Let's talk about Artifact. The card-based battler was shown off to the public for the first time last weekend at PAX West, and I got to go hands-on with it during the show and speak with a couple of the game's developers. It's significant m...

With one of the biggest communities in gaming, odds are any inkling of momentum for a DOTA 2 announcer pack will be on the grid: and with nostalgia in its corner, the potential NBA Jam pack has instant cachet. The original announcer himself...

Every year, despite barely playing Dota 2 at all anymore, I look forward to The International (TI). It's the game's premier event and the biggest in all of eSports. Millions of dollars are on the line each year, while the production va...

Just Survive, the game originally known as H1Z1, will be shutting down its servers on October 24, 2018. In a statement made on the official website, developer Daybreak Games says, "After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult...

In a surprise announcement, two new Heroes were just announced at The International for Dota 2. The first Hero teased was Mars, which just had a quick still shot and a winter release date. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they announced ...

For years now, Valve has been making strides with Steam to get away from the closed-off environments of the Windows and App Stores that Microsoft and Apple provide. Valve is all about user freedom and allowing people to play games the way t...

It was basically only a matter of time, but this year's Dota 2 main tournament, The International, has surpassed last year's total of $24,787,916 and has officially become the biggest prize pool ever for an eSports event. For those una...

If you're looking for a new tactical FPS to play, why not give Insurgency a shot? In a campaign to promote the upcoming sequel, Insurgency: Sandstorm, developer New World Interactive is giving away the first game on Steam for the next 48 ho...

Before joining up with the gang at Campo Santo to help make Firewatch, artist Olly Moss made a name for himself with astounding movie posters, adorable video game character doodles, and the cover art for Resistance 3. (Also, Garfields.) We'...

Steam sales have been lacking in a sort of magical urgency for the past couple years. That's because Valve did away with Flash Sales in 2016, which were limited-time events where on-sale games would go on super sale for a few hours. Getting...

We all have an idea of what game we'd like to see Valve work on next, but for the time being, there's Artifact -- a Dota card game made in collaboration with Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield. Valve has confirmed a Novembe...

If you've ever dreamed about being a hacker and causing all kinds of digital chaos, then Hacknet is probably the game for you. The title is more about solving a murder mystery, but it still immerses you in the hacking lifestyle and presents...

China's Tencent Holdings is looking to expand its "WeGame" digital platform to the global market soon. There will be a launch in the Hong Kong market before spreading overseas with an international version of the gaming service. WeGame, for...

Waiting for Valve to release anything new related to the Half-Life/Portal universe is looking more and more like a fool's game with every day that passes. Anyone with an itch for more Portal 2 might want to set their sights on a c...

While my Steam purchasing has severely slowed down in recent years, I still catch myself eying the marketplace's top-sellers list. I like seeing what folks are into and whether or not I'm still with it. This week, Steam has broken out a lis...

While the PC port of Ys VIII might still be in shambles, at least we'll be getting a quality PC release for the Ys series soon. XSEED Games has announced that the port of Ys: Memories of Celceta (aka Ys IV) will be launching on Steam, GOG a...

It has been quite some time since I last played a Crash Bandicoot game. I have lots of great memories of Crash Team Racing, but I certainly remember all of the zaniness that the original trilogy had. I jumped in after Crash Bandicoot 2 came...

It is somewhat surprising we haven’t seen more games try to ape Dark Souls in the wake of its success. While there are a few big titles with similar mechanics (Nioh, Lords of the Fallen, and The Surge come to mind), most of those game...

Valve recently added the ability for Steam users to see how much money they've spent, and this sure feels like the video game equivalent of learning the exact date you're going to die. I didn't need to know this. I didn't need to know this ...

After months of beta testing, PUBG's third map will finally be going live on regular servers. Called "Sanhok", the map will be a much smaller take on the sub-genre that PUBG popularized last year. The reduced size should make for shorter, m...

In the middle of all of this e3 news nonsense, Steam has gone and decided it's capable of updating its usability. Soon, the AOL-esque chat of yore will be gone, replaced by the slick, fancy Discord chat of the present. Available in beta now...

This week, Valve announced they would permit any game to be hosted on its market-leading platform, Steam, as long as it did not contain illegal content and is not what can be classified as a "trolling game". This met with praise from people...

After declaring that it wouldn't police the Steam marketplace a few days ago, Valve has removed a couple more controversial titles from its platform. AIDS Simulator, ISIS Simulator, Suicide Simulator, Asset Flip Simulator, and Triggering Si...

This year's E3 conference really can't get a break. From the Walmart leak that broke the silence on RAGE 2 to Crackdown 3's delay getting confirmed ahead of time, there probably won't be much to the show we won't know next week. We can also...

Valve doesn't feel as if it has any real responsibility to police the vast majority of the content that gets published on Steam. In the wake of controversy surrounding the removal of erotic visual novels and a new game that simulates a scho...