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Cairn review: A gripping 'strand-game' about the limits of the body

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Ubisoft is now memeing about Black Flag remake leaks, which is a change from threatening to sue its lead actor over them

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Nioh 3 just got a Steam demo, and given Team Ninja's history I'm surprised how well it runs on my aging rig

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Sorry if this jinxes it, but the latest Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvement patch seems like it actually improved performance

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Bloodlines 2 2026 roadmap moves up expansion release windows slightly, and yes, Bloodlines 2 has a roadmap for 2026

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Maybe I should just buy Factorio? I'd like Arknights: Endfield a lot more if it would stop trying to be Genshin Impact and just let me build

Fruit Codes

All active Blox Fruits codes in January 2025 and how to redeem them

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15 years on, Dark Souls 1's best boss is nearly undefeated fighting Elden Ring's bosses, and one of his KOs definitely doesn't count

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There's been an influx of players applying to the LSPD in GTA roleplay like it's a real police force—except the crimes are fake, the paperwork is real, and everyone appears to be shouting codes they found on Google into their headsets

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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

Killer jokes

Earth Must Die review: An inventive adventure game that's just a bit too obsessed with orgies

INFECTIOUS

Pathologic 3 review: One of the most compelling mystery adventures since Disco Elysium

New perspective

It's been 14 years since I played a 2D/3D hybrid puzzle game as clever as Cassette Boy

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Life is Strange: Reunion, coming in March, promises an 'emotional conclusion' to the saga of Max and Chloe

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Earth Must Die in this adventure game boasting a Dispatch-like voice cast of British comedy superheroes, and it releases later this month

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After closing Hypixel Studios with nothing to show for 6 years of development, Riot congratulates the resurrected Hytale for its early access launch

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

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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 January 2026

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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

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Godzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers

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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

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Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?

LORE & ORDER

Confused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide

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The Monster Train 2 DLC is very good: the Railforged, a challenging new mode, and a mechanical spider factory

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Get ready to battle bruxae and swipe sorceresses in Reigns: The Witcher, out next month

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Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing so many damn Magic cards, 'destroying the long-term value of the brand'

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Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month

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Fallout reunites with Magic: The Gathering for cards featuring characters from New Vegas, the TV show, and more Dogmeat

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Forbidden Solitaire warns us to uninstall it 'before it's too late,' but I played the demo anyway and now I want more

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Monster Train 2's first DLC is transforming the game with a giant new mode and the hammer-swinging Railforged clan

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Palworld takes the 'red rag to a bull' approach to its Nintendo lawsuit, announces 'a 2-player competitive card game'

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The latest Magic: The Gathering trailer is a puppet musical fever dream by The Jim Henson Company

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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

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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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After the bungled launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order part ways as development moves to a new studio

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Ubisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno'

Guarded

After playing Deadlock's new 'Oops, All Teamfights' mode, Highguard's kitchen-sink ruleset feels overwrought

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Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser

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Internet confused as Highguard studio says Dr Disrespect lied about attending a press preview and his photo of an access badge was fake: 'DDR was not invited to any Highguard event past or present'

Launch times

The Midnight Walkers launch time and release date

Fair Shot

Highguard deserves a chance, so don't kill it out of spite

IMPRESSIONS

Highguard is fine when you don't have an internet in your ear telling you it's nasty

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'Ultimately, we could have made a different trailer': Highguard CEO responds to that poorly-received Game Awards reveal

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'We don't need [player counts] to be super huge in order to be successful': Highguard devs respond to posters declaring it dead on arrival

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Highguard devs promise it won't have gaudy crossover skins or bombard players with constant ads: 'We want to leave you the hell alone'

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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

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Tekken boss announces retirement after 30 years in the most Harada way imaginable: a lengthy social media post and hour-long mixtape

Carry on campaign

Why I love Injustice 2's story mode

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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches to mixed reviews on Steam

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Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it

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2XKO: Everything we know about the League of Legends fighting game

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Mortal Kombat player nabs a tournament victory just 5 days after giving birth, all while her newborn chills in her lap

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Bloober Team updated its strange countdown page, and fans of a controversial cult-classic horror game from 20 years ago are getting their hopes up for a big surprise

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Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things

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Leon Kennedy's 'hot uncle' design in the new Resident Evil is thanks to the women on the dev team, says director, who 'would point out and comment on even the finest details like the wrinkles on his neck'

Fine &

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

Undead Kennedys

13 years after the disappointment of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is finally fusing survival horror and all-out action again—and this time I think it worked

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The next Dead by Daylight chapter will feature character designs selected by the community, and voting is already open

Memory leak

This horror game built from the bones of an abandoned FPS server and an accidental ARPG might be one of the strangest puzzlers I've ever played

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The 15-year-old star of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple wants to see his character in Dead by Daylight

Resident Evil Requiem was originally a tense, stealth-oriented horror starring only Leon, before the team went back to the drawing board: 'People wouldn't want to see a timid Leon'

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'I shouldn’t have announced the game so early,' Eric Barone admits about Haunted Chocolatier, says he had his reasons for doing so but then doesn't tell us what they were: 'The only thing that really matters is that I keep making progress on the game'

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The Sims 4's most notorious sex mod gets launched 400,000 times a day, which is more people than I realized were even playing The Sims every day

Updated!

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

Dynasty Drama

The Sims 4 Royalty and Legacy: all the confirmed features in the next expansion

Level up

I was getting a bit bored of the traditional life sim routine, but it turns out I just needed more hobbies which Heartopia is happy to provide

Pawfect

How to get pets in Heartopia

Culinary tour

Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames and collectathon fetch quests

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My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

Live Mas

The best games like The Sims for building beautiful characters, homes, and a life full of drama

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World of Warcraft: Midnight's new roadmap includes prop hunt, mega-dungeon sized delves, and a new experimental game mode from the folks who brought you Remix and Plunderstorm

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World of Warcraft's player housing will eventually get a copy/paste, mass select, and import/export feature for your kitbashed creations: 'This is just the ground floor for housing in WoW'

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WoW's expansion pre-patch event has buffed its rewards after being a little stingy at first, and I am running out of ways to phrase these sorts of headlines without plagiarising myself

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You can expect some of WoW's big timers to bite it during the Worldsoul Saga trilogy: 'It’ll be a lot of death, I’m afraid'

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Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: 'It was just meant to be'

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Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO, and then the studio closed: 'I still feel like no-one has really done the action MMO I see in my mind'

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Redesigns for both Orgrimmar and Stormwind are on the table if World of Warcraft: Midnight's Silvermoon overhaul is well received

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UK judge rules that RuneScape gold is fair game when suing for theft, at least in this case where an ex-developer stole $700,000 worth of it

BAD 'FIT

WoW's rough 2.0 transmog overhaul is mostly fixed, and I'm left wondering why Blizzard didn't just take the easy win

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Deadlock's big update added one very important feature: A secret bedroom for its teeny tiny dream-gremlin

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Deadlock's next character fan vote has been won by the littlest guy around, Rem: 'May god have mercy on us all'

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Deadlock's new Street Brawl mode is like a better version of the infamous MOBA 'All Random, All Mid,' but I think it could stand to be even more chaotic

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Spellcasters Chronicles is getting its second closed beta weekend with more spells, a ranked mode, and better optimisation: 'We want every player to be able to play our game'

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Deadlock just received a huge update, with 6 new heroes, overhauled patrons, and a new game mode—and it was all predicted with Domino's pizza

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Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: 'We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats'

Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

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League of Legends players worldwide couldn't login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client's SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

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A major overhaul of League of Legends is reportedly coming in 2027: 'Once we're done, it should be the best time ever to get your friends into League'

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

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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

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After Netflix pulled the rug from under Monument Valley 3 six months after launch, its developer says it's a 'PC first' studio: 'we can build more direct relationships with our audience and community'

Puzzlers

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

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Is today's puzzle game scene interesting? 'No, I don't think it is,' says Jonathan Blow, even though there are 'really good games in the past' devs could look to for inspiration

Real star

'Fine, I'll do it myself': Cybertsu had never seen a King of All Cosmos cosplay, so decided to pull off one of the most elaborate headpiece designs, and it's the best I've ever seen

Geared Up

You can find Code Vein 2's best early-game weapons almost immediately, letting you breeze through MagMell Island

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 left a gaping, $28 million hole in Paradox's year-end financial report

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A Pokémon-like gacha game should be such an obvious win that I'm shocked I can't find much to like about Aniimo

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'remote work isn't all sunshine and lollipops' and explains why he's happy to be back in the Obsidian office after 5 years of semi-retirement

High Tide

Next and current banners in Wuthering Waves

Tickets please

Next and current banners in Honkai: Star Rail

Launch times

Here's when Code Vein 2 launches in your timezone

Blood Simple

Code Vein 2 review: a breezy hack-and-slash in soulslike clothing

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Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster won't tell us where The Elder Scrolls 6 is set, but the team originally agreed on it way back in the Fallout 4 days

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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

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Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer

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Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance