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World of Warcraft ends 21-year drought and adds housing with MMO's new Midnight expansion – but Blizzard has a good reason it took so long: "We couldn't just check off a box and do the minimum"
News "We get one shot at this to impress people"
Atari aims to be "best in the world at retro games," CEO says, which is why it's put its money into keeping brilliant retro studios like Nightdive and Digital Eclipse from having to worry about making payroll
News But "the brand deserves to be something more" so it can plaster neon Atari signs on every building "like in Blade Runner"
Former Witcher 3 devs behind The Blood of Dawnwalker want the vampire RPG to set "a new standard" for the genre with a "hybrid" combat system influenced by Batman: Arkham Asylum, For Honor, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
News One combat system was too hard and the other wasn't immersive enough, so Rebel Wolves combined the two
The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"
News This is no Skyrim
Black Ops 7 lead says FPS fans are "eating" thanks to the head-to-head release with Battlefield 6, "but if you want maximum variety..." play the new Call of Duty game
News "I think because we've been working on Black Ops 7 for so long. It has a really strong vision"
Ex-CDPR dev behind The Witcher 3 says new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about how players "shape their own way of play," just as "pen and paper refugees" did in tabletop games like D&D
News "I believe that RPG games should be about choice"
The way The Blood of Dawnwalker plays with time itself is making it one of my most anticipated RPGs of 2026, especially now that Rebel Wolves has changed how closely the camera sticks to your shoulder
Preview Gamescom 2025 | The Blood of Dawnwalker is filled with smart role-playing choices that are making me hunger for more
Hollow Knight Silksong hands-on: 2,379 days after its reveal I finally played the elusive Metroidvania, and it is absolutely worth the wait
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | Hollow Knight Silksong is a real game that I played with my own two hands, and I'm already desperate to get my hands back on this stunning sequel
Yes, those leaks were true: Black Ops 7 is out this November, it's still coming to PS4 and Xbox One, and there's an open beta right around the corner
News Surprise!
Black Ops 7 is fighting franchise fatigue in the most unexpected of ways with an ambitious co-op adventure which Treyarch believes can "redefine what campaign can be in Call of Duty"
Preview Gamescom 2025 | An inside look at Call of Duty Black Ops 7 ahead of its release this November
The best free Xbox Series X games you can play right now
Best Quality comes cheap in the best free Xbox Series X games, and these 15 are a great place to start
The 10 best Spider-Man games of all time
Best List Here's our ranking of the best Spider-Man games, including Marvel's Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac
The 10 best MMORPGs and MMOs to play right now
Best List The best MMOs and MMORPGs offer vast digital worlds to explore and conquer, alone or with friends
Best racing games to put you in pole position
Best List From kart racers to ultra-realistic sims, these are the best racing games around
The 10 best NES games of all time
Best List From Metroid to Mega Man 2, these are the best NES games to play right now
Jurassic Park: Survival – Everything we know so far about the new Jurassic Park game
Guide Here's everything you need to know about Jurassic Park: Survival, an upcoming horror-survival game that gives "monster" a very specific meaning
Here's a PSA to all Battlefield 6 beta players: Please don't ignore your medic duties, I promise it'll make this explosive FPS even more enjoyable for everybody
Opinion Opinion | Don't pretend like you can't see me down there...
After smashing through Donkey Kong Bananza I've run out of things to play on my Nintendo Switch 2 – so here are 5 games that better get release dates at Gamescom 2025
Will Nintendo go big at Gamescom 2025? We don't have long to wait now
The 10 best Need for Speed games you can play today
Best List The best Need For Speed games to play right now, ranked, from Most Wanted to Unbound
The 25 best fighting games you can play right now
Best List The best fighting games of all time that will have you pulling all the punches
Horror Special 2025 – Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast lead our dive into the genre's future, past, and present
With exclusive access to the biggest horror games on the horizon and deep features on the genre's rich history, we've got you covered for chills
Randy Pitchford and his "big personality" may have caused Gearbox some controversy with all that $80 Borderlands 4 banter, but his boss wouldn't have it any other way: "I still love him to death"
News Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick hails Randy Pitchford as "one of the all time great game makers"
Contraband: Everything we know about the canceled co-op game
Guide Contraband was a co-op heist game set in a fictional 70s locale that was cancelled in 2025
