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How to mine the petrified Gammeltroll in Valheim
The Deep North's big brute doesn't fall down when he dies. Here's what to do about it.
32-year Nintendo and Zelda veteran reacts to the Ocarina of Time remake, suggesting Shigeru Miyamoto's love of puppet shows influenced the art style
"Mr. Miyamoto’s love of puppet shows really comes through here"
Steam now requires Australian users to have a credit card to purchase R18+ games, and no, a simple bank debit card won't work
If you don't have a credit card, you don't play adult games.
Best Valheim mods for 1.0: updated September 2026
Here is our list of the top Valheim mods, plus a guide on how to install them on PC so you can customize your world exactly how you want it.
SNK’s NeoGeo AES re-release delayed by nearly a year due to components shortage
NeoGeo AES+ will now release in 2027
Ikea made a Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a sentient shelf named Kallax Storageborn
The mod includes a new quest, companion, and items—and as marketing stunts go, it looks pretty good.
How to make money fast in Wardogs
An early guide to farming cash in Wardogs.
Arthur Morgan's illness in Red Dead Redemption 2 is so convincing partly because actor Roger Clark caught "a lot of colds" during the game's 5-year recording process
"There was a lot of data that we got that was pretty damn genuine"
Tired of digital everything, more people are buying physical media: CD sales are up 58% and vinyl records jumped 17%, according to new report
Younger generations have shown increasing interest in discs
Fallout co-creator tells new devs terrified of layoffs they're "wrong" to expect making games to be a "stable job": "Art itself is inherently unstable"
Get used to what you could never be used to
The NEOGEO AES+ Has Been Delayed An Entire Year
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Funnily enough, this news doesn't surprise me, and that's because back in July some Japanese customers received emails stating that the product would be
4,000 hours into Elden Ring, streamer commissions a custom mod so he can beat FromSoftware's finest RPG another 726 times
Every last weapon, spell, and skill must be tested
Almost 1,900 Blizzard workers ratify first union contract with Microsoft
Blizzard Entertainment has secured a first union contract with parent company Microsoft, ratified by a workforce vote covering just under 1,900 staff. Read more
Wanderburg, a bullet heaven where you drive around a Frankensteinian hybrid of a castle and a tank, is out in early access today
Truth be told, I'm still not sold on "bullet heaven" as a genre. Name notwithstanding, the genre is certainly here to stay, and there always seems to be funny new takes on it despite the fact that Vampire Survivors did kind of start it off without much room for improvement. While I'm not sure if Wanderburg is an improvement (I haven't played it yet), I do conceptually like its approach being to hand you a modular medieval castle tank that can suck up sheep and blast cannon fire at your enemies. And it's out today in early access! Read more
Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons"
"It's getting harder on Steam, sadly"
Capcom sleuths find a treasure trove of cut voice lines for Resident Evil 4 and Requiem, and we were robbed of Leon Kennedy's best quips
"Eight legs. No brains"
'We are no longer using that one red pipe asset we weren't supposed to use': The Blood of Dawnwalker hotfix clears up one of the game's more charming mistakes
Dead bodies won't be so talkative anymore either.
80% of Japanese gamers agree: After 20 years, PS3 and Wii are retro now
It's time to admit that two decades is enough to make a game console retro
After 43 years, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is making a surprise sequel to his NES murder mystery game
This week's dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games. Kirby and the World Beyond ! Metroid Ravenous ! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ! But the Japanese version of today's show quietly snuck in at least one game the rest of us didn't get: a sequel to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii's 1983 adventure game. Read more
Call of Duty introduces a gun skin that you can only see on an Xbox console
Behold the Xbox gun.
Pile cards on top of each other and watch the magic happen in the textured and chunky roguelike deckbuilder Stack Order
I find it to be quite rare that when a game says it has a graphic novel art style that it actually has one. There's often just something that reads as slightly off, like it's not quite cut from the same cloth. I'm happy to say that isn't the case with Stack Order, a deckbuilding roguelike with a story all about layering your cards just right to maximise their effects that looks like you could find it in a hip and trendy French comic book shop. Read more
Lego Digital Play acquires mobile studio Offroad Games
Lego Digital Play has acquired Offroad Games. Read more
Valheim 1.0's Steam player count soars to a huge 5-year high, but it's not enough to beat the viral survival game's early access peak
The five-year wait for Valheim 1.0 doesn't seem to have hurt the survival game behemoth's popularity all that much. After leaving early access, the crafty viking sim is enjoying a huge resurgence in Steam player numbers. Read more
ASUS ROG gaming laptops show a computer is more than its components
The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 feeds potent components with ample power into a brilliant display for a next-level gaming experience on the go.