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19.11 / 02:29

Counter-Strike UPS Half-Life War A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email

First Spotted by 80 Level, Secret Tape's massive documentary on the development of Half-Life 2 contains an almost unbelievable story of how Valve was saved from legal and financial ruin thanks to the actions of a single summer intern, paving the way for PC gaming as we know it today.

18.11 / 05:39

Destiny War Bioware's art lead shared some off-the-wall rejected concepts for Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer characters, including the return of a controversial companion we never saw again

18.11 / 00:01

War 12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon

17.11 / 22:21

RPG Adventure Divinity UPS Three years on, monster-huge RPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' final major update will overhaul its end-game dragon god abilities to finally live up to the hype

16.11 / 21:33

Divinity UPS BioWare's art director reveals eight pieces of decade-old concept art for the earliest version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

16.11 / 21:33

Half-Life boxing More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track

16.11 / 19:25

Booking Half-Life Celebrity Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes

16.11 / 19:25

Citizens Half-Life Celebrity Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

15.11 / 20:39

Party RPG UPS A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game

05.11 / 21:53

Persona Strategy Adventure UPS This week's Humble Choice is dang good: Darktide, Persona 4, and more

04.11 / 01:47

UPS Nintendo In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'

03.11 / 21:59

UPS Apparently George Lucas originally wanted Liam Neeson to be the 'real' Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor taking up the name after he died

03.11 / 21:59

UPS A college student put on a free, stage adaptation of Silent Hill 2 'to make a truly frightening theatrical experience' all without an appearance by Pyramid Head

02.11 / 21:01

RPG Dreams UPS Digital Baldur's Gate 3's offscreen secrets include an 'asylum' for plot-critical NPCs and a 'magical teleporting death journal' to help particularly murderous players find Act 2

27.10 / 22:21

UPS Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dusts off his controller to stream Crazy Taxi on Twitch: 'The Republicans will accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something'

26.10 / 23:39

UPS Twitter Life is Strange co-creator says 'nothing justifies' the vitriol the series' current devs are getting while allowing that 'we would not have written things the same way'

26.10 / 23:39

UPS Digital Hideo Kojima games have already gotten big reappraisals 5-10 years after release, now the auteur says he wants to make games that will impress space aliens centuries into the future

26.10 / 20:07

Battlefield UPS CEO shooting Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break teases a 'pilot combat mode' where you leave the cockpit and run around like reverse Titanfall

26.10 / 16:53

skeleton Valve giveth, and Valve taketh away: Team Fortress 2's BLU Scout is once again wearing the 'wrong' pants after a 17 years-in-the-making fix was reversed a day later

21.10 / 11:55

Fallout UPS Nintendo Fallout 1 fan-remake taps out just 2 months after it got a meaty demo, but promises it's not because of 'infighting' or Bethesda meddling

19.10 / 18:15

Dreams UPS Celebrity The creator of Dusk and Iron Lung is making a gruesome but surprisingly funny horror game about beating killer cultists with lead pipes and 2x4s

17.10 / 23:19

fishing YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it with others

14.10 / 21:35

UPS Digital LEGO Epic wants its Fortnite-Disney metaverse project to be 'what every Disney fan has ever wanted,' but don't expect Mickey Mouse to pick up an assault rifle

14.10 / 20:46

Booking I can only assume this upcoming Witcher children's book takes it easy on the folk horror, fantasy racism, and brutal violence I associate with the series

14.10 / 20:46

Nintendo Pokémon dev Game Freak appears to have suffered a 'teraleak' that includes 25+ years of never-before-seen Pokémon art, assets, documents, and even canceled movies

08.10 / 07:25

RPG Persona Simulation UPS Metaphor: ReFantazio's ReViews are in, and the Persona follow-up looks like 2024's unanimous RPG hit

07.10 / 05:51

UPS Digital Nintendo A Quake 2 Remaster dev has rebuilt the game's unique PlayStation port from scratch and released it as a free add-on

07.10 / 05:51

RPG UPS CEO Booking Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games⁠—including a 3D dungeon crawler

07.10 / 05:51

CEO War Epic Boss Tim Sweeney says Unreal Engine 6 will be a 'metaverse' joining Fortnite and other Unreal games, including an upcoming 'persistent universe' in development with Disney

07.10 / 05:51

UPS The lead dev on life sim Inzoi was sick of making MMOs where everyone was mean to each other and wanted to create a game like The Sims he could enjoy with his son

07.10 / 05:51

UPS Google Meta will use pictures and voice recorded by its Google Glass-style Ray Ban 'smart glasses' to train AI

06.10 / 06:23

Welcome to shooter bizarro world: First Fortnite goes FPS, now Halo Infinite's adding a third person mode

06.10 / 06:23

UPS TikTok Chappell Roan still swears by The Sims 2: Double Deluxe: 'I knew every cheat code, so I would make everybody pregnant and everybody woohoo'

05.10 / 20:04

Fighting Action UPS Duke One Tekken 8 modder has crowbarred all of Baldur's Gate 3's origin characters into the fighting game

04.10 / 21:43

RPG UPS Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader and its new expansion are on sale for 40% off

04.10 / 19:33

Action RPG Strategy UPS Digital BioWare announces that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold and is on track for its Halloween release

03.10 / 23:53

Stealth UPS shooting Rangers This bowhunting game created by a Bethesda veteran plays like if you made a whole game out of Skyrim's stealth archer playstyle

03.10 / 22:35

UPS Progressive Half-Life shooting Kvark is a Sovietcore boomer shooter that looks like Half Life if it happened in early '80s Czechoslovakia, and it's somehow become my favorite FPS of the month

01.10 / 01:13

RPG UPS Progressive Activision said 'no' to Skyrim modders 3 years into remaking a semi-obscure vampire RPG it published a lifetime ago, so now those modders are reworking it into a new story

30.09 / 21:33

Official Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures are coming, but the six origin characters plus Withers will set you back $50

30.09 / 03:03

UPS Music Hideo Kojima shows off 8 minutes of new Death Stranding 2 cutscenes, including no less than 2 musical numbers featuring that little puppet guy, whose name is 'Dollman'

29.09 / 23:01

Digital Provident The original 1997 Backyard Baseball is finally coming to Steam

29.09 / 02:03

RADS Helldivers 2 players have been tasked with building the 'Democracy Space Station,' a 'gigastructure' of indeterminate firepower that will be aimed by literal democracy

28.09 / 23:47

Counter-Strike UPS Half-Life One of the co-creators of Risk of Rain is now working on Deadlock

28.09 / 23:47

Minecraft UPS Mojang reveals the first addition of Minecraft's new year-round update schedule: A creepy forest biome haunted by a tough-to-kill monster

28.09 / 17:59

Provident One of Baldur's Gate 3's pioneering map modders is recreating the opening area of Baldur's Gate 2

24.09 / 00:07

Fighting Party Action RPG Adventure Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights veterans are making a new RPG with a vision of 'Baldur's Gate 3, but Pathfinder, with miniatures'

23.09 / 00:31

Action UPS While Dragon Age: The Veilguard's companions will form their own relationships, it sounds like we'll still be able to interfere with them: 'They might come to you for advice, and I can't guarantee you'll give them good advice'

22.09 / 20:33

UPS Twitter After railing against the 'Darth Vader' of the Brazilian Supreme Court and getting Twitter banned in the country, Elon Musk is giving in to the court orders that started it all

22.09 / 20:33

Party Action Progressive One Baldur's Gate 3 modder managed to implement real-time combat like the classic games, but you should probably wait for them to figure out a pause button before diving in

22.09 / 01:21

Discover Half-Life Destiny A veteran developer found a beta build of Half-Life in his storage unit and has made it available for anyone to download

21.09 / 21:49

Party UPS It turns out you can keep Baldur's Gate 3's heartbreaking temporary companion permanently: You just have to beat half the game without resting, kill her and your main character, and stuff them in someone's pocket

21.09 / 19:39

UPS Provident Sony New report sheds light on Annapurna Interactive implosion while the parent company says it's 'focused on moving forward,' hiring to fill the vacancies, and still working on the Blade Runner game whose devs just walked out the door

20.09 / 02:17

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will see the return of Inquisition's protagonist, and you'll be able to customize their appearance and voice

20.09 / 02:17

Fighting Action UPS Judero review

17.09 / 06:35

Party Progressive skeleton Baldur's Gate 3 modders are already using its jailbroken level editor to make the game's first custom maps, including a proof-of-concept level in Hell

17.09 / 02:39

Fighting Action Adventure Fallout Digital There are weird games, and then there's Judero: a delectably Scottish adventure made out of action figures and Harryhausenesque claymation where you fight faeries, lizards, and Englishmen

15.09 / 23:40

Puzzle UPS Somewhere between Death Stranding and A Short Hike, there's Caravan SandWitch

13.09 / 05:00

UPS Kentucky Route Zero and Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has collapsed, with its entire staff quitting en masse

10.09 / 02:08

Fighting UPS One Baldur's Gate 3 player retaliated against Act 3's annoying wizard street performers with a frame rate-tanking, 100+ exploding barrel nuclear strike

08.09 / 20:29

Divinity UPS War It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

06.09 / 03:20

UPS Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 tweaked one of the game's most brutal scenes to twist the knife even more

05.09 / 20:17

Party War Some of Baldur's Gate 3's new evil endings are so nasty they're hard to watch, and there's a unique variation for each origin character

02.09 / 02:14

UPS Celebrity Risk of Rain 2 creators comment on Gearbox's first DLC without them: 'It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains of the new team in real time'

02.09 / 01:42

UPS Digital 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike

01.09 / 01:30

Divinity UPS Baldur's Gate 3's beefy patch 7 will finally drop next week

31.08 / 19:00

Party Twitter Apple Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of the influential Wizardry series of RPGs, has died

30.08 / 17:32

Fallout UPS football The indisputable first, third, and sixth-best Fallout games are free to keep on the Epic store this week

30.08 / 00:35

UPS Metro Cyberpunk 'We are not an extraction shooter, hero shooter, or some competitive tac shooter:' Cyberpunk FPS Defect's secret fourth thing actually has me excited for a PvEvP game for once

27.08 / 18:20

Puzzle UPS Google Half-Life Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will have challenging puzzles, but also a creative hint system through Indy's camera: 'We don't want you to go to YouTube to look up the solution, because that's immersion-breaking and bad'

27.08 / 17:30

UPS I let out a 'hell yes' when I saw this game stars a worm-fox trapped on a dying world, and an even louder 'yes dude, yes' when the trailer got to the Metal Gear mechs

27.08 / 17:19

RPG Dreams UPS A super fan of Dungeons & Dragons' Githyanki made a Baldur's Gate 3-infused Doom map where you can just hang out and talk to them

27.08 / 16:40

UPS Microsoft softens language about killing off the Control Panel, but it's still clearly gonna kill off the Control Panel

25.08 / 01:49

Action RPG UPS After years of speculation about whether Avowed takes place before or after Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian casually revealed it's a sequel through a preview quest poking fun at the events of Pillars 2

25.08 / 01:49

Fighting Adventure Stealth UPS Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs say an Indy game 'could never be a shooter, should never be a shooter,' so they're embracing his signature whip, improvised brawls, and disguise-based stealth instead

24.08 / 23:37

Overwatch Progressive Warframe shooting Destiny Players seem to like Concord, but its $40 price tag has led to a tepid first weekend on PC

24.08 / 22:26

Action RPG UPS Sekiro was so influential, even the next big BioWare and Obsidian RPGs are adding parries and stagger meters

24.08 / 00:38

Extreme Progressive After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists

23.08 / 22:12

Fallout Software War After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'

23.08 / 17:47

Platform UPS Cyberpunk Black Myth: Wukong is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time, moving almost as many units in one week as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk did in their first months