Gaming

Last week, I blithely commented that the Maw was “taking a break”, because we had too much else to do besides feeding our resident cosmic newsbeast. We have now paid…

Image: Wild Blue Skies Today marked the start of our big week of Summer Game Fest showcases, with the MIX Summer Showcase 2026 highlighting over 60 indie games that are…

Tekken 8 game director Kohei Ikeda has left Bandai Namco, kicking his way through an exit door that had long-time series producer and general advocate for the virtual graps Katsuhiro…

DC Comics releases The Deadman #1 on Wednesday, and you can check out the official preview of the issue below… THE ALL-STAR CREATORS OF 2025’S HIT MINISERIES SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE…

Nvidia has announced the RTX Spark computer chip, which it claims will revolutionize personal computing thanks to its AI capabilities. This chip, which will be included in PCs and laptops…

Escape the Backrooms quietly landed on Xbox Game Pass this weekend, coinciding with developer Fancy Games finally launching the hit horror game on console — and with the release of…

The AMD RX 9070 GRE is probably the most 2026 graphics card any GPU company could release this year. With the possible exception of Nvidia digging down the back of…

If you are constantly looking at folk with tattoos and thinking ‘god, I wish I was charismatic and brave enough to get a tattoo – maybe then people would take…

The California State Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 1921, the Protect Our Games Act, in a landmark ruling on game preservation. Consumer movement Stop Killing Games – which aims to…

Asus is celebrating 20 years of Republic of Gamers (ROG) with an update to its Xbox Ally X handheld—and no, it’s not just a special edition re-skin. First and foremost,…

A remake of Baldur’s Gate 2 is reportedly in the works at Wizards of the Coast, potentially as part of efforts to remake both of the first two entries in…

RIESEL, Texas (KWTX) — Two third graders from Foster Elementary School in Riesel ISD started their own comic book series featuring a cartoon hot dog named Glizzy Man. Oliver Franklin…

Once upon a time, Minesweeper was a deceptively simple logic puzzler you’d find bundled on many Windows PCs, but “deceptive simplicity” ain’t enough for today’s Maximum Gamer, whose brain has…

HoYoVerse not only set the date and time for the 3.0 Zenless Zone Zero Special Program stream for Season 3, but also opened up pre-orders for the PS5 and Xbox…

As player numbers leap alongside Path of Exile 2‘s final early access update, and the game’s prospective 1.0 release later this year, a question arises about the future of Path…

We haven’t heard much about Riot’s League of Legends MMO—basically nothing, if you get down to it—but it’s still alive and kicking, and today it kicked again: Brian Holinka, who…

ASUS took the Xbox Ally X and made changes that target the exact points players have mentioned most often. The new limited edition ROG Xbox Ally X20 carries a larger,…

Video games should investigate dabbling in product placement as heavily as some movies do, just in case it can help provide an alternative to live-service monetisation via microtransactions, former Dragon…

Back on July 23, 2024, indie studio Play By Play, formed by veterans of Electronic Arts, announced its debut title, The Run: Got Next. It was a stylish three-vs-three street…

Capcom director Kenji Oguro has been chatting to Very Gary Computing about new spin-off Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, which he describes as “the JRPG the team always…

Award-winning creators, authors and artists to headline June 6 event at TFAC   TRYON—Organizers of the second annual Tryon Comics & Art Expo have announced the final guest lineup for…

A No-Frills Point-and-Click That Scratched our Puzzling Itch Midnight Swamp whisked me back to a better time, playing Shadowgate on my NES (a game that’s available in the 8-bit Adventure…

There was a time where I was a chronic pre-orderer. If a videogame was coming out, I would buy it months in advance. I eagerly awaited its release date—and back…

Modern Warfare 4 developer Infinity Ward has been firing off episodes of its quasi-documentary series, From the Ward, at a rapid pace since the game’s reveal last week. The show,…

(credit: Kevin Lee / The Shortcut) 🎮 Asus has perfected the ROG Xbox Ally X with a bigger 7.4-inch OLED screen 📺 The new ROG Nebula HDR display adds 1,400-nit…

After years of whispers around Nvidia maybe, possibly, perhaps getting into CPU-making, they’re making it official with RTX Spark: a fully integrated laptop SoC (System on a Chip), coming to…

Clunk. Kachunk. Thunk. That’s the sound of Factorio‘s last major update being smushed into shape, before the factory sim is left ticking away in the background while devs Wube Software…

Rockstar employees have formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union (RGWU), which operates as a subsidiary of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB). In a press release sent to…

Premium hardware upgrades For the first time ever, the ROG XBOX Ally X20 comes equipped with an OLED display. Now slightly larger at 7.4 inches for increased immersion and visibility,…