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...
Fans combined Stardew Valley with Wordle and their daily crop-guessing game just hit 200,000 plays
Stardewdle – a fan-made mashup of Stardew Valley and Wordle – turns out to be a surprisingly solid daily challenge. The crop-guessing game has now crossed 200,000 plays and pulls in over 2,000 players every...
Fallout fan maps out four cities for a future game – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City
A Fallout fan known as Dreaming_of_Rlyeh has shared four New Vegas-style fan maps for potential locations in a future entry in the series – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. Naturally, a couple...
Fallout player uses a macropad to control Pip-Boy and it actually looks pretty cool
The most immersive way to use Pip-Boy in Fallout would probably be a full-size replica with a real display, buttons, and switches – though actually playing like that sounds like a nightmare. A more practical...
Overwatch designer calls out players obsessing over Marathon player counts as "unemployed, maidenless behavior"
Marathon has been surrounded by controversy since its announcement. The launch was fairly strong, and sentiment among those who actually played is trending positive – but the drama hasn't stopped. A chunk of the internet...
ARC Raiders tones down lightning strikes and offers compensation after server issues
Embark has pushed out a new patch for ARC Raiders that tackles two things at once – reduced lightning strike frequency during the Electromagnetic Storm, and promised compensation for players who lost their gear due...
Free Bedrock Reimagined mod turns Minecraft Bedrock Edition into a full RPG with bosses, magic, and quests
5 Frame Studios has released Bedrock Reimagined – a massive free add-on for Minecraft Bedrock Edition that completely overhauls the vanilla experience. The mod is available for download on CurseForge and has already caught the...
