Steam sale banners work on simple logic: the bigger the picture, the deeper the discount. So when a specific title stares back at you from the cover of yet another themed event, your brain automatically...

Developer Wuyang Zhou gave GPT-6 Astra one task – mine a diamond in Minecraft – then hit record and went to bed. By morning the diamond sat in the inventory, and the toolkit that made...

Ray Kurzweil, one of the most well known futurists and AI pioneers, has joined neurotechnology startup Subsense. The company is developing a brain-computer interface that skips surgery entirely. Kurzweil's career kicked off back in the...

Any RPG with a leveling system eventually runs into a player who finds more joy in breaking the mechanics than following the story. And when the system can be broken without even leaving the tutorial...

Sony is facing a class action lawsuit claiming that PlayStation Store language misleads users about what they're actually buying. The company insists digital games are licensed rather than sold, even though the PlayStation Store interface...

In last month's extended GTA 6 trailer, fans found a moment that has been dissected frame by frame and turned into a meme. The scene shows Jason doing a running backflip off a pier and...

Indie developer Hakim Eiqbal has released the first downloadable build of a fishing game he's building entirely with AI. The project started as an experiment and by week six turned into a playable build available...

Developers of grand strategy games love to insist that conquering the entire map in their titles is impossible – the mechanics won't allow it, the economy will collapse, control will tank. That claim usually holds...

A Japanese player going by ピピ (pipi_rossa) got DLSS 5 and the ENB graphics mod running together in Fallout 4. The two have historically clashed since both hook into frame post-processing. Turns out the fix...

Companions in Fallout 4 usually exist for two reasons: carrying loot and soaking up bullets meant for the hero. But what actually sticks in people's memory isn't their combat stats – it's the moment a...

GSC Game World shows no signs of slowing down support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, even after the successful launch of its first story DLC, "The Price of Hope." Shortly after the expansion arrived, the studio rolled...

The desire for realism in open-world games has long crossed the line where immersion ends and simulation of daily chores begins. First it's filling the tank with gas, then turn signals and seatbelts, and it's...

Deadline reported that a new science fiction film titled 2048 has entered production. Anthony Hopkins will star in one of the lead roles. The story takes place in a future where humanity can no longer...

Wardogs, a 100-player milsim FPS, launched in Steam early access and instantly became a hit. The game topped Steam's global sales chart, and its player count blew past 300,000 concurrent users right away. Not everyone...

Brand collaborations in games stopped being a pleasant novelty a long time ago. But there is a difference between a pop star showing up in a shooter and a game about Nordic dragons getting its...

Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch confirmed he has no plans to make a third season of the animated series, despite massive renewed interest in the show a decade after its finale. Hirsch says the success...

Game quality gets treated like a fixed value, similar to weight or length. In practice it depends on mood, age, tiredness, and how much sleep you got, so the same game can feel like dull...

Rockstar Games published its opening note ahead of the employment tribunal hearing in Glasgow, where the fate of 31 dismissed employees is being decided. In the document, the studio detailed the security measures surrounding GTA...

Blizzard revealed the release window for World of Warcraft: The Last Titan during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026. The twelfth expansion arrives in 2027 and closes out the "Worldsoul Saga," which began with The...

Blizzard announced at the BlizzCon opening ceremony that Heroes of the Storm will get a new hero, Xal'atath, the Harbinger of the Void. It's the first roster addition since 2020, when Hogger joined the game....