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Streamers have taken to labeling their broadcasts with tags like "AIOptedOut," "NoGenAI," and "NoAI"

And if your character isn't convincing enough, you die.

If you found an Explorer Gadget in your Pokémon Go inventory, here's how to use it and what it does.

Netflix has spent the last five years attempting to expand its chokehold on the film and television industry into the video game space, but it's had limited success. Today, Game File reports that the...

Forget all the new games coming out in 2026. Newly shiny old games are where it's at.

Netflix is closing Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Moonloot amid an ongoing shift in its gaming strategy.

Marcus Lehto says the halo rings in Halo: Campaign Evolved look way too shiny and new.

Moonlight, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.

Sarah J. Maas’ bestselling romantasy series is heading to the tabletop with a new strategy game built around Prythian’s seven Courts.

RIP Oxenfree

This comedic Steam game will appeal to fans of franchises like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Futurama, and it's completely free to keep

Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle is a lovingly crafted game by a Vanillaware veteran, and you can feel the love in every page.

Here you find all the "Horizon Mascot Party" Series 4 challenges and rewards in Forza Horizon 6, as well as the prizes for each season.

'Genshin Impact's 7.0 update includes an in-game bulletin that makes fun of Donald Trump's Reflecting Pool controversy.

Assassin's Creed Mirage and Valhalla join Luna later this month. Amazon Prime members will also be able to download nine free games.

And skeletons. And demons. And—well—everything bad, really.

Oops!

In this guide, you learn where to find the Tokyo Central Railway Station in Forza Horizon 6.

TCG fans will be able to purchase hyped products like the ETB and Poster Collection ahead of Pokémon's 30th anniversary release on September 16, 2026.

Sprite Spree Week is starting on Saturday, Aug. 15 and will last until the end of Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3. Here's the schedule of days.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer, and alongside my cover story, which subscribers can read right here, we’re highlighting many of t...

A word game that's trickier than it looks

The response to Game Freak's post-apocalyptic action RPG has not been universally positive.

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5...

My faceplate's made from wood, from the same forest as trees.

Take a snap with some sunflowers.

Half-Mermaid, the studio led by Sam Barlow, the mind behind games such as Immortality, Her Story, and Telling Lies, has announced its next project, Precognition. Described as a sci-fi horror adventure...

Many of our greatest works are downstream of terrible woe.

Locate this treasure chest near a race track.

House House's group puzzle game is a unique proposition for a trio of intimate partners

Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September. It won't, in other words, be a disc-in-a-box that s...

"One thing we always think about a lot is how does our game open," says Mike Fitzgerald, Head of Technology at Insomniac Games. "When you start our first Spider-Man game... you jump out the window and...

Today, The Pokémon Company announced that it's shutting down Pokémon Bank, the Pokémon storage app was that was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The service...

A legally distinct Game Boy-like chassis, of course.

Sony-only.

Platform: Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Intelligent Systems Release: September 17, 2026...

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is massive. If you're coming to Intelligent Systems' Switch 2 RPG after playing even Three Houses or Engage, you're going to be shocked by the scale of it. Within the firs...

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cl...

Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it's been discovered the game's full name might have been hiding in developer Bethesda's most...

Last week, the private acquisition of Electronic Arts finally happened. After months of governmental approval and debate, one of gaming's largest publishers has gone private, co-owned by a combination...

Shipments are up nearly 100% since last year.

Looks suspiciously similar to controller leaked back in May.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered arrived on Switch 2 earlier this week, immediately drawing praise for its well-optimised state. This is actually a bit of a problem - not because of how it run...

A public spat between Saber Interactive - creator of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the upcoming Suntman: Hollywood game and many others - and a former employee who claims she was "replaced" by Cha...

Looks like the law is finally catching up.

Plus, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Wardogs, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, graphics cards tested, and much more, too

It's been an interesting launch period for Halo: Campaign Evolved. Despite reviewing well, the game has failed to sell particularly well on PS5, where the low-effort Black Ops 1 and 2 ports seemingly...

Twitch - the popular gaming and IRL streaming platform - has announced it'll start training generative AI models on those livestreaming on the platform. Read more

Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative, has joined a lawsuit filed in the Netherlands against Sony...

The comments are "remarkably pathetic," the writer said in response.

'I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI'

The open world was based on a real world national park.

Explore an island full of puzzles with a few of your friends.

"If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer"

The publisher says it isn't sure how to interpret GTA 6's 'astonishing' preorder sales.

Streams, VODs, comments, and pretty much everything else will go into the gen AI training machine, unless streamers choose to opt out.

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5...

Attack the void!

What has Senior Editor Wes Fenlon been into lately?

Kamaitachi no Yoru, London Spirit Detectives, Kowloon’s Gate and Innocent Tears are getting their spotlight in the west thanks to fan-translations done without AI.

Precognition promises to "follow in the footsteps of Immorality" with a tale of visions of the future, and why they're not always great.

The new game from Her Story and Immortality maker Sam Barlow - and his studio Half Mermaid - has a name: it's called Precognition. It's a sci-fi horror and it's releasing in spring 2028, as one of the...

18 people have been taken off the still-unrevealed Witcher spinoff Project Sirius, which isn't a huge number but does represent a significant percentage.

After a 20-year hiatus, Capcom’s samurai action series Onimusha is back. Well, almost – the next installment, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, launches next month. Ahead of its release, I traveled to...

It's going as well as you may have expected

Yesterday, Phantom Blade Zero developer S-Game released a new look at its upcoming high-speed action game. At 11 minutes long, it's packed to the brim with flashy combat, uniquely designed enemies, an...

Less AI, more performance improvements: I'm here for it.

Dawn of War 4 has been delayed to the tail-end of this year, so the developers at King Art games can "further refine the experience ahead of launch." Read more

Both MMOs will continue to operate, but new publishers are taking over in the West.

The war has been put on hold until December.

The first ever English translation of Alain Damasio’s Horde of the Counterwind (or, to give the book its original name La Horde du Contrevent) is going on sale later this year. The novel, a cult...

Big GPU, little machine.

UPDATE 12TH AUGUST 5.20PM: CD Projekt Red has confirmed the layoffs to Eurogamer. Read more

Ghost of Yōtei released in 2025 and was one of our favorites of the year. You can read Game Informer's Ghost of Yōtei review by following the link. Following its release, developer Sucker Punch added...

Make love and war.

With Sony ending disc support, many fear what that means for game preservation going forward.

"The best engine is in the BMW 750iL.”

Sony and PlayStation have just announced Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition, a new version of 2025's open world action game, launching with additional content that wasn't in the first release. It...

Still seems like a big bubble to me, though.

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has confirmed a Switch 2 version of the game will be released, and given a rough timeframe for it, and said it sees "significant potential" for multiplayer in the...

Pearl Abyss' new darling is getting more special treatment.

The first thing I need to tell you about The King is Watching is that, due to an unusual font and my poor eyesight, I originally though the game was called The King is Hatching. Read more

Load your rifles and get ready to deliver some democracy to those heathen alien interlopers, because Helldivers 2 comes to PlayStation Plus today. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that the gam...

Things are looking up, at least.

Find out what monikers you can earn on the path to Level 300.

What unites Eve and 2B — and what divides them

It is VA, but it's plenty big and has a tight curve.

A lot of words for "don't expect things to get better soon."

Meccha Chameleon, the indie hide-and-seek game that launched on Steam two months ago, has cemented itself as one of the year's biggest hits. The game's developer posted a sales milestone update today,...

Is this RGB-stripe 4K OLED gaming monitor finally 'the one'?

Let's hope safeguards develop in-line with AI agent capabilities.

I'll take it.

Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards. Read more

Xbox says it has fixed the issue at the heart of the major service outage suffered in July. Chief technical officer Scott Van Vliet, who initially offered an explanation as to why so many services wer...

Aspyr has unexpectedly remastered and re-released an old Lord of the Rings action role-playing game, which was notable for having three-player co-op and parallel story about one of Sauron's powerful s...

Ahh, who needs a mask, anyway.

"The whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?"

An early internal preview of The Elder Scrolls 6 by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was met by a giant inflatable rat, looming over the Bethesda offices in Rockville, Maryland. Read more

Halo: Campaign Evolved - the remake of the original Halo 1 campaign and the first Halo game released on PlayStation - has struggled to sell in meaningful quantities, and the probable reason for it? A...

Yen brings more than 40 years of martial arts experience to the game.

It's not just a joke: it's a pretty good puzzle game.

Is it eight letters, or was this just a big distraction?

'You ask if he can play ‘Bennie and the Jets’, but he tells you that Elton John plays the piano and that song isn’t really meant for guitar'

Despite the admission, there's currently no AI disclosure on the Rideshare Stimulator Steam page.

After dating everyone and marrying a choice few, here's everything I've learned about romance in Mistria.

Please clap (instead of talking about layoffs)

Finn Wolfhard is primarily known for his role as Mike Wheeler on Stranger Things, but with the popular Netflix show firmly behind him, he is now focused on his music career. But that doesn’t mean...

"If you don't enjoy the beta, just refund it."

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was removed from Steam in early 2019.

"Move like a capitalist" gotta go down as one of the sorriest bars in rap history

A 100-player milsim that's inspired by Arma but plays like Battlefield.

Onimusha is finally returning to the action space next month after a 20-year hiatus at developer-publisher Capcom. Though a lot of the series’ trademarks are returning, like an intense focus on s...

Marvel's Wolverine, one of the biggest games of the year, comes out it a little over a month. Today we learned it'll get the same treatment as PlayStation's other beloved first-party IP and launch alo...

Wardogs, the ambitious shooter from Battalion 1944 and The Turing Test developer Bulkhead, will soon arrive on Steam early access. The studio announced today, after months of invite-only tests, Wardog...

Canadian developer Panache Digital, co-founded by Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets, has said it is still using AI tools to help develop its witchy action game 1666: Amsterdam, albeit "...

It's also a good way to learn some very specific new words

Supermassive Games, developers of games like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced it's likely letting go of several of its employees. In an image shared to social med...

There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enou...

Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher: Electronic Arts, Lucasfilm Games Developer: Bit Reactor, Respawn Entertainment...

Is it perfectionism, or just an appreciation for the beginning of games?

Supermassive - the UK studio best known for its cinematic horror games including Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the Dark Pictures Anthology series - has announced more layoffs, this time affecting as man...

The first stage of Gears of War E-Day's beta may have concluded, but that hasn't stopped discussion around the game from continuing to rage online. This time, it's an old favourite: is movement in Gea...

Remedy Entertainment has revealed updated sales data for Alan Wake 2, which has now exceeded 3 million copies. Read more

Though many may baulk at the idea of paying $100 (£90) for a game, a lot of the people who pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto 6 bought the more expensive Ultimate edition rather than the $80 (£7...

Developer House House's collaborative puzzle-solving and hangout game par excellence, Big Walk, has found encouraging commercial success. Publisher Panic announced on Bluesky that it's already passed...

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has struggled with some serious technical problems on PC ever since its release last week, resulting in a disparity between console owners and desktop diehards. Than...

In yet another example of a successful film or TV show raising the profile of a related game, Hollywood blockbuster Spider-Man: Brand New Day has brought new players to the years-old Marvel's Spider-M...

“The lights were brighter than expected.”

Big Walk, the recently released multiplayer puzzle game from House House, has officially sold one million copies. It's a major milestone to hit for any game, but it's especially significant for an ind...

Onimusha is almost back. The latest installment, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, launches next month after a 20-year hiatus within Capcom’s samurai action series. Way of the Sword is also t...

1666: Amsterdam returned to the public eye this year after a protracted 15 year conception that involved legal battles, rewritten concepts, secret publishers, and finally: an actual game. Suffice to s...

1666: Amsterdam, a game that's survived years of legal battles between Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets and Ubisoft, has an early access release date. It'll be released 25th August for...

Platform: PC Publisher: Panache Digital Games Developer: Panache Digital Games Release: Augu...

A lead developer at id Software has spoken out about Microsoft's decision to make major cuts at the developer, and has said it's "impossible" to make triple-A games like 2016's Doom with half the staf...

When Hello Games ended its trailer for No Man's Sky's first major update with the words "This is the foundation of things to come", it's doubtful anyone, studio included, could have predicted the game...

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has been out for a few days now, and the PC version appears a little busted. Wide-ranging reports, including stuttering, online matchmaking issues, and CPU strain, a...

It's a big moment for No Man's Sky. This week sees developer Hello Games' exploratory space sim celebrating its tenth anniversary, and to mark the occasion, I recently spoke with studio boss Sean Murr...

Valve has notified Steam Machine and Steam Controller customers in Europe about a data breach. The company's servers are safe, but those of one of its hardware partners are sadly not. Read more

The Division Resurgence is a name you may have forgotten. In the sea of announced-then-cancelled off-shoots based on Ubisoft's biggest franchises, Resurgence was one of the few to actually make it to...

One of the most surprising things about Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer tease last week was word that it will premiere on subscription-based service Netflix - a move I can't ever remember anothe...

The Duskbloods, the next game from Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne creator FromSoftware, is hosting its first-ever public test later this month. The network test, as the developer calls it, was...

While the Xbox division reels as a result of wide-ranging restructuring, that will leave thousands of people without a job, and some studios drastically reduced in size - one Xbox studio appears to be...

Xbox is now asking users in Australia to verify their age before they're able to purchase games rated at 18+ on the Xbox Store on Xbox consoles, as well as the Microsoft Store on PC. Read more

A new cloud-streaming app that lets players stream PlayStation games to their Steam Deck and Steam Machine without a PS5 has just opened a playtest. Read more

A Battlefield 6 player "upset" at the removal of the popular Rush mode claims to have secured a full refund from Steam despite having clocked up 470 hours. Read more

One of the teams behind Neowiz's Souls-like Lies of P has released a short documentary detailing how they kept "testing and refining" the game before its release, as well as offering a little insight...

Aggro Crab has confirmed its co-op climbing game, Peak, will get its final major update on 11th August. Read more

Toem 2 will release on Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, PC, and PS5 on 29th September, 2026. Read more

"Commencing Atlas suit initialisation system", crackles a synthesised female voice from out of my TV screen. "Life support systems activated", she continues. And eventually, "User initialisation seque...

New extraction shooter, BR1 Infinite, is reportedly bringing new meaning to the term "pay to play" by paying players for each in-game kill. Read more

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the final chapter in the Remake trilogy, is set to feature in this year's Gamescom Opening Night Live. Read more

Konami has confirmed it's investigating new Performance Mode problems on PS5 and PS5 Pro after last week's Patch 1.07 for the Silent Hill 2 remake introduced a host of new issues. Read more

Newly unearthed footage from a 2007 developer presentation has revealed that Demon's Souls once had an option to play in first-person. Read more

Sokoban games are those puzzlers that are all about pushing blocks around. They're spatial challenges at their most fiendish. I gather that the original Sokoban took place in a warehouse, and you were...

GSC Game World has released a new deep dive video to showcase its upcoming Stalker 2 DLC, Cost of Hope. Read more

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Connor decides on Star Lord; Bertie goes to demon school, and Kelsey goes for a big...

It's another week of The Game Informer Show, and we've got a spectacular guest to help us break down some releases, new and old! Jesse Vitelli joins Alex and Eric as the trio that walked through...

The weekend is upon us and it's full of quality video games. Cooperative games, versus games, farming games, and one Pokopia game. But before we share those, however, here are some of the biggest stor...

When Pokémon Pokopia came out earlier this year, it surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. To this day, it's my favorite game of 2026, thanks in large part to its loving treatment of the Pokémon wor...

I traveled to Osaka, Japan, back in June to visit Capcom’s HQ and learn more about Onimusha: Way of the Sword, which is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer. You can read...

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, who heads the company Rockstar belongs to, has said he's "not in the least" concerned that bad press over alleged union-busting will affect the launch of Grand Theft Aut...

There's been a flurry of news related to castings in the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda film, including the name of the actor who's landed the antagonist's role of Ganondorf - but also that rece...

Indie game publisher Devolver Digital is looking to return to private ownership, after a rough few years as a publicly-traded company. Read more

In Take-Two's latest financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick makes some bold statements about the future of the games industry. As the industry reels from Sony's controversial decision to stop manufactu...

Take-Two's latest financials are in, and they come with a few surprises. First off, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has confirmed that the publisher's sales are mostly digital, in response to Sony's cont...

Gears of War E-Day has only just rolled out the first stage of its open beta, and already the series' records have been shattered on Steam. Read more

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Sara opens up about “minority soup,” queer motherhood, and her work on the upcoming expansion

In case it was ever in doubt, it seems Sony is not backing down from its controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical disc-based games. It appears a notice is being shipped with new PS5 conso...

John Romero, the legendarily long-haired co-founder of id Software and father of game series Quake and Doom, has recounted a tale about when id Software worked with Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom....

Marvel Tokonn: Fighting Souls finally released, and while console players appear to be having a decent time with the 4v4 tag fighting game, PC players are reporting significant technical issues rangin...

QuakeCon's opening ceremony came with a delightful surprise yesterday: the announcement and release of a brand new, free expansion for the original Quake game. This is for all platforms (barring Epic...

Earlier this month EA CEO Andrew Wilson's 2026 fiscal year pay package drew a lot of attention, due to how large it was, frankly. Well, it turns out he may have actually taken home more money than pre...

Wander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there. The Archive of Retro Computing (ARC) is free to explore an...

Nintendo's live-action Legend of Zelda movie is set to hit theaters on April 30, 2027, and though we've seen official images of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link and Bo Bragason as Zelda, there's s...

Nintendo has released its latest financial earnings report, covering the first quarter of the fiscal year, which encompasses April through June 2026. In it, the company has revealed that digital sales...

Onimusha: Way of the Sword launches next month on September 4 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via the Epic Games Store and Steam. It will mark the first game in Capcom's s...

Ubisoft held a special livestream dedicated to Ghost Recon to mark the franchise’s 25th anniversary. The bulk of the presentation centered on a substantial free update coming to Ghost Recon: Wildlands...

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer, and we traveled all the way to Osaka, Japan, to play the game for hours in Capcom’s HQ, interview the devel...

Marvel Tokon is out at last, and players are diving in and messing around with the full cast of playable characters. However, one of these fighters is truly - and perhaps fittingly - unique among the...

A new blog post by ArenaNet has kicked up the conversation around playable races in Guild Wars 3. It features some interesting insight into the four available at launch - and hints that additional spe...

A reprint of Maddy Myers' 2013 blog about meeting Samus

It's been three years since Baldur's Gate 3 was released, so developer Larian has data-dived to recover some illuminating statistics. Such as: non-Dark Urge players being surprisingly murderous. Read...

A new PlayStation 5 firmware beta has arrived for anyone who's part of Sony's beta programme. The platform holder emailed those who signed up to notify them that a new update is available for testing....

Last year's Monster Hunter Wilds still represents a major focus for Capcom, its latest financial report has revealed. The game, which had a slower launch than the publisher would have liked due to on-...

August is here, bringing 26 new games for GeForce NOW members.  Command the seas in World of Warships: Legends and discover what’s next in the GeForce NOW library, starting with the eight newly added...

Pokémon Pokopia's 2.0 major update is here, allowing players to venture deep below the waves to meet new Poké-pals and mess around with a variety of new features. Read more

Rockstar Games has announced today that it will be sharing an "Extended Look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix on August 27 in the afternoon. It will also be available on Rockstar's YouTube channel l...

According to new estimates, Call of Duty's recent Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports have sold incredibly well in such a short while. According to estimates from Alinea Analytics, the two games combi...

Rockstar Games and Take Two have announced that an "extended look" trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 will premiere first on Netflix on Thursday, the 27th August, at 3pm ET (8pm BST). Read more

Capcom has revealed that "approximately 90 percent of [its] unit sales are digital," in its latest quarterly earnings report, noting the Japanese publisher "does not anticipate a significant impact" o...

Roblox has published earnings for its second financial quarter, revealing a significant decline almost across the board. The company's disappointing quarter caused its stock price to drop by more than...

Ill's been an attention-hogger ever since its Summer Game Fest 2025 reveal. It is, quite possibly, the grossest game in development. Startlingly lifelike trailers have given us a queasy glimpse at a f...

UPDATE 4.30PM 7TH AUGUST: Eurogamer understands that recent job cuts at Halo Studios purely affect contract workers, rather than full-time employees. Read more

Minecraft on Switch 2 is a port that just makes sense. Everyone, including developer Mojang, agrees. On Wednesday, the developer officially confirmed a 27th October release date for the Switch 2 versi...

We have yet another sign that Diablo 4 is on its way to Nintendo Switch 2. A new report from Dealabs' billbil-kun, a leaker with a solid history of industry leaks, has indicated that we're closer than...

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer, and I traveled all the way to Osaka, Japan, to play the game for hours in Capcom’s HQ, interview the develo...

The Gears of War E-Day open beta is kicking off soon, and just as players were ready to hop into a good few days of Horde, The Coalition has announced that PvP versus will also be present in the test,...

Beast of Reincarnation is out but hasn't quite made the splash you might expect from Game Freak's first original project in years. The long-time Pokémon developer isn't moving on, however, and...

The director of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Black Flag, and Origins has returned to Ubisoft to lead development on future Assassin's Creed games. Read more