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In March 2022, Atari acquired the video game database MobyGames. It was a surprise move for this latest iteration of the long-lived publisher, which has in the past few years…

Discord have rolled out a revised global age verification system, having delayed deploying one earlier this year following largely privacy-based backlash.

After nearly a decade as a free-to-play game, Quake Champions is dropping all that nonsense in favour of being a nice and simple premium release on Steam. That means no…

There are disasters we remember for their devastation, and then there are those we learn to live with. With Nanavu, Athulya brings this attentive way of seeing to the coast…

When Xbox announced its major shakeup of studios earlier this week, one of the companies that was affected was Obsidian, which is now officially part of the Bethesda group rather…

Causality Chain is a series at PC Gamer exploring the unlikely links between history, culture, and videogames. Every time you cast a meteor spell in Diablo 2 or a cloud…

Who You Gonna Call? Ghostpoppers! If ghosts invaded my apartment block, I don’t think my first call would have been to a badger, but Pop the Ghosts may have changed…

When I was younger, I loved Chewits. Each parcel of chewy sugar threatened to tear out a tooth, but their punch of strawberry, blackcurrent, and orange flavour was hard to…

For decades, Halo developers have resisted the influence of the vastly better-selling Call of Duty shooters. Now, the makers of Call of Duty own Halo. As part of Microsoft’s on-going…

We’re now living in a timeline that would have been impossible to comprehend for a grunt-squashing teen in 2007: Activision is making the next Halo game. And, now, fans have…

Image: Nintendo Life Earlier this week, Xbox announced it would be continuing its “reset” with more eliminations across its gaming division. The latest round of layoffs has impacted multiple developers…

Age of Empires studio World’s Edge has been hit with layoffs following its transition to Activision, with “just under half” of employees affected. Per Eurogamer, former creative director Adam Isgreen…

On this day (September 23) in 1982, Jimmy Wakely died at age 68 of heart failure in Mission Hills, California. One of the leading “singing cowboys” of the 1940s and…

And the shooter can only be purchased on Steam. The arena shooter Quake Champions, which has been distributed under a free-to-play model with in-game purchases since August 2022, has now…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they were trying to sell UK-based Hellblade creators Ninja Theory as part of their steady efforts to siphon larger, shinier doubloons from the Xbox…

Behold, some wild Quake Champions patch notes Removed Battle Pass Removed Weekly / Event Challenges Removed the Store Removed Platinum and Shard Currencies Removed Loot Boxes Removed Daily Login Rewards…

Less than 24 hours after confirming they’ve managed to secure a future outside of Xbox by going independent, State of Decay 3 studio Undead Labs have announced that they’ve had…

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer says he no longer “understands the economics” of game development following Xbox’s mass layoffs and industry-wide studio closures. It’s a rough time to be a…

Discord delayed the rollout of its controversial age verification system back in February after very loud backlash against the company’s plans. Those age checks are now back, but this time,…

“Star Trek” officially turned 60 this month, with special theatrical screenings of four “Trek” movies paired with “The Original Series” episodes that inspired them, an orbital salute from the ISS,…

Control Resonant is almost everything I wanted from a Remedy-flavoured character action game, including several sub-things I didn’t initially believe it would pull off. However, one particular ambition has failed…

Bethesda boss Jill Braff has written to all staff to confirm that Grounded developer Obsidian Entertainment will remain a “distinct” team, retaining its existing leadership structure. Yesterday (September 22), Xbox…

Xbox has not had a good 2026. In early July, the company announced it would lay off 1,600 employees and divest from several of its acclaimed studios, including Double Fine,…

People Playground, a Steam sandbox game about torturing or otherwise messing with innocent ragdolls that work like crash test dummies, has had its Steam Workshop disabled over a “malicious mod”…

Frozen Trail: First Look | ARC Raiders – YouTube Watch On Here’s the big stuff Pendola Pass: A snowy mountain region north of the Rust Belt flanked on all sides…

In the game of life, I celebrated my 50th birthday last weekend. After blowing out the candles on my churros, I was prompted to say a few words. I will…

The latest FromSoft game multiplayer mod is here, with Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op finally out in the wild. Modder Yui, maker of similar and very popular mods for Elden…

As if this season wasn’t packed enough with games to play, the acclaimed ‘Nemesis system’ Lord of the Rings games Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War finally come to…

An award-winning DC legend didn’t hold back while giving his verdict on Jason Momoa’s portrayal of Lobo in Supergirl. The Czarnian bounty hunter made his live-action debut in the second…