May 14, 2026

Earlier today, Brazilian tech outlet Tecnoblog published images of two unannounced Xbox controllers reportedly obtained from the country’s telecommunications regulator. One is a small form factor gamepad designed for cloud gaming, resembling similar third-party gamepads by the likes of 8bitDo. The other is the successor to the Xbox Elite Controller 2. I’ve been looking forward…

Marathon director Joe Ziegler has laid out Bungie’s vision for the next few seasons of Marathon. If you’re looking for a statement that confronts all the doomerism around the extraction shooter’s Steam numbers or a followup on Sony’s writedown of the studio’s value, you won’t find in Ziegler’s latest communiqué. What you will find is…

The United States Library of Congress got a little cooler today by inducting the soundtrack of the original Doom into its National Recording Registry. The Doom soundtrack, by composer Bobby Prince, is one of 25 recordings now designated as “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance…

The Subnautica 2 early access launch that spawned so much recrimination (and so many billable hours) is finally here, and all that sweat and anger seems kind of funny in hindsight—because after all that drama, Subnautica 2 is good, and it’s a hit, too. Subnautica 2 launched like a rocket on Steam, surging to more…

PC Gamer has been around for a long time now, and boy do we have the magazine archive to show for it. When you start sifting through the pile, some years stand out for their historical leaps in technology or gauntlet of big releases—looking at you, Baldur’s Gate 3 summer—and then there’s 2011. A lot…

For a game series that revels in realizing the obscure and ephemeral pieces of the Warhammer Fantasy setting as in-game units, Total War: Warhammer has left the interests of one specific player segment unfulfilled: the furries. As countless intersecting player subcultures are no doubt celebrating, that changes next week when giant tiger people become playable…

Party Animals developer Recreate Games has apologized for an “AI video contest” it announced earlier this week that encouraged players to submit short films created with generative AI tools. It’s not cancelling the contest, though—instead, it’s opened a poll asking followers what it should do. Recreate first announced the contest on May 13, telling followers…

Modders sure work fast, huh? Subnautica 2 has only just launched into early access and already there are mods for it, including a couple that a lot of players will be keenly interested in. If you were wondering if Subnautica 2 had a debug console like the original game, it doesn’t—at least not officially. However,…