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…
Category: PC Gaming New Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition DLC Available Now: The Last Chieftains Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published February 17, 2026 Related Stories for “New Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition DLC Available Now: The Last Chieftains” Category: Games Avowed Celebrates Anniversary with Massive Update – and Comes to PlayStation 5…
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…
Max Payne and Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has spent most of its life making third-person shooters. Its 2019 hit Control, which gave you some telekinetic powers but also a transforming pistol, mostly stuck to that format—while also proving that the third-person shooting really isn’t why anyone’s playing Remedy games. We play them for the…
15, LOVE. It has felt like a long old wait since Mario’s last sports outing, but last week, Mario Tennis Fever finally arrived on the Switch 2 court. It’s tennis, again, but with a Fever Racket gimmick that gives the whole thing a fun party twist. With a 38-character roster — the biggest in series…
Category: Games February 17, 2026 EA Play: Bring Glory Home in EA Sports College Football 26, Available February 19 Juliet Niczewicz, Senior Director, Corporate Communications, EA Bring glory home in EA Sports College Football 26. Get unlimited access with EA Play, then score a Supercharge Pack in Ultimate Team by March 20. Rep your colors…
Bethesda worthies have recently been on the interview circuit, reminiscing about all the good times when the studio was making Fallout games (note: it has been 11 years since a singleplayer Fallout game, and eight since the release of Fallout 76). Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout is one of the best, not least…
Head in the sand. With January firmly in the rear-view mirror, Nintendo is full-steam ahead on its next batch of in-game events for Donkey Kong Bananza‘s Emerald Rush DLC. The new ‘Ostrich Riches’ (try saying that quickly) event begins today (17th February) and will be sticking around in the roguelike expansion until 24th Feb at…