Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

Valve's futuristic MOBA has been figuring itself out on the fly, and I kind of prefer that to a carefully considered roadmap.

Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience

That's the crux of Luto, a first-person psychological horror game aesthetically similar to P.T. and narrated by The Stanley ...

Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'

We all save scummed in Baldur's Gate 3⁠—except, apparently, for my friend Jack and coworker Morgan Park. They both ...

Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards

It's not enough to slay thousands of monsters simply for the fun of it. What if all that bloodshed was to show off how much ...

It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game

Project Rene is a mobile game. When EA first teased the next Sims game, we understandably thought the pretty new lighting ...

Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.

Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again

So it's likely not working on a remaster and likely not working on The Sims 5, but is working on a "next evolution," and ...

Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go

AMD's SVP and GM of Client Product Group, Rahul Tikoo, recently took a swing at Panther Lake, and part of the argumentation ...

Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space

The modern world is not short of collaborations between big brands, but here's one that caught me off-guard: You can now buy ...

Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis

For the last year and a bit, I've sat down every Friday morning to update our guide to the best SSD deals for gaming. Today, ...

I've just found a new cutesy Balatro, but instead of a deck of cards you get to tend to a garden and harvest flowers

In Chosen Garden, you take care of a magical garden, planting loads of fruit, veg, and flowers, alongside adopting cute ...

For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

In Larian's big AMA for its next RPG, Divinity, there were aspects of the game the studio wasn't ready to share, but we got a ...