Sol Cesto quietly hit 100,000 wishlists and a 93% rating on Steam – and most people haven't heard of it
Most of the gaming world's attention goes to big announcements and blockbusters. But quietly, in the background, small studios can rack up serious numbers without anyone noticing. That's exactly what happened with the French roguelite...
Slay the Spire 2 players love the MS Paint placeholder art – and want it kept in the final game
Slay the Spire 2 launched into Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026 – and one of the first things players noticed was a set of charming MS Paint-style drawings used as temporary placeholders for...
Activision sent a legal demand to a prominent Call of Duty leaker over "viral misinformation"
Activision has publicly addressed the situation around Call of Duty leaks after taking legal action against one of the most prominent sources of such information. The comment appeared under a video on the TDAWG YouTube...
Ashbane is a turn-based tactics RPG about running a mercenary guild, with permadeath and six-player co-op
Ottawa-based indie studio Shiverblade Studios is developing Ashbane – a turn-based tactics RPG where you build a mercenary guild from nothing and turn a handful of fighters into a force to be reckoned with. The...
A player stumbled upon one of the rarest bugs in ARC Raiders – completely frozen ARCs
In ARC Raiders, one of the strangest bugs seen since the game launched has been caught on video. After a server error, a player found themselves in a situation that's probably never happened before –...
Valve added an x-ray scanner for CS2 cases in Germany, but it's more of a loophole than a fix
Case openings in Counter-Strike 2 have long been compared to slot machines – buying a key in hopes of landing a rare skin isn't all that different from dropping a coin and pulling the lever....
Fallout: The New West mod resurrects the cancelled Van Buren inside Fallout: New Vegas
The first version of Fallout: The New West – a total conversion mod for Fallout: New Vegas inspired by the cancelled Fallout: Van Buren – is now available for download. The project was announced last...
Bungie is already tweaking Marathon microtransactions and difficulty just days after launch
Marathon has only been out for a few days, but Bungie has already announced changes to two of the game's most contentious issues – aggressive microtransactions and punishing difficulty. A patch is coming this week....
An artist spent 60 hours turning Whiterun from a village of 74 into a realistic city of 15,000
Whiterun in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the largest city in the province – home to exactly 74 people. One artist decided to fix that injustice and spent over 60 hours creating a detailed...
Dark Souls 2 path tracing mod completely transforms the game's lighting
Back in November 2025, we covered DS2LightingEngine, a mod aiming to bring real-time path tracing to Dark Souls 2. Now the first videos have surfaced, showing off over an hour of gameplay – and the...
Real life caught up to Kojima – AI founders have names straight out of Metal Gear Solid
Hideo Kojima is famous for many things – his (at least meme-level) genius games, endless cinematic cutscenes, and character names that sound like they were generated by a broken random word machine. Hot Coldman, Die-Hardman,...
Marathon players slam the battle pass as the "worst value for your money" and say Bungie never learns
Just days after the full launch of Marathon, players have turned their frustration toward Bungie's monetization system. The main complaints center on the battle pass and the restrictions around cosmetic items – specifically, weapon stickers...
Team Ninja knows where Nioh 3 fell short and plans to fix it
Team Ninja's leads behind Nioh 3 have shared some candid thoughts about the game that launched on February 6, and they know exactly what could have been done better. Studio head Fumihiko Yasuda and producer...
A Japanese developer turned Wikipedia articles into a viral gacha game
Japanese developer harusugi has released Wikigacha, a browser game that takes the concept of Wikipedia's random article button and turns it into a full-blown gacha mechanic. The game went viral in Japan just weeks after...
Peaceful lobbies exist in Marathon after all – a whole map extracted together and nobody got shot
One of the biggest talking points around Marathon since its announcement has been the PvP focus. Bungie's extraction shooter is about as far from ARC Raiders as you can get – in that game, most...
Analysts say late PC ports are the real reason PlayStation titles underperform on the platform
Following a Bloomberg report that Sony plans to stop releasing first-party PS5 games on PC, analytics firm Newzoo put together a breakdown of the situation. According to their findings, the issue lies not in a...
Bungie staged a gun-arm and mind-transfer prank to promote Marathon
Bungie released an unusual promotional video for Marathon – instead of a standard gameplay trailer, the studio put together an elaborate sci-fi prank. Unsuspecting participants were invited to a fake Sekiguchi Genetics corporate showroom, where...
Abandoned, the mystery PS5 game from the not-Kojima developer, shows signs of life again
A game most had written off has resurfaced in the strangest way. Users on the ResetEra gaming forum discovered that Blue Box Game Studios director Hasan Kahraman has a new title registered to his PlayStation...
Blizzard is reworking the leveling curve in Diablo 4 for the Lord of Hatred expansion
The pace of leveling in Diablo 4 is set to shift when the Lord of Hatred expansion drops on April 28. Blizzard wants early levels to feel more substantial – no more blazing through the...
Marathon players found a way to fly across the map by hooking onto their own drone
Marathon launched just a day ago, but the community has already uncovered one of those glitches that goes viral instantly. Players discovered that the Thief class lets you literally fly across the map by firing...
