2025

Team Fortress 2 has come a long way in the nearly 20 years it’s been around, not entirely in ways that everyone would agree is better. For those who yearn for the days before hats (and bots) dominated the scene, the Team Fortress 2 Classic mod does just that. Originally released in 2014, developer Eminoma…

The first tease for The Witcher 4, back in 2022, was nothing but an image of a snow-covered Witcher medallion—but not a wolf. That led to an immediate question: Which school did it represent? There are several in the world of The Witcher, after all: Geralt’s School of the Wolf is the one we know…

One too many hits from a Cultist and it’s all over, but you don’t have to always part with Robux if you want to revive a player in 99 Nights in the Forest. The survival crafting Roblox game prompts players to spend real money after death, but if you have a medkit or bandages handy…

Prototype was a landmark release in videogame sweatshirts, featuring a permanently hooded, perpetually grumpy man harboring a mutagenic virus and powerful 2009-era angst. Admittedly, I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was left filled to the brim with bioweaponry against my will—until my nasty meat tentacles could fling helicopters around, anyway. All of life’s troubles…

Not quite two months after Avalanche halted work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband, seemingly fallout from the massive wave of layoffs and cancellations imposed by Microsoft earlier in the year, Avalanche has announced the upcoming closure of its studio in Liverpool, and layoffs at its remaining operations. “In light of current challenges to our…

Cairn made quite a splash when it debuted at the Summer Game Fest in 2024: PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor said that despite her distaste for “verticality,” the reveal trailer left her with an immediate urge to grab a carabiner and go climbing. She’s going to have to wait a bit to embark on that particular…

It sure feels like Judas isn’t all that far away. Three years after the game’s announcement, Ghost Story Games’ main man Ken Levine is suddenly popping up all over the place to drop tidbits about the upcoming shooter, and last month brought the game’s first dev log and a promise to “communicate more frequently.” So…