2026

Just a few weeks after the official launch of its 2v2 fighting game 2XKO, Riot Games is reducing the size of its development team by nearly half and laying off employees. “As we expanded from PC to console, we saw consistent trends in how players were engaging with 2XKO,” executive producer Tom Cannon wrote in…

Deadlock’s newest support character, a sleepy owl-goblin creature called Rem, is just the littlest guy. He barely comes up to waist height when standing next to the towering tank Abrams, and if he crouches, he’s about the size of one of the breakable gold jars that decorate the map. He’s adorable! He’s also sneaky and…

“Eugh,” we said, back in 2025 when Discord began “an experiment” in which some users were asked to scan their faces or IDs in order to verify that they were old enough to access sensitive content. But experiments, generally speaking, are tests, and tests, generally speaking, are something you do in pursuit of a particular…

Being set in the Warcraft universe lets Hearthstone’s developers do pretty much whatever they want with familiar moments in its history, so its next expansion puts a dark spin on a critical time in World of Warcraft. Hearthstone: Cataclysm is what would’ve happened if the big evil dragon, Deathwing, took over WoW in 2010 and…

If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. If you want to make Gabe Newell laugh, tell him your planned 1.0 launch date. Good news: that second one’s getting easier, because Steam has implemented a new feature that lets early access devs slap that date right there on the store page. But,…

With Intel’s Nova Lake desktop CPUs expected to land later this year, we have finally got our first major leak of the motherboard chipsets to support them. The big takeaway is that they aren’t all that different from the previous generation, but there now appear to be three of interest for prospective gamers. Leaker Jaykihn…