The Steam Controller is actually a scream controller, because Valve couldn't resist making it cry out in memey pain when you drop it
We've all heard it. This sound. The infamous Wilhelm scream, famous for cropping up whenever a game or film sound designer fancies a bit of inside jokery. Or, in this case, when Valve want to work an easter egg into their new Steam Controller. Yep, if you drop it in the right way, the controller…
Framework says DDR5 memory costs 'remain fairly stable' but 'on SSDs, the pricing story is unfortunately not as positive' as it raises prices again
One step forward, two steps back.
UK MPs claim GTA 6 studio Rockstar "refused to properly engage with staff" during legal wranglings over dev firings
Several UK politicians have called on Rockstar Games to be more transparent and co-operative in their legal dealings with GTA 6 developers fired last year. The staff were let go in autumn last year, with Rockstar subsequently claiming that they were fired due to the leaking of "confidential…
"Everyone would hate you": Stardew Valley creator is "open" to adding adultery and NPC divorces, but he's against it "on a moral level"
The first thing I read this morning was a lifestyle headline about how humans simply aren't "built" for monogamy. The second thing I read was Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone toying with the idea of introducing adultery and, by extension, divorces to cosy life sim Stardew Valley. If the third thing I…
Dark Souls 2 path tracing mod is now available for all, and yes, it inevitably makes the game harder
Finally, a reason to use Prism Stones.
Lies of P studio is hiring an 'AI Creator' for future projects but says the role will not be 'directly involved' in the development of the sequel
The successful applicant will use AI tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for "asset creation," post-processing, and training AI models for use in game library creation.
Sega has canceled its live service 'Super Game' due to 'intensifying market competition,' and I really, really hope it's a sign that the industry is finally correcting itself
Years of catastrophic bets on F2P mega hits may finally be subsiding.
After his shock retirement last year, legendary former Tekken boss has landed at one of Japan's biggest fighting game publishers
Katsuhiro Harada is now the CEO of VS Studio.
Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller
My Steam Controller just screamed at me, Wilhelmingly.
Valve's next Steam UI target is the Community Market, with more details and, yes, a wider layout
"Bigger," Gabe Newell chants incessantly at Steam's Valve UI and UX team at Valve. "Larger! More! Never stop making it bigger!" He screams. At least this is what I imagine has been happening over the past year, given the number of size related (mostly widening) changes that's been taking place on…
Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the world's billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god
"There is a very low probability of a good future if someone doesn't slow Demis down."
Gang of Dragon studio website disappears without notice as NetEase funding dries up
Nagoshi Studio, founded in 2022 by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, just revealed its debut project at the 2025 Game Awards.
Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: 'I think that PoE 1's being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem'
PoE 2 is certainly complicated, but it's much kinder to new players.
One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw
It is, admittedly, a pretty good pitch.
20 years later, the world deserves another Sid Meier's Railroads!
Just three years after Railroads! came out, we were already reappraising it.
Valve made more than 27 million unique images for Counter-Strike listings as part of its new 'major update' to Steam's Community Market
The big marketplace update is live now in beta.
"I just find AI to be creatively soulless": Casey Hudson on the controversial tech and Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic
It is, obviously, way too early to know anything that's worth anything about Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic just yet. The KOTOR spiritual successor was only revealed last December, and it was one of those CG trailers that exist to build hype and to tell prospective hirees that they can apply…
Head beneath the waves and pull up "corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare" in the ocean-fear inducing KEROGEN
I do not trust the ocean. It's too big! There's too much going on in that thing and oh how I pray and pray for the day that James Cameron stops messing around down there. Makes for a good horror setting though, as evidenced by the likes of BioShock, SOMA, and Iron Lung, and now KEROGEN is entering…
Protesters 'raid' EA to oppose Saudi Arabia acquisition
A small group of people from the Players Alliance HQ attempted to deliver a petition against the takeover containing more than 70,000 signatures.
This vampire farm sim has Real Housewives of Stardew energy
Moonlight Peaks is brave enough to ask: What if Stardew Valley were more toxic?