A Resident Evil Requiem player scared himself with his own reflection thanks to ray tracing
Ray tracing in Resident Evil Requiem is realistic enough to scare you just as much as any zombie. A Thai gamer found this out firsthand, and the clip of his reaction went viral on Twitter,...
EA lays off staff across Battlefield studios despite record-breaking launch of Battlefield 6
EA has laid off an unspecified number of staff across its Battlefield studios, despite a record-breaking launch for Battlefield 6 late last year that saw it top Steam charts and sell 7 million copies in...
Cyberpunk 2077 is now fully fixed – you can die of embarrassment thanks to an unexpectedly well-designed bathroom mod
More than five years after launch and a long road to redemption, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally, completely fixed. The last remaining flaw has been patched – V can now soil themselves to death. Literally. A...
Fallout 4 lead designer on how Todd Howard helped nail the game's paranoia theme
Fallout 4 has its fair share of synth detectives and food paste, but something was still missing during early development. Lead designer Emil Pagliarulo opened up about it in a new interview with Rock Paper...
Resident Evil Requiem players have spent 11,000 years in-game and killed nearly 4 billion zombies in ten days
Capcom has launched a website Resident Evil Net, where you can compare your stats in Resident Evil Requiem against the global totals. The combined numbers from the game's first ten days on sale are staggering...
New Fatekeeper concept art reveals underground civilization and the world of Solace
Max Bedulenko, a concept artist who worked on Fatekeeper, has shared a new batch of concept illustrations on social media. The artwork depicts locations from the game's underground world, and Bedulenko paired the posts with...
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...
