The votes are in—the first of Deadlock's six new heroes just dropped. The Rat King is here, and one of his abilities lets you throw a bunch of rats at people, like that Eminem meme.(Image credit: Tyler C. / Valve)

If you're looking for SSDs, RAM, or even a swish new GPU, this has arguably not been your year. The memory supply crisis is still driving up component prices, but there is a silver lining to this dark cloud—gaming monitor deals have never looked so good in comparison.I was initially intrigued by the 27-inch OLED Samsung Odyssey G5 G50SF. I thought $330 was a great price for a gaming OLED...

Wireless gaming mice are great and have only gotten better with time. They're so good, in fact, that I would not go for a wired model unless I was really looking for a budget option. And yet it turns out wired mice were the best choice for the Valorant Champions tournament in Shanghai, where custom desks were apparently interfering with the signal. The Valorant Esports X page recently revealed that...

The first six months of the year were Steam's biggest, thanks to continued growth in back-catalogue sales as well as blockbuster new releases like Forza Horizon 6 and Resident Evil Requiem. As industry analysts Alinea Analytics report, September was another record breaker based on their estimated figures."Steam generated $1.7 billion in September 2026," Rhys Elliott, Alinea's head of market analysis, wrote, "the platform's best September to date, up 13% on...

It's been a while since I set foot nervously inside the Playtime Co. factory, but last time I was there I was hounded through the halls and air vents by a towering blue plush toy that wanted nothing more than to hug me to death.I played a bit of the multiplayer prequel to Poppy Playtime this week, and I can now report that there's something even scarier than that giant...

(Image credit: Veddge)It rules that we still don't know who made myhouse.wad. The surreal, unsettling Doom mod had a sort of ARG-lite element to it: The mod's original creator is said to have died, with Veddge, the uploader, either having expanded on something he left behind—or, more troublingly, having found the haunted map among the original creator's possessions.I love it as a bit of creepypasta storytelling, but what makes me...

Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.Disregard that other thing I said. Grand Theft Auto 5 no longer only launches in windowed mode. It now only launches...

Critical Role's 4th's campaign is in full swing, and this past episode we followed the schemer's table—for those not in the know, this campaign's a "West Marches" style adventure, where the stacked cast of 13 players split off into their own groups. The schemer's table, so named because of the political scheming it's involved in, just spent four and a half hours spinning out last week as the chickens came...

I was brought up with the mindset that when you start something you should see it through to the end, even if it gets a bit tricky. So perhaps that's why Resident Evil dropping its in-built Roman numerals irks me so. It all started with Resident Evil: 7 Biohazard where the Roman numerals for seven were shoved into the 'Evil' and then continued with Resident Evil: Village. So, in the...

Are you aware of Oh!Ware? I'm guessing not. The deckbuilder has been on Steam for about a week as of this writing, with a humble 23 reviews to its name so far. It caught my eye though, because the fundamental mechanic underneath the very 2026 trappings of a roguelike structure and marbles standing in for cards is mancala—a slightly older board game you probably played at some point in your...