Overwatch players expected a lot more for its 10th anniversary in-game event. For many, grinding for loot boxes that contain old skins with new colorways and some sprays didn’t feel worthy of such a significant milestone, not to mention the huge amount of games you have to play to earn them in the first place….
After a long and legally tumultuous development, Subnautica 2 made its splashdown into early access yesterday with an impressive launch, drawing hundreds of thousands of players in its first 30 minutes and selling more than 2 million copies before 12 hours were up. Today, Unknown Worlds is following up that triumphant launch day with its…
While Deadlock’s sort-of-launch last year was proof that Valve does, in fact, still make videogames, its immaculate vibes served as a different sort of reminder: That the studio remains among the best in the business of characterful animation. From Meet the Heavy’s moments of tender minigun affection to the cyclopean gesticulation of Portal 2’s Wheatley,…
Readers, games media’s quest to bring you word of the latest, greatest, dearest and weirdest videogames has once again taken it to distant shores. Also taking it to distant shores: an unslakeable lust for fried squid. That’s why our pals at GamesRadar+ are bringing you a new showcase from Japan’s BitSummit Punch 2026: the BitSummit…
And it really felt ‘New’ back then. 20 years ago today, something New was on the horizon. Yes, it’s time to feel extremely old, as New Super Mario Bros. launched for the Nintendo DS on this very day in the US in 2006. Back then, New Super Mario Bros. was a big deal; it was…
Game developers are burning through genres, high concepts, and even annoying machines that scammed you on the boardwalk as a child to fuel quick-hit Balatro-likes or Vampire Survivors-likes at the same rate the smartphone industry’s sucking down rare earth minerals. I get why: compulsive play is core to the design, they can be made relatively…
Remember the metaverse? I do, occasionally, when circumstances conspire to remind me. It will never not amuse me that there were two schools of thought during those heady days: Self-proclaimed super-genius Mark Zuckerberg renamed his whole damn multi-billion-dollar company after it, and PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon called bullshit. Guess who was right? (Hint: Not Zuck.)…
Blizzard recently dropped the first big patch for Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, addressing several issues that cropped up in the first few weeks of the expansion. Disabled items that were breaking the game came back and a mountain of bugs were fixed, including one that was supposed to help players make their characters a…
Valve has released a huge update to the Steam Community Market, which is ostensibly in beta though it has already been enabled for all Steam users (you can choose to opt-out). It is a big change in how the whole thing looks, feels and works, with a bunch of significant upgrades along with more granular…
It’s a common lament in gaming communities that the people with the most decision-making power over the industry—from CEOs of major studios to politicians drafting new policy—often seem the least informed on how it actually works. But beyond mentally filing such moments away as further proof that all rich people are idiots, we don’t tend…