PC GamerI had 3 hours with Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it playing with the new grapple hook
Frozen Trail is a big moment for Arc Raiders.
PC GamerFrozen Trail is a big moment for Arc Raiders.
Rock Paper ShotgunI want, and not even especially deep down, to like Silver Pines more than I do. Wych Elm’s debut game – a Twin Peaks-inspired, neo-noir detective mystery that quickly repaints itself in survival horror red – is endearingly unusual, an angular mishmash of different genre staples that, nonetheless, stays coherently glued together by its expressively moody visual style and an intriguing missing-person tale. It’s just... well, put it this way. I’m only about three hours in, and if I have to backtrac
GameSpotStadia might be dead, but Google isn't giving up on gaming. The company has rolled out Playground, a platform built around AI that "lets you create, play, and share custom games." It's browser-based and labeled as an "experiment" to start. There's also Unity Spark support, which will offer more development options for people who catch the creator bug. Google's pitch claims that this new platform makes game creation more democratic by ending gatekeeping to development. The company states that Pla
PC GamerWorking names: A lell. A laull? I'll workshop it.
GameSpotRockstar boss Rob Nelson has stated that GTA 6 won't make players "all-powerful" like they were in GTA 5 and the games that came before it. For GTA 6, this means NPCs in the world will have impulses of their own, and could come after you. Speaking to IGN, Nelson said, "The world will act upon you as well as you acting upon the world." In previous GTA games, except for the police, the player was the only one with an "invisible arsenal hidden away," and everyone in the world would run away in terr
GematsuNovel game and card selection-type RPG Annihilated will launch for PC via Steam on November …
EurogamerState of Decay studio Undead Labs has spoken out after rebuying its independence and leaving Xbox last month, revealing it has "got to make some changes" to State of Decay 3 because of layoffs it suffered as a result. Read more
GameSpotAfter leaving the Xbox Game Studios portfolio, State of Decay 3 developer Undead Labs is now an independent, employee-owned studio. The developer had previously announced State of Decay 3 all the way back in 2020--partly to keep the project and the studio on Microsoft's radar--as the company embarked on an acquisition spree. Now one of several departures from Microsoft's gaming division following the bloody "Xbox reset" that has seen scores of jobs slashed throughout 2026, Undead Labs also had t
EurogamerCall of Duty recently kicked off a week of Modern Warfare 4 DMZ news, which brought us a first look at the "action extraction" mode and some insight into developer Infinity Ward's guiding philosophy. Read more
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Rock Paper ShotgunThis week, Steam published another one of their monthly hardware surveys, offering a granular market assessment based on optional and anonymous contributions. I don't read a lot of these. Perhaps if I did, I'd be less shocked to discover that 32GB is now the most popular RAM setup, with 42.22% of respondents choosing it, as against 37.82% for 16GB configurations, and 6.47% for 8GB. Read more
EurogamerMonster Hunter Rise is coming to Android and iOS through Netflix, new store listings have revealed today. The game, which originally launched on Nintendo Switch in 2021 and later came to PC, Xbox and PlayStation - and that I thought was superb, even in its most barebones release state - seemingly got a 'soft launch' today on both Apple and Android storefronts. Read more
EurogamerForza Horizon 6's highly-anticipated release on PlayStation 5 has apparently been delayed to 2027, according to new information. Yes, this is not the first time we've heard that - The Verge's Tom Warren and IGN said as much in late August. Read more
Gematsu“Sky-high” cooperative survival game ATMOSFAR will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam and …
Rock Paper ShotgunDuring the hands-off presentation of Rainbow Six Tactics at Gamescom, destruction obviously featured. Walls were breached, cover was blown up, and masonry was peppered with rounds. It looked excellent, but it was also familiar from other turn-based tactical games. Considering the focus of scenery destruction in Rainbow Six Siege, I wasn't sure how the team were actually advancing the tech beyond what we've seen in games like XCOM 2. There was one moment in the hands-off demo in particular that h
Rock Paper ShotgunIn-development footage of the Perfect Dark reboot from The Initiative, which Microsoft cancelled as part of their mass layoffs in July last year, has reportedly been uncovered. It shows off a couple of minutes worth of what looks to be texting of shooting and explosion mechanics, plus a chase on foot through a facility that's falling apart. Read more
GameSpotWith Paramount's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in the bag, details on what this merger means for the Warner Bros. game division have finally been revealed. Warner Bros. Interactive will merge with the newly formed Paramount Games Studio, and it'll oversee projects based on Skydance's rich--and newly acquired-library of IP. That lineup includes Avatar: The Last Airbender, South Park, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek--and that's not even mentioning the treasure tr
EurogamerAion 2 has arrived, and there's a lot to like if you've got a hankering for a new MMO: meaty combat, challenging boss encounters, a seemingly endless grind for completionists, and, yes, it's free to play. However, one of my very favourite things about it is the character creator. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunThe English language can be a way of communicating, and it can be a way of subjugating. Patience is a Virtue protagonist Louis knows this intimately. In this "cozy-meets-creepy" conversation puzzle game from teaisfortoby!, some interactions require you to answer only using the words spoken by the other party. The first such chat in the demo is with Louis's boss at the local grocery store. She wants him to lock up early. All Louis has to do is assent. But to assent, he must reassemble her phrasin