Destiny 2’s Steam player count nearly doubled with Guardian Games, but it’s still depressingly low

Any developer would be happy to see the player count for one of its games double, and with Guardian Games, Bungie stumbled upon that scenario. This would have been amazing news for Destiny 2—if it weren't so sad. The release of Guardian Games 2026 pushed Destiny 2's Steam player count to the peak of 14,030 players when it launched on Tuesday. It's a vast improvement over the 7,933 guardians Steamcharts recorded the day before. Popularity.report points out it had 205,177 unique players yesterda

Fan-favorite Steel Legion returning to Warhammer 40K after Armageddon book closes out current edition

Ork biker Wazdakka is here as well, alongside a host of heroes for numerous factions

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Tips

Warhammer 11th Edition officially revealed, and your old Codex army books will still work

Back to Armageddon, literally and metaphorically

How many of these videogame world maps do you recognize?

This one's for the cartographers.

"F*** me, I guess": Hades 2 actor Ben Starr "hated" himself while playing the roguelike because his character Prometheus is a "hard boss"

Ben Starr put "90 hours" into Hades 2 and all he got was self hate

Horizon Chase Turbo, a great arcade racer with no online functionality or licensed vehicles, is being delisted in June

The Brazilian studio behind it, formerly known as Aquiris, is owned by Epic Games.

Disgaea dev's spooky new Stardew Valley-like is finally confirmed for a western release months after its Japanese announcement

Honogurashi no Niwa, as its known in Japan, hits PC and consoles this Fall

Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games

Nintendo has announced that it will adopt separate price points for digital and physical Switch 2 exclusive games published by the company The post Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games appeared first on This Week in Videogames.

Pokémon Champions Won't Let You Use Pokémon That Aren't Fully Evolved

Pokémon Champions' producer Masaaki Hoshino says only "final evolution" Pokémon will be available at launch, possibly with exceptions for some like Pikachu and Eevee.

Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice

"Don't listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar."

Black Ops vet says his mystery PlayStation project wasn't a live-service game, and even if Sony shutting down his studio "f***ing sucked" he reckons it's just because "times change"

You'd have to put Jason Blundell "in the goddamn ground" to get him to stop making games

'I'm not sure it was a rational decision': Caves of Qud devs ported the roguelike to Nintendo Switch because they're 'interested in solving impossible problems'

Well well well, not so impossible to make an impossible port now, is it?

Marathon Review - Incredible Highs, Painful Lows

We started on Perimeter, the map tuned to provide the "easiest" experience in Marathon, and spent the next 15 minutes trapped in the very first building we entered, fighting every single team of player "Runners" in the match. It was GameSpot senior producer Jean-Luc Seipke's very first match in Bungie's online first-person extraction shooter, and it was nothing if not a trial by fire. Together with our matchmade teammate, we battled down hallways and around corners, flanking and catching opponen

The Sims creator blew 10 years and millions of dollars on his new game, laid off his whole team in 2024, and still isn't done: "I'd much rather have a glorious failure than a mild success"

Not even Will Wright fully knows what he's doing

Random: Uh Oh, Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Miis Are Already Swearing

No filter here. Oh goodness, trust the internet to figure out if you can swear and say naughty things in a video game made by Nintendo. Within hours of the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo going live, players quickly decided to test the filter out on the game. And it turns out, to live the dream to its fullest, no filters are allowed. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Nintendo Published Switch 2 Digital Games Will Be Cheaper

Nintendo announced that, going forward, the prices of digital Switch 2 games on the eShop in North America will be different than the physical copies and it seems cheaper. It confirmed this will start with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, which debuts on May 21, 2026. This falls in line with a practice already happening in places like Europe. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and the European release of Pokemon Pokopia are the best examples of what to expect from the difference between the cheaper d

Splitgate studio 1047 Games is working on something new: 'If you're a fan of games like Titanfall or Black Ops 3, we would love to hear from you'

CEO Ian Proulx says the studio hopes to begin playtesting soon.

After 37 years, cult classic NES Friday the 13th game has a fan remake made "from scratch" for Game Boy Color, and this time around you can actually take down Jason Voorhees

The fan-made Friday the 13th remake gives Jason a health bar and adds a whole new trading system

I wish I were melting my brain in Screenbound right now instead of simply writing about it, and I'm not bitter about it at all

Hands-on | The 2D and 3D platformer Screenbound feels like it shouldn't work but does so well

Marvel Rivals dev says monthly hero release schedule isn’t going away: ‘It’s not going to slow down’

One hero a month. Every month. That's what Marvel Rivals has been doing since 2025, and according to devs at NetEase Games, it won't be changing any time soon. Releasing a new character in a hero shooter every single month, meaning 12 new ones every year, means there's always something to go back to in the game. On top of limited time events, new skins, and balance changes, the game isn't going away any time soon, according to executive producer Danny Koo. Image via NetEase Games This crea

I asked about Arc Raiders' mystery ships and a dev told me the same thing Embark is now teasing online: "I think you'll have to keep an eye on the sky for now"

"Watch the sky," Embark says today, because the sky is shooting lasers

Grind Has Brewed Up A Super Sweet Pokémon Collaboration, And It's Out Right Now

Koffeeing. The Pokémon Company is no stranger to a collaboration, and its upcoming crossover is for all those who assumed Minccino can come in a Grande size with cream and syrup. That's right, Pokémon is teaming up with coffee brand Grind on a new range of products. The collection will consist of "drinks inspired" by the world of 'mon — best not to think too deeply about that one — as well as other goodies. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn't count

This isn't even the first time they've done this.

Is this really the most terrifying video game enemy?

A lot has been theorized over what the scariest enemy in games might be. I have played many horror games, seen many mods, and cross-referencing intel from both has revealed that the scariest monster in all of them is apparently just regular spiders. Are spiders in games that scary? Some of the best artists and game designers in the world did their best to come up with the likes of Pyramid Head, Nemesis from Resident Evil 3, the Lickers from Resident Evil 2, and so many others, but we seeming

Combo Devils Is My Favorite New Fighting Game You Probably Haven’t Heard Of Yet

Even in this early state, Combo Devils is showing a ton of promise as a fusion of a traditional 2D fighter with a Smash Bros.-like platform fighter. Here's our full hands on preview of Combo Devils.

Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'

Epic laid off more than 1,000 employees yesterday as CEO Tim Sweeney says the company is still spending more than it's making.

Random: Breath Of The Wild's Rito Village Looks Incredible In Pokémon Pokopia

Spriga-Rito. We knew Pokémon Pokopia would bring out the creative types in many players — some have spent years practicing in Minecraft and Animal Crossing, after all. And it was only a matter of time until those Nintendo crossovers started to crop up. moyashi, who brings that aforementioned experience with them, has recreated Rito Village and Divine Beast Vah Medoh from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , block by block. The scale is ridiculous, and the whole build is extremely accurate.

Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May

The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.

Coexist with a capricious, rusty moon in Amberspire, the new isometric city-builder from the creator of The Banished Vault

I am shocked to discover that this is the first time we've written about Amberspire, the new sci-fi city builder from Nic Tringali, developer of starfaring monastic strategy game The Banished Vault. Shocked, I tell you! It's set on a gas giant moon, looks a bit like isometric Sable, features dice with arcane symbols, and challenges you to "cohabit" with an ecology of ooze, silica and rust, rather than turning everything into a mall. It's the kind of speculative fiction racket an eco-vibing hipst