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Creating adult games is already a minefield. Now, PayPal is deciding it's the morality police, freezing one dev's account and holding £80,000 of their earnings hostage.

While other studios are selling you horse armor, Hello Games just dropped a free update that lets you build a goddamn starship from scratch. The redemption tour never ends.

If your new UE5 game runs like a slideshow, Tim Sweeney has a message for you: it's not the engine's fault. The Epic Games boss weighs in on who's to blame.

You can't even buy the game yet, but that hasn't stopped the Hollow Knight faithful from setting world records. One speedrunner took to Gamescom to master the unplayable.

The UK's Online Safety Act is claiming even more victims, this time on Itch.io, as the platform has begun blocking access to the profile pages of NSFW creators for users in the UK.

Hallelujah, Sony has finally streamlined the PlayStation refund process. You can now get your money back for that drunken 2 AM purchase without having to argue with a robot.

Hideo Kojima, in the most Kojima move ever, has revealed he's already written the concept for Death Stranding 3 but has no current plans to actually make it himself.

Well, the other shoe has officially dropped. EA has rebranded Criterion Games as "A Battlefield Studio," all but confirming that Need for Speed is on the back burner and the dream of a new Burnout is dead.

The narrative team behind Borderlands 4 just confirmed what many of us were thinking: Borderlands 3's story went off the rails. Now, they're explaining how they're course-correcting with a new villain and a whole new tone.

The numbers are in, and Gamescom 2025 was an absolute monster. After a couple of weird years for the industry, the Cologne event came back with a vengeance, smashing records and reminding everyone that gaming is bigger than ever.

Just when you thought you couldn't handle another hero shooter, NCSoft drops a surprise at Gamescom. Time Takers is a chaotic, time-hopping survival game where your health bar is also your wallet, and honestly, it looks like a goddamn blast.

Finally, a Star Trek game that gives you the conn and forces you to make the hard calls. Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown is a new survival strategy game that looks to blend FTL with deep ship management, and I'm here for it.

Turns out reports of the death of gaming showcases were greatly exaggerated. Gamescom's Opening Night Live pulled in a staggering 2 million peak viewers, a number that screams people are still desperate for a good reveal.

If you spent the Battlefield 6 beta bunny-hopping around corners like a caffeinated jackrabbit, I've got some bad news. The developers are nerfing that shit into the ground.

After years of memes and radio silence, Hollow Knight: Silksong finally has a release date. The reaction from the indie scene? Absolute, unadulterated panic; and understandably so.

In a story as old as the industry itself, an indie developer says his hit game made millions, yet he ended up broke and hospitalized. The publisher, naturally, has a slightly different version of events.

In today's episode of "no good deed goes unpunished," the creator of Stardew Valley is getting dragged through the mud for... letting another game do a free, wholesome crossover. Yes, really.

Evo is officially leveling up. The world's biggest fighting game tournament series has announced a major shift in ownership and new partnerships to fund an ambitious global conquest.

The day many of us thought would never come is here. After an eternity of silence from Team Cherry, the release date for the mythical beast known as Hollow Knight: Silksong has been dropped at Gamescom 2025.

Anno 117 is letting plebs and patricians alike get a taste of the new city builder with a free demo coming soon, but you better get building quickly.