February 17, 2026

Developer Iron Gate Studios released Valheim into early access almost exactly five years ago, and the finish line may finally now be in sight: work on the survival game’s final biome is underway and the launch on PlayStation and Switch 2 is planned for 2026. While there’s been no official word, I wouldn’t be surprised…

It’s been exactly a year since Avowed released, and Obsidian has continued to support it with new classes, new skills, and better optimization. To coincide with the new PS5 edition, Avowed just got its biggest update yet, adding New Game Plus, three new playable races, and a new weapon class. Character creation will now let…

Ever since Blizzard started reworking the clunky parts of Diablo 4, one thing has remained constant: Monsters shower you with more loot than you can carry in your inventory. That might sound like a good thing—and admittedly, it’s fun for a while—but it becomes a real problem the further you progress your character. It doesn’t…

In recent months, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta to obtain the identifying information of individuals behind accounts that track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, according to New York Times reporting. According to four federal officials and tech industry workers who…

Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered “world model” Project Genie, engine maker Unity says it’s chasing the same digital dragon, and that “AI-driven authoring” will be one of its major focuses in 2026. “At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling the beta of the…

That sure didn’t take long: Just one week after release, the bizarre cat-breeding simulator Mewgenics has surpassed one million copies sold. Word of the major milestone came from Mewgenics co-creator Tyler Glaiel on X, who posted a simple, to-the-point message that was apparently created by fan artist Whom: (Image credit: Tyler Glaiel (Twitter)) The message…

Open-source software development—the open, collaborative contribution of knowledge in the name of problem solving, bug fixing, feature development, and ongoing support—is a borderline utopian idea. But the advent of generative LLMs has forced the maintainers of projects like open-source game engine Godot to face a deluge of AI-generated code from would-be contributors who might not…

Nobody on the team making Fellowship would deny that World of Warcraft was a massive inspiration for the game—I know, because I’ve asked them about it. It’s not just the art style, but the entire pitch for the game is what would happen if a popular activity in WoW was an entire game. What impresses…

Masters of Albion is not only Peter Molyneux’s final game (so he says, anyway), it’s also a sort of getting-the-band-back-together moment with collaborators from the early days at Lionhead. All of which is apparently rather nerve-wracking: In an interview with The Game Business, Molyneux describes the team as “incredibly inexperienced,” and warned that there will…