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Windrose hits 2 million sales milestone, proving yet again that the world really, really wanted a good pirate game

Grand Theft Auto 6 leak says preorders begin next week

IO Interactive has forgiven me for calling 007 a smug tool

Netflix misspells the name of Devil May Cry antagonist Vergil on a t-shirt, and it's honestly one of the more understandable typos they could've made

Ubisoft's leak-a-thon continues with a dump of Assassin's Creed Hexe info that hints at the return of a familiar 'old man'

Control Resonant: All the key details on the sequel to Remedy's supernatural action-adventure

Neverness to Everness tier list and best characters

Neverness to Everness codes for May 2026

This city-smashing monster sim is the first game I've ever played where my reward for beating a level is getting a nuke dropped on my head

Sketch group Aunty Donna's new parody of Black Mirror's Bandersnatch episode will send you on a 40-minute unskippable walk around Melbourne if you make the wrong choices

'We're doing something a bit more interesting': All Will Rise dev says its progressive deck-builder shouldn't be dumped in the 'woke, liberal bucket'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It took a while, but Overwatch's iconic heroes have finally been bitten by the collab slop curse

Epic keeps jamming more incredible shotguns into Fortnite, and it might be the best meta ever

Best weapons in Fortnite battle royale, including a funky shotgun-sniper hybrid

Fortnite Showdown: Rivalries explained, map secrets, mythic weapon locations and more

Fortnite teases its next collab with Toy Story, but while fans are wondering where Woody is all I want to know is whether we'll be able to play as the aliens

After layoffs, Fortnite's future is shakier than it has ever been

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

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

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

All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for May 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount

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

After his city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'

This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade

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

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

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

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

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

A PvE-only mode is coming to Marathon as Bungie lays out plans for seasons 3, 4 and 5

Overwatch's OG mode has made me realise how far this game has come and how good we have it right now

Doom is 10 years old today, and you can pick it up for just $2 on Steam

Bungie is turning Marathon's loot dial to 11 ahead of its first wipe, opening up Cryo Archive 24/7

The Bioshock series has some of gaming's best intros because lead dev Ken Levine knows 'if you have a mediocre beginning, you're done'

One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'

Immersive sim sickos rejoice: the makers of Void Bastards are creating their most choice-driven game to date in Godzone 6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy, an upcoming survival horror game, reveals more of the twisted location and odd inhabitants

The 'numbers just aren't there,' Dead Space producer says, and that's why we'll probably never see Dead Space 4

Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million

How to find the Serial Number for the Probe in Directive 8020

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

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

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

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

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

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone would never use AI, instead wants to rely on human creativity—'I feel like that should take priority over a soulless machine'

No, Eric Barone is not adding infidelity to Stardew Valley, although he did briefly consider letting you ruin marriages, to Grandpa's deep disappointment

A human overview of Paralives: what you need to know about the upcoming indie life sim

This vampire farm sim has Real Housewives of Stardew energy

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

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

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

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

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

Star Wars: The Old Republic's original director hadn't played a single MMO before launching its development studio: 'How the hell did they trust me with this much money?'

Taking a heroic stand against the holy trinity, 5 bears beat a WoW dungeon on its highest difficulty—Blizzard says oops, quickly reverts 200% buff that caused it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How OpenAI tore apart a team of Dota 2 pros

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

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

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

Every Deadlock hero and all abilities

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

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

The Talos Principle 3 promises an 'epic grand finale' to the tale of humanity's rebirth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final Fantasy 14 is promising big changes with Evercold, but I hope it's not a surface-level attempt

'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at BioWare

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

Next and current banners in Wuthering Waves

Next and current banners in Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail codes for May 2026

Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'

Dark Souls 2 path tracing mod is now available for all, and yes, it inevitably makes the game harder

Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: 'I think that PoE 1's being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'

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

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