Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 closes with £1.8m raised for Prevent Cancer Foundation and a 70-player relay in Super Mario 64 Replay
Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has raised $2.44 million (£1.8m) for its latest cause, Prevent Cancer Foundation.
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Former Assassin's Creed director says the future of game design "lies in smaller teams"
Former Assassin's Creed director Alexandre Amancio has shared his thoughts about AAA development, suggesting we need "smaller teams" and admitting that big-budget developers cannot "solve a problem by throwing people at it".
Code Vein 2 wants to introduce you to The Blinded Resurgence Offspring
Code Vein 2 is just a few short weeks away now, and to celebrate, Bandai Namco has dropped an all-new teaser trailer entitled "The Blinded Resurgence Offspring".
As Grok continues generating sexualised images, Epic Games boss says senators calling for a ban are trying to "censor all of their political opponents"
As X/Twitter owner Elon Musk moves Grok's widely condemned AI image manipulation feature to paid-only and users flood the "town square" with thousands of sexualised images, Epic Games boss said that senators calling for the removal of X from the Apple and Google stores are trying to "censor all of their political opponents".
Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 - Broken Things gets a subtitle and a PC release date, but console players will have to wait a little longer
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Surprise! We finally have a release date and a subtitle - "Broken Things" - for Poppy Playtime 5: 18th February, 2026. The console release for Chapter 5 will reportedly "follow in the months ahead".
The Sims wants you to know its values "are unchanged" despite EA sale
EA has stressed to its community that "the values of The Sims are unchanged" as we head into 2026.
2026 will be "one of the biggest years in the history" of co-op ghosthunting game Phasmophobia
Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games reckons 2026 will be "one of the biggest [years] in the game's history" as it moves towards the full release of the game.
What we've been playing - "I then made fishcakes and fed them to a time-frozen lad called Pirate Pete"
Hello and Happy New Year - is it okay to say that now? I'm not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people still have their Christmas trees up. We had ours out before New Year. Welcome back to What We've Been Playing! Or as I like to call this particular edition of it: What We Played Over Christmas, because it's been a couple of weeks since we've talked.
Larian "will certainly consider" a Divinity Switch 2 release
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian "will certainly consider" getting its upcoming release Divinity onto Switch 2.
What would Discord going public mean for gaming's biggest communication platform?
Earlier this week, reports indicated that big moves were happening at Discord. According to Bloomberg, the company responsible for gaming's most popular social platform had confidentially filed for IPO, indicating a major move towards going public.
Change of mind: Larian says it will not use gen-AI at all in relation to Divinity concept art
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has changed its stance on generative AI following backlash faced at the end of last year.
As newer MMOs shutter or struggle to find an audience, 22-year-old Eve Online recently saw a massive surge in new players. But why?
Eve Online - the sci-fi MMO space-faring epic - saw a surge in players at the tail end of 2025. The game had over a million players take to the stars in 2025, and it has benefited from the largest influx of new and returning players in years.
Despite helping create it, FromSoft's Hidetaka Miyazaki reckons Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin would probably be quite surprised by how the world of Elden Ring turned out
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin would probably be quite surprised by how the world of Elden Ring - which he helped developer FromSoftware create a backstory for - actually turned out in the end.
Our New Year 2026 gaming resolutions - "I want to see how close I can get to 100 percenting the game in 24 hours"
January is the month that, where I live, in the south of England, everyone gets serious again. All the paraphernalia of Christmas - all the merriment and cheer and colourful lighting - is cleared away in favour of sobering goals for the year ahead. It's never something that's appealed strongly to me, making goals, but I do feel the allure of wiping a slate clean and starting again. It's like a run in a roguelike game, I like to think. Time for a new me.
Developers of beloved horse game, Umamusume, confirm plans to establish AI-focused sub-studio
Cygames, the Japanese video game developer responsible for a variety of popular games including Umamusume: Pretty Derby, has announced its intention to create an AI-focused subsidiary company.
Clair Obscur's final boss was a bit easier than developer Sandfall planned, mostly because everyone actually engaged with all the side content
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall underestimated just how much players would engage with the game's various sidequests and optional content, and as a result of this extra grinding would find the final boss fight a tad underwhelming.