In today's 'how to piss off your entire fanbase' lesson, the Payday 2 devs secretly jacked up their DLC price, then offered a subscription as a 'solution.' It went about as well as you'd expect.

The fight for Managed Democracy has a new enemy: a game that freezes, stutters, and crashes constantly. Helldivers 2 is back to 'Mixed' on Steam, and players are (understandably) furious.

You think your backlog is bad? A gamer in Shanghai just got a custom achievement from Valve for owning over 40,000 games. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or scared.

It finally happened. A modern giant has dethroned a legend in the modding scene. But let's be honest, we all know the real reason Cyberpunk 2077 finally passed Fallout: New Vegas.

Just when you thought the strategy genre couldn't get any more ambitious, a Polish studio announces Systemic War, a game that's being called 'Crusader Kings meets Total War and Broken Arrow'. Let's see what this glorious mess is all about.

Just when you thought the world of Death Stranding couldn't get any weirder, Kojima announces not one, but two movies. One is live-action from A24, the other is an anime called Mosquito.

Valve, the undisputed kings of the microtransaction, have invented a new kind of loot box for CS2 that's somehow even more manipulative than the old one.

Imagine working on your dream game for ten years, only for Steam to forget to tell anyone it came out. That's the heartbreaking story of Planet Centauri.

Pocketpair's community manager has pushed back against criticism of Palworld's Early Access label, arguing that player feedback is essential and pointing to successes like Baldur's Gate 3.

Just days after Randy Pitchford's public meltdown, the actual developers at Gearbox are trying to put out the fire, promising a major performance patch is their "top priority."

It turns out that making a masterpiece and selling it for a fair price is a good business strategy. Who knew?

Instead of, you know, fixing the game, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's solution to Borderlands 4's performance issues is to tell players to get a refund. A bold PR strategy, to say the least.

The Xbox Series S has become the industry's favorite scapegoat, but the Battlefield 6 devs say the struggle to optimize for it actually made the whole game more stable.

Remember that stylish French RPG everyone's been talking about? It turns out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has quietly sold a staggering 4.4 million copies, proving you don't need a billion-dollar budget to make a hit.

Remember that massive petition to stop publishers from murdering our games? Well, it got 1.45 million signatures, and now the real fight against the industry lobbyists is about to begin.

In news that will shock absolutely no one, a Star Citizen developer has already started walking back the 2026 release promise for Squadron 42. Insert surprised Pikachu face here.

In a story that's becoming all too common, the French voice of Lara Croft is suing Aspyr after fans discovered her voice was likely cloned by AI for the new remasters.

The corporate war on horny games has a new, bizarre battlefront: Steam's Early Access. Now, your adult game has to be 100% finished, or it's not welcome.

The creator of Dead Space wants to make an Alien game, which sounds like a dream come true. The reality? The industry is so broken right now that he thinks he may have directed his last game.

In a move that should terrify every game developer, Nintendo has successfully patented the idea of summoning a character to fight another. No, I'm not kidding.