2026 has been a truly astonishing year for Quake mapping, with both fans and professional game developers delivering some incredible death arenas for id Software's 1996 FPS. We've had the enormous Quake Brutalist Jam 3, numerous map packs celebrating Quake's 30 anniversary, and even a new official campaign called Dawn of the Machine.You'd think the Quake community would be out of ideas by this point, but if anything, the Quake...
Facepunch founder Garry Newman (Garry's Mod, Rust, s&box) gave an emphatic, extensive mea culpa to the s&box community in a YouTube comment. Newman was responding to the latest video from Eridium, "S&box's Free To Play Weekend Isn't Enough," a highly critical state-of-the-game from the s&box-focused creator. Facepunch's recently-released user generated content (UGC) platform has been billed as a Garry's Mod successor in the age of Roblox, but has struggled in...
In a recent interview with PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens, Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima traced the inspirations for Kingdom Come: Deliverance back to boredom with the typical RPG—kill the dark lord, romance a companion or two, and so on. Klima added that this formula is still a mite too widespread even now for his tastes, and wondered if gamers haven't outgrown it by now."I play a lot of RPGs, it's...
It's a small thing, but being able to save and quit when I'm playing against the AI is a definite improvement in Warhammer: Blood Bowl. Though matches didn't take a huge amount of time in Blood Bowl 3, there were still nights where I'd find myself with 40 minutes before I should really go to bed thinking I can squeeze another game in, and then realizing too late I absolutely...
Age ratings for Grand Theft Auto 6 have begun rolling in, and unsurprisingly it's a game built for grown-ups, receiving both a Mature rating in the US and an 18+ rating by the ESRB. PEGI went a little further than the other ratings boards when slapping GTA 6 with an 18 certificate, however, going into such specifics about the game's adult content that it inadvertently revealed new mechanics and systems.As...
Commercial large-language models—and the companies that create them—have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They've been lambasted for it by artists and sued for it by authors, while senior AI figures have even admitted in writing to mass-scale labour theft. But I haven't seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI model pilfering a human-created bot to try to win a round of StarCraft .As reported...
RuneScape 4 announced at RuneFest, full MMO sequel started as expansion to survival game Dragonwilds
As reported by MMORPG.com, developer Jagex has announced a new MMO follow-up to RuneScape with the working title "RuneScape 4." The announcement came as part of Jagex's yearly RuneFest convention being held this weekend.The announcement was accompanied by a brief teaser trailer showcasing the game's art style, which builds on the recently-released Dragonwilds survival game: It's like a hybrid of the latest Jagex MMO, Runescape 3, and the ascendant Old...
Fun, thematic videogame recipes are not new. Suggesting dangerous and potentially lethal ingredients, however? Well, Love and Deepspace might just be the first game to make such a bold move.Yes, Infold's hunky dating gacha recently posted to X with a handful of fun cocktails themed around the male suitors you can romance. Something worth noting here is that each one has a signature flower associated with them—childhood friend Caleb is...
(Image credit: Acer)Jump to...1. My personal picks2. Quick links3. Latest deals4. Live dealsIt's time to wade into the thick of it once again. Amazon has just kicked off its next major Prime event, Big Deal Days, running from October 6–7. Though that's not the only discount derby in town. We're seeing discounts on components, peripherals, monitors, chairs and more across all the major tech retailers.I am personally curating the deals...
RuneScape developer Jagex descended upon Birmingham (the British one, not the Alabama one) over the weekend with its annual RuneFest. As part of its RuneScape keynote, it showed off a trailer for its upcoming Dragon Slayer 2 quest which, er, featured a player character with six fingers and a bizarre sneaker-like sole on their very not-sneaker armoured shoes.It didn't take long for posts on social media to point out what...