12 August 2026
Platform & Hardware
- Gears Of War: E-Day’s New Xbox Controllers Are Metal As Hell 6
- Crimson Desert on Switch 2: Developer Finally Confirms Release Window 5
- Out of nowhere, Sony confirms that 2024 breakout hit Helldivers 2 joins PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium today 5
- Twitch Now Trains Amazon's Generative AI Models on Your Channel by Default 4
- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August 2026 Confirmed 3
- Xbox Elite Series 3 controller leaks again, this time on Reddit 3
- Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Ports Planned For This Year, It’s Claimed 2
- 10 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for August 2026 Announced
- Andy Weir's New Time Travel Thriller Launches in Just Three Months
- Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM review
- Dimension 20 Returns on Dropout: Here's A First Look at Its Twisted Take on Toy Story
- Feature: 40+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Ready, Set, Play Sale
- I checked GOG's most popular games and found shocking gaps in updates, DLC, languages, soundtracks, and more — 1,140 games are affected with 1,531 issues
- It looks like Windows updates might actually be speeding up the OS now
- Made by Google 2026: Everything Announced
- Microsoft says Windows 11 KB5101684 makes your PC more reliable, especially on devices with low amounts of system memory: PCs with 8GB RAM or less should feel more responsive
- Netflix's Live-Action 'Yu Yu Hakusho' Is Reportedly Getting a Second Season
- New PS5 Consoles Include Small Print Confirming Change to Digital Over Disc
- Nintendo Expands Switch 2's GameCube Library With Another Game This Week
- Poll: So, Are You Getting The Zelda Switch 2 Console And Pro Controller?
- Quote of the day by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "Moore's law is dead. It's completely over" — Will GPUs ever be affordable again?
- Reddit User Cuts Steam Machine Faceplates Out of Same Marble Michelangelo Used
- Review: Edifier R2750DB MK2: The Best £300 PC Speakers?
- Snapdragon X Plus laptops make mincemeat out of homework and exams, and one of our favorites is now on sale in time to help struggling students
- Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic
- Students finally have real Windows laptop options that don't break the $1,000 barrier — head back to school with the right PC
- Super Mario Sunshine's Soundtrack Joins Nintendo Music Today, Here's Every Song Included
- The Steam Frame needs to be more than a cool device if Valve want to reshape the VR market
- This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off
- Two Games Are Available Today Across Various Tiers Of Xbox Game Pass (August 12)
- UKIE-backed Digital Schoolhouse partners with Roblox to provide suite of tools for students to develop Roblox games in-class
- Xbox Adds Six New Features In August 12th Update, Now Available To Download
- Xbox promises that the causes of the recent outage, which rendered even game discs unplayable, have been fixed
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark's western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development 8
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's internal playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6 disrupted by a giant inflatable rat, as Bethesda union protests cuts 6
- Multiplayer Witcher spin-off Project Sirius reportedly hit by layoffs again, in "broader shift in development strategy" at CD Projekt Red 5
- Saber Interactive denies replacing writer with AI 5
- Take-Two CEO Won’t Be In GTA 6 After His Surprise Appearance In WWE 2K26 3
- DC's TV Division Reportedly Scrapped Two Key TV Projects, Rejected Pitches for Catwoman and Poison Ivy Shows 2
- God Of War’s Christopher Judge Is Tired Of Video Game TV Adaptations Ignoring Game Creators 2
- Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler 2
- Phasmophobia Studio Launches A Publishing Label With These Five Exciting Games 2
- After 2 Years, My Hero Academia's Creator Finally Returns With a Near-Perfect Follow-Up
- Avengers: Doomsday Advert Cost Marvel $160,000 in Fines After Safety Fears
- CodeDev Group launches dev studio Full Spectrum Interactive
- D&D Rival Announces New Partnership to Fight Financial Struggles
- Developers expect generative AI to impact roles and team sizes in the next three years
- Epic Games sells ArtStation and Sketchfab to KitBash
- G2 and Wizards of the Coast Announce Jersey Partnership
- Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'
- Nvidia reckons new $500 billion investment should allay fears AI companies are just funded by the same pot of cash moving around in one big circle. Reassured yet?
- On the podcast: Sega-Rovio news, Tripledot’s Supersonic buy, mobile at Take-Two, Playtika shenanigans, Block Blast, AppLovin, MTG, SciPlay, more
- Pokémon Winds & Waves Led By Sword & Shield DLC Director, It’s Claimed
- Sony has 'zero understanding for what their customers want' says gaming preservation group
- Stop Killing Games Joins PlayStation Digital Monopoly Lawsuit
- Sydney Sweeney's Forgotten R-Rated 89-Minute Thriller Is Officially Streaming on Netflix
- Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'
- The Voice of The Witcher's Geralt Says He'd Sue Every Single AI Platform With His Voice on It 'Into the Ground' if He Could
- Tom Holland's Brutal Spider-Man: Brand New Day Workout Goes Viral as Fans Try It for Themselves
- Wes Fenlon's recommendations
Game Coverage
- Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition is coming to PS5 later this year, with new story additions, a new roguelike survival mode, and more 7
- A forgotten old co-op Lord of the Rings game has been unexpectedly remastered and re-released, and there's a promise of more to come 6
- Helldivers 2 NPCs Will Hug You Back Now, Even When No One Else Will 6
- Phantom Blade Zero State Of Play Set For Next Week, And Yes, That’s Donnie Yen In The New Trailer 6
- After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms 4
- Dawn of War 4 gets a release date delay to "further refine the experience ahead of launch" 4
- Immortality creator Sam Barlow's new video-scouring game is sci-fi horror Precognition, a collab with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, in which you see and change the future 4
- Hogwarts Legacy 2 Is Officially in the Works, Confirms Warner Bros. 3
- Call of Duty: Warzone Patch Notes: Juggernaut and HDK Changes 2
- Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace 2
- Halo: Campaign Evolved struggles to sell in anywhere near the quantities the recent Black Ops revivals did, and the probable reason? Lack of multiplayer 2
- Meccha Chameleon has now sold 20 million copies in two months 2
- Palworld Update Fixes The Game’s Biggest Frustration 2
- There Are Many Solid The Elder Scrolls 6 Subtitle Theories Based on Xbox Boss Asha Sharma’s Asterisk-Filled Tease — but Let’s Rule Out Skyrim 2 Right Now 2
- "The world's becoming so bleak": How Soulframe hopes to escape Warframe's shadow, with a little insight from Elden Ring
- 2 More Truly Fascinating Retro Games Are Coming to PS5 This Week
- All Haul The King is a co-op comedy corpse-dragging simulator from the makers of Eclipsium, one of 2025's best horror games
- ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Update Arrives October 8 As First Details Emerge
- Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'
- Big Walk review
- Bubsy 4D 'Black Hole' Free Update Adds 15 Levels, New Outfits, And More
- Cities Skylines meets Balatro in the excellent new roguelike city builder Combolands
- Control Resonant Has No Parry Mechanic And I Don’t Know How To Feel About That
- Crystal Chronicles Has the Best Final Fantasy Music
- Dataminers Uncover Five Possible DLC Characters for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
- Does Phantom Blade Zero Have a Physical Copy? Disc Status, Explained
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 for console has some BIG news and it might be playable for the first time soon
- FaZe Clan Announce Permanent Signing of Neityu
- Final Fantasy Resonance Shows Off 11-Minute Shiva Battle and Squall Summon on PS5
- Fortnite x 99 Nights In The Forest Collab Revealed
- How to Get & Use Explorer Gadget in Pokémon Go
- How to get a toe biter buggy in Grounded 2
- Hungry Studio’s hit puzzler Block Blast is heading to Apple Arcade
- I fixed Fallout's music by creating a totally new genre | Unraveled
- Kiki's Delivery Service Meets Akira in 'Crescent County', Launching Summer '27
- Major Escape from Tarkov Expansion Delayed Before Getting a Date
- Marvel Tōkon's first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn't done much for its Steam reviews
- Mini Review: Future Knight (Switch) - Channels The Spirit Of Tiger Handhelds To Great Effect
- MTG's Most Popular Commander Has Been Officially Dethroned by a Final Fantasy Card
- New Bully-Like Agefield High Isn’t Having The Best First Day Of School
- Nintendo Posts A New 'Creator's Voice' Video For Orbitals On Switch 2
- No More Room In Hell 2 Is Out Now, Bringing Its 'Intense' Co-Op Survival FPS To Xbox
- Old School Runescape Officially Recognizes Player Who Reached Level 99 Fishing Catching Only Shrimp and Anchovies
- Phantom Blade Zero Costs Less Than $60
- Phantom Blade Zero PS5 Demo Leaks Before Next Week's State of Play
- Pokémon TCG's 30th Anniversary Fat Pikachu Revealed
- Review: Final Fantasy XIV Online (Switch 2) - An Expansive Port That Demands Your Commitment
- Roundup: The First Reviews Have Arrived For Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
- Spaceship bullet heaven Seven Suns of Orion has what Vampire Survivors lacks: semi-Newtonian physics and railguns
- Steam is Getting an Absurd New Vampire Survivors Clone in 2 Weeks
- Steam shooter explodes in popularity after devs warn fans not to buy it
- Subnautica 2 now has a beta update branch, letting players try out patches before they're finished, but beware, your saves won't carry over
- Tarkov Dev Floats Risky PvE Idea as Huge Update Approaches
- The King is Watching revels in magic, menace and distraction
- Today’s NYT Strands #892 Hints, Answers, and Spangram for August 12
- Video: How Does Oblivion Remastered On Switch 2 Compare To The Steam Deck?
- Where to find the pond jockey location in Grounded 2
- Who put all these banjos in my sci-fi game?
- Why Journey's last song was the hardest for Austin Wintory to compose
- Why Nier: Automata has one of the best soundtracks ever
- Xbox Gamers Can Play Co-Op RPG Sunderfolk for a Limited Time
Other
- Disney Confirms D23 Kingdom Hearts Panel Details, and Given Who's on It, We're Expecting Kingdom Hearts 4 News 4
- Coyote vs. Acme Debuts With Perfect 100% Score on Rotten Tomatoes 3
- 'X-Men '97' Season 2 Ending Explained: the Cast Break Down 4 Crucial Moments
- A severe ASUS Armoury Crate vulnerability affects laptops, handhelds, and desktop PCs — Here's how to check if you're in the clear
- BAFTA Games Awards updates voting requirements and entry fees as it opens entries for 2027 ceremony
- Barbie 2 May Not Happen as Warner Bros. and Creative Team Clash Over Pay Demands
- Game Awards 2026: All Game of the Year Front-Runners and Predictions
- Halo 2's Midnight Release Turns Into a Hostage Situation in a New Short Film
- Harry Potter nerds have forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf's grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead
- How Absolute Batman Reimagines One of Bruce Wayne's Greatest Tragedies
- LEGO Reveals Nike Air Force 1 Set With a New Version of the Classic Spaceman Minifigure
- McDonald's Announces Eight Hello Kitty x Godzilla Toys Coming to Happy Meals This August
- Mozilla Firefox and Brave keep uBlock Origin alive while Chrome and Edge block the adblocker
- New research shows Windows 11 keeps undermining basic browser choice with harmful design tactics
- The "untranslatable" book that inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been translated, and you can buy it later this year
- The International 2026 Tournament Guide—Schedule, Format, and Teams
- The Rumored New James Bond Could Be An Actor From Battlefield 1
- Theater Employee Makes Their Own Spider-Man: Brand New Day Poster After Cinema Never Received Official One
- Welcome to the internet in 2026, where AI agents are both victim and attacker in malware wars
- X-Men ’97 Season 3 Confirmed? Plot, Potential Release Date, and Everything You Need to Know