The CTF shooter Last Flag initially caught our eye because of the co-founders of developer Night Street Games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, better known to the world as, respectively, the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons. But it turned out to be a pretty good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no…

The announcement of Destiny 2’s imminent end of live service development wasn’t entirely unexpected news, given Bungie’s well-documented struggles in recent years, but it’s an abrupt conclusion for a game series that’s now left with an uncertain future. Reportedly, Bungie hasn’t yet greenlit a project for a Destiny 3, meaning many of the setting’s ongoing…

In a recent video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG developer Tim Cain shared his memories of the 1983 videogame industry crash. In particular, he emphasized that, although bad⁠—like, really bad⁠—he doesn’t believe the current employment and studio closure crisis matches the impact of the infamous ’80s collapse. Cain got his caveats out of the…

Four years ago, we declared that ingenious puzzle designer Zach Gage’s Knotwords might dethrone Wordle as our favorite daily word puzzle game. Well, here I am making the same claim again in 2026: Gage and his collaborators at the puzzle site Puzzmo have a new game out today, called Ribbit. Ribbit has something Wordle is…

Reuters reports that Microsoft has agreed to a $250 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund ​Sjunde AP-Fonden over allegations that, simply put, Activision sold out too quickly and too cheaply when it was acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft dropped $69 billion on Activision Blizzard in the 2022 deal, a nice, hefty sum…

Have you ever wanted to see a grown-ass man complaining to the EU parliament about having to play as a Black man or queer person in a videogame? If your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ then allow me to invite you to enjoy this video of the European Parliament’s recent debate on Stop Killing…