Crimson Desert looks a lot more ordinary running on a regular PS5
Suspicions around Crimson Desert had been building for a while. Pearl Abyss's action-adventure – a spin-off from 2016's Black Desert Online – generated enormous hype off the back of stunning PC footage, but sharp-eyed observers...
A No Man's Sky player built an entire city on top of their freighter
No Man's Sky community member has shown off a jaw-dropping build – a fully realized city constructed right on the upper deck of a freighter. The post quickly gathered hundreds of comments and became one...
A Starfield fan made a trailer about their own adventures in the game
One of the fans of Starfield has shared a homemade gameplay trailer capturing their personal journey through Bethesda's space RPG. Cut to the game's main theme, the video has already convinced some players to boot...
Yoko Taro is happy when developers say they copied Nier: Automata – Square Enix might feel differently
Game director Nier: Automata Yoko Taro said he genuinely loves hearing other developers cite his game as an inspiration – and he doesn't mind at all if they've outright copied it. Whether Square Enix shares...
Heroes of Might and Magic III is GOG's top-selling retro game, and nearly half its buyers are under 25
The classic strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic III sits at the top of GOG's retro sales charts – which is notable on its own. But here's the more striking part: nearly half of...
Phil Spencer showed up to GDC 2026 with the funniest name tags
The Game Developers Conference is underway for its 2026 edition, and former Xbox boss Phil Spencer has already become one of the highlights of the event – not for any big announcements, but for showing...
Nakwon: Last Paradise closed alpha trailer sets a bleak tone for post-apocalyptic Seoul
Nexon has kicked off the closed beta test for Nakwon: Last Paradise. If you signed up, keep an eye on your inbox – invites are rolling out gradually throughout the test period. To mark the...
Marathon players can experience all questlines whenever they join, says creative director
Bungie took a lot of heat for vaulting content in Destiny 2, and with Marathon, the studio is taking a completely different approach. Creative director Julia Nardin told Space.com that the goal is to make...
Pearl Abyss added Denuvo to Crimson Desert a week before launch and fans aren't happy
With just a week to go before Crimson Desert launches on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series on March 19, Pearl Abyss released a launch trailer to build hype – but a far less welcome update...
Escape from Tarkov realistic aiming changes don't land well with fans
Battlestate Games has previewed upcoming changes to the aiming mechanics in Escape from Tarkov – one of the most well-known extraction shooters, now more than a decade old. Nikita Buyanov posted a video on social...
PlayStation 6 and Xbox Helix both still on track for holiday 2027
The picture of next-gen consoles is slowly coming together. According to prominent hardware insider KeplerL2, both PlayStation 6 and Xbox Helix are targeting the same launch window – holiday 2027. He wrote on NeoGAF that...
An Italian ARC Raiders fan handcrafted stunning game dioramas featuring a Bastion and a Leaper
The ARC Raiders community keeps growing beyond the game itself. An Italian miniature artist known as hero_work_shop built two detailed dioramas recreating scenes from the extraction shooter. A friend posted the work on Reddit, and...
A Stellaris fan designed a biological orbital ring and the community loved it
The BioGenesis expansion brought living ships and biological technology to Stellaris, but one fan decided to take that idea even further. An artist going by Firemetal5 posted a concept on X for a biological orbital...
DEFECT devs reveal single-player details and announce NCSoft partnership
EmptyVessel, a studio made up of veterans from Call of Duty, Doom, and The Last of Us, has dropped a new trailer for its tactical shooter DEFECT alongside two pieces of news about the project....
Overwatch runs at 60fps on the budget MacBook Neo with an iPhone chip
Tech analyst Max Weinbach posted a video of Overwatch running on Apple's new MacBook Neo, which is powered by the A18 Pro – the same chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro. What makes the...
Never's End looks like Final Fantasy Tactics with thermodynamics instead of standard magic
A former Destiny developer is working on a tactical RPG where heat physics matter more than fire and ice spells. Never's End is a new tactical RPG from studio Hypersect, led by a Destiny veteran....
Xbox teases return of iconic games with new ways to play
At GDC 2026, the Xbox Game Preservation team revealed some intriguing details about the future of the platform – including the return of "iconic games" in new formats, happening this year. During the 25th Anniversary,...
Diablo 4 is getting real crafting with the Horadric Cube, and even white loot could become legendary
Real item crafting is finally coming to Diablo 4. "Real" because the current ways to modify items look pretty bare-bones compared to what the Lord of Hatred expansion is bringing next month. Two developers PC...
Warhammer Blood Bowl launches this spring with 26 factions and a new fast-paced mode
Nacon and Cyanide Studio have announced Warhammer Blood Bowl – a new turn-based tactical fantasy football game set in the Warhammer universe, built on the latest official rules of the tabletop edition. It's coming digitally...
Custom AMD SoC, neural texture compression, and ML multi-frame generation – Microsoft reveals Project Helix hardware details
At the "Building for the Future with Xbox" event at GDC 2026, Microsoft laid out the technical details behind its next-generation console, Project Helix. A presentation slide confirmed the key innovations – from a custom...
