Yahoo is quietly building a games business, and it’s starting with daily webgames

  Yahoo Games has seen daily active users grow more than 60% since its January relaunch, as the portal follows the New York Times and LinkedIn into casual, habit-forming web games. Andrew Pedersen, Yahoo’s head of games and a former mobile VP at EA, told us that gameplay clicks across Yahoo’s games are...

Fable's main story will take around 15 to 20 hours to complete

Xbox and Playground Games have given a rough idea of how long Fable will take to finish: 15-20 hours. Read more

First Official GTA 6 Merch Is Out, But There's a Catch

It appears that Rockstar Games has sent brand-new Grand Theft Auto 6 merch to select people, including one YouTuber, but the sad part is that it probably won't be available for purchase. Grand Theft Auto 6 recently unveiled nearly half an hour of gameplay, and Rockstar North also confirmed it showed much longer gamepla...

Call of Duty: Black Ops designer turns to mobile after months of funding rejections

  After failing to fund a PC/console project, a former Treyarch level designer has built and shipped offline extraction shooter Rift Raider Extraction in seven weeks. Mystic Realm Games founder Brian Douglas left Treyarch in 2014, having worked on Black Ops 1 and 2. After a spell at Free Range Games, he was laid o...

Ed Sheeran gives surprise performance of Pokémon anime theme and Celestial at World Championships

Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance at the Pokémon World Championships this weekend, opening the closing ceremony with Celestial and an acoustic rendition of the original Pokémon anime's theme tune. Read more

The Witcher 4 already runs on all target platforms - CD Projekt Red not taking any chances after Cyberpunk 2077

The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Red's next major game, will hopefully not suffer the performance problems of the studio's former major release, Cyberpunk 2077. The developer, keenly aware of the latter's disastrous launch, has adopted a new approach to game optimisation for the former. Read more

1666: Amsterdam's developer says it 'won't be using AI anymore', and the tech was only used 'in conception and pre-production'—arguably the most creative phase of the entire process

There was surprise and delight when Summer Game Fest brought the reveal of 1666: Amsterdam, the long awaited dream project from Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets. But the mood quickly changed when eager players began exploring a playable prologue for the witchy action-adventure that was released alongside th...

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Pokemon GO Reveals New Gen 6 Pokemon Event for September 2026

Pokemon GO has officially revealed a brand-new event coming to the game in September 2026, putting Phantump in the spotlight for a Catch Mastery event. September will mark the start of the newest season of Pokemon GO with the launch of Twilight Trials.

Path of Exile 2's campaign finale includes "more than one act," but its Director is "being a bit coy" about what it actually is

The 1.0 launch of Path of Exile 2 will bring the end of its campaign, and until now I'd just assumed that was in the form of Acts Five and Six, much as developer Grinding Gear Games had originally suggested. Now, I'm not sure what to think. We caught up with the action RPG's Game [...]