Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'
"Or even a grav gun separating me from that 10-foot pole."
Lego racing game 2K Drive will be delisted next week, but online multiplayer won't shut down until next year
It released just three years ago.
Palestinian pseudo-stealth game Dreams on a Pillow paints a difficult, poetic picture in its first look at gameplay
Back in late 2024, Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh announced Dreams on a Pillow, a "pseudo-stealth adventure game." It's set during the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing that saw Israel violently displacing Palestinians and dispossessing their land and homes, serving as Abueideh's emotional…
Mixtape will be safe from a music licensing related delisting, ensured by its developer paying extra for the privilege
The first thought that probably arose for most people upon seeing Mixtape for the first time was probably something along the lines of, "that's a lot of licensed music, wonder how long it takes before it's delisted." Music licensing is notoriously a pain in the ass, and considering how embedded…
Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are 'a lie,' says publisher
The developer paid for perpetual music licenses to avoid that problem.
Ancient MMO Final Fantasy 11 still has new things on the horizon 24 years after launch
The other Final Fantasy MMO is still doing its thing.
Check your inbox: Steam Controller reservations are coming through
Not everyone got an email, but if you did, you'll have to act fast.
Sleepover is a cosmic horror visual novel about the last person on earth and the stranger who shows up at their front door
A concept that quite genuinely keeps me up at night is the idea of waking up one day and every other person on Earth disappearing. Couldn't possibly tell you where this fear of mine stems from, all I can say is that I would imagine such a reality to be a cosmically nightmarish one. Enter Sleepover,…
GTA roleplayers built a secret Boiler Room rave beneath Los Santos, complete with DJs, club photographers, biker security, and a custom party drug
With nearly 100 players packed into an underground bunker.
Fence off a free-spirited horse that can't stop eating grass in the daily puzzle game enclose.horse
There is a horse in the middle of the field. It wants to escape, run free, to graze upon the grass where it thinks it is greener. The horse knows not of the dangers of the outside world, for it is simply a horse. So what must we do? We must put up enclosures to form a pasture for the horse, yet we…
MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose
Perfectly balanced, as all things shouldn't be.
For its 24th anniversary, Final Fantasy 11 is getting a free trial upgrade that lets you play it for as long as you like
Final Fantasy 11 is the MMO that just keeps on ticking. It's the game's 24th anniversary today, which still isn't old enough to make it the longest running MMO, but does make it old enough for those of you that played it when it came out to have grandkids. The game isn't just still running either,…
This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime's house with magnetism
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times is a delight.
I've been pixelating things again for our latest quiz—this time you have to guess which 10 videogame characters I've mangled
It's like going back to the 1980s.
MercurySteam announces 'difficult and painful' job cuts as its God of War-inspired hack 'n' slash arrives on Steam
The developer of Blades of Fire has initiated a "workforce adjustment process."
Subnautica 2's no-killing ethos "will be a continued point of resistance" among players, say Unknown Worlds, but they have no plans to change it
With the early access release of otherworldly diving sim Subnautica 2, developers Unknown Worlds are dealing with some familiar criticisms about the new survival game's absence of weaponry or outright combat elements. Speaking to RPS among other journalists in a roundtable interview, design lead…
6 million more people are using Firefox because of new EU rules, which is good news for Chrome haters like me
Other third-party browsers are seeing upticks too.
Sink your teeth into V Rising for free this weekend, and you can grab the full game for less than half price
All DLC is also 20% off.
Fallout's creator reveals you could have played as a snoring cow hater who believes in UFOs, had Black Isle stuck with its original licensed roleplaying system
Tim Cain spills the tea on "GURPS Fallout".
I’m waiting days between attempts to catch one fish in Final Fantasy 14 before it disappears for months, so don’t let anyone tell you raids are the ‘hardcore’ challenge
If you thought I was bad at dodging bright lines on the floor, wait until you've seen me fish.