Games Revealed

PC Gamer7/8/2026

Less than 3 years after it launched on Steam, the Final Fantasy 7 gacha game is closing

Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis will be gone in October.

PC Gamer7/8/2026
This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights
Oh, good, I like all those things.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Marvel Rivals' Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more 'fun' approach to the game
To hell with it all, I'll take a crack at the balancing.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
This Chrome extension hides 'knockoff' brands on Amazon: 'Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXY'
This would have been handy last Prime Day.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Well, at least one good thing's come out of Destiny 2's demise: lob tomatoes at ex-Bungie CEO Pete Parsons' car collection in this fan-made boss battler
Following the end to Destiny 2's development and subsequent layoffs at developers Bungie, fans of the series have decided to get a bit of revenge of the studio's ex-boss Pete Parsons in one of the few ways they can. By making a browser game in which the player is tasked with lobbing enough tomatoes
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Asus ProArt Mouse MD301
A professional design, but with enough quirks to give me pause.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Arkheron, a competitive PvPvE action RPG, will open its closed beta next week—and I'm getting that Battlerite nostalgia just looking at this thing
Closed beta's coming soon.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
"The ghosts can revive you but they cannot uns*** your pants."
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Xbox's Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years
A staggering loss of institutional talent.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'
"I've heard enough about it. I almost feel like I've played it."
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced can run smoothly aboard both Steam Deck and Steam Machine - with the right settings
Greetings, owners of hardware who are also partial to reasonably well-made pirate game remakes. I’m trying something new and fresh and debatably sexy for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, extending the semi-usual Steam Deck performance and settings investigation with one for the newly launched S
PC Gamer7/8/2026
'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI
Who fixes the fixes?
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
Just like me.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Become King Dracula's personal vamp-assassin in Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon
Remember the 90s? Oasis were unavoidable, Tony Blair stalked the halls of power, and Dracula sat on the English throne. Wait, what was that last one? Turns out I'm thinking of Vampirium: 1997, a fanged immersive sim Tron: Catalyst and John Wick Hex devs Bithell Games are launching into Steam early a
PC Gamer7/8/2026
The Blood of Dawnwalker's most interesting mechanic took a bite out of my inner RPG completionist, who would've otherwise played hooky with a witch
Ignoring a quest becomes a roleplay option when the clock's ticking.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor
An update seems in order.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
You're invited to Destiny's cursed unofficial final raid: Pete Carsons' Vault of Cars
A dash of nostalgia and a pint of snark.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'
The remasters were, you might say, busted.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores
One man has been sentenced to 29 months in prison.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm
Xbox laid off around 1600 people earlier this week, revealing plans to part ways with five studios at the same time. Naturally, boss Asha Sharma's been tasked with justifying it all, and she's now gotten as close as she likely ever will to pointing the finger directly at Phil Spencer's regime, while
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Here's the Black Flag Resynced release time for your region
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives
I love to hold a stranger's post. Letters are good. Though, those padded protective envelopes are better – what's inside that needs that extra level of protection?. But a box, especially one whose contents move a little inside when you tilt it. Oh, that mystery is the most marvelous. It could be any
PC Gamer7/8/2026
LiberNovo Omni Pro review
An already excellent ergonomic gaming chair gets nicer fabric, smarter tricks, and a higher price—without really changing how it feels to sit in.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Geekom A9 Max AI AMD Mini PC review
We're looking at a single-channel RAM kit here, folks.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
"A mentor and an inspiration to many": Skywind devs pay tribute to modder Kettlewitch, whose death has left another Skyrim mod's future up in the air
The team behind Morrowind remake mod Skywind have paid tribute to modder Kettlewitch, a veteran of the Skyrim modding scene, following his death on June 15th. Kettlewitch, real name David Purcell, also worked on a number of other ambitious Skyrim modding projects over the years, including Oblivion r
PC Gamer7/8/2026
WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn't enough, does a naked run for good measure
"Naked fire mage was a damn cat with 9 lives."
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS
Not many have been made, the device is hella expensive, and Windows is not made for the living room while Steam OS is. Otherwise, great news.
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Super variants of the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 have cropped up in Seasonic's PSU calculator, suggesting we may see Nvidia's long-lost GPUs yet
CES 2027, perhaps?
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced review
Newer, not better.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/8/2026
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced review - a great pirate game swaps the ups and downs of old Assassin’s Creed for the ups and downs of new Assassin’s Creed
Frigate spotted off the starboard bow, Cap’n! Ready the mortars, me hearties! Fire! All sail! We’ll split her in twain with the ram! She’s not done, swing around and ready the cannons! Fire! She’s dead in the water, bring her in for a steely kiss! These are the sounds of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Fl
PC Gamer7/8/2026
Task Bar Hero class tier list and the best team compositions for idling your way through the endgame
Keep Ranger your priority and everything else will fall into place.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Former Elder Scrolls Online designer laments the destruction of layoffs: 'There’s really no one left and no changing it now'
ZeniMax Online Studios reportedly lost half its employees in yesterday's Xbox layoffs.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Get spirited away to a weird, scary version of a Japanese town and take pictures of the oddities you find in SOMBRAS: negative frames
About a year and a half ago I bought a point and shoot 35mm film camera because I was getting a bit bored of taking photos on my phone in the name of capturing a memory, only to literally never look at them again. Film just has a magic to it, a magic that's difficult to capture in a game for obvious
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives
Accessibility efforts have been some of Microsoft's biggest wins—but that didn't stop it from cutting accessibility leads.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
I played 4 hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker and it borrows a heck of a lot from The Witcher 3, for good and bad
This vampyric adventure has The Witcher coursing through its Bloodlines.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs
The senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
"This has got to be the most awesome toaster ever": Saber on building upon hits like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Licensed games don't really exist in the way they did 20 years ago, with three different versions of the same game being made for different consoles adapting a popular media property on the cheap to fill kids' holiday sacks. These days they've got a bit more to them, and Saber Interactive have carve
PC Gamer7/7/2026
How to find all Elvira's clues in her Moonlight Peaks treasure hunt
This scavenger hunt starts off with some softballs but the last clues are a bit tough.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
How to go on dates in Moonlight Peaks and start your road to romance
Here's how to get started with wooing all the eligible locals.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Phil Spencer's strategy for yesterday's sweeping layoffs: 'We simply spread ourselves too thin'
Sharma didn't mention Spencer by name, but said Xbox is struggling because it neglected its "core business."
PC Gamer7/7/2026
You still can't kill fish in Subnautica 2, but starting tomorrow you'll at least be able to 'stun' them
They will also have "good flinches" if you bonk them with a hammer.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Cyberpunk Edgerunners' Lucy finds herself in yet another crossover, this time in an upcoming Apex Legends event
Crikey, they sure do love putting Miss Lucy Cyberpunk in other games, don't they? First Guilty Gear Strive, then Wuthering Waves, and now the Cyberpunk Edgerunners characters is finding a facsimile of her visage transposed onto another's body as a skin in Apex Legends. In fact, there's a whole Cyber
PC Gamer7/7/2026
My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through
I'm always up for a fun new farm sim twist, but I'm not so sure that Moonlight Peaks has supernatural staying power.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first
I'm basically a Hollywood star.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Subnautica 2's first proper update is coming tomorrow, bringing in much needed creature behaviour changes and more
The day has come! Almost, anyway, that day being Subnautica 2's first update that isn't just a hotfix, bringing in a small bounty of those previously promised improvements that'll hopefully make you a bit less mad about the fact you can't kill any of those alien fishies. Read more
PC Gamer7/7/2026
A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it's not one I particularly like but you can't beat the price
Lots of other people like it, though, so maybe it's a me thing.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Arc Raiders reveals it's been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with 'unusually high profit per minute' drops below 1% for the first time in months
Cheaters never prosper.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'
Your audio device may have just gotten much more useful.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Appa is a gorgeous, surreal card game about grieving siblings where every move your opponent makes can be reacted to
I love a digital card game as much as the next person, but honestly, most of the time I feel that they're a bit of a letdown in the visuals department. There's never been one I've played where I've been satisfied in how it plays and how it looks. But! I am hopeful about the upcoming Appa, a deliciou
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Left 4 Dead lives on in The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from the creators of Zeno Clash
Seeking relief from the terrible light of the Xbox resettification, I fall into the sweet, dank embrace of The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a 17th century extraction game in which four crucifix-wielding, musket-toting Spanish explorers venture to a jungle full of creatures inspired by Lovecraftian horror
PC Gamer7/7/2026
16-year-old MMO Star Trek Online is moving forward by tinkering with the past, unearthing and remaking one of its oldest storylines—and you can play it right now
We're going back to 2409.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
'Not once have we been asked to verify our age': Study suggests companies falling under Australia's under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts
And that's before mentioning workarounds.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
This action RPG's more-with-more-on-top excess is as fun as expansion design gets
Granblue Fantasy: Relink knows just how to welcome players back to its sunny skies.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
After split with Xbox, Hitman developer IO will "continue to develop" Project Fantasy independently, but they're closing their Istanbul Studio
Last week brought the news that Xbox had dropped their support for Project Fantasy the, er, fantasy project in development at IO Interactive. The Hitman maker announced they would remain "100% committed" to the game, and ensure "This wonderful universe will see the light of day", but they also ackno
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
"I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team
Xbox aren't closing or selling off Doom developers id Software as part of their latest business teardown, but they are reportedly laying off around half the studio, with swinging cuts aimed at id's legendary technology team in particular. Even as out-going staff fulminate about the situation, studio
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Arc Raiders has finally added 'one of the most requested matchmaking features' meaning players can now Jekyll and Hyde their way through lobbies
You've heard of two-faced, now get ready for three-faced.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
"I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."
PC Gamer7/7/2026
IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn't dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening
This isn't the sort of thing that should be happening a month after the release of a major, successful game like 007 First Light, but such is the way of the games industry.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
My cozy game of the month is a moth-watching game where you can explore whimsical forests and uncover more about these fuzzy legends
Moths are better than butterflies, change my mind.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future
Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring, with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to follow over the next financial year. It's the latest in a string of failures on the part of Xbox leadershi
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
Here's hoping the expected price drop isn't just wishful thinking.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Logitech Mobi Fold review
Is that a mouse in your pocket or do you need to see a doctor?
PC Gamer7/7/2026
After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.
Dell's stock price has risen significantly since his investment.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'
This is no way to treat the heir of Rattay.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027
I'm sure this is great for morale.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
Asus ROG Strix XG129C review
This fun-sized sidekick touchscreen monitor isn't exactly a value proposition, but it's still kinda fun.
PC Gamer7/7/2026
A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix
That's about $100 worth of space in the current memory crisis.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff
Xbox laid off around 1600 people yesterday, July 6th, as mass cuts accompanied by the decision to part ways with five studios were set in stone. This substantial upheaval's also had plenty of consequences for the studios staying under the Microsoft banner, including a more concerted push to get rema
Rock Paper Shotgun7/7/2026
Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts
Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to staff that she was "making reductions" and "shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects".Tod
PC Gamer7/7/2026
How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier
"It's an easy thing to do when you build the answer to the question in the lore of the game."
PC Gamer7/6/2026
The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'
3,200 employees are being put out of work, and people have thoughts.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'
Arasaka-level discipline
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career
Harada says the Souls series "was the result of everything Miyazaki and his team had built up through their previous titles."
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months
No news was not, in fact, good news.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs
"Videogames are not mere merchandise—they are cultural assets."
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center
'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result
A grim outcome from Xbox's latest round of reaping.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union
ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software have survived the latest bloodbath at Microsoft, but it sounds like they've been cut deeply.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
"It's much further along than we originally planned": Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going "swimmingly", despite DLC delays
Though Last Orders, the second DLC for massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, is taking longer than Team FOLON originally planned, the modders have revealed that their next game is running ahead of schedule. The two are being worked on at the time as the group use their ambitious building of a Briti
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air
Putting all my hopes and dreams on an independent Arkane.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Microsoft says 'cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected' as it bumps its QSP timeline to 2029
As attacks get more advanced, security must follow.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
Alternate title: Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: 'Our immediate priority is to support our team'
Evading its previously-reported closure, Compulsion will retain its IP rights as it transitions to independent ownership.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
ZeniMax's pivot to big series amid Xbox cuts reportedly isn't a death knell for Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein
Xbox have officially announced the scale of the mass layoffs and rejigging of their studio lineup which have loomed on the horizon for the past couple of weeks. While Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and Arkane all face futures outside of Xbox, the cuts and changes have also
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling
Still cooler than me.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
Xbox are parting ways with Double Fine, Arkane, Undead Labs, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory in the course of thousands of layoffs
After weeks of uncertainty, Microsoft have finally revealed what their big Xbox business "reset" involves. Spoilers: it's not great! Gaming division CEO Asha Sharma has announced that they will lay off 3200 people over their next financial year, beginning today with around 1600 redundancies. In addi
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo's latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
That's one way to cut costs.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Xbox is laying off 3,200 people and dumping 4 studios in 'the most significant restructure in Xbox history'
Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs are out, and the future doesn't sound very good for Arkane either.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Cheaters have infested Meccha Chameleon as dishonest players scan images and auto paint their models
This is why we can't have nice things.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
Stop judging games by their sales figures, says Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada: “That’s exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s never actually developed games"
I don't think anybody reading these hallowed pages really judges games by their sales figures, but it's nice to hear that perspective affirmed by no less a Legendary Fightguy than Katsuhiro Harada, the former face of Tekken. Out of the blue, Harada has posted some very nice words about Dark Souls ki
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k's first Inquisitor was called 'Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau' and he's still too powerful to be retconned
Must be all those grenades stuffed up his ass.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
Not quite Corrupted Blood 2.0, but close enough.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
Breaking the mold.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
We don't know how much it cost, but it does apparently work.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
This week in PC games: Stardew Valley plus vampires, a lavish gamebook RPG, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, finally
Happy this week, all! Also: huge apologies to the World Cup organisers and teams for any matchside cosmic sabotage brought on by our struggle to feed the Maw. Truth be told, Mexico should have had last night's game in the bag, if only I'd topped up the Maw's feeding trough on Friday with another han
PC Gamer7/6/2026
'I find it really sad': Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs
This is a warning for what is to come for the rest of the media landscape.
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Google's AI Studio lead has vibe coded a port of Command & Conquer for iOS
And it even has touch controls.
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is suffering similar PSN region locking woes to Helldivers 2, with 132 countries barred according to Steam's backend
PlayStation might have opted to stop putting their single player big hitters on PC going forwards, but they're still committed to porting their online games in the name of juicing player counts. All good, since they've stopped frustrating folks by insisting that PC players link up a PSN account. Ah,
Rock Paper Shotgun7/6/2026
"Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch": What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer
Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl. The tabletop-inflected sport is broadly similar to American football, though there are opportunities for even g
PC Gamer7/6/2026
Watch Night of the Living Dead and other public domain horror movies inside this creepy dollfest
Where Dolls Hang looks a bit Outlast, a bit Resident Evil 7, and a lot spooky.

Games Revealed

Less than 3 years after it launched on Steam, the Final Fantasy 7 gacha game is closing

This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights

Marvel Rivals' Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more 'fun' approach to the game

This Chrome extension hides 'knockoff' brands on Amazon: 'Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXY'

Well, at least one good thing's come out of Destiny 2's demise: lob tomatoes at ex-Bungie CEO Pete Parsons' car collection in this fan-made boss battler

Asus ProArt Mouse MD301

Arkheron, a competitive PvPvE action RPG, will open its closed beta next week—and I'm getting that Battlerite nostalgia just looking at this thing

Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog

Xbox's Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years

David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced can run smoothly aboard both Steam Deck and Steam Machine - with the right settings

'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI

Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil

Become King Dracula's personal vamp-assassin in Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon

The Blood of Dawnwalker's most interesting mechanic took a bite out of my inner RPG completionist, who would've otherwise played hooky with a witch

China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor

You're invited to Destiny's cursed unofficial final raid: Pete Carsons' Vault of Cars

GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'

Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores

Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm

Here's the Black Flag Resynced release time for your region

Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives

LiberNovo Omni Pro review

Geekom A9 Max AI AMD Mini PC review

"A mentor and an inspiration to many": Skywind devs pay tribute to modder Kettlewitch, whose death has left another Skyrim mod's future up in the air

WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn't enough, does a naked run for good measure

Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS

Super variants of the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 have cropped up in Seasonic's PSU calculator, suggesting we may see Nvidia's long-lost GPUs yet

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced review

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced review - a great pirate game swaps the ups and downs of old Assassin’s Creed for the ups and downs of new Assassin’s Creed

Task Bar Hero class tier list and the best team compositions for idling your way through the endgame

Former Elder Scrolls Online designer laments the destruction of layoffs: 'There’s really no one left and no changing it now'

Get spirited away to a weird, scary version of a Japanese town and take pictures of the oddities you find in SOMBRAS: negative frames

Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives

I played 4 hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker and it borrows a heck of a lot from The Witcher 3, for good and bad

Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs

"This has got to be the most awesome toaster ever": Saber on building upon hits like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

How to find all Elvira's clues in her Moonlight Peaks treasure hunt

How to go on dates in Moonlight Peaks and start your road to romance

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Phil Spencer's strategy for yesterday's sweeping layoffs: 'We simply spread ourselves too thin'

You still can't kill fish in Subnautica 2, but starting tomorrow you'll at least be able to 'stun' them

Cyberpunk Edgerunners' Lucy finds herself in yet another crossover, this time in an upcoming Apex Legends event

My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through

Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first

Subnautica 2's first proper update is coming tomorrow, bringing in much needed creature behaviour changes and more

A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it's not one I particularly like but you can't beat the price

Arc Raiders reveals it's been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with 'unusually high profit per minute' drops below 1% for the first time in months

This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'

Appa is a gorgeous, surreal card game about grieving siblings where every move your opponent makes can be reacted to

Left 4 Dead lives on in The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from the creators of Zeno Clash

16-year-old MMO Star Trek Online is moving forward by tinkering with the past, unearthing and remaking one of its oldest storylines—and you can play it right now

'Not once have we been asked to verify our age': Study suggests companies falling under Australia's under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts

This action RPG's more-with-more-on-top excess is as fun as expansion design gets

After split with Xbox, Hitman developer IO will "continue to develop" Project Fantasy independently, but they're closing their Istanbul Studio

"I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team

Arc Raiders has finally added 'one of the most requested matchmaking features' meaning players can now Jekyll and Hyde their way through lobbies

John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left

IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn't dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening

My cozy game of the month is a moth-watching game where you can explore whimsical forests and uncover more about these fuzzy legends

While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future

Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year

Logitech Mobi Fold review

After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'

It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

Asus ROG Strix XG129C review

A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix

Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff

Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts

How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier

The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'

CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'

Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career

Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months

French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center

Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result

Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union

"It's much further along than we originally planned": Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going "swimmingly", despite DLC delays

'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of checks notes AI