November 18, 2025

Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-about game ever not to exist. You might think that all this anticipation was prompted…

The latest game in the long-running Anno strategy city builder series has had a great launch week—depending on where you’re standing, at least. Anno 117: Pax Romana, which released on November 12, has been met with “Mixed” reviews on Steam and has been the target of complaints about the use of AI to create in-game…

Ever since the debut trailer for Overwatch 2’s new gladiator hero Vendetta, players have been desperately trying to pick it apart to divine what role she’ll fit into. Nobody thinks the lady with the big deadly sword is a healer, but they also can’t figure out if she’s going to be a tank or a…

Sometimes you have to bust out the ol’ cork board and red string for a conspiracy theory involving leaked emails, supervillain islands, and heads of state desperate to deny they had anything to do with All That. But other times the conspiracy rabbit hole beckons in other forms. Like, say: 📌An emulated Macintosh Classic 2…

Facepunch demanded that Rust players ‘Pivot or Die’ with its latest update to progression changes this month, and it’s not lookin’ too hot for solo survivors or small groups trying to pivot. Opting out of big clans on official servers has never been the easiest way to play Rust, but recent monument, scrap, and blueprint…

For everyone except Hasbro stockholders, Magic: The Gathering’s crossover era has produced notoriously mixed feelings: On one hand, that Lord of the Rings set was pretty excellent. On the other, there are now six Magic cards of Dwight Schrute from the Office—a truth with a terrible psychic weight. Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair collaboration,…

The Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk is one of the big indie hits of the year, selling a million copies in just two weeks and earning a nomination for best debut indie game in The Game Awards 2025. That sort of exposure is a big deal, especially for a small indie release, but developer vedinad said they’re…

You may recall the sad case of Planet Centauri, an indie 2D sandbox game that spent more than a decade in development, amassed well over 130,000 wishlists, and then struggled to gain traction when the 1.0 release happened earlier this year because a bug in Steam prevented the it’s out announcement email from being sent…

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Project Misriah: Halo Ports, a collection of Counter-Strike 2 custom maps that recreate classic…