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NEWS Link to heading

Hogwarts Legacy For Switch Delayed To November

Fortnite Ranked Modes For Battle Royale And Zero Build Coming In 24.40 Patch

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Creators are ‘Interested’ In a Movie After Mario’s Success

EU approves Microsoft’s $68.7bn Activision Blizzard bid

Amazon is making a Lord of the Rings MMO (again)

One of the coolest upcoming city builders now has a free demo on Steam, and you should try it

Forget refunds, Steam game trials are finally here

Xbox Game Pass’s second May wave includes Planet of Lana

Microsoft CEO doesn’t deny that Activision games may be pulled from UK

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Sold Over 10 Million Copies In First Three Days

Here’s everything featured in today’s Humble Games showcase

Nicolas Cage Is Coming To Dead By Daylight

BlizzCon Returns This November

Mortal Kombat 1 revealed, takes the franchise back in time

Death Stranding free on Epic Games Store

Blizzard is scrapping Overwatch 2 hero missions and progression: ‘It’s clear that we can’t deliver on the original vision for PvE’

REVIEWS Link to heading

Humanity

Torchlight: Infinite

Logitech G Cloud

The Outlast Trials

Inkbound

LEGO 2K Drive

FEATURES Link to heading

Asus ROG Ally vs Steam Deck: full specs compared

The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts

The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared

Rami Ismail interview: Indie creativity, games and politics, dirty funding and getting back to making games

Steam Needs To Start Doing Its Own Quality Control

The 10 best open world games to play in 2023

Interview: Amazon Games’ CEO on How the Reborn Lord of the Rings MMO Will Learn from New World

‘Diablo 4’ Is A Model For A Pre-Launch AAA Road To Release

How Blizzard keeps Diablo 4 feeling single-player despite its MMO elements

AMD is quietly smashing Intel in the mobile chip game

Early MMOs came up with the most painful game mechanic of all time, and it’s somehow still in use today

The Best Diablo-Like Games

Starfield Feels like Xbox’s Last Chance at Redemption

First look at new images and UI of the Access controller for PS5, an all-new accessibility controller kit

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

What video game series have you been playing since the 1st games release?

What video game made you lose hope in the franchise?

VIDEOS Link to heading

You Don’t Need To Make An Open-World Game | Spot On

Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions | Newsbeat Documentaries

Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Dread Factor Operator Gameplay Gadget & Starter Tips

Hawken Reborn - Reveal Trailer

Diablo IV | Inside the Game: A New Saga

V Rising - Secrets of Gloomrot Launch Trailer

Diablo IV | Gameplay Launch Trailer

FUNNY Link to heading

Such a bad habit

We’ve been lied to all this time

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

An introduction to how game development pipelines work