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Is there a video game on this planet Earth that can draw the spotlight away from Grand Theft Auto 6? With Rockstar Games having delayed what is undoubtedly the most-anticipated entertainment property of the decade to November 19, the video game release calendar has been thrown into absolute disarray. This means that 2026 is shaping up to be one of the busiest years of the current generation, with a stacked lineup of AAA titans and transformative indies jostling for attention. What’s scary is that it’s only January, with the likes of GDC, Summer Game Fest, and Gamescom still to come.Big…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for looking at your frost-crusted window and sacking off all plans of leaving the house. After all, the central heating has been broken for a week and there is no hope of a repair for another three. There is nothing outside of the confines of your duvet that’s not cold. How will you occupy your time in bed? How will you stave off the basic needs of food, micturation, and, well, cups of tea? It shall be with articles and essays,…
January 8, 2026: 9:12am PT: Riot has since confirmed the legitimacy of the email, noting that “a delay in production” led to the Arcane boxes’ late shipping. It has also provided more information on Spiritforged’s rollout. Riftbound, Riot Games’ League of Legends card game, has had an odd start to life. While the TCG itself is genuinely fun, with a unique identity that sets it apart from competitors like Magic: The Gathering, Lorcana, and Star Wars Unlimited, Riot has consistently struggled to meet demand. The first lot of packs went out with missing rares (something Riot has confirmed will impact Set…
Some of the biggest highlights of his career were when Alan Rickman was causing problems for the hero of the story, but according to Emma Thompson, he wasn’t particularly a fan of playing the villain. In an interview with GQ, Thompson recalled sharing the screen with her late friend, who played Colonel Brandon in the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, and how thrilled he was to be the big bad for a change.”Alan Rickman, God rest him, he was so happy to be playing someone heroic and nice,” she explained. “Because he was so fed up with people wanting him…
It’s a new year, and Fallout: London developers Team FOLON have kicked it off by revealing that the massive Fallout 4 mod’s second DLC is currently planned to rock up in the irradiated tube station of our lives pretty soon. This add-on’s dubbed Last Orders and looks to have at least something to do with a trip to the pub. To be fair, that makes perfect sense. Fallout: London’s first DLC was dubbed Rabbit and Pork, so following up last year’s meal of new quests with a drink is only human.
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 is here, and it brings some surprisingly significant changes, for a tech that you might have thought was already close to being as good as it can get. A new second-gen transformer model greatly improves upscaling image quality, according to Nvidia, while frame gen has seen the addition of both up to 6x multi-frame gen and the option to have frame generation work dynamically, only adding AI-generated frames when frame rate drops demand it. With AMD FSR having only recently caught up with DLSS, thanks to FSR Redstone, it looks like Nvidia is about to stretch its…
Steam’s first sleeper hit of the year continues a trend from 2025 in that it’s another co-op game best played with mates, but this one lets you commandeer a giant, freaky crab-base, so I can’t be mad at it.DuneCrawl is the name of the indie that came out a week ago and landed straight atop Steam’s New & Trending chart at the time – it’s still hovering around the chart a week later, too. And it’s not hard to see why, either. The game puts you and up to three other friends in control of these cute mouse-people wondering about…
Before we begin the year’s first round-up of new PC game releases, an apology: we skipped feeding the Maw for one whole week back in December. In a deceptively carefree comment, I explained that I had too much seasonal blogmange to prepare, but this was actually a PR excuse to minimise hysteria. You see, back in November the Maw ate me, and I have only just exited its digestive system. During past emergencies, I’ve done this by hooking onto gumlines and working my way from tonsil to tonsil. This time I forgot to bring my climbing axes, and was…
2025, particularly the tail end of it, seemed to be dominated by one topic when it came to videogame development discourse: the use of generative AI. Big names such as Activision, Krafton, and Larian were all pulled into the debate for their varying positions on using AI tech, and so too was Embark Studios, the creator of the biggest new multiplayer game of the year. Arc Raiders is a hit, but it ruffled many feathers with its use of a text-to-speech system to generate character voice lines and in-game callouts. Despite those concerns, it’s not just persevered, but blossomed into…
The life simulators working at Maxis have stressed that the developers behind The Sims are still committed to inclusivity, still maintain the same level of creative control, and are still focused on single-player experiences with its “next evolution” as we head into the new year.The public statement and promises about the future were perhaps motivated by worries around EA’s impending $55 billion buyout, which would see Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (founded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) become private owners, leaving the publisher $20 billion in debt.As IGN previously reported, several The Sims…