Speculatively plotting GTA 6’s map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: ‘We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed’

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If you’re a Grand Theft Auto-enjoyed, the painstaking wait for GTA 6 likely seems like a lifetime. Sitting on our hands, watching the clock, marking huge Xs on the calendar day-by-day—May 26, 2026 cannot come quick enough. For one GTA community, though, this is the busiest they’ve ever been. Founded in the run-up to GTA … Read more

This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess

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Here’s an intriguing little number that slipped through the cracks amid the deluge of game announcements pouring out Gamescom. The Killing Stone is a virtual card battler interweaved with a twisted folk horror narrative, where you play against demons and the devil himself in papery duels to the death. I say card game, but the … Read more

Survival climber Cairn is getting a free-solo mode, letting you channel your inner Alex Honnold when it launches in November

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I’ve been continually impressed by Cairn ever since it was announced in June last year. The survivalist climber features one of the best climbing simulations I’ve experienced yet. If that seems like a bold claim for a game that isn’t out for another few months, don’t take my word for it, you can also try … Read more

Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades

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Team Fortress 2 modders love nothing more than imagining alternate histories for Valve’s long-running multiplayer shooter, and this year has seen several of these nostalgia-tinged conversions migrate from the rolling pastures of the web into Steam’s smog-belching metropolis. In March, Team Fortress 2 Classic revealed it would be launching on Valve’s platform sometime in 2025, … Read more

You’ve got approximately 12 months left to enjoy Overwatch 2 because it just got the Persona 5 collaboration kiss of death

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Legends tell of a videogame. A cursed videogame. One which, once it crosses paths with another, puts a year-long ticking timebomb on its victim. And the worst part? They never saw it coming. Sorry, it’s Persona 5, I get at least one Last Surprise joke. There’ve been a pretty wild number of collaborations announced across … Read more

Microsoft’s DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it’s limited to the ROG Ally X for now

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Shader compilation woes are, to my mind at least, one of the scourges of modern gaming. Nothing brings you out of the experience quicker than unwanted hitches and stutters as a game struggles to compile shaders in the background before they’re needed. Microsoft thinks it might have the solution, however, by providing pre-compiled shaders, downloaded … Read more

AMD’s FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license

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AMD made a bit of an oopsie yesterday, as it accidentally released the source code for FSR 4, before promptly hauling it back again. Despite the course correction, it seems possible that it’s too late to put the genie back in the highly technical bottle. What makes this specific mistake notable is the fact that … Read more

Everyone’s heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game’s all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline

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Are you ready for Hollow Knight: Silksong? Well, by my count, about 22,941 players are desperate for another fix of Team Cherry’s work, a number that’ll continue to rise over the intervening minutes of me sitting down and writing this article. Per SteamDB, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date of September 4 has driven swarms of … Read more

Amid sweeping changes, it’s refreshing to see that the Battlefield 6 beta was an actual playtest, and not a glorified demo

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Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: playing way too much of the Battlefield 6 open beta. This week I’ve been: slogging my way through the Road to Battlefield event in Battlefield 2042, remembering why it’s my least favourite game in the series. The most significant difference between most playtests I’ve … Read more