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Live: Swans fans trickle out of SCG before men's game as women claim victory

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the experience. The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, ga

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday's Games for Tomorrow's Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that games remain playable even after the original p

Fortnite is getting a collaboration with a game made in Roblox, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival platform as a force that could "grow an

It looks like Fortnite is getting a crossover with a game made in Roblox. In the latest upcoming season of the game - named Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override - the world's biggest battle royale introduces a wealth of gaming properties to its world. Developer Epic's first trai

"I'm pretty sure I mean it" - Legendary game developer Warren Spector announces retirement

Warren Spector, the legendary game developer known for being a key part in the development of the Deus Ex series as well as his role in Epic Mickey, Ultima, and System Shock, has announced his retirement. Read more

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a remake of the first game, is getting RPG skill trees, crafting mechanics and a 'focus meter'

Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics have released a new trailer for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It's the sixth instalment in a series of 'behind-the-scenes' videos chronicling the making of the upcoming remake, which is being developed by Flying Wild Hog. This latest vi

Here's your next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games for August

The next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games has been announced, detailing what's arriving in the latter part of August. Read more

Ex-God Of War Writer Answers Why Japanese Video Game Devs Seem To Keep Their Jobs More

Short answer: their laws are much better

Stare at an imprisoned god to stop the apocalypse in Sarco, a no-saves horror game in which you'll also, somehow, have to explore a gutted scientific base

In Hello Andromeda's Sarco, you're trapped in a scientific research base with a sarcophagus housing a cosmic being that starts to open when you aren't looking at it. Friends, I am never going to beat this game - not because I dread to gaze into the abyss, lest it gaze into me, no

GTA 6 footage once again appears to leak online, this time because of a group that wants games like The Crew to have offline modes and the end of digital preord

Yeah, it's happened again: some GTA 6 bits appear to have leaked. I'm not going to link to any of them for I hope obvious reasons, as well as the fact I don't want John Rockstar to send me an email wagging their virtual finger at me. But, having seen them, they do seem to be legi

Three Days of Barbecue, Swimming Holes, and Football for a UT Longhorns Game Weekend

As cities go, Austin is a bit of a chameleon. In certain lights, it’s a tech town with a rapidly-expanding skyline and a steady supply of buzzy new bar and restaurant openings. In others, it’s a natural playground with lush parks, hike and bike trails, and plenty of swimming hole

Three Days of Tailgating, Cafecitos, and Football for a Miami Hurricanes Game Weekend

The cries have been coming from Biscayne’s wondrous shores since last year’s College Football Playoff: The U is back! And after 20+ years of painful mediocrity, Miami is once again the center of the college football world. Okay, maybe not the center, but with the Hurricanes a leg

Stalker 2's imminent free update aims to make the sequel more atmospheric and less relentlessly hostile: 'The Zone isn't one constant gunfight'

You could tell that Stalker 2 was a true sequel to 2007's survivalist FPS in that it was as broken as it was brilliant. GSC Game World succeeded in delivering the seamless open world it has spent two decades striving toward, but players' exploration of Chornobyl's exclusion zone

Gameplay footage for the cancelled Star Wars: Magellan has appeared online

Years after its cancellation, gameplay footage for Star Wars: Magellan, the action RPG developed by the now-shuttered Echtra Games, has appeared online. Read more

Long-awaited Switch 2 version of Diablo 4 reportedly releases days after BlizzCon, and includes both game expansions

The much-rumoured Switch 2 version of Diablo 4 apparently includes both expansions of the action role-playing game - Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred - all in one Age of Hatred Collection. And it's reportedly being released 15th September. Read more

Shuhei Yoshida told Expedition 33 studio to avoid terms like 'turn-based RPG' because it may cause people to "overlook" the game

One of the reasons Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stood out so much in early footage was how action-packed its combat looked, despite being a turn-based RPG. But while developer Sandfall Interactive has described the game as a turn-based RPG - and reinvigorated the genre, to some de

Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft actor reportedly replacing Jennifer English as lead of lavish Chinese action game Tides of Annihilation

Lavish Chinese action game Tides of Annihilation seems to have found a replacement for Jennifer English, the award-winning actor who withdrew from voicing the game's main character Gwendolyn last month. And the replacement appears to be Angela Sant'Albano, who performed Grace Ash

Fired Rockstar Devs Say Players Should Still Buy GTA 6: ‘Don’t Boycott The Game, Support Our Legal Battle Instead’

Workers are instead asking fans to buy shirts to help support their large legal fight against Rockstar later this year

Nidhogg Designer’s Mash-Up Of Pac-Man And Vampire Survivors And Everything Else Hitting Game Pass In August 2026

Also: the rat infestation returns

GTA 6 Gameplay And A Full Map Have Seemingly Leaked Ahead Of The Big Netflix Reveal

It sure looks like some new gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has leaked online

Group Claiming Responsibility For Supposed GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Demands End to Digital Pre-Orders: ‘If Publishers Want Revenue Before Launch, They Can Pres

'Preorders were not created for gamers'

This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator

Videogames. Gosh there are a lot of them. We're not even into the hell month of September – where every major developer besides Rockstar seems to be releasing their big games of the year – and we're looking at a packed week. Below you will find the whittled down picki

Mortal Shell 2 review: A monumental heavy metal sequel with the spirit of a '90s PC game

A few hours into your sojourn across Mortal Shell 2's harsh realm of Fainweald, you might stumble upon a tavern called The One Legged Wolf. In a monstrous land inhabited by pasty-faced brigands who refer to you as "brev" right before shanking you, this watering hole exudes novelt

Deus Ex director and immersive sim legend Warren Spector is retiring, despite having "three games in particular" he'd still like to make

Warren Spector, Deus Ex director and general household name of the PC gamingverse, has announced his retirement from game development. Though, he's not completely closed the door on making a comeback down the line, alluding to three games in particular that he'd still like to mak

Trainwatch is a life sim, a horror game, and a time management experience rolled up into a haunting story about the eerie places you see from a speeding carriag

Recently, RPS has seen a mighty renaissance of train game reporting. Look to east, and you will find James doing locomotive kickflips in Denshattack, a J-pop stunt racer turbocharged by the hope of a better world. Look to west, and you'll witness Julian bopping bandit Pullmen in

Class act: The working-class game binding London and Canberra

Andy Burnham and Anthony Albanese have found something few world leaders can replicate: a shared obsession with rugby league.

6 space board games to channel the political drama of 'For All Mankind' and 'Star City'

'For All Mankind' was pretty good, wasn't it? Sadly, the show's run has finished now, and while we've got spin-off 'Star City' picking up the mantle, it's still going to be a while before we get any more space politics drama on our screens. Luckily, we can find it on our tabletop

Disney’s Millennium Falcon Ride Activates Fortnite In-Game Rewards

A new custom island in Fortnite is connected with the Star Wars ride at Disneyland and Disney World.

Riffs on GoldenEye 007, Star Fox and Kingdom Hearts, and other new indie games worth checking out

Our indie game roundup this week features a handful of '90s-inspired entries along with a dog game, a cat game and a sheep game.

Three Days of Hot Dogs, Boutiques, and Football for an Ohio State Buckeyes Game Weekend

Columbus is always evolving. In the city, historical landmarks such as the Ohio Statehouse and tributes like the Columbus Museum of Art serve as a snapshot of the past, while the bustling streets of the University District and the Short North represent the future. No matter your

GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl review

First, let me admit my biases: Yes, this controller's raspberry ripple blend of pink, blue, and purple really does work for me. That said, the GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl has more going for it than just pretty face buttons, featuring TMR sticks alongside Hall effect triggers. Gorg

Palworld fans 'do not realize the sheer number of collabs we've rejected' even with the survival game's 'fun-first approach'

The crowning achievement of a game is no longer player count or Metacritic score, it's actually the number of collabs it can squeeze into its lifecycle—soon every game will collab with each other to make one giant game. I can see it coming. Although that may not be the case for P

The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work

Linux gaming has been rumbling along in the background for some time. However, this seems to be the year it reaches a wider audience, as proper Linux support has become a much-requested feature for many platforms. Next up is the Epic Games Store/Launcher, it seems, as an Epic dev

A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, a WB Games-published 2011 action RPG about a different fellowship that went the other way, recently reappeared on Steam in a polished-up Legacy Edition package. While the modernizations are getting a favorable reception—it's currently enjo

WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own

Disconnects are an unpleasant fact of life in an MMO, and if you play WoW long enough you'll start to recognize the telltale signs indicating one of your adventurer colleagues has fallen afoul of a network hiccup: They might simply halt in place mid-combat. If they were moving wh

This Solitaire game is so tiny it can load from a QR code, which is just what I need in the age of massive games and expensive storage

At a time when game file sizes are growing ever larger and disk space is astonishingly expensive, I increasingly appreciate the value of a small game. And they don't come much smaller than TinySol, a solitaire game so diminutive that it can be loaded from a QR code.TinySol is the

Functioning version of 'the first arcade video game ever created' heads to auction with $200,000 estimate — green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space hai

A games industry veteran is selling off what is “probably the rarest arcade game in existence” via Boston’s RR Auctions. The fully working Computer Space 2-player arcade video game cabinet looks incredibly alluring with its Jetsons-esque styling and green sparkle finish. It is es

Stef Chura – “Lovesick” & “Thunder And Lightning”

Detroit indie rock fave Stef Chura is returning from a seven-year absence this fall with new album Dancing Alone On The Concrete. She made it in Athens, Georgia with Robert Schneider and his Elephant 6 associates, and half of R.E.M. played on the twangy, jangly lead single "Danny

Inside Coco Jones and Donovan Mitchell’s New York State Wedding

The singer and NBA player worked with designers Off-White, Esé Azénabor, Scorcésa, and Brandon Blackwood for their wedding looks—as well as bridesmaids’ dresses hand-dyed by Coco herself. See all the photos from Coco Jones and Donovan Mitchell’s wedding here.

‘Heated Rivalry’ Season 2 Is on Its Way—and It Already Has a Stacked Cast

Here’s everything we know so far about the second outing of everyone’s favorite gay hockey show—including its expected air date.

35 Nuggets of Deer Hunting Wisdom to Read Before the Season

We polled dozens of experienced deer hunters and compiled their best advice The post 35 Nuggets of Deer Hunting Wisdom to Read Before the Season appeared first on Outdoor Life.

Welcome to Optimism Week!

Hello! And welcome to Optimism Week here on Eurogamer, a week of features dedicated to the brighter side of video games. Read more

Filling Big Walk with people who had no one to play with demonstrated how deceptively profound it can be

Suddenly, I'm alone. Where there was once cacophonous sound all around me, now there is none. Where there were once blobby people with sausage noses waggling their Playdough arms all around me, now there are none. All I see is a forest rapidly darkening, and all I hear is the sou

Battlefield 6's Top Gun collaboration is more involved than I expected, and it convinced me that Carrier Strike should be a permanent mode

Battlefield 6's fourth season has been a highlight. From introducing naval combat to the game to adding its largest map yet - there's a lot for older Battlefield fans to enjoy. That same cohort, I wager - counting myself among them - will naturally be very excited for Top Gun to

It turns out touching grass is the answer: Gaming is great when you leave the house

Hello! This piece is a part of Optimism Week on Eurogamer - a week of features either about optimism itself or those which hope to inspire it. For more articles like this, you can visit our Optimism Week hub. Thank you as ever for reading! Read more

The Sinking City 2 ditches the thinky stuff for classic survival horror, but I'm yet to decide if it's truly better for it

There's a bit, early on in The Sinking City 2, where you enter the waterlogged Miskatonic University. As you teeter around toppled shelves and slalom through sodden tomes, a siren begins to blare. It's the last call for survivors hoping to flee the doomed city of Arkham, after wh

Neverness To Everness Devs Forget To Remove Watermark For Free Trial Of AI Software

NTE players in China spotted the watermark for a free version of the Doubao AI software on the artwork for a seahorse in the game's new update

Disney Officially Green Lights 'Kingdom Hearts' Anime Series

SummaryDisney+ and Disney Channel have officially ordered an anime series based on the hit 'Kingdom Hearts' video game franchiseDeveloped in partnership with Tetsuya Nomura and Square Enix the show reimagines the story with an original narrativeBenjamin Bratt also revealed he wil

Arsenal cruise to win over Manchester City in Community Shield

Premier League champions hand new ​City boss Enzo Maresca a humbling defeat ⁠in his first football game in ​charge.

HNTB designs Dallas Stars arena to "capture the passion and intensity of hockey"

Architecture studio HNTB has unveiled the design of an 18,000-seat arena in Plano, Texas, for the Dallas Stars NHL team. Set to be built as part of a wider "year-round district", the arena will be the permanent home for the Dallas Stars National Hockey League (NHL) team. The area

Populous completes Buffalo Bills stadium in New York

Architecture studio Populous has completed the steep, metal-clad Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, New York for NFL team the Buffalo Bills, with a canopy and advanced snow-melt system. The new Highmark Stadium replaces a structure of the same name that is located just across the stree

Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

Chang-rae Lee’s family history influences most of his novels, especially his latest, A Tender Age. Lee was born in Seoul, in South Korea; his father’s family was from Pyongyang, now North Korea’s capital. He came to the U.S. at three

Don't sleep on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave mouse controls - believe it or not, it's become my favourite way to play

Earlier this year, Pokopia convinced me that the Switch 2's gimmicky mouse controls were a worthwhile addition to the console, after all. Since then, I've been trying out other games with the mouse as my primary method of control. My favourites, before I picked up Fire Emblem: Fo

Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer reportedly worked on a Halo multiplayer prototype before it got canned

A Halo game made by an Activision studio doesn't sound like a far-fetched idea, and is actually something Xbox considered per a new report. Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind several Call of Duty games like WW2, Vanguard, and Modern Warfare 3, is said to have been sought out t

Spider-Man is looking exceptionally strong in Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls

Since its release, people have been throwing themselves at Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Much debate has been had around who are the strongest characters in the base roster, but now that the game's first big tournament has concluded, we may have an early answer. Read more

Be warned: Fallout 4's next update may break your mods - and there's a similar one for Skyrim in the works, too

For most games, the news of a new patch is usually received with excitement. This is true for games made by Bethesda too, of course, but not when they're as old as Fallout 4 and Skyrim are. The reason? Mods. Read more

20-year-old Gunz the Duel gets Steam re-release, receives harsh criticism over network issues and suspected use of generative AI

Gunz the Duel, the cult classic 3rd-person action game first released back in 2006, is back on Steam. But the long-awaited return of the genre-defining game has been tarred somewhat by technical issues, and allegations of AI usage. Read more

Don't boycott Grand Theft Auto 6, say workers fired by Rockstar - buy a T-shirt to help fund the legal battle instead

The workers fired by Rockstar Games in an alleged 'union-busting' move last autumn have asked people concerned not to boycott the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto 6. Read more

Here's How Your Tire PSI Can Affect Your Fuel Economy

There's a definite link between how much you inflate your car's tires and how much gas you'll burn. But it may not matter as much as you think it does.

Oh God, No, Please Don’t Add Skill Trees And Crafting To The Tomb Raider Remake

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, like so many other AAA games, will have you grabbing crap to make different crap

All The New Details We Spotted In The Leaked GTA 6 Videos: Six-Star Wanted Level, Gas Meter, Improved Combat, Boosting Stats With Basketball

Rockstar's massive open-world game has leaked once again and revealed some new details in the process

O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey

Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with. You could even get a printer! The aesthetic therewithin is a particular one, utilisi

Ron Gilbert talks the untraditional way he got Thimbleweed Park 2 funded, and his frustrations with modern publishing deals

I think it would be a tad fair if you heard that Thimbleweed Park 2 is in the works and thought, "who funded that?" Not because it doesn't deserve funding, but because adventure games aren't exactly in vogue (even though it's not as dead a genre as many think), and also there's t

Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force gh

I'll be honest, having just watched the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, I'm less confident I know what's going on in the game. Protagonist Sora's in a realm visually inspired by Mexican Día de Muertos celebrations, while Donald Duck and Goofy ship of the Greek underwo

The US Senate are investigating Roblox for prioritising "revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children"

US senators have launched an investigation of game creation platform Roblox on a broad charge of putting money before child safety. They accuse Roblox of being a venue for "sexually explicit (and often violent) virtual 'experiences' with children", and have requested a range of d

Talking trees, flying witch heads and an unsettling rabbit man await in the shrubbery of cursed woodland ranger sim I Hear the Forest

Nature's relaxing, yeah? Life as a forest ranger, wandering around amid the trees and making sure none of the animals are getting up to mischief sounds a bit like bliss. Unless you're the forest ranger in freshly announced horror game I Hear the Forest, who's been cursed and is t

Marathon's limited time Ordnance Heist is a multi-run and map event that nets you a cool gun you can't keep

Marathon's Vault Breaker, an experimental PvE mode that allowed even solo folks to take on the endgame map Cryo Archive, is wrapping up today, but Bungie does at least have a new event for you to have a go at in kind. It's called Ordnance Heist, and while it doesn't offer any maj

Entropy, a deliciously miserable Final Fantasy-esque RPG where your party members can permanently die, is now out in early access

I was already aware of Entropy before Edwin called it a game that looked like a PS1 game fished from a toilet, primarily thanks to the stellar work developer Lovely Hellplace carried out in their previous game Dread Delusion, but I'm sure that would have hooked me in conceptually

Clipmatrix is a Counter-Strike-like, bunny hopping, platforming romp through surreal and industrial locales

A thing that always tickles me in a particular way is when a game takes a beloved mechanic from an iconic game that doesn't technically exist. By not existing I'm talking about something like wavedashing in Super Smash Bros. Melee. You can't play that game professionally without

How Thrillers Hook You With Their First Sentence

Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people r

Houthis launch new attacks on al-Makha and Marib as Yemen conflict escalates

Houthi missile and drone strikes target Marib and al-Makha, killing at least four people and injuring eight.

Cards Against Humanity wants to erect a monument to 'honor' Elon Musk

Cards Against Humanity isn't done with its scorched-Earth campaign against SpaceX and Elon Musk.The Chicago-based company behind the popular fill-in-the-blank adult card game is inviting the public to join its design committee to erect an "Elon Musk is a Sad Little B----- with No

Judge Tells Google to Make It Easier to Install Third-Party App Stores

Android users have had to click a few extra times to add Aptoide Games.

Kingdom Hearts 4 Fans Are Well Fed After 2 Days of Great Trailers

During a 25th Anniversary panel for Kingdom Hearts, details about the next game came to life.

How to request an Xbox refund

Xbox offers refunds on some games and apps, but there are stipulations you should understand before requesting one.

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, "I think the original game is coming back in some form," before current showrunner Matt Selman added, "or not." The tone in both of their voices and th

Thimbleweed Park 2 is happening because Ron Gilbert's friend knows a rich guy who's a big fan of the original and wanted more

Have you ever said to yourself, 'If I was rich I'd get Looking Glass Studios back together and have them make a proper goddamn Thief sequel!'? Or, you know, whatever game gets you really wound up about such things. It's a pleasant fantasy, but not something that ever actually hap

Before Grand Theft Auto Online, GTA 4's multiplayer added 'glorious chaos' to the open world sandbox

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer feature provided by:Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer: Why everyone should try the 32-player massacre - PC Gamer #197 (UK, February 2009)By Kieron GillenWhat am I supposed to do? The only response I manage is blinking, laughing loudly and

The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right

As I sit here, watching Saber Interactive's CEO have a normal one about how generative AI dialogue can totally improve videogames, I can't help but grit my teeth in the same, enamel-grinding fashion I have ever since companies like Ubisoft started promising a future with AI-power

RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them

Dungeon Master(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer's regular RPG column. This week, Harvey Randall is once more stepping onto this site to argue that you should make your RPG companions obstructive, flawed little nightmares, or you're passing up storytelling