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Five years ago, we wrote about how the visual effects in Returnal came to life, including the real-time voxeliser that dissolved Phrike into volumetric fog. If you haven’t read it, that post is a good companion to this one. This is how that story continues. With Saros, we didn’t just extend what we’d built for...

While the time-travel aspects are undercooked, Square Enix's latest feels like a SNES era classic you just never got around to

Witness the Millennium. Square Enix’s HD-2D art style has done wonders for its games. From creating new IPs like Triangle Strategy and Octopath Traveler, to tasteful remakes like the Dragon Quest Erdrick trilogy and Live a Live, the charming presentation has been able to deliver modern gameplay while still invoking a retro feeling. So far, the HD-2D style has been used for only turn-based games, until now. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is the first HD-2D game with real-time acti...

The Adventures of Elliot finds joy in speedrunning history.

No more endless searching for lost roads.

Strauss Zelnick discussed GTA 6’s launch date and why development took so long in an interview with TikToker 'The School of Hard Knocks.'

May was a remarkably busy month for high-profile game releases, which could explain why Luna Abyss' launch went relatively unnoticed on PC and current-gen consoles. It's a sci-fi bullet-hell shooter that seemed to review pretty well, but despite that, the entire development team at Kwalee Labs has been laid off.

Worth a poke.

Sell Lemons codes aren’t available yet, but we can speculate on what they’d offer if they arrive.

The White House app will be automatically loaded onto DHS staff's work phones, Politico said.

A new bundle on Fanatical lets you choose from a selection of games, including Evil Within 1 & 2 and Disco Elysium for just $3 a game.

While Crusader Kings 3 typically deals in the fantasy of sitting on a big chair in one place and shouting at underlings, roaming its world as a the unlanded leader of a band of travelling adventurers is just as fun and arguably the best way to kick off a custom dynasty. Up to now, the freedom to pursue the life of a ruthless mercenary, valiant knight, or stuffy bureaucrat surviving off of favours for rulers while searching for the ideal title or throne to claim as their own once they're ready ha...

"Microsoft had already planned to sunset or split with the studio."

Ryan Reynolds learned hard lessons from Green Lantern's failure that ultimately helped pave the way for Deadpool and a thriving career.

WhatsApp is finally catching up to rivals with disappearing messages.

A sentient metal has turned against the world in SHADE Protocol, a fantastic looking upcoming metroidvania that has me rather excited

The Guild: Europa 1410 is a reboot of 4HEAD's strategy game Europa 1400: The Guild from 2002, created by the studio behind the well-regarded World War sim Last Train Home. My first hurdle in the Steam demo is working out who and where the hell I am. The demo treats you to a slice of Kuttenberg, a Czech city made famous to a lot of non-Czech people by Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: at a glance, it could be the Warhorse RPG with a top-down mod. It gives you wheel-churned roads among houses of wattle...

Apidya' Special is an authentic 24-bit pixel remake of the 1992 Amiga classic shoot 'em up. Nice to see more retro games make a return like this

4K! 120fps! Mouse support! Indie developer Powerhoof, who you might remember is behind the wonderful multiplayer title Crawl, is bringing its latest game to the Switch and Switch 2 – and it looks excellent. The Drifter is a traditional point-and-click adventure with a heavy pixel art visual style and a story that encompasses murder, conspiracy, shadowy corporations, and more. Though it's coming to both Nintendo platforms, those on Switch 2 can swap between twin-stick controls and a more traditio...

Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to break records and beat out Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour and Avengers: Endgame in pre-sale revenue.

With scores for Valve's new mini gaming PC appearing on the Geekbench website, we have our strongest hint yet that its release is not far off.

First reported back in 2012, Minecraft's 26.2 update finally fixes a bug that caused dropped items to appear in the wrong location.

In the wake of Jason Voorhees' release, Dead by Daylight has smashed another record, hitting its all-time peak on both Steam and console.

The full League of Legends patch 26.13 is here, and there’s salvation in sight for botlaners who are tired of seeing Senna every game.

Apple has partnered up with Amazon to make Apple TV available at $5.99 per month for Prime members for a limited time. Apple TV is available as an add-on subscription through Prime Video in the U.S. This promotional deal lets Prime members sign up to the streaming platform for over 50% off the usual $12.99/month price for up to two months, after which the standard price applies. The promotion ends on June 26 though, so there are only a few days left to go before it's gone. Subscribers will have ...

The Windows compatibility layer Wine is expanding its Wayland support some more, with fractional scaling support landing recently

Hellblade developers Ninja Theory are one of the numerous Microsoft-owned studios currently facing a very uncertain future, as the company look to either spin off or shutter a bunch of the developers under the Xbox banner. In Ninja Theory's case, the news that their existence hangs in the balance was made even more jarring by the fact they'd revealed a new game, Senua, earlier this month at Xbox's summer showcase. According to a fresh report, however, Microsoft had already decided they were goin...

Shonen Jump's most popular new generation manga is entering a hiatus this summer to give the author time to rest.

With a Steam release planned for the open source RTS game Beyond All Reason, they've signed on with publisher Hooded Horse to help fund further development

Which are the best Dota 2 heroes to use right now? Here are the strongest characters in the Valve MOBA’s current meta for June 2026.

Guild Wars 3 developer ArenaNet has released a mission statement after the game's sudden and celebrated debut during Summer Game Fest earlier this month. The main points? No pay-to-win, no subscription fees, and the goal of evolving the MMO genre.

Lego's gonna show us all how it's done done done.

I suppose that's one way to bring an old game up to date…

WhatsApp is working on a way to let users send text messages that can only be viewed once, similar to the feature already available for photos, videos, and voice notes. According to WABetaInfo, after typing a message in the chat bar, users will be able to select a new "Send as view once" option by long-pressing the Send button. When the message is sent, the recipient will be able to open the message once and read it before it disappears. This means that the recipient will not be able to copy, fo...

Another free to play anime game from COGNOSPHE has arrived on Steam - with Zenless Zone Zero officially out now and it appears to work well on Linux / SteamOS