Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs...

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PSA: PlayStation Users Can Pick Up a Free Survival Game Until July 7

PlayStation Plus subscribers have until July 7 to download and claim one of the Essential tier's best games in a hot while. The Essential tier of PS Plus games is sometimes called the free games tier, simply because it does not have access to the catalogs of PS Plus Extra and Premium, and because the tier is "essential...

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Razer Soma Chroma Review: Comfortable, Supportive, and Weird

I’ve always had something of a love-hate relationship with gaming chairs. A good one can be supremely comfortable, supportive, and meaningfully beneficial to your gaming experience, but they can also be quite ugly at times. Whenever I’ve used a gaming chair, I’ve felt like it was at odds with my broader setup—if you’ve...

GTA 6 developer Rockstar accused of enforcing crunch, weaponising bonus payments, and ignoring a widening gender pay gap

As Rockstar employees move to pursue official union recognition following a series of high-profile sackings in 2025, new allegations are emerging related to Rockstar's treatment of its staff. In a new report published by Game Developer, multiple Rockstar developers have accused the company of failing to address gender-...

Absolum Art Team Is Entering Court-Ordered Liqudation

Supamonks, the team responsible for Absolum's gorgeous art style, is entering court-ordered liquidation, despite the game being a "major success" for Dotemu.

Best Open-World Adventure Games That Let You Play At Your Own Pace

Updated on July 1, 2026, by Vlad Mazanko: We’ve updated this list to include additional entries for sprawling adventure play: Horizon Zero Dawn and Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.

"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures

The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of "demoralizing", "low-effort slop" that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they'll still let people deploy the chatbot technolo...

10 New Steam Genres That Exploded In Popularity Over The Last Five Years

Categorization is very important for a platform like Steam. After all, there are 1000s of games on there, you can't expect people to sift through them all to find what they want. So, there needs to be a way to categorize them. Steam mainly does this through genres and tags.

EA changes Battlefield 6 XP Boosters for the better, only to yet again reveal the change was an error and take it back

For the second time in a month, Battlefield Studios has altered the in-game language explaining how Battlefield 6 XP Boosters work, only to renege and claim it was done in error. This time, however, it's made players even more aggravated because of the way the message was delivered. Read more