Software & Gaming

With the year coming to an end, Valve has revealed its highest-grossing games of 2025, including the indie hit Schedule 1.

In a move that marks the end of an era for the CD Projekt Group, the company has officially offloaded its digital distribution platform, GOG.com. The buyer is Michał Kiciński, a co-founder and major stakeholder in CD Projekt, who has purchased 100% of the storefront's shares for 90.7 million Polish …

Across consoles and PC, 2026 is shaping up to deliver a wave of high‑profile releases that span genres, budgets, and audiences. Established franchises are returning with new entries, while several studios are preparing to debut original projects that have been in development for years. It’s a year that promises both scale and variety, making it one of the most closely watched release calendars in recent memory.

A new report outlining the projected timeline for CD Projekt's future releases has been published with some surprises. The most unexpected claim in the analysis is the upcoming launch of a third, paid expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which the analyst believes will launch in May 2026 to …

Maxon has officially released Cinebench 2026, the latest version of its cross-platform benchmarking suite. Building on the foundation of Cinebench 2024, the new iteration transitions to the latest Redshift rendering engine, offering a more accurate reflection of modern 3D production workloads while adding day-one support for next-generation hardware from Nvidia, …

The ongoing rise in RAM prices appears to have led console manufacturers to delay their next-gen plans, according to insiders.

With the technical performance of Monster Hunter Wilds finally stabilising, it seems Capcom are gearing up to release the game on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Following the release of its big 2.0 update, LEVEL5 have revealed that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has officially sold over 1.5 million copies.

Arc System Works have now detailed some of the many changes and additions coming with update 2.0 for Guilty Gear Strive next year.

As with many of its other titles, Nintendo is seemingly set to release a Switch 2 Edition of the 2013 Wii U (and 2020 Switch 1) puzzler Pikmin 3 / Deluxe.

Cygames has officially announced that the original Granblue Fantasy is coming to Steam. Revealed during the Granblue Fantasy Fes 2025 broadcast on December 28th, the title is scheduled for a worldwide release on March 10th, 2026, exactly twelve years to the day since its initial debut in Japan. While the …

Following its successful revival, Konami is hoping to release a brand new Silent Hill game every single year moving into 2026 and beyond.

Almost a decade on from the launch of Automata, it appears as though a new NieR entry is still nowhere in sight according to the series producer.

Publisher Spike Chunsoft has confirmed that the popular visual novel series Danganronpa officially surpassed 10 million copies sold as of December 2025.

With the year ending, we’ve started to get a breakdown of its top titles – with Battlefield 6 said to be the best-selling game of 2025 in the US.

Nihon Falcom has released its latest “Business Plans and Growth Potential” report detailing its plan toward global self-publishing and multi-platform development. After a successful fiscal 2025 driven by the worldwide success of the Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake, the legendary JRPG developer is doubling down on its independent …

Ubisoft has been forced to pull Rainbow Six Siege offline due to a recent hack. Someone managed to gain access to Ubisoft servers and began giving out billions of free R6 credits to random players across the game, while also issuing false bans and sending out unusual in-game system messages to players. 

The horror hit Buckshot Roulette continues to defy the typical trajectory of indie titles. Developer Mike Klubnika and publisher Critical Reflex have announced that the game has officially surpassed 8 million copies sold on PC, an impressive figure for a project that began as a small-scale experimental release. To put …

The popularity of handhelds have waxed and waned over the years/generations as console maker priorities have shifted and audience trends changed. That said the launch of the Nintendo Switch ushered us into a new handheld renaissance of sorts. With rumours claiming that Sony is looking to once again re-enter the market, it is time we looked back to the portable PlayStation’s past successes, failures, and lessons (hopefully) learned for what (and what not) to do.

Windows users have long relied on the default disk.sys driver for storage management, a component that has mainly remained fundamentally unchanged since its introduction in 2006. While Windows has supported the NVMe protocol since Windows 8.1, the legacy driver continues to treat modern high-speed solid-state storage as a legacy SCSI …

Prior to Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar had a good stretch where it was releasing a new game every two years or so. As it turns out, during this time, Rockstar had been kicking around the idea of bringing in third-party studios to make Grand Theft Auto games set in other cities around the globe, with the biggest idea being Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo.

IO Interactive snuck out some disappointing news to end the year. The studio's new James Bond game, 007 First Light, has been delayed, taking over Grand Theft Auto 6's original release slot on the 2026 calendar.  In an update shared this week, IO Interactive confirmed that 007 First Light will …

Square Enix has announced that the Octopath Traveler franchise has officially surpassed the six-million-unit sales milestone globally. This figure represents a significant jump from the five million units recorded in December 2024, suggesting that the series’s expansion to new platforms and the recent launch of a new entry have boosted …

Games industry veteran and Respawn Entertainment founder, Vince Zampella, has passed away. Zampella had been a leader at Infinity Ward before forming his new studio, Respawn Entertainment, and then joining EA.  According to NBC Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed that Zampella's vehicle had been involved in a crash in the …

Hogwarts Legacy was the bestselling game of 2023 and it is still charting even today. Given that success, it should come as no surprise that a sequel is being developed, but while the first game was purely single-player focused, Hogwarts Legacy 2 could lean towards multiplayer. 

It has been almost three months since EA's Board of Directors announced that it had received a $55B buyout offer. Last night, EA took the next step towards closing the deal, with shareholders officially voting to approve the buyout. As first spotted by Stephen Totilo, EA's shareholders have now voted …

Back in 2023 as part of its effort to get the acquisition of Activision approved, Microsoft signed legally binding agreements with a number of rival game companies to ensure continued equal access to Call of Duty across all major platforms. Microsoft has made good on those promises for the most …

In 2025 alone, Star Citizen raised over $150 million (its biggest year ever) - bringing the total amount close to the $1 Billion mark.

Following its launch back in September, Bloober Team have confirmed that Cronos: The New Dawn will be getting a new easier difficulty option in early 2026.

Initially launching at 30fps, the Switch 2 version of Persona 3 Reload has been updated with a new 60fps performance mode – albeit only in docked mode.