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The next game from Hoyoverse sure looks like someone put Elden Ring's clothes on Monster Hunter

As the opening reveal of this year's Gamescom Opening Night Live, HoYoverse brought its first official look at Nodusfall—a change of pace for the gacha game behemoth that looks a little bit Elden Ring, a lot bit Monster Hunter, and a whole pile of proper nouns added for good meas

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

The Geoff Keighley-hosted Opening Night Live event at Gamescom just wrapped up. Arguably the biggest announcement was the closer: a remastered version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from CD Projekt Red that’s launching in September. But the show also featured a bunch of trailers for

Total War: Warhammer shows off its spicy new endgames, including a 'rat counter' that tells you how many Skaven still need killing in The Vermintide

Since the full reveal of Total War: Warhammer's new Lords of the End Times expansion, the content is coming in thick and fast. Last week, Creative Assembly showed off Neferata, the incoming Free-LC lord, alongside the extremely fun-looking rework for the Vampire Counts . This wee

Here's how to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026

Resident Evil fans rejoice; we're going to get even more screentime with Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft's actors thanks to the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026 which airs tomorrow, Wednesday August 26 at 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT/6 pm BST . Players can expect to see over 40 games, in

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Gets New Trailer at Gamescom 2026 Showing off Submarine Combat, Weapons, and More

Fans were treated to a new Final Fantasy 7 Revelation trailer at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase, where we saw more of The Weapons, submarine combat, and more.

"I want to keep pouring my energy into game creation going forward" - Hideo Kojima still wants to make games even at 63

Hideo Kojima - known as the director of the Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid series - celebrated his 63rd birthday recently. Don't worry though, he's not interested in retiring just yet. Read more

Four SCR kabaddi players selected for Indian squad at 20th Asian Games

China shows off record-breaking robots at strategic games

The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games are underway in Beijing, featuring 51 events, 30 sport competitions and more than 2,000 humanoid robots. They have already revealed the technology can out-run and out-jump humans and that they are capable of sports such as table tennis and

Robot archer lights up 'Zhixin' as 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing - Global Times

Robot archer lights up 'Zhixin' as 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing Global Times Robot horse and rider steal the spotlight at Chinese conference BBC Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable? Reuters China wants its humanoids to be taken seriously The E

1666: Amsterdam's early access is live now but there's still plenty that needs ironing out before I'd pay $30 for it

It's been a long development for 1666: Amsterdam and the folks over at Panache Digital Games, but after over a decade of fighting and planning, the game's finally made it to early access. Announced at Opening Night Live , we got to see 1666: Amsterdam's last trailer before its re

Paradox commits a classic blunder and accidentally leaks its own post-apocalyptic grand strategy game

As we head into big gaming week™ there are lots of studios with secret projects whirring behind the scenes, waiting to be announced at Gamescom or Opening Night Live. We now know that Paradox is one of said studios, thanks to its own forum filters. "Paradox Forum website seems to

'Aliens: The Video Games' author Mike Diver on overlooked Alien games, tracking down retro game developers, and the future of the Xenomorph (interview)

The history of Alien video games is long and twisty, but Mike Diver — veteran writer, editor, critic, and journalist — decided a few years ago to make a complete chronicle of Xenomorph -filled games his next big adventure. Ahead of Aliens: The Video Games ' August 30 release, we

This week in PC games: Gamescom and GTA 6 fight for our attention, but don't forget Folk Emerging, MGS4 and the horror game about balancing a cake

Hello all! I regret to report that the Maw is in a really good mood this week. Its scales have an almost flirtatious lustre, flashing in and out of visibility as I gaze from my eyrie above north London. Its crimson coral coils and fins of mounded verdigris can be seen reflected i

Paradox's next grand strategy game is a post-apocalyptic wasteland tribe-battler called Afterworld, according to leaks ahead of Gamescom

Update 25/08: Paradox have officially announced Afterworld with a story trailer - read more about it here . Our original story continues below. What is happening across the Paradox Universe? So the publishers behind strategy stalwarts like Crusader Kings 3 and Europa Universalis

Roblox put a stop to games that include rewards for endless, TikTok-style scrolling, if you're under the age of 16 anyway

It continues to both amaze and concern me that a whole other internet ecosystem appears to exist within the realm of Roblox . Recently, a game by the name of Steal an Egg has blown up on the UGC platform, which is more or less what it says on the tin: you need to steal an egg. Th

Every announcement from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026

Gamescom Opening Night Live is here! The showcase heralds the changing of gaming seasons with one last deluge of WORLD PREMIEREs before autumn blows in the bracing winds of Game of the Year debates. The show has ended but you can watch it back right here or just take a stroll thr

Watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 Right Here

Geoff Keighley's showcase is about to get underway

Everything We Saw At Gamescom Opening Night Live

Final Fantasy VII Revelation and The Witcher 3 DLC headlined the event

This Gamescom Showcase Did A Lot Of Games Dirty

Sorry to anyone who wasn’t Square Enix or CD Projekt Red

Alienware Gaming Laptops Are Discounted During Dell's Intel Gamer Days Sale, Plus Get Two Free Games

Star Wars Galactic Racer and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis are yours to keep.

LEGO Skylines Announced at Gamescom

A new LEGO city builder known as LEGO Skylines has been announced at Gamescom.

The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past Expansion: Everything Revealed at gamescom ONL 2026

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Songs of the Past expansion got a proper reveal trailer at gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, and developer CD Projekt Red showed up to talk about its new chain weapon, the realm of Letten, and more.

Double Fine confirms it owns all its games' IP and publishing rights after Xbox split

Double Fine has confirmed it owns – or will shortly own – the intellectual property and publishing rights to every game it made during its seven years under Xbox following the studio's split from Microsoft earlier this year. Read more

Sony sends PlayStation users a reminder they don't own their digital games just as a fan boycott over ending discs kicks off

PlayStation users have received an unprompted reminder of exactly what they do and don't own on the platform, days before a planned boycott over Sony's decision to end new PlayStation discs from 2028. Read more

Epic Games Store overhaul might be "too little, too late", says Newzoo analyst

While Epic has spent much of this year promising a launcher overhaul, including a faster, redesigned storefront with tailored recommendations and quicker ways to browse, one industry analyst has revealed that it might not be enough. Read more

The people of video games on what gives them cause for hope

Hello and welcome to one of our final pieces for Optimism Week here on Eurogamer. This time, we've turned to the industry itself for some answers, and as such I'm going to do my best to get out of the way as quickly as possible. Read more

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games

The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

NRL changes rules to allow Jai Arrow to 'play' 100 games for Souths

“We’re going to take things slow": South of Midnight devs now own the rights to all their games again, after quitting Xbox, and are working on a new game

We Happy Few and South of Midnight developers Compulsion Games have announced that they are fully broken up with Microsoft and Xbox, after completing a management buyout. They now once again own the rights to all their own original intellectual properties. Amongst other things, t

"Buying any of our games helps support the studio": Psychonauts studio Double Fine are the latest former Xbox-owned studio to get the rights to their games back

Earlier this week, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games shared word that they now own all of the publishing rights to their games , a welcome update in light of the ongoing BDS boycott against Microsoft and Xbox . And now, another studio is joining the realm of boycott fr

California AG Calls Off Paramount-Warner Bros. Meeting, Accusing Company of “Playing Games” - The Hollywood Reporter

California AG Calls Off Paramount-Warner Bros. Meeting, Accusing Company of “Playing Games” The Hollywood Reporter Paramount CEO David Ellison is at the final hurdle before buying WBD. So far, he can't clear it CNBC California Cancels Talks With Paramount Over Warner Bros. Merger

Windows update that breaks some multiplayer games linked to our desire for gaming PCs that light up all the colors of the rainbow

Last week, we covered the very strange occurrence of a bug in the latest Windows update . Yes, a bug in a Windows update, say it isn't so. Unfortunately, this one does incur our wrath of gamers more than most because it leads to some games becoming unresponsive. Games like Arc Ra

Final Fantasy 7, Witcher 3, And More: Everything To Expect From The Big Gamescom Showcase

Geoff Keighley’s next big showcase promises Final Fantasy , The Witcher , and more

The Witcher 4 Won’t Be At Gamescom, But Finally Has A 2028 Launch Window

CD Projekt RED gave a small update on the Ciri-led RPG

Robot’s Ass Catches On Fire And Other Dispatches From The Humanoid Robot Games

They all love doing Fortnite emotes, too

Can the Epic Games Store turn things around? 'I don't see how they can recover at this point,' says Newzoo analyst

Back in February Epic Games told us about its plan to overhaul the Epic launcher , with an update in June mentioning it would start up five times faster on average . That technical overhaul will apparently be accompanied by changes to the storefront including personalized game re

PlayStation Chooses The Worst Possible Time To Blast Players With Reminders That They Don’t Own Their Digital Games

Terms of service reminders went out to a bunch of PSN users amid the ongoing backlash over the end of PlayStation discs

Playable Control Resonant and a Dune: Awakening Update Highlight Level Infinite’s Massive gamescom 2026 Plans

Level Infinite is bringing playable demos of Control Resonant and Dune: Awakening to Gamescom 2026, alongside an exclusive Hunt: Showdown 1896 reveal.

Does Analogue 3D really make retro games 4K? Here's what you should know

The Analogue 3D does a great job at upscaling old N64 games, with a few caveats.

Compulsion Games' buyout is complete, so now Microsoft won't get a cut if you buy South of Midnight

South of Midnight was one of 2025's seemingly innumerable highlights—in their 83% review , evergreen writer Andrea Shearon called it "a Deep South delight drenched in superstition and pain." If you've been holding off but nonetheless rooting for the award-winning studio behind it

Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold

"Jesus Christ, I could write this shit:" The great Alan Moore once said that the sort of negative inspiration you get from reading drivel is even more fruitful for aspiring authors than the kind you get from reading the classics. Fallout co-creator and prolific video blogger Tim

How to get £2,000 to play computer games at university

Roehampton University offers students a year;y scholarship to play esports alongside their studies.

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games

The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

Double Fine Owns IP and Publishing Rights for All of Its Games Following Xbox Split, Psychonauts Studio Confirms

Psychonauts and Brutal Legend developer Double Fine Productions has confirmed it has regained the IP and publishing rights for all of its games released under Microsoft following its split from Xbox.

Miyazaki suggests FromSoftware is keen to return to single-player games after The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign

Hidetaka Miyazaki , the president of FromSoftware and director of so many revered Soulsian games, has suggested the studio is keen to return to making single-player games after The Duskbloods. Read more

Riot Games to end LoL fighting game 2XK0's development and issue refunds, less than a year since launch

Active development on 2XKO - the free-to-play fighting game from Riot Games - will end in December. This comes not even a year after the game's full release in January, as the company doesn't see "a path toward sustainability". Read more

Take-Two and Rockstar Games Issue Subpoenas to Microsoft and Discord Following 'GTA 6' Leaks

Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have officially filed federal court subpoenas seeking identifying information from Microsoft and Discord following leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6. The legal actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York target

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games

The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

USA Fencing approaching run-up to LA Games as chance to take sport mainstream

Andrews, who has led USA Fencing since 2022, said the federation had made a deliberate effort to market fencing to audiences beyond its traditional competitive base.

Rockstar Games Reportedly Remains In The Dark About Who’s Leaking GTA 6 But Still Moving Ahead With Netflix Reveal

Multiple gameplay clips are circulating despite strict security protocols to keep information from leaking

Psychonauts Dev Now Owns All Its Games Made Under Xbox And Their Publishing Rights: ‘Buying Any Of Our Games Helps Support The Studio’

'Everything, we got back, the transfer of the IP came back to us'

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games

The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

The newly independent Psychonauts dev now earns all the revenue when you buy games it made under Xbox: 'Buying any of our games helps support the studio'

Double Fine has fully transitioned into an independent studio after leaving Xbox earlier this year. The studio now has full publishing rights to the games it made under Microsoft and earns all the revenue when you buy them, CEO Tim Schafer confirmed on the Kinda Funny podcast . "

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games

The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

Darkest Dungeon DLC, a BioShock-style shooter with clowns and other new indie games worth checking out

Plus, Mixtape on Mac, Tetris Effect-style pachinko and a platformer with randomized controls.

Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542

Spending on physical game disks has fallen to the lowest recorded level since tracking began in 1995, according to a new report documenting a drastic slump in the console market. U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average

A cracked version of Marvel Tōkon is reigniting questions around DRM and its impact on PC games

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Soul is reigniting the debate around DRM, amid reports a new DRM-free cracked version is performing better than Sony's widely lambasted official PC version. Read more

Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at humanoid games

A Chinese humanoid robot ran 100m in 9.39 seconds, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58 second world record.

Ubisoft is making the first singleplayer Rainbow Six in 19 years, and it's a tactics game in the style of XCOM

Ubisoft has identified the peanut butter and jelly in its pantry, and believes they would make a mean sandwich. Announced at today's Gamescom Opening Night Live show, Rainbow Six Tactics is an XCOM-style tactics game led by the folks behind another turn-based tactical adaptation,

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion is out next year, here's the trailer

CD Projekt Red showed up to close out Gamescom Opening Night Live with two big announcements: a first look at The Witcher 3's final expansion, Songs of the Past, and a surprise "Remastered" patch coming to the base game on September 29. If you're just hearing about this now, yes,

I played two missions of Gears of War: E-Day's campaign: One rocked, but the other did not

"Oh yea, that's the good stuff," I said as a hipfired a gnasher and atomized a locust drone, raining monster bits all over Marcus Fenix's stoic mug. We're in the midst of a singleplayer shooter drought and I'm happy that Gears of War: E-Day is here to replenish the well. I recent

Tarae: The Unbound is an 'Eastern dark fantasy' action RPG, and I for one am here for K-Diablo

It brings me no joy to admit this, but recently I've begun thinking that I'm finally nearing my fill of ARPGs. I've gotten a lot of great years out of clicking a mouse button and exploding full screens of skeletons, but the prospect doesn't quite spark joy like it used to. Or at

The Witcher 3 Remastered announced: another huge free update, and all Witcher 3 owners get the existing expansions free

The Witcher 3 got a "Next-Gen Update" back in 2022, and CD Projekt Red is doing it again: The developer announced at Gamescom today that The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming September 29 as a free update for all owners of the RPG. Aside from graphical updates (of which there are ma

Paradox's next grand strategy game is taking cues from Fallout and Mad Max

Paradox Development Studio is taking a break from conquering history and space, setting its sights instead on post-apocalyptic North America. Afterworld will see you take control of a tribe of survivors as you explore and conquer the ruins of the fallen continent. Which you might

Oh Hell Yes, We’re Getting A Lego City Builder Game

Lego Skylines was announced at Gamescom ONL

Tom Selleck confirmed as guest star in upcoming Apple TV comedy series

Deadline reports that Tom Selleck ( Friends , Blue Bloods ) has been confirmed as a guest star on an upcoming Apple TV comedy starring Elizabeth Banks ( The Hunger Games , Love & Mercy ). Here are the details.

It's been 25 years and I'm still not over one of the greatest songs to grace JRPGs

Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit , where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. Last month, Final Fantasy 10 turned 25 years old—a fa

'The Guild' movie revival becomes highest-funded Kickstarter film ever, filling me with millennial nostalgia and making me very nervous

As a millennial (boo, hiss) born in the 90s, I was just old enough to enjoy The Guild , a YouTube series about a group of dysfunctional MMO players, when it debuted online in 2007. 12-year-old me, who'd just gotten big into World of Warcraft and online games in general was downri

Humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record

Robots exceeded human records at the World Robot Games over the weekend in Beijing's Olympic speed skating arena as China showcased its dominance in the industry. Dozens of humanoids and their human operators competed in events from athletics and boxing to football and martial ar

Nyrius Phoenix Home True 4K60 (2026): A Solution for Cord Clutter

The Nyrius Phoenix Home True 4K60 can wirelessly transmit games, TV shows, movies, and more across your home (even through walls).

USA Fencing’s scrappy plan to make fencing a hit before the 2028 Olympics

Fencing is one of the oldest sports in Olympic history. It’s also one of the least watched domestically. Phil Andrews, CEO of USA Fencing, is on a mission to change that, and with the 2028 Los Angeles Games on the horizon, he’s running out of time. In a masterclass in scrappy bra

GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series

It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date twice, first to May 26th, 2026, then again to November 19t

Black Myth: Zhong Kui shows off 15 minutes of rollparrysliceage, and I've just learned that the bloke it's named after was a lethally effective headbanger

Game Science have put out a fresh trailer showing off Black Myth: Zhong Kui, their follow-up to Chinese mythology-stuffed action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong , in action. A year on from its reveal at 2025's Gamescom , Zhong Kui's looking as slicey and rolly as its predecessor, despite

Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes

Like clockwork, it's a new month and a new OS-breaking bug has been discovered in Windows 11's latest monthly update, KB5121003. Users reported random system instability, with games freezing or outright crashing, and even BSODs in worst-case scenarios. Microsoft investigated the

At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption

If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently se

The Sunday Papers

Sometimes, Sundays are only for rounding up videogame criticism and journalism. I try to cast a wider net when my turn comes to deliver the Papers, because I figure you've probably been reading about videogames all week, and would appreciate e.g. an essay on the mating habits of

Discord have yet to receive a GTA 6 leak subpoena from Take-Two, says marketing director, but they will "evaluate the validity and scope" if they do

Last week, Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two were filed subpoenas asking for info from Microsoft and Discord to help uncover the identity of the hacker or hackers behind the ongoing GTA 6 leaks. With clips of the game continuing to hit the net and the potential threat of st

The Witcher 4 is targeting release in 2028, CD Projekt Red confirm, while teasing that extra Witcher 3 DLC Songs of the Past has a "dark story" in store

Not content with stealing everyone's attention at Gamescom by unveiling a cheeky extra expansion for a decade-old RPG , CD Projekt Red have decided spend their Monday afternoon locking in the year that The Witcher 4 will be coming out. It's set to emerge from a lake full of drown

31 years later, beautiful SNES RPG Terranigma is finally coming to PC, and I must lay the ghost of my console warrior childhood to rest

Clear River Games Development and Limited Run are working on a PC re-release of Terranigma, Quintet's Super Nintendo Entertainment System action-RPG from 1995. I never played Terranigma, for I was raised according to the Holy Maxim that Sega do what Nintendon't. I would sooner ha

Imbricate human history all over again and throw climate change into the mix in Humankind 2, which arrives 2027

The idea behind Humankind is a funny one, in that it pulls from real-world history to essentially let you craft historical fanfiction. I suppose that's true of many strategy games, but this one's all about mixing and matching different cultures throughout history. And now, it's a