Gaming

Battlefield 6‘s upcoming Season 4 continues to look like one of its most exciting seasons yet. After delivering a first look at naval combat earlier this week, Battlefield Studios has…

You have 30 seconds to save the world. That’s the elevator pitch of Ascend to Zero, a fascinating new roguelike that puts some inventive twists on proven formulas. Let me…

While reports about Microsoft’s mass layoffs have painted a devastating picture, the company and affected studios like Doom developers Id Software have been publicly trying to reassure players that the…

IDW’s acclaimed Star Trek: Red Shirts returns for a new run next week with the release of Star Trek: Red Shirts – Ghost of the 21st Century #1, and you…

Todd Howard, executive producer and game director at Bethesda Game Studios, has published a note outlining the company’s plans over the coming years, including Fallout 5 and The Elder Scrolls…

On Wednesday, I reported that the head of ZeniMax Online Studios, makers of The Elder Scrolls was departing the studio as part of Microsoft’s deep cuts into its gaming division….

The living room PC is a certified thing now, and not just for those of us with extra long HDMI cables. The Steam Machine is “out” for the dozens of…

The original Suzerain, a political strategy game presented as a visual novel, cast you in the role of Anton Rayne, the newly elected President of fictional country Sordland. You had…

FixForce – now on Game Pass and Xbox If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if an extraction game swapped guns for giant drill-wrenches and encouraged you to throw your…

Following Microsoft’s mass layoffs, Bethesda have clearly been told to be a bit more active in communicating exactly what they’ve got in the works. Cue a big blog post announcing…

Since it was announced at the beginning of June, God of War Laufey has been receiving an unexpected amount of negative criticism. And a lot of the commentary about the…

Read a preview of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 from IDW Publishing, written by Gene Luen Yang with art by Freddie E. Williams II. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 Preview…

Obsidian Entertainment, an Irvine-based video game development studio, is laying off 52 workers as part of a larger restructuring to reset Microsoft’s Xbox video game business. In a letter filed…

Nobody needs to hear again about how the crisis in component costs is causing havoc on the hardware side of the games industry. That particular bell has been tolling for…

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and their Canadian offshoot CWA Canada have filed unfair labour practice complaints against Microsoft, accusing the company of having mishandled the recent mass…

According to 404 Media, a hacker has breached the company database of Suno, an online AI music generation tool. The hack is said to reveal multiple references to the training…

Microsoft has released a new Xbox console update, OS version 10.0.26100.8866. July 2026 update brings all sorts of new features and improvements, including longer gamertags, new library and profile customization…

Answering concerns that The Sims team may face pressure to reduce support for diversity following the Saudi Arabian-backed buyout of EA, senior character artist Jess Hyland says she’s not “heard…

Doom: The Dark Ages maker id Software is one of the most storied game studios in Xbox’s portfolio and also one of the teams hit hardest in the latest round…

We’ve all been there. You’re a pirate captain whose pockets are overflowing with freshly nicked doubloons and you fancy blowing it all on some shiny new cannons or a figurehead…

Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV show has hit a major obstacle after Kratos actor Ryan Hurst suffered a serious injury on set. According to a report by Deadline, the…

What to know San Diego Comic-Con 2026 runs from Thursday, July 23, through Sunday, July 26. The full Comic-Con schedule is out, with hundreds of events taking place at the…

Mobile game Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem will be shut down on October 15, 2026. Developed by Aquiris Game Studio and published by Scopely in 2018, the game will be…

One of the latest additions to Xbox Game Pass this week is a must-play joyride through dystopian Japan. Xbox Game Pass isn’t a perfect subscription service by any means, but…

I was pretty excited when I read about Marathon’s Vault Breaker PvE mode in June: I like shooting things, and I love the Marathon aesthetic, but the grind of extraction…

“Play is humanity’s oldest technology for connection and learning,” Roblox‘s CEO yells at me through my monitor. “Before agriculture, before commerce, before civilization, we played together.” Right, so, where’s this…

The idea of another person controlling every action my body takes is one that keeps me awake at night more often than I like to acknowledge to myself. So…

GTA 6 is looming like that monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, casting its fearsome shadow over the games industry and probably also scaring some monkeys. But PC players won’t…

Hello Survivors!  I’m Julia Wolbach, and I’m catching some rays while I tell you about this summer’s content update for our ongoing survival horror title Outbreak: Shades of Horror.  The…