
- Forever Skies developer responds to 'significant' disappointment with the survival game's launch: 'It's tough to see that the game didn't meet the expectation of so many players'
- No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path'
- Fallout 76 now lets you go fishing in its irradiated waters, though I'm more interested in the massive combat overhaul added in its 'Gone Fission' update
- Geometric factory sim Shapez 2 just got a massive update that adds 3D construction and better trains, and it's also 30% off until next week
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 7
- 'I'm not here to apologize but I am here to clarify': Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is 'not a political statement'
- I can see why Devolver dedicated its whole show to Ball X Pit: It's like Atari's Breakout meets Vampire Survivors and the demo is curing my roguelike fatigue
- 'No one cooks anymore': Dosa Divas is an RPG about food, death, and big robots
- PC finally has its own Breath of the Wild killer, and it's indistinguishable from the Nintendo game except that you are a boy who is also a tire
- I just discovered in Dune: Awakening that the only thing worse than seeing a sandworm coming right at you is being stuck in quicksand and seeing a sandworm coming right at you
- To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector's 'player-powered' multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you'll have to 'play with your ears'
June 6
- Untitled Goose Game studio unpacks its new open world co-op game Big Walk, and it looks like nothing else I've played before
- Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold '90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage'
- A noir take on Yakuza is love at first sight: Stranger Than Heaven's reveal trailer is a head scratcher but I'm already in
- 'I grew up playing Halo, I'm tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year, and I wish we could have Titanfall 3!': Splitgate 2 boss slams the state of shooters as he surprise launches a battle royale mode
- The Summer Game Fest just rolled out what is very likely the most disturbing videogame trailer I have ever seen
- RE9 is real: Resident Evil Requiem just got a surprise SGF reveal, and it's launching in February
- Wildgate, the match-based Sea of Thieves in space from Mike Morhaime's new game company, launches this July
- Mads Mikkelsen is reprising his Casino Royale role to become Hitman's next elusive target
- The Jurassic World Evolution 3 trailer disappointingly doesn't show anyone being bitten in half by a T-Rex, but it does have Jeff Goldblum's dulcet tones and a release date
- The CTF shooter is making a comeback thanks to the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons, who 'grew up playing capture the flag in the woods at night with flashlights'
- There's a new Scott Pilgrim brawler coming from the makers of… the old Scott Pilgrim brawler (and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge)
- Atomic Heart 2 is coming and it looks like an open-world genre mashup of a bunch of other sci-fi dystopias
- After 3 years of waiting, Dying Light: The Beast will finally arrive in August
- It's a real game—Lies of P: Overture, the Sekiro-like's first major DLC, shadowdrops during Summer Game Fest and is available now
- The Shovel Knight dev's new gothic action game has a demo that has awakened the GBA kid in me
- Fight across the surface of a giant Rubik's Cube built from chunks of other planets in yet another unhinged shooter from the brains behind Atomic Heart
- Capcom continues its victory lap with killer new Onimusha: Way of the Sword trailer at Summer Game Fest
- Chronicles: Medieval is a stunning sandbox RPG coming in 2026—despite a past commitment to using generative AI, the studio now says the game is '100% handcrafted'
- Go to war for Westeros in a new Game of Thrones RTS coming in 2026
- Sonic Racing: Crossworlds just declared war on Mario Kart by becoming the true Smash Bros. of kart racers, bringing drivers from Minecraft, Persona, Yakuza—oh, and Hatsune Miku
- Square Enix just revealed a 'murder mystery action game' and as far as I can tell it's like Among Us in a spooky mansion full of hot people
- Arc Raiders sets release date for Fall 2025, just 37 days after Marathon
- Troy Baker becomes a mouse with a machine gun in Mouse: PI for Hire, coming later this year
- They put a revolver in Dark Souls—Mortal Shell 2 looks like it wandered out of an edgy teenager's heavy-metal fantasies, and I cannot wait to play it
- Elden Ring Nightreign no-hit prodigy finds new, exciting ways to make us feel bad about all the runs we've thrown, beats the final Nightlord solo without a scratch
- 'Forever cherished for who you were and what you helped achieve': 10 years after his death, Larian Studios pays tribute to composer Kirill Pokrovsky
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
- The Borderlands cup overfloweth with a huge sale—1-3, The Pre-Sequel, all their DLCs, and one very good Telltale game are available for $36
- Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’
- 'John Nightreign doesn't have a face': YouTuber manages to uncover all but one of Elden Ring Nightreign's hidden Nightfarer faces, 'leaving his appearance a mystery'
- Ro-Souls 3 is 'a sharp and precise recreation' of Dark Souls 3 in Roblox, and it's training up a whole new generation of soulslike demons
- If you fondly remember the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there's now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits
- Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared its new roadmap for the rest of 2025, and it looks like one character fans have been asking for since launch is finally coming to stay
- You could cut the tension with a needle—7 SteamDB changes in the past week have Silksong hopefuls wondering if the final hour is upon us
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's Peter Pan update is coming in two weeks, alongside a shiny new Star Path and the ability to level up your animal companions
- A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
- XDefiant is now ex-Defiant as the game closes and its executive producer leaves Ubisoft: 'We just didn't have the gas to go the distance'
- Trick venting solutions look like the hot new thing in PC case design and this low-vented Asus model has me more than a little intrigued
- The long-awaited successor to cult hit 'anti-RPG' Moon hits Steam later this year
- A Gamestop store has reportedly been stapling customer receipts to Switch 2 boxes and puncturing holes in the screens
- Half-Life 2 becomes a loot-hoarding roguelike dungeon crawl in this Next Fest mod demo
- Dune: Awakening's Steam reviews have done a complete 180, climbing the ranks to Very Positive just a day after a player pile-on: 'This game is great with friends, and lets me live out my fantasy of getting eaten by a sandworm'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'
- All Genshin Impact 5.7 livestream codes
- Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner
- Elden Ring Nightreign servers shut down this morning 'to improve expedition matchmaking' but it's royally screwed some unprepared players
- A long-lost Duke Nukem prototype resurfaces after 24 years
- This camo-wrapped RTX 5060 has a real nostalgic flair, but I prefer the screen-integrated prototype GPU MSI showed me at Computex 2025
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 6
June 5
- Borderlands 2 is free to keep on Steam and it's getting review-bombed at the same time because of, uh, the EULA?
- Path of Exile's 31st expansion follows action RPG tradition and will let you hire mercenaries to fight by your side
- 'The last one wasn't the last one': CD Projekt has cyber punked us again, announcing another surprise update for Cyberpunk 2077
- Nightreign players have figured out a way to guarantee you'll be at max level when fighting a Nightlord, but unfortunately it's super boring
- The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version
- Dune: Awakening isn't even officially out yet and it already has almost 100,000 players
- Arkane's timewarp shooter Deathloop is free on the Epic Games Store for the first time ever
- The only good MOBA celebrates its 10th anniversary, so I booted up Heroes of the Storm again and was so bad one of my teammates called me an NPC
- Metal Gear Solid Delta's new trailer ends on a tease for the long-awaited return of Metal Gear Online
- Surf on a magic sword and kickflip over flying dolphins in Sword of the Sea, hitting Steam in August
- OpenAI removes incredibly grim, previously recommended chatbot suggesting invasive surgeries to men it deems 'subhuman'
- Dune: Awakening lives up to MMO tradition with server woes at launch, but with these simple fixes the spice shall flow
- Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports
- Goon it yourself with the new editor for pulp-noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, or just visit a '20s nightclub version of Doom's famed first level
- Russia says it won't arrest players after seizing the studio behind the Russian World of Tanks offshoot, accusing it of funnelling funds to Ukraine
- Fill the Marathon-shaped hole in your life with Supplice, the best prog-heavy boomer shooter you've never heard of
- Bethesda remembers it just released an Elder Scrolls game, announces gameplay-focused Oblivion patch that addresses about 5% of player complaints
- AMD claims 'regional market demand' is why we've seen few 8 GB RX 9060 XT reviews, implying low VRAM isn't really for the West
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the Switch 2 features 'the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device' and I'm once again here to say 'um, actually'
- One bored GTA 6 fan managed to recreate Jason's house in Far Cry 5 Arcade, and it's almost a shot-for-shot recreation
- 'When's Marvel?' Next year, as Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works takes the classic superhero tag-team fighter for a ride with a new 4v4 format
- Apparently there's going to be a Sam Altman movie about his Lazarus-like career stumble, which I'm sure I'll reluctantly watch on a plane at some point
- Udon, publisher of Street Fighter, Mega Man, Elden Ring, and other videogame comics and art books, is the latest to cut ties with bankrupt distributor Diamond Comics
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 5
- 'The will to resist is in your hands': Final Fantasy Tactics director makes statement on the political backdrop of the original and the 'inequality and division' that persists today
- Bloodstained is back after 6 years with 3D cutscenes that look like they're from a different era of videogames
June 4
- If an NPC hates you in this adventure from the makers of Road 96, it's probably because another player was mean to them earlier
- An all-new Thief game was announced during State of Play, but it's a VR game so who cares
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, so here's a deeply disturbing new trailer to give you something to think about while you wait
- Our first look at 007 First Light is finally here, and oh no: I'm pretty sure this Bond was born in the year 2000
- Suda51 just announced a delightfully bizarre action game about a cyborg man with a chainsaw sword
- Oh hell yeah, that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real, and it's out later this year
- Nioh 3 stars legendary warlord Tokugawa (the inspiration for FX's Shogun), and it's coming to PC in early 2026
- Oh dang, we're getting an all-new Lumines, and this one's got 'over 30 stages of synesthetic sensory wonderlands'
- Almost exactly 5 years after it was announced, Capcom's astronaut action game Pragmata finally has a release date: 'It's real'
- A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI
- Balatro doesn't have microtransactions for a very good reason: 'It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans," LocalThunk says
- Deltarune shoots to the top of the Steam best-seller chart as chapters 3 and 4 finally go live
- Bungie makes the (correct) decision to roll back Destiny 2's most severe Edge of Fate nerfs before they've even happened
- CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is 'super great' and, when it comes to The Witcher 4's direction of travel, 'these are our next steps for sure'
- No Man's Sky just got another mondo update and I think it's a management game now?
- CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
- Elden Ring Nightreign hits 3.5 million copies sold in just 5 days, with 7.5% of players already managing to beat all the Nightlords
- WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
- Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin
- This tech DIYer swapped their graphics card's cooling for a CPU cooler because why not? Also it actually works
- I just found out there's a server tossing championship, and it makes me want to try yeeting my own PC down the road
- Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
- 'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
- I've been gaming with Razer's new wireless charging mouse pad and I'm glad there's finally serious competition for Logitech
- Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion
- DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
- Spot the connector: Gigabyte's new graphics card design lets you hide your power cable even if you don't have a back-connect motherboard
- 'Why are they so greedy': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are in disbelief to find bundle ads but Activision claims it's simply a 'UI feature test' that was published 'in error'
- This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
- 'You shall main Wylder Spooderman': An Elden Ring Nightreign player has found the best Wylder setup 55 hours in, letting them use their grappling hook every 4 seconds
- Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows
- 'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics
- TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'
- 'Widespread theft': The UK government's fifth attempt to push through a bill allowing AI companies to scrape any data they like shut down by the House of Lords
- Spooky friend-time ghost-em-up Phasmophobia is the next videogame to get the movie treatment
- The new Arctis Nova 3 looks like SteelSeries is min-maxing the midranged headset with both hardware and software
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 4
- Remedy announces very friendly minimum specs for its co-op Control spinoff, FBC: Firebreak. You only need a GTX 1070 for 1080 60 fps play
June 3
- MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it's probably not great that the studio's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned
- Old School Runescape private server development is paused 'indefinitely' as Jagex says it has more important things to work on
- Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts 'senior management positions' because after all the other layoffs, 'the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size'
- Here's when Dune: Awakening pre-loads and unlocks in your time zone
- RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'
- This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players hate the monetisation, and to be fair it has a $2000 microtransaction
- This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and Destiny devs lets you do the best thing a videogame can: Make a town look cooler while you rebuild it
- The Witcher 4's leafy glory is all down to Epic's Nanite Foliage, and largely so is the fact it can run ray-traced at 60 fps on a lowly PS5
- Dead Take is a first-person horror game out to expose 'the darkest secrets' of the entertainment industry: 'I want players to think, I can't believe they actually did this'
- The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate's new exotics include the most powerful primary weapon I've ever used and gloves that enable one of the coolest player-requested abilities
- Unreal's MetaHuman Animator can generate surprisingly lifelike animation with just your phone and it's now integrated directly into Unreal Engine 5.6
- The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware
- Penguins confront Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the next game from the developers of Umurangi Generation
- SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
- Pick up enough Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 comics to keep you going until The Witcher 4 comes out for $24 with this digital bundle
- You won't have to rely on co-ordinates to track down your friends in Minecraft thanks to its upcoming drop
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show 2025
- Elden Ring Nightreign has a BuzzFeed-like personality test to help you figure out which Nightfarer suits you best
- We just got a look at someone actually playing The Witcher 4 as CDPR promises 'the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever'
- Splitgate 2's official launch is just days away as devs tease 'a massive surprise' which will be unveiled at Summer Game Fest
- Microsoft agrees that USB is a mess and it's making changes to fix it: 'Manufacturers can implement ports that look identical but differ wildly in functionality'
- A glorious day: Microsoft finally gives up pestering EU users about Edge
- FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline
- Elden Ring Nightreign is finally getting Duo Expeditions as FromSoftware caves into pleas from players who can only find one other friend to match with
- The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
- Hell is Us system requirements require an RTX 4090 and upscaling for 4K at 30 fps, which sounds pretty hellish for my gaming PC
- Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 3
June 2
- Torchlight 3 studio Echtra Games, acquired by Zynga in 2021 to help it move into PC and console gaming, is being closed without doing that
- Jonathan Joss, who appeared in Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption, shot dead in Texas
- Former Ubisoft execs face trial in France this week on charges of 'moral and sexual harassment'
- A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
- Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
- IO's James Bond game is called 007 First Light, will be revealed later this week
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming
- Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
- 'The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time': Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda support—making it play nice with Lua scripts
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major patch sees FromSoft belatedly admit singleplayer is all sorts of unfair, adds an auto-resurrect and buffs the levelling curve
- American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'
- Lethal Company's biggest update for months is finally out, and with it comes the much awaited first look at a new monster
- 89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
- Someone's already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through
- Here's another terrifying trailer for that creepy retro survival horror game that's half FMV, half pixel-art
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 2
- D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
- XWVM, the X-Wing mod that lets you play the Star Wars classic remade in Unity, is finally available to download
June 1
- Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it's still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character
- 'We wish to express our deepest regret': Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs
- Elden Ring Nightreign artist wanted part of the game to feel 'more cozy, more welcoming, more at home,' so naturally she drew on Dark Souls for inspiration
- You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
- 'The journey was long': 2 years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips
- PowerWash Simulator's last free update is out now, letting you scrub up a subway train and polish a sculpture park
- This gravity-defying dungeon crawler is basically Legend of Grimrock meets Portal, and while the trailer had me dizzy, the demo made me feel like a genius
- Atomfall is getting a spooky DLC set on an offshore island that also lets you blast pretend pirates with a blunderbuss
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 1