Gaming

18th April Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we’ve been playing. This week, Connor loses his grip on reality and…

Slay the Spire 2 has quietly been one of the most-played games on Steam since it launched in March. Even in early access, it’s a bigger game than the original…

The Rally Point is a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming. Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before…

Band of soldiers + building. What does that equal, Civ 7? It’s ok, stop panicking. I know you’ve been struggling with some late-game maths, and Firaxis have gotten you a…

April is a jam-packed month full of new games to check out, like People of Note and Pragmata, but they’re not all on Xbox Game Pass. What is on Microsoft’s…

Ahead of today’s BAFTA Games Awards, GamesIndustry.biz sat down with BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip to discuss what’s new this year and what might change in the future. The first thing…

Few things feel like they define a generation of comic book fans more than trading cards, especially if you grew up during the 1990s. If you loved comic books during…

Using a game controller with an iPhone or iPad can make playing games feel much more like a traditional gaming console experience, and both iOS and iPadOS fully support modern…

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories…

Slay the Spire 2 has received a major update that rolls all of the additions, tweaks and fixes from recent beta updates into the main branch of the game –…

Like any survival crafting adventure, Windrose has a ton of new materials and recipes to unlock upon reaching a new area. There are three distinct biomes in the early access…

Following a successful open beta for upcoming gory fighting game Invincible Vs, the developers at Quarter Up have addressed the rage quitting problem that was plaguing the game’s recent public…

Xbox Game Pass users are “blown away” by a new Xbox Series X exclusive game that was added this week at day one of its release. The new addition has…

It’s been over a decade since the last Heroes of Might & Magic game, and more than 25 since we set foot in the fantasy world of Enroth, the setting…

Xbox Series X and S users have received some substantial new upgrades to the consoles this week. Up until this point in 2026, Microsoft hasn’t done much of anything to…

I am delighted to announce the return of the GamesIndustry.biz podcast, in response to popular demand. The previous incarnation of the show, anchored by James Batchelor and Chris Dring, became…

Funko collectibles have become a massive phenomenon, with conventions, comic book stores, fan events, and, of course, the internet flooded with new characters and designs all the time. Major franchises…

Last January, the lead developer of very good immersive sim shooter Fortune’s Run revealed that she was going to prison for three years, having been convicted of an unspecified violent…

Xbox Game Pass may be about to add another Call of Duty title—and the timing is hard to ignore. Just days before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare lands on the…

Arc Raiders has many wonderful qualities that make it the most popular extraction shooter around, but its current Expeditions grind isn’t one of them. Serving as Arc’s take on the…

Sad Cat Studios has celebrated the release of its cyberpunk-infused platformer Replaced, lauding it a “strong debut success” for the development team despite the few “rough edges”. Replaced is the…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is up for a couple of awards from Gayming Magazine for its portrayal of the LGBTQ+ relationship Henry and Hans can have, if you opt to…

Of course, this is not the first time Xbox has done something like this — the most obvious example is with the Red Ring of Death situation, in which Microsoft…

The Star Trek franchise is currently in the midst of a transitional period. For the first time in over a decade, there are no new TV shows currently in production…

We talk a lot about the major challenges that the games business currently faces due to external economic factors, from fears of a consumer-spending-led recession through to price rises driven…

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced will be a “solo adventure and character-driven experience” and very much “not an RPG”, Ubisoft have reportedly stated in a leaked presentation that also gives…

Xbox gamers will be pleased to hear that another free game has landed in their library; all they have to do is claim it. Whether it’s for a bigger purpose…

Following a tactical bong-rip with Battlefield 6‘s second season earlier this year, EA have whipped out the big guns for the 2026 roadmap they’ve put out. It promises a lot…

It’s been seven and a half years since Valve first released Proton, a software compatibility layer that allows games developed for Windows to run on Linux-based operating systems, such as…