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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Halo: Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Halo 1, is coming out next year

"Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign. Experience the original story ...

Xbox boss Phil Spencer says 'nurturing and protecting creative teams that want to go take risks' is the priority, admits 'we don't always succeed at that'

The Microsoft Gaming CEO spoke about his priorities at a media industry event, but contradictions haunt the company's grand ...