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DICE promises to fix Battlefield 6's useless light vehicles in upcoming tests

Battlefield 6 has a serious problem with its light ground transport. The LGT is so useless that players routinely ignore entire fleets of available jeeps and choose to run across the map on foot instead....
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Players spend as much time in Roblox as in PlayStation, Steam, and Fortnite combined

Analyst Matthew Ball's new report revealed the true scale of the Roblox phenomenon – the platform has reached engagement levels that rival the biggest names in gaming. According to the report, by the end of...
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Opus Magnum is getting new DLC eight years later – and the devs revived a closed studio just to release it

Zachtronics has announced De Re Metallica, a DLC expansion for Opus Magnum – the 2017 puzzle game about building alchemical devices. It's set to release on March 17. The expansion adds three prequel chapters with...
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Incursion Red River is getting a massive update with the voice of Hitman's Diana and a fully rebuilt AI

Incursion Red River is fast becoming a must-have extraction shooter. The game first caught attention during Steam Next Fest in February 2024, and later that year a massive update blew it wide open. Now, Games...
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Fighting game community rallies behind Ludovic Mbock after ICE detention

The fighting game community has rallied in support of one of its own after news broke that longtime member Ludovic Mbock had been taken into ICE custody. Players from around the world quickly united in...
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86-year-old farmer turned down $15 million to keep his land away from AI data centers

The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant opposition. It's not just the loss of land: enormous power needs are pushing the grid into meltdown...
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Mewgenics players complained the tutorial boss was too hard, so the devs made it 20 times stronger

One of the most anticipated roguelikes of 2026, Mewgenics, might also be one of the meanest – developers Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel responded to players' complaints about a difficult tutorial boss, just not in...
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Kojima Productions CTO explains why the studio has stuck with Decima engine for nearly a decade

Kojima Productions CTO Akio Sakamoto spoke about the advantages of Guerrilla Games' Decima engine, which the studio has been using for the Death Stranding series. When the developers were looking for the right technological foundation...
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Blizzard will immortalize 300 Diablo II: Resurrected players on a monument at its office

Blizzard announced a major challenge for Diablo II: Resurrected players. With the release of the Reign of the Warlock expansion, the studio is launching a competition with a one-of-a-kind reward – winners will have their...
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Demo for The Eternal Life of Goldman is out now on Steam

Weappy Studio, the team behind the This Is the Police series, has released a demo for its upcoming platformer The Eternal Life of Goldman, available now on Steam. The demo runs about 90 minutes and...
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New Xbox CEO with no gaming background promises next-gen console and speaks out against 'soulless AI slop'

Asha Sharma, who has just taken over as Microsoft Gaming CEO from Phil Spencer, published a letter to employees outlining her vision for "the return of Xbox" – with a clear focus on console hardware...
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Phil Spencer retiring from Xbox after 25 years, to be replaced by Microsoft AI executive

Microsoft announced a major leadership shakeup at Xbox. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring, and Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving the company. Asha Sharma, formerly president of Microsoft's CoreAI division, has been...
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Warp to Sector One is a deep space trading game inspired by 80s sci-fi computer aesthetics

Indie studio hextor.Games is working on its debut game Warp to Sector One – a deep space trading game inspired by the aesthetics of 80s sci-fi films and the classic text-based game Trade Wars 2002....
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A fan built a tool for writing your own stories inside Elite Dangerous, and thousands of players are already testing it

Elite Dangerous is one of the few live-service games that's still going strong after twelve years, and its community keeps finding ways to surprise everyone. That's exactly what happened with MetaElite – a fan-built tool...
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A first-time Fallout player found 10,000 caps in the first hour – and it's not a bug, it's a rare Luck 10 event

The Luck stat in the Fallout series is more than just a number on a character sheet. It's a system that literally rewrites the rules depending on how many points you invest in it, producing...
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Developer shows how Esoteric Ebb transformed after signing with a publisher

Kristoffer Bodegård, a solo developer from Sweden, shared a side-by-side comparison of inventory screenshots from his CRPG Esoteric Ebb – one from 2023, when he was working alone, and the current version made with the...
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Christopher Judge hints at a new Santa Monica announcement coming late summer

The actor who played Kratos in God of War 2018, Christopher Judge, let slip details about an upcoming announcement from Santa Monica Studios. Speaking with YouTuber Fuzhpuzy at a fan expo, Judge said: "You'll be...
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Devil Daggers turns 10: only 1,472 players have survived 500 seconds, and a sequel is now confirmed

Ten years ago, the indie survival FPS Devil Daggers had gaming outlets around the world hooked. The concept is about as stripped-back as it gets: you stand on a flat, featureless arena and beat back...
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Soviet-era Romanian horrors on display in the Dread Eagle reveal trailer

Two solo developers and publisher Galactic Crows have dropped the debut trailer for horror game Dread Eagle, set against the backdrop of Soviet-era Romania. The footage showcases eerie nurses and various experiment subjects rendered in...
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Todd Howard says AI is 'not a fad' but won't use it to replace handcrafted human creativity

Todd Howard – game director of Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 – has weighed in on AI in game development, and his position is one of careful observation. In a February 18 interview with...