The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion

The Killing Stone is a card game that casts you as a witch's apprentice going through the will your mistress left behind, only to discover it's a devil's contract with multiple souls tangled up in ...

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

The ROG Xbox Ally X was already expensive when it launched late in 2025, but its Australian RRP of AU$1,599 has just increased to AU$1,799. That AU$200 increase is pretty significant when you consider ...

As Destiny 2's player count continues to tank, Bungie announces that the next major update is delayed until June and getting a new name

Quite why a name change is merited isn't clear, given that the update presumably adds to Renegades, the Star Wars-themed update, which was released in December. That means players are now staring down ...

Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming

In half of those countries, surveys show that the number of people who describe themselves as regularly playing videogames is lower today than it was before the height of COVID lo ...

Spooky visual novel The Mermaid's Curse is the best kind of sequel: a self-contained mystery

There are plenty of superficial similarities between The Mermaid's Curse and the original Paranormasight, a 2023 visual novel that's quietly built up a reputation as one of the best mystery games of ...

DICE has 'heard the message very clear' and is now prioritizing larger maps for Battlefield 6, but 'it takes a really long time'

DICE has indicated that the Golmud Railway remake has been prioritized specifically to address map size in Battlefield 6—the map won't make the cut for Season 2, but its numerous test periods suggest ...

Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record

As for the horror game screeching to the top of the Steam global sellers list, that's probably partly because there's a big cuddly Poppy Playtime Toybox Bundle, where you can buy Chapters 2, 3, and 4 ...

Congrats, you played yourself, Arc Raiders' machines aren't actually learning: 'That's just the way we author them'

Players had begun to wonder whether the robot enemies were using AI to learn new tactics based on player behaviour, but Embark has shot the theory down.

Black Ops 7 ad banned in the UK for 'triviliazing sexual violence'

An advertisement for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 released in November 2025 has been banned in the UK after that country's Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints that it "trivialized sexual ...

Microsoft's ties with ICE come under fire amidst allegations that the company's cloud and AI technology are being used to support mass surveillance of US citizens

No Azure for Apartheid statement comes the day after reports claiming that ICE has tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft's Azure servers over the past six months.

I didn't expect to kidnap alligators, save Woodstock or give people dysentery in a game called Transport Fever 3—but here we are

Transport Fever 3 begins with a mission to kidnap some alligators.

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

As reported by the Guardian, a new study by ToxFree LIFE for All, a Hungarian research and campaigning body, found that ...