Escape From Duckov quacks past 300,000 concurrent players only 10 days after release

Singleplayer extraction shooter might sound like a bit of an oxymoron—the genre is all about evading other players to escape ...

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to ...

A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend

Mabutts Valley with cheeky physics puzzles. PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor was among that player count earlier this week, and in her impressions said "things are a little janky right now" ...

One original Halo designer blasts the new remake, wonders if the point was just 'Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do'

That last point fielded some criticism from Jaime Griesemer, game designer on the original CE and design lead on Halo 2 and 3 ...

Somehow, Heroes of Newerth returned: One of the first standalone MOBAs is back, but fans are mixed on its new look and bizarre launcher

All this makes the re-release sort of a headscratcher for any outside of Newerth's niche fanbase. If you long to play Dota, ...

Vermintide's developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: 'I was so scared'

Fatshark succeeded. When I first played Vermintide I experimented with a few different characters, and the only one I didn't ...

Latest CS2 patch has skin collectors in meltdown over a supposed $2bn in losses, with others saying 'this is the best update ever', but maybe Valve is just doing some cour…

In other words, what some are painting as an economic disaster may actually make a lot of sense for the CS2 economy that ...

Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series

Into the bargain, millennium-era DICE also picked up an in-development FPS named Battlefield 1942. Yep, the first-ever game ...

Xbox fully surrenders the console wars: 'Halo is on PlayStation going forward,' a fact that just doesn't seem real

"It's really a new era—Halo is on PlayStation going forward," Halo Studios community director Brian Jarrard said on a ...

Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof

Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI's videogame development ...

Chain smoking and chugging beers are the only ways I can handle being chased by a bear who wants to to tear my ramshackle motor home apart in RV There Yet?

There's plenty of stuff to pick up at these stops: scrap metal to repair any dinks to the RV, additional survival tools, and ...

Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?

Naroditsky was a serious talent: an under-12 world champion who earned the grandmaster title in his teens, a US junior ...