20 May 2026
Platform & Hardware
- PlayStation State of Play on 2nd June: What Are You Hoping for at the 60+ Minute Show? 12
- Xbox adds Matthew Ball and Scott Van Vliet to leadership team 6
- New Xbox Controller Is Missing One Key Feature, Suggesting A Permanent Change 3
- PSA - Upgrade Your Nvidia Graphics Drivers To Avoid a "High-Severity" Vulnerability 3
- Magic The Gathering: Arena Is Gearing Up For A Marvel Comics Takeover 2
- PlayStation’s Days of Play Sale Returns in May 2026 2
- 'Our ambitions are as big as the Wii:' How the Nex Playground is targeting the global market
- "Honestly? We botched it" - Kickstarter apologises for its criticised adult content rules, and for betraying its "f*ck the establishment spirit"
- ESL FACEIT Group Turns Esports Vertical in TikTok Partnership
- Everything leaving PlayStation Plus in June 2026
- Family-friendly Steam game is replaced by crypto malware before being delisted
- Five Games Are Available Today Across Multiple Tiers Of Xbox Game Pass (May 20)
- Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive
- I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best
- If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
- Lords of the Fallen 2’s Epic Exclusivity Deal Canceled
- Mac users say Microsoft Teams won’t stop demanding location access, and Microsoft is now blaming Apple for the undismissible pop‑ups
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11’s May 2026 update is failing to install with error 0x800f0922 and outlines a mitigation for affected PCs
- Microsoft launching improved Xbox Adaptive Thumbstick Toppers
- Microsoft plans to launch a cheaper 8 GB Surface laptop later this year which won't meet the requirements of a Copilot+ PC
- Microsoft refuses to make the ultimate Surface Laptop, forcing people to choose between its best features
- PS Plus Price Increases Also Hit Extra, Premium Tiers - Here Are All the New Prices
- PS6 delays, cross-gen blockbusters, more subscriptions? What PlayStation's financials really mean
- Samsung unveils "industry-first" 6K gaming monitor with 165Hz refresh rate and DisplayPort 2.1
- Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well
- The 13 biggest Windows 11 changes from early May — and why these updates matter for how the OS evolves through the rest of 2026
- The old Metro‑era Xbox 360 dashboard lives on as one fan recreates the classic experience on PC with impressive attention to detail
- The top 20 "Xbox Player Voice" trending feedback items you voted for so far: Game Pass Family Plan, Backwards Compatibility ... and yes, Xbox exclusives — and more
- This PCIe 5.0 SSD with "blazing fast speeds across the board" is starting to drop in price, but the memory crisis painfully lives on
- Windows 11's new "Haptic Signals" feature is a quality of life upgrade I didn't realize the OS needed until I tried it
- Xbox Changed Achievements, Now PlayStation Could be Changing Trophies
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Classic series like Deux Ex, Legacy Kain, and Saints Row will be "more actively" explored following Embracer Group structure shift 13
- Quantic Dream's multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles is being shut down and the studio reorganised, but Star Wars Eclipse is unaffected 6
- Returnal director and Housemarque veteran Harry Krueger launches Finland-based game studio Cosmic Division 5
- Star Wars Jedi director's single-player Dungeons & Dragons game cancelled less than a year after it was announced 5
- Ubisoft confirms new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon games are coming before April 2029 4
- 'People Enjoy Surprises' — Valve Is Trying to Dismiss New York's Counter-Strike Loot Box Lawsuit 3
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream tops April US sales | US Monthly Charts 3
- Another live service game is dead just a few months after launch 2
- Hasbro CEO Explains Why Brand Avoids Live-Service Game Model 2
- 'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable
- 'Let's Do the Protestant Reformation Inside Star Wars' — Damon Lindelof Reveals New Details on His Canceled Version of Daisy Ridley's New Jedi Order Movie
- "Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"
- "We overlooked the potential offense and harm" - the studio behind popular multiplayer game Party Animals has now cancelled its AI video competition entirely
- "Whoa what a wild reaction" - Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reacts to backlash after praising an AI-generated FF6 remake trailer
- 81-year-old Minecraft streamer swatted while raising money for grandson's cancer treatment
- Apr 2026 USA Sales: Unremarkable Start for Saros on PS5, as Circana Adds Digital Projections
- Brandon Sanderson Says He'll Start Working on His Mistborn Era 3 Book Again in July
- Brandon Sanderson's Skyward is getting adapted into a TV series
- Embracer writes down its mobile arm by $190m as Easybrain sale causes earnings drop
- Former BioWare, Inflexion Games, and Timbre Games developers launch Studio Reset
- I read every document in the Musk vs Altman case and my takeaway is: 'Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point'
- Indiana Jones: The Further Adventures collection confirmed by Marvel
- Intel chief: 'In the past, we made a lot of mistakes... from day one I came on board as CEO, I have all the engineering report to me'
- Man sues Nintendo for $341,000 because he can't be a Pokemon Professor
- Nier director Yoko Taro: New game projects start ‘with the money’
- Ryan Gosling’s says Angry Birds killed Nice Guys 2 — we have proof he's wrong
- Subnautica 2 Early Access Hotfix 1 Released, 'Adjustments' to Controversial Terms of Service Promised
- TSMC employees can now buy company-branded shoes modelled by CEO C.C. Wei, or a chip-themed rice cooker with a 'wafer-shaped steaming plate'
- Ubisoft Has Reduced Its Headcount By Over 1,000 Employees In The Last Year
- Ubisoft's net bookings are down 54% year-on-year
- UK publisher EdCorp breaks cover after signing Garbage Country
- Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'
Game Coverage
- It's true: the Kingdom Come Deliverance studio is making a Lord of the Rings RPG 12
- Subnautica 2 Improvements On The Way, But No, You Can’t Fight The Fish 6
- Splitgate 2 Dev's Titanfall-Style Game Pops Up On Steam 5
- A Forza Horizon 6 Sound Effect Might Just Trigger Some Awful Memories For You 2
- All Hail Devo: How Mixtape’s Soundtrack Made It May’s Surprise Hit 2
- Amazon Reveals Pokémon Winds & Waves Price 2
- Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table 2
- Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is a good roguelite shooter, but a little less special than the game that spawned it 2
- Embark Studios Confirms Exactly How ARC Raiders Matchmaking Works 2
- Forza Horizon 6 Map Size, Best Places To Visit, And How To Reach Them 2
- Hellraiser: Revival Continues to Look Absolutely Disgusting in New Gameplay Trailer 2
- How sexy will James Bond game 007: First Light be? Hitman studio IO Interactive says the clues are already out there 2
- How To Unlock All Characters in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight 2
- World Of Tanks’ New Arcade Spin-Off Launches On May 26 2
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced's Instant HUD Toggle Should Be in Every Game
- Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: 'I thought that somewhere it had been built before'
- Best drag cars in Forza Horizon 6
- Bhashiva's tiger warriors are an addition to Total War: Warhammer 3 worth the money and the wait
- Civ 7's massive overhaul update brings its highest Steam player count in over a year
- Did You Get In? Horizon Hunters Gathering PS5 Beta Invites Rolling Out
- Don't Expect A Pokémon GO Sequel Any Time Soon
- EXCLUSIVE: Monopoly F1 Edition Board Game Revealed With Its Own Monopoly Grand Prix
- F1 2026 Season Pack Trailer Analysis: Madring And New Teams Confirmed For F1 25, But Huge Questions Remain
- Fallout 4 is finally getting this huge update on Xbox and PlayStation 6 months late next week — Bethesda's RPG will never be the same on consoles
- Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came
- Final Fantasy 11 Producer Says Adding New Area to Game ‘Isn’t Impossible’
- Forza Horizon 6 interactive map
- Forza Horizon 6 Smashes Concurrent Player Record For Xbox Game Studios On Steam
- Forza Horizon 6's best Initial D reference is a cup of water
- Genshin Impact Next Update And Banners - Everything We Know About Version 6.6 And 6.7
- GTA 6 Price Mistakenly Appears on PlayStation Store For 16p
- Guide: Horizon Hunters Gathering Closed Beta #2: Start Times, How to Play, and What's Included
- How Many Chapters Are In LEGO Batman: Legacy of The Dark Knight?
- How to get a battery terminal in Subnautica 2
- How to get a growbed in Subnautica 2
- How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's third act? See what you remember about the RPG's big finale with a quiz built for real Elder Brains
- In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?
- It's my own fault for thinking Warren Spector's new multiplayer stealth game adding singleplayer would make it the Thief successor I was hoping for
- League of Legends Patch 26.11 Preview: Huge Changes
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of The Dark Knight Iceberg Lounge Safe Code—How to Get The Penguin Red Brick
- Lord of the Rings' 10-year streak of terrible games might finally come to an end
- Magic: The Gathering is fixing Spider-Man's Arena issue with new Marvel set
- Mina The Hollower Is Creating An Unexpected Problem For Other Games
- Months of work later, one Pokémon Pokopia player's recreation of the original Kanto region is almost complete
- Nearly a decade after its last update, Darksiders Warmastered Edition gets a photo mode and motion controls in a surprise new patch
- Paralives is the very definition of early access, but it's already a promising Sims rival
- Pokémon TCG Pocket Smashes 200 Million Downloads & Counting
- Poppy Playtime Chapter 5 Coming to Consoles in 2026
- Review: Tales Of Arise - Beyond The Dawn Edition (Switch 2) - Solid Game, Solid Port, Goes On A Bit
- Round Up: The Reviews For Lego Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Are In
- Rumour: Genshin Impact's 'HoYoverse' Account System Supposedly Adds Switch Support
- Street Fighter 6 Ingrid High Level Gameplay (CPU Level 7)
- Subnautica 2's early access warning is more serious than I could've imagined
- Supercell reboots its lowkey monster hunting game Mo.co with seasons and (free) gacha pulls
- Surreal narrative match-3 game Titanium Court has sold over 25,000 copies, giving designer AP Thomson enough time to peacefully work on his next game
- The best cars in Forza Horizon 6 for each race type
- The Best Games Of 2026 (So Far)
- The Mass Effect-like Exodus 'is effectively D&D in space,' Hasbro CEO says
- This forgotten Magic card just got new life with Secrets of Strixhaven's most popular Commander
- This indie dev's dungeon crawling 'descent into madness' was inspired by motherly love
- Two-and-a-Half New Cars Added to Wreckfest 2 in Latest Early Access Update
- Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne
- Where to find the golf course in Forza Horizon 6
- Whoa, this nifty Forza Horizon 6 mod lets you play your Spotify music through the in-game radio — here's how it works (and why you can't use it yet)
Other
- After Voicing Toad In The Mario Galaxy Movie, Keegan-Michael Key Is Ready For Something Rated Mature 2
- The Boys Is Officially Over, and the Internet Has Plenty of Thoughts 2
- This Batman: The Animated Series Batgirl Figure Nails The Show’s Iconic Look 2
- 'AI Mode has been a revelation, our biggest upgrade to Search ever. People love it,' says Google CEO
- An AI speaker messed up and skipped the names of students at a college commencement ceremony and yes, there were many boos
- As a former smoker, I'm asking gamedevs to please make an 'arachnophobia mode' but for cigarettes because I am barely hanging on here
- Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'
- Esports World Cup Paris Relocation Confirmed by Foundation
- Falcons, MIBR, B8, and Legacy Progress to Playoffs at the CS Asia Championships 2026
- Google Unveils AI-Driven Search Changes That Threaten the Future of Digital Journalism
- How to watch Warhammer Skulls 2026
- Microsoft's open house left this community with more AI data center questions than answers — St. Joseph County protests reduced water and spiked electricity bills
- NLC Announces Talent Line-Up for Its Spring Split Return
- Opinion: Replaying Games Is Better Than Playing Games
- Pitt, Tarantino, and Fincher's big movie hits IMAX before Netflix release
- Pokémon fans terrified over an extraordinary Black Label Mew card sale
- Summer Game Fest 2026 Showcase—Date & Start Times, How to Watch & How Long it is
- Supergirl Confirmed for Man of Tomorrow as a "Major Part" of the DCU Going Forward
- The Adventures of Cliff Booth Lands IMAX Release Date Ahead of Netflix Debut
- The Boys season 6? Everything we know about Vought Rising and the future of the franchise
- The Mandalorian theme is the greatest Star Wars music not by John Williams
- UK-centric gaming showcase, For One Night Only, announced, featuring IO Interactive and Criterion
- Why Manchester City Entered Rocket League After 10 Years in Esports
- Xbox Games Showcase 2026 & Gears of War: E-Day Direct—Date, Start Times & How to Watch