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Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.

It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game

After over a year of leaks, getting some answers about the future of the series is better than more silence.

The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release window

Sand: Raiders of Sophie is stomping our way soon.

You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does

OK, maybe you will.

For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

I can respect it.

Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space

But Tetris would be "too complicated."

Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis

The best time to buy an SSD? Yesterday.

Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go

Could Panther Lake be set to make a splash?

Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros

Open all roads to open source software, I say.

Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator'

Spoiler alert for the future.

'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'

I like Wyll fine, but he never feels like he gets the airtime that, say, Astarion does.

Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it's a 'big year for games ending in 6' ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: 'I'm practically living off hopium and copium at this point'

Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't the only big game people are waiting for.

Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?

In a word, no.

Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system

Now, Larian, are Action Points returning?

Hell is Us review

The haunting world of Hell is Us has a lot to offer when you're not fighting the same handful of enemies.

After Netflix pulled the rug from under Monument Valley 3 six months after launch, its developer says it's a 'PC first' studio: 'we can build more direct relationships with our audience and community'

Ustwo is also the studio behind Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Assemble With Care, and Desta: The Memories Between.

Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Original Fallout lead Tim Cain reckons vitriol around games has always been around, but it's 'more hostile' these days: 'I see lot of people arguing past each other, even if that means denying that the other group even exists'

"People have always had different tastes and they wanted different things."

'Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't': Valve gives a box of sweets to Steam's biggest breadwinners every year, and Peak's devs finally got one after years of jealously watching their Slay the Spire office mates enjoy GabeN confections

It's okay, they finally got it.

Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: 'We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats'

The curious case of Fathom, Deadlock's missing best boy.

Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.

'I can finally do the thing I wanted to do in every previous game': Divinity's head of design teases a new mechanic without saying what it is

"It stares you right in the face if you think about it."

If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access

Terra Invicta aims to be the last word in preparing Earth for alien invasion.

Valorant's latest update adds a new pistol to spice up early rounds, as Riot plans to take 'a holistic look' at the shooter's arsenal through 2026

Riot wants to continue "putting the emphasis back on gunplay".

If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover

Behaviour Interactive's second collab with Netflix lets you play as the series' fleshy villain.

A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen's creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: 'The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft "axed" Chris Roberts' Freelancer'

Freelancer: The Nomad Legacy is available now.

Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience

The horrors of being held hostage by your own home.

Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'

F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!

Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

Valve's futuristic MOBA has been figuring itself out on the fly, and I kind of prefer that to a carefully considered roadmap.

Jelly Roll's Wife Screams 'Do Not Hitchhike' After Hearing Fan's Relatable Story

Jelly Roll's wife recalled a daunting "hitchhike" experience that left her forever in fear of getting in the same cars with total strangers.

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