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• Latest news PC Gamer quiz: identify 15 video games from screenshots of their water

  PC Gamer released a timed quiz that challenges players to identify 15 video games using only screenshots of in-game water. The quiz gives players 10 minutes and features a mix of serene and hostile water scenes, from lakes and oceans to hazardous water levels. The selection includes games where water is central to gameplay and games where water is incidental, and it sits alongside other PC Gamer trivia quizzes on topics like healthbars and in-game currencies.

• Latest news David Fincher to direct sequel 'The Adventures of Cliff Booth' — IMAX and Netflix release

  David Fincher will direct a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood titled The Adventures of Cliff Booth; Tarantino is not directing. The movie focuses on Cliff Booth, the stuntman character played by Brad Pitt in the original film. Netflix released the first teaser in February and has confirmed an IMAX theatrical run followed by a streaming debut on Netflix.

• Latest news Lego unveils 6,130-piece Executor Super Star Destroyer set

  The Lego Group revealed a 6,130-piece Executor Super Star Destroyer set inspired by The Empire Strikes Back. The set was officially revealed on Wednesday. At 6,130 pieces it becomes one of Lego's largest Star Wars models, ranking below the 9,023-piece Death Star, 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon and 6,785-piece AT-AT. This adds a new large-scale option for collectors and display-focused fans of Star Wars Lego builds.

• Latest news Cutout: grimdark 2D action where you snip, steal and attach enemy limbs

  At Gamescom's Find Your Next Game showcase, Italian studio 906 Games revealed Cutout, a 2D side-scrolling action game starring Lena, a paper-doll "child of the forest." Players use a found pair of scissors to sever enemies' limbs and attach them to Lena for new powers, while enemies can also steal her limbs. The trailer presents choice-driven moral decisions that shape Lena's development; Cutout is listed as "coming soon" on Steam and is available to wishlist. The game's spooky fairytale aesthetic and violent limb-based mechanics position it as a likely spiritual successor for fans of American McGee's Alice and similar nightmarish fairytales.

• Latest news Ubisoft botches release of classic Heroes of Might and Magic 3

  Ubisoft released Heroes of Might and Magic 3 but the launch was botched. The game is more than 25 years old and remains a defining turn-based strategy title. Its core loop—exploring a fantasy world, gathering resources, building towns, recruiting armies and developing heroes for tactical grid-based battles—means release problems directly affect longtime players and the game’s legacy.

• Latest news League Classic’s Council lets players vote to add or remove mechanics

  The Council is a community-poll feature in League Classic that lets players vote on the mode’s direction. Players can give general feedback or vote on whether specific gameplay mechanics should be added or removed. Poll outcomes directly change how League Classic is played.

• Latest news Grogu's new Force ability confirmed; links to the original Star Wars trilogy

  Grogu displayed a previously theorized Force ability in his theatrical debut, officially confirming the speculation and tying his powers to the original Star Wars films. The character has already shown healing powers, the ability to stop a charging mudhorn, and learned combat moves across three seasons. Din Djarin (played by Pedro Pascal) equipped Grogu with Beskar armor, and the new ability expands how Grogu connects to established Star Wars lore.

• Latest news Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars follows Josh Brolin's marine surviving a viral apocalypse

  Ridley Scott released The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic film starring Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi. Brolin plays Bangley, a misanthropic former marine who lives on an airstrip and warns his partner Hig (Elordi) against wanting anything beyond survival after a virus wiped out most of humanity. The pair regularly defend their home from desperate invaders, and the film frames their precarious safety as a form of the 'American dream.' This story explores survival, companionship, and moral limits in a collapsed society.

• Latest news Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake returns at Gamescom with new art and tweaks

  Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake was revealed at Gamescom as a new iteration of the classic strategy game, featuring a fresh art style and gameplay tweaks while preserving the original HoMM3 experience. A preview play session covered the campaign prologue and the Arrogance scenario, showing four-player starts near second towns, nearby underworld entrances, and shipyards that speed early expansion. The remake arrives as Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is in early access and slated for a 1.0 release in 2027, marking a franchise resurgence with two major HoMM projects active.

• Latest news Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern reimagines D&D as an innkeeping sim

  Homo Ludens is developing Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern, a management game that puts players in charge of running a tavern in the Dalelands section of Faerûn. The official reveal trailer shows a Sims-like interface for building and expanding the inn, hiring staff, assigning dice-based challenges, and serving adventurers who can use in-house recipes to gain bonuses. The game shifts focus from adventuring to supporting adventurers and is scheduled to release on PC in 2027.

• Latest news Raccoon Logic unveils Breakaway Hockey League — 4v4 PC arcade-style hockey

  Raccoon Logic revealed Breakaway Hockey League at Gamescom, a PC-focused, high-skill 4v4 ice hockey game with five-minute matches and ranked play. Players control a single skater per team rather than an entire lineup, with an emphasis on realistic puck physics, physical checking, dekes and precision shooting to generate highlight moments. The studio designed the arcade-leaning title to fill a perceived gap in PC hockey games and to capitalize on hockey's expanding global audience.

• Latest news Mob Entertainment reveals Escape from Playtime, a 1–4 player co-op Poppy Playtime spin-off

  Mob Entertainment announced Escape from Playtime, a co-op survival horror that returns players to the Poppy Playtime toy factory. The game lets 1–4 players control the ‘Smiling Critters’ to scavenge materials, solve puzzles and evade the factory’s dangerous denizens. It features proximity voice chat that ties communication to risk and procedurally generated factory layouts that change each run. Escape from Playtime is coming to Steam early access with no release date provided.

• Latest news Guns of Eschaton mixes Soulslike campfires with Weird West FPS but is brutally hard

  Guns of Eschaton blends Soulslike campfire respawns with Weird West–themed first-person shooting. Hands-on play reveals the game is challenging and offers limited in-game explanation, producing a steep learning curve and frequent deaths. That combination creates a distinct, blood-soaked take on the Soulslike formula that demands time and patience from players.

• Latest news Game of Thrones RTS War for Westeros revives Iron Throne era, due in 2027

  A new real-time strategy game set in the Game of Thrones TV universe is due in 2027 and plays like a classic base-building RTS rather than a grand-scale battle simulator. The game includes recognizable touches from the show—a playable miniature Jon Snow, narration by Charles Dance, and The Rains of Castamere in its audio. Its design focuses on resource buildings, unit production, fortifications and siege engines, which critics say undercuts the epic pitched battles the franchise is known for. The release feels temporally out of step because the main series ended in 2019 while HBO's current slate emphasizes prequels.

• Latest news The Expanse: Osiris Reborn shows undercover Ganymede infiltration turning deadly

  Owlcat Games presented a new trailer and extended gameplay for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn at gamescom that follows a mid-game mission on Ganymede. Players control the Captain and their twin sibling J as they infiltrate a secret Protogen facility to recover data stolen from them at Pinkwater station. The undercover operation involves speaking with employees and remote crew technical support but collapses when a third party releases a bioengineered creature, forcing a firefight and escape. The sequence demonstrates the game’s shift from stealth and dialogue to emergent combat and survival.

• Latest news Shadow of the Road launches Nov. 12 on PC; demo live on Steam

  Another Angle Games and Owlcat Games set the tactical RPG Shadow of the Road to release on Nov. 12, announced at GameStar’s Find Your Next Game showcase during gamescom. The game will be available on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store, and a free demo is already live on Steam. The story follows a mismatched party traveling through a war-torn Japan and mixes human foes with supernatural enemies. Tactical combat features skill upgrades, combined attacks, and use of environmental elements in battles.

• Latest news Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy refines gameplay but loses a key spark

  Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a prequel set 15 years before Hugo and Amicia’s story that follows Sophia, a charismatic plunderer who travels to a mythical island to learn about her past. The game tightens and streamlines mechanics from earlier A Plague Tale titles but sacrifices a vital element that made those games distinctive. That shift changes the series’ emotional tone and reduces some of the franchise’s defining strengths.

• Latest news Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy delivers striking visuals and an outsider spirit

  Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy pairs some of the year’s most impressive character faces and environments with a tightly focused narrative design. Developer Asobo maintains a scrappy, outsider identity and growing ambitions while working with smaller budgets and teams than Sony or Microsoft first-party studios. That independence preserves bold design and storytelling choices that larger-budget publishers would likely cut, making the release notable for players who value distinctive single-player experiences.

• Latest news Iconic Phantom Menace Pepsi Vending Machine Vanishes from Pittsburgh, Replaced by Decoy

  A nearly 28-year-old Pepsi vending machine on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh, decorated with Star Wars: Episode I imagery and kept stocked since the film's release, was removed this week and swapped for a hand-drawn decoy. The replacement features crude artwork and an extra button (10 buttons versus the original's nine). Influencer Braeden Days — who previously threatened to take the machine — has been suggested as a suspect, and the machine's location outside a fire station has prompted locals to name the Pittsburgh Fire Department among possible actors. The disappearance has drawn attention because the machine is a longtime local pop-culture relic tied to Phantom Menace fandom.

• Latest news Genshin Impact: 8 standard five-star characters and 10 standard five-star weapons

  Genshin Impact has eight five-star characters and 10 five-star weapons in the standard pool that players can obtain from the Wanderlust Invocation banner. If a player loses the 50/50 on a character event banner, the five-star they receive will be one of the standard characters; the same applies to weapons when the weapon event banner resolves a 75/25 loss. This affects players' roll outcomes and planning because these standard items serve as guaranteed fallback targets when featured banner pulls fail.

• Latest news Exterminauts lets players grind optional six-week Battle Passes

  Behaviour Interactive's upcoming third-person shooter Exterminauts will offer Warbond-style Battle Passes that players can either unlock through in-game play or buy with real money. Live content is planned to begin about a month after launch, with short six-week pass cycles that refresh frequently. Battle Pass rewards include cosmetics, weapons and mods that change weapon behavior, allowing players to access content without paying if they complete daily and weekly objectives.

• Latest news Gamescom trailer details Crimson Desert Enhanced free upgrade and story revamp

  Crimson Desert Enhanced was revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live with a trailer that walked through the new story changes and added player skills. The Enhanced edition is available now as a free upgrade and includes all previously released updates. The announcement surprised viewers because the base game is already available, but the trailer demonstrated substantial new content that justified the reveal.

• Latest news Tides of Annihilation shines at Gamescom with flashy, combo-heavy 'Simon Says' combat

  A hands-on demo at Gamescom showed Tides of Annihilation uses flashy, combo-driven combat that plays like a Simon Says pattern challenge. The game blends a mishmash of mythologies with familiar action-game tropes to create cinematic encounters. The current build sometimes teeters on the edge of messiness but nonetheless delivered a thrilling, spectacle-focused experience on the show floor.

• Latest news Humankind 2 Gamescom trailer wasn't made with generative AI, Amplitude confirmed

  Amplitude revealed Humankind 2 during the Gamescom Opening Night Live pre-show with a short cinematic montage of Earth across humanity's ages and little actual gameplay. The trailer's visual style led viewers to suspect generative-AI tools had been used; Amplitude confirmed no generative AI was employed in producing the trailer. The clarification matters because it addresses audience concerns about AI use in game marketing and confirms the studio's chosen production methods.

• Latest news Metro 2039: Ukrainian-made sequel shaped by wartime realities and darker themes

  Publisher Deep Silver and developer 4A Studios published a blog outlining Metro 2039 as a darker entry focused on the "cost of silence, the horrors of tyranny, and the price of freedom." The game is being developed primarily in Ukraine amid the continued Russian invasion, and the team reports regular power outages, drone strikes and personal uncertainty. Those frontline conditions are informing the game's tone and are expected to shape the final product.

• Latest news Metro 2039 returns to Moscow with new hero and autocratic Hunter

  Metro 2039 brings the series back inside Moscow’s metro system with a new playable character, The Stranger, who is hunting Hunter — now the metro’s de facto authoritarian ruler. The playable demo blends Exodus-style open, above-ground exploration with the franchise’s traditional close-quarters, tactile survival mechanics. This shift signals a mix of political stakes and expanded level design that will shape player expectations for the full game.

• Latest news Ubisoft's Steam release of Heroes of Might & Magic III shipped without the game

  Ubisoft released the original Heroes of Might & Magic III Complete Edition on Steam but the package is missing the actual game files, so the $10 purchase installs as a 23.49 KB dummy executable that fails to launch. The Steam listing includes the Armageddon's Blade and The Shadow of Death expansions, yet user reviews have turned 80% negative. The missing files make the release unplayable for buyers and leave GOG's complete edition — currently half-price — as the working alternative.

• Latest news Odette and Arlecchino head Genshin Impact's 7.0 banner rotation

  Genshin Impact's current character banners feature Odette and Arlecchino, with Odette launching the game's 7.0 lineup set in Snezhnaya. New character banners rotate every few weeks, and the published schedule lists which banners are live now and which characters are expected next. This schedule matters for players planning primogem spending and team-building ahead of upcoming releases.

• Latest news Showa American Story returns at gamescom Opening Night Live with new trailer and voice cast

  A new in-game trailer for Showa American Story premiered during gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, the first trailer since 2024. The trailer follows protagonist Chigusa Choko across California and introduces companions Michael Hero, Bubba, and Mutsuki Akitora, with narration by an anime-obsessed U.S. President. Gameplay footage highlights bloodier combat and new mechanics — swords, firearms, a drill arm, executions, counters, and improvised weapons — and the Japanese voice cast was revealed. This marks a major content update that emphasizes a grittier tone and expanded character-driven exploration.

• Latest news Humankind 2 trailer filmed with actors and practical sets; PC release slated for 2027

  Amplitude Studios unveiled Humankind 2 at Gamescom Opening Night Live and released a live-action announcement trailer that drew online claims it was AI-generated. The studio confirmed the trailer was shot at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia using real actors, practical sets, and custom-made props, and behind-the-scenes photos show a sound stage with a blue compositing backdrop. The developer says the sequel will add new progression systems, enhanced visuals, a modernized UI and gameplay improvements, and it is scheduled to launch on PC in 2027 with a Steam page already live. The studio did not explicitly state whether any generative AI was used for the trailer's special effects.