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Activision has posted footage of one of its legal representatives turning up at the Ohio home of a notorious Call of Duty cheat seller and handing over a cease-and-desist order. Read more

Kinetic Games has released Phasmophobia 's second Quality of Life update, adding a raft of new Restricted maps, streamlined Evidence collection, VR fixes, and considerably more ways to die. Read more

A leaked archive said to contain around 12TB of old Valve development files, dated between 2003 and 2013, has surfaced online, and fans are already combing through it for any trace of the long-cancelled Half-Life 2 : Episode Three. Read more

Multiple exhibitors at Gamescom have reported thefts of laptops and other equipment from their booths in Cologne, with one indie developer saying the loss has effectively ended his show early. Read more

Rockstar has confirmed Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch without microtransactions or generative AI. Read more

EA has broken its silence on the leaked Iron Man footage that surfaced yesterday , admitting, "well, that didn't go as planned". Read more

Reaction streams to Grand Theft Auto 6 's first gameplay presentation peaked at 3,970,738 viewers across livestreaming platforms, making it the biggest gaming stream of 2026 so far. Read more

Cloud Imperium Games has delayed Squadron 42, its long-in-development Star Citizen spin-off, to Q2 2027, with studio boss Chris Roberts arguing the game would be drowned out by GTA 6 . Read more

Panic, maker of the crank-powered handheld Playdate , is forwarding Supreme Court-ordered tariff refunds back to customers. Read more

The Pokémon Company International and Aardman have released the first teaser trailer for Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu, a new stop-motion series set in the Galar region. Read more

In a small room inside a crowded Koelnesse convention centre, a short presentation on Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is shown to a gaggle of tired writers. Creative Assembly's brand manager says they're hoping to make the definitive game in the 40k universe. After playing the game for a little while, I think they may have pulled it off. Read more

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Kelsey didn't have to sacrifice a limb to play Elden Ring for the first time again; Bertie mucks around in the Prancing Pony with edgy Aragorn; and... Read more

The most surprising thing about Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is how much DNA it shares with Big Walk. They both frequently involve traversing large expanses of terrain. They both have excellent maps. Most of all, they're both fundamentally games about communication. Each utilises modern voice chat to its fullest extent, requiring players to clearly express and articulate themselves to succeed. Read mo…

What appears to be footage from EA Motive's long-in-development - and somewhat missing-in-development - Iron Man game has leaked. Read more

We've had our extended look at Grand Theft Auto 6 - did you notice? - and one of the reactions I saw from readers during our live report was about frame-rate. In short, some people said it looked noticeably low. Perhaps that's to be expected given it was captured on a base PS5, but it does raise the bigger question of what frame-rate GTA 6 runs at on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, how that might change…