The two Paranormasight games, The Seven Mysteries of Honjo and The Mermaid's Curse, are among the most celebrated horror visual novels in recent years. Though it might be shocking to many, Square Enix is behind their development and publishing, and now their main creative is thanking indies for their success.
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Rhythm action game Dead as Disco just entered early access, delivering some very promising musical kung-fu brawling.
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There's an obvious conflict between business and ordinary users.
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It's consciously designed to appeal more to corporate buyers.
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Oh heck, colleagues, we got one: a promising videogame. Noirmancer is a first-person single-player stealth sim, heavily inspired by the original Thief, in which you are a 1950s sleuth with supernatural abilities. You are Humphrey Bogart, if Humphrey Bogart were a Dishonored character. Here are some things you can do: swim in midair, transform into vapour, stun alerted guards with pew-pew gestures, and chuck down telekinetic mats to serve as (usefully sound-absorbing) platforms. It might sound li...
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It has been unavailable for 10 years but R.U.S.E. from Eugen Systems has returned, with upgrades and full Steam Deck support too
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No, you weren't being silly. Pirate survival game Windrose really was making your SSD work way too hard.
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Lo, the great and powerful leader of the Ecksbocks kingdom hath issued another decree, as she continues to make changes following her succession to the throne once held by Phil Spencer. Some of my former Microsoft CoreAI teammates will join my leadership council, Xbox boss Asha Sharma has decided, while also opting to nix some of the plans the company had to push Copilot into their gaming offerings.
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League of Legends Patch 26.10 is nerfing the big beneficiaries of the Voltaic Cyclosword rework, while undoing a decade-old Lee Sin change.
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The race to build the world’s most powerful AI factories demands networking that keeps pace with the ambitions of AI itself. NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out infrastructure stands at the forefront of that race as the most advanced AI networking technology available today, deployed by industry leaders who can’t afford to compromise on performance, resilience or...
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Resolution? Never heard of it! If you regularly used the YouTube app on your Switch 1, then you might have noticed that no such option exists on Switch 2. Yep, for the best part of a year, Switch 2 has been YouTube-less. While we wait for Google to introduce another official application for the console, some dedicated fans have taken it into their own hands to find a workaround, and what do you know, they have managed to do exactly that.
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New alleged CAD renders of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro are doing the rounds on social media, offering the latest twist in the to-shrink-or-not-to-shrink Dynamic Island saga. An X user called @earlyappleleaks has posted the above image, claiming that "the new CAD confirms the smaller Dynamic Island of the iPhone 18 Pro." CAD renders are often leaked from factories and represent the technical schematics that phone manufacturers share with case makers and accessory companies months before a phone launche...
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Is nothing sacred?
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Big, beautiful, coal.
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Asha Sharma just keeps scoring points, as she confirms in a new X post that Xbox is pulling Microsoft's Copilot AI from mobile and console.
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"I mean, look, this is something that everyone in the industry is working with."
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The medieval shooter has been radio-silent since late last year, but Kingmakers has recently shown that it isn’t completely dead.
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Protect the egg? Why not. Except the egg is a football, and this particular football is a playful and punishing presence. Keep the football alive - a football can die now? - and you'll get a great reward of some kind. Let the football perish and you'll have to forfeit more than you might be expecting. No wonder, really, that this singular opportunity for football ownership comes with a payment up-front. You're paid in advance for the privilege and terror of looking after that football. And remem...
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The movie itself is plenty fun, but Captain America: Civil War helped bring about the end of the MCU's golden age
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Kan't wait. Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has revealed that developer NetherRealm Studios is "actively pursuing" a new MK game. Speaking with Kollider (sorry, Collider) Boon is asked whether he can provide any updates on what NetherRealm is currently working on. While he's understandably kagey (damn), he does konfirm (damn!) that a new entry in the long-running fighting series is on the kards (stop it!).
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Xbox's newly-appointed head Asha Sharma is sunsetting the company's Copilot initiative, which was once envisioned as an AI-driven "personal gaming sidekick", designed to offer real-time advice in games such as Minecraft.
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Horror director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Jennifer's Body) shares her approach to bringing Don't Nod's narrative time-travel game to TV.
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"Wa-hahaha!". Before The Super Mario Galaxy Movie released, there were rumblings that Wario might actually make an appearance as a secondary antagonist. Alas, this turned out to be entirely false, but in a new interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri over at Crank In, Miyamoto notes that a future appearance from Wario is very much a possibility. When asked how the production team went about creating a film for children, Miyamoto said that he doesn't want to make kids laugh with what ...
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Ancient World War 2 real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. has returned to Steam after over a decade's absence. Original developers Eugen Systems have acquired the rights from Ubisoft and put forth a Definitive Edition with Steam Deck support, which includes all the updates and DLC. If you already own it, you'll get all that at no additional charge in the form of 2.4GB update.
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Apple's iPhone 17 was the best-selling smartphone globally in the first quarter of 2026, capturing 6 percent of worldwide unit sales, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Global Handset Model Sales Tracker. The iPhone 17 series dominated the top three spots, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max in second place and the iPhone 17 Pro in third. The previous-generation iPhone 16 also held on at sixth place, suggesting there's still strong demand for the model, following its blockbuster sales run throug...
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MindsEye's dismal launch - and the chaos surrounding its production and release - continues to be one of the games industry's most intriguing sagas in recent memory. The bad news seems far from over, though, as reports suggest around 170 employees have been laid off in the past week.
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MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) have reportedly laid off around 170 of their remaining 250 staff in yet another round of cuts. The move leaves them with a studio of approximately 80 people following the release of an in-game mission which alludes to the alleged "sabotage" BARB CEO Mark Gerhard claims the game faced around its initial release.
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Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma has announced a major shake-up to the upper management of Microsoft's gaming division, bringing in several new staff into leadership roles. Many of them have come from AI-focused roles.
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Moon's haunted. We're living on the remains of a long-dead mausoleum, built to honour the bones of this city's previous avatars, clinging on to the hope that the moon won't eradicate every last bit of us. This particular moon belongs to the planet Amber, and our city is named for the deep subterranean spire that defines our core. Amberspire does not belong on the moon, but in this universe, it is locked in eternal war with the four horsemen of ecological warfare: rust, fog, water, and grass.
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Along with the recent stable Steam client update bringing full support for the Steam Controller, Valve also released the CAD files for modders
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A certain controller was released earlier this week, and within what felt like no time at all, it was totally out of stock. Yes, I am talking about the Steam Controller. It was there, and then just like that, it was gone, having been snapped up by eager patrons faster than you can say full steam ahead.
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Humans, vehicles and massive kaiju beasts collide in BeastLink, which looks like Godzilla meets Kaiju No. 8 with destructible environments
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From the brilliant strategy gem Frostpunk 2 to the most underloved to one of my favorite soulslikes, Fanatical’s Legendary Bundle is full of essential hits for your Steam library.
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Uber and Nuro plan to start fully autonomous testing later this year.
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If you were hoping to play Subnautica 2 on handhelds like the Steam Deck, you should be able to do so without much trouble at the Early Access release
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