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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 game will be added to the roster of titles PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can access as part of its August 2026 update (sorry, Essential-tier subs). The game, developed by Arrowhead Studios, laun…

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, announcing that sales have surpassed a staggering 20 million copies. Read more

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 were affected , promised to investigate further at the time, and he has now returned with an update. Read more

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 servants doing naughty things up north. Read more

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 lack of multiplayer. Read more

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, Wardogs will finally be released on 10th September. Read more

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 "less and less". Read more

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-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a serie…

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 many as 75 employees. Read more

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 Gears of War: E-Day good? Does leaping between cover with a shotgun in-hand scare off the normals? Is it… "sweaty"? Read more

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 (£70) Standard edition. That's according to Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two. Read more