ConnexionNo Rest for the Wicked lead spends New Year's Eve picking a fight with former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra over Diablo 4, who points out: 'You need to chill'
Understatement of the year, and we're only five days in.
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If you're looking for a way to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your heart, the new Minecraft DLC has you covered
Or if you're just looking for a way to forget about the last season.
You've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
Anthem's road is a long and sorry one.
Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
The Quake Brutalist Jam is back and bigger than ever.
'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
The Survivalist's diary entries were one of the few writing contributions John Gonzalez made to New Vegas' Honest Hearts DLC before leaving Obsidian.
'Fine, I'll do it myself': Cybertsu had never seen a King of All Cosmos cosplay, so decided to pull off one of the most elaborate headpiece designs, and it's the best I've ever seen
Sometimes the support is the motivation you need to keep creating.
MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
Fixed front fringing, light absorption, and the best HDR we've seen to date.
MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 review
The latest QD-OLED tech is something very special.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
The sycophantic, (mostly) immortal robot made certain design constraints easier to work around, but it allows for a "rebellious, individualistic" player to bypass some tough choices.
Steam Awards 2025 give Game of the Year to Hollow Knight: Silksong
It also won Best Game You Suck At, just like Black Myth: Wukong did last year.
'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'
"I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."
2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter
It's not too late to come home for Cultmas.
Medieval 3 may be on the way, but how many characters can you name in Creative Assembly's masterpiece, Total War: Three Kingdoms?
This is my way of mourning the lack of a sequel reveal.
The PC game releases we're most excited about in January
A much-anticipated mountain climbing game, zombie infection screenings, and a hero shooter wildcard.
'It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale,' original co-founder and new owner Simon Collins-Laflamme says: After years in development at Riot, 'it was barely playable'
Collins-Laflamme, who acquired Hytale from Riot in November 2025, says he's angry about all the time wasted, but the team is turning things around in a hurry.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'
That sounds really neat man, could we have Arkane Austin back?
Forget what you heard, there's plenty of PC hardware to be excited about in 2026
RAM, Shmam. These are things to get genuinely excited about this year.
Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is
It's a countdown to... something?
'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'
One of the most impressive set pieces in Fallout 3 took months of work to get right.
30 hidden gems from 2025 to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
2025 was an overwhelming year. Let's savor those positives in unlikely places.
