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Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming’s brutalist walking sim canon
Brutalism serves one of two purposes in games: either as a source of concrete projectiles, or much more commonly, as a backdrop to quietly wander around, feeling morose. Personally I’m a fan of both, hence Lullabies Made of Static – which is out today – tickling the same neurons as my favourite grey walking sim,…
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Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn’t quite stick the landing
The call is coming from inside the house.
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Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that’s a ‘virulent plague’ on games
“Honestly, what does it help with?”
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French retailer briefly offers the ‘Stim Machine,’ a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
Making Daft Punks of us all.
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Publisher Krafton finally agrees to pay bonuses to every Subnautica 2 staffer as Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill leaves again
To most players, Subnautica 2 is one of 2026’s hottest survival games after over four million players jumped into its dangerous waters and found an iterative but engrossing sequel. If you’ve been keeping tabs on its long development, however, you know about the legal dispute between Krafton and Unknown Worlds’ leadership. Now, the publisher has…
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“You are the endgame”: Total War: Warhammer’s new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he’s been waiting 10 years for
The Everchosen is back and means business.
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Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well
Eventually we’ll just be left with Halo and Call of Duty.
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“Dynamic pricing it is”, “prices will surely go up”, “this is anti-consumer”: the internet reacts with outrage and despair to PlayStation killing off physical media
Today, Sony announced that it will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028, citing “consumer preferences” for the reason it’s going all-in on digital. The reaction, unsurprisingly, has been pretty bad across the internet and the indsutry at large. Read more
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The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
I’ve tracked down at least 30 new cozy games launching in July and I lost count of how many have cats.
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Disc drives and release dates: Sony just told us two major things about the PlayStation 6
Sony just announced its shocking decision to end the manufacturing of discs for all PlayStation games beginning January 2028. Although the company’s announcement does not touch on its next-generation console, the announcement tells us a lot about the PlayStation 6. Read more