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"I surrounded myself with people who were obsessive gamers," Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton tells Polygon

As Oisin reported over the weekend, Steam Machine engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais gave a big Valve thumbs-down to the practice of platform exclusives – a hot topic in the context of Xbox owners Microsoft retreating back into whatever kind of shrivelled, joyless husk Xbox is nowadays. The same interview, with Bloomberg scoopsmith Jason Schreier, also touched on the acutely PC-spoiling subject of RAMnarök and its subsequent, en-masse embiggening of hardware prices. Good news? N...

A fresh leak reveals new specs for Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, days before it's rumored to appear.

With season 4 being the last season of House of the Dragon, Ryan Condal reveals there's plenty more time for other dragons to appear.

Apple appears to be testing a hidden popover interface for Siri AI in the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta that surfaces Writing Tools and contextual actions whenever the user selects some text. Spotted by a member of Reddit's r/MacOSBeta community, the floating icon appears at the top-left of the selected text, expanding when the pointer hovers over it to a compact popover of Writing Tools and contextual actions. Currently, the popover offers the tools Rewrite, Proofread, "How does this sound?" and "E...

Simulation run in EA Sports FC game, formerly known as FIFA, has an unbroken record of accuracy going back 16 years

With Bethesda having begun to dip their fingers into the remaster bucket in recent years, some modders who'd decided long before that to get the ball rolling on such things themselves have had to reckon with the idea that official siblings of their passion projects could be in the works. It happened last year with Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered, now it's happened for the crew behind The Capital Wasteland Project, an effort to recreate Fallout 3 in Fallout 4, and Fallout 4: New Vegas. Thankfu...

It's trickier than it looks - but one good run is all you need. Pokémon Pokopia's Zorua Hide-and-Sneak event - though you'll likely refer to it as 'Hide and Seek' - is available in July 2026. This limited-time event has a simple objective: making your way past Zorua and other patrolling Pokémon to reach the Pokémon Center PC undetected. It's harder than it sounds, but there's a couple of tips that can make the mini-game easier.

A true endgame item, you need Holy Water to harvest World Tree resources and build some of the most powerful base items in the game.

There've been more than 100 Final Fantasy games since the series got its start on the NES back in 1987. Here are a few under-the-radar treasures.

Sub-lime. SFB Games’ Detective Grimoire series has gone from strength to strength as it has plotted its course from flash game to iOS to consoles. This time, the sleuthing twosome, Sally and Grimoire, arrive on Switch 2 with The Mermaid Mask, putting a fresh new murder mystery straight into your hands. It’s a classic setup: a pair of detectives arrive at a small seaside town to investigate a confounding crime. One Captain Mortuga has apparently been killed on his submarine in inexplicable circum...

Erin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious results to show for it. And they’re doubling down. BMS announced today it is deploying its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, this one built on...

League of Legends streamer and former Los Ratones player Nemesis is now a tattoo artist. Well, that's what the Slovenian government says.

Cliff Bleszkinski, the designer instrumental in the creation of Gears of War - the face of the series for three games - has opened up about a career-long struggle with alcohol which he's now reckoning with, while also teasing a potential return to creating games.

I guess I could do with the free space...

They're checking the stables for Tyrek Lannister.

Hello all! This week, there are a lot of new cat-themed games for some reason. One suspects that some dire cat anniversary is underway. Maybe week of 20th July 2026 marks 30 million years since the invention of cats? Or since cats invented us? In any case, there is already far too much cat discourse round these parts, so I've only allowed one of those sinister feline diversions into the Maw. Without further ado, the list.

A World of Warcraft Q&A revealed that Blizzard isn't committed to leaving archaeology back in BfA, but wants "more fun" gameplay.

An incremental horror seems like quite an unusual mashup but PUROMA looks really good

Robot Rhapsody looks like a good one if you're into pixel-styled JRPGs, a cyberpunk odyssey of techno-cults, rebels, & robotic bards

Whereas some people fall asleep to white noise or calm soundscapes, others can apparently do so while in the middle of noisy online matches. At least, that's what one app developer who was nostalgic for the olden Call of Duty days seems to think, as they have shaken the ASMR scene up with a lobby voice chat 'ambience' website.

The 2K Megahits 2026 Humble Bundle is live now, and it's a good deal if you don't already own the various games included in it

The idea of Faugus Launcher is to provide a reasonable simple game manager for Linux, as an alternative to Lutris and Heroic

Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros, the Age of Empiresy RTS teeming with Targaryens and laced with Lannisters, has been delayed to 2027. Developers PlaySide have decided that while development's "progressing well", they need a bit more time to nail their strategical rendition of the Seven Kingdoms.

After its big 2m sales opening, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has reached a new sales milestone: Ubisoft announced that the remake has sold over 3m units in a week across all platforms.

If you were hoping prices anywhere to come down soon - Valve have some bad news for you, as it's only going to continue getting worse

Footage of the cancelled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has appeared online, just over a year since development on the game ended.

FUMES is a vehicle combat game made like some of the classics, and now it has full online co-op support for a whole lot of extra action

Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered has been released as a nice upgrade for the classic, and the code is open source too

They're calling Sweet Hamster Days a "being-taken-care-of adventure game."

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed review: 'I can’t express how happy I am that somebody decided to make this'

It's a rad world.

All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending July 19.

The latest threat to Rhaenyra Targaryen's reign is a string of grisly murders targeting the city watch. And the mystery gets very dark.

The latest House of the Dragon episode revealed why House Martell of Dorne might be the answer to the destruction of the Targaryens