Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception

Indie Pass was announced this week, and a lot of people are saying 'no thanks.'

The best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a 'terribly low 2/10'

You've got to be morbidly curious now, right?

No Man's Sky player creates stunning underwater city reminiscent of BioShock's own Rapture, and I'm not even sure this is the same game anymore

How is this even possible?

Indie dev sees Ubisoft fail to bring back Splinter Cell for 13 years, says fine, I'll do it myself with a "short, focused stealth" game "inspired by classic PS2-era games"

Lizard State looks like a new Splinter Cell in all but name

Genius RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Player Makes Longest Rollercoaster Ever Built, Manipulates Guests Into Staying Just Happy Enough to Ride It for 1.947 x 10²²⁷ Years

A RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 superfan has created what is believed to be the longest rollercoaster ever built in the game — and it’s so long that even a googol can’t be used to describe how many years it takes to ride it.

It's the start of the month and Prime Video has added loads of new movies: here are the 3 I recommend you watch this weekend (April 3–April 5)

From a new thriller starring Chris Hemsworth to a zombie musical, and a sci-fi classic, too

This AI startup envisions '100 million new people' making videogames

Tesana says we can create our "dream game" with prompts, but would 100 million people doing that actually be "exciting"?

New MMO rebuilding 2008's AdventureQuest Worlds cleverly becomes 164,000,000% funded on Kickstarter by asking for $1 and raising $1.6 million

"We are building this game no matter what"

Dead by Daylight Devs Celebrate 10 Years of Eldritch Evil and Hope for Many, Many More

At the Game Developers Conference last month, I sat down with Behaviour's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, and creative director Dave Richard, to talk to them about Dead by Daylight's tenth anniversary.

WW1 Gallipoli Thrust Me Into One of the World’s Most Violent Conflicts | IGN Preview

The WW1 series is arguably the most "realistic" approach to the first-person war-shooter genre in the market today, and WW1 Gallipoli, coming out sometime this summer, is the next entry in that long-running franchise. From my all-too-brief time with it on the show floor at PAX East, it might be the

Naughty Dog Creative Director Is in Trinidad for 'Research' and a Lot of Fans Think It's for Uncharted 5

Naughty Dog creative director Shaun Escayg posted a picture of a cannon in Trinidad & Tobago alongside the tease, “Research,” and fans think it has to do with Uncharted 5.

What's Your Pick for Nintendo Game of the Year so far?

Dead by Daylight Devs Talk Spinoff Hopes and Dreams: 'I Want Elden Ring in the World of Dead by Daylight'

I had the pleasure of recently asking Dead by Daylight's creative director Dave Richard and Behaviour's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote if there were any stones left unturned for spinoffs that they wanted to see happen. And Richard's got one specific idea in mind: a soulslike. Elden Ring, but Dead

Dead by Daylight Devs Say Matchmaking Rework Is a 'Re-Imagination of How the Game Is Played'

The Dead by Daylight team at Behaviour Interactive has opened up about what they say are “significant” changes coming with their upcoming matchmaking rework.

Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more as RAMageddon lays waste to gaming hardware

The Legion Go 2’s mouse mode, unique among Windows handhelds. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Remember when we thought the Legion Go 2 was expensive at $1,099 and up? Those were the days - Best Buy is now listing Lenovo's handheld for $1,499 with a Ryzen Z2 or $1,999 with a Z2 Extreme.

Jack Black Doubts Rockstar Will Ever Greenlight a Red Dead Redemption Movie, So He Has an Idea for the Perfect Character He'd Play in Red Dead Redemption 3

Jack Black has a clear idea who he would like to play in Red Dead Redemption 3, should Rockstar make the game: Jack Black.

Every Mario Game on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in 2026

Every Mario game you can currently play on Switch, plus the Mario games and upgrades coming to the Switch 2.

11 Games in the indie.io Franchise Sale on Steam

HoYoverse's Cozy Sim Petit Planet Gets Closed Beta Testing This Month

Petit Planet, the cozy space sim from the creators of Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, doesn't have an official release date, but at least it has a new closed beta on April 21 for PC, iOS, and Android.

Here's Why Pokémon TCG's New Perfect Order Expansion Is Actually the Best Pokémon Investment in Years

Intravenous 3 Brings Old-School, Top-Down, Stealth-and-Tactics Pixel-Art Action to PC

Top-down, pixel-art stealth-action – old-school NES-style – is back on the menu with Intravenous 3, the latest in the retro-styled series where you play single-player or in two-player co-op as Steve and Sean as they use real-time tactics to try and survive an enemy manhunt.

GTA Streamer Turned Dev Launches Cash Heist City in Fortnite

If you need to get your crime kicks before Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in November, Cash Heist City - built entirely in Unreal Editor for Fortnite - might be just what you're looking for.

Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games: Release Dates for 2026 and Beyond

Building up the Switch 2 library.

Outbound Preview: An Open-World, Van-Life Crafting Adventure That Understands the Value of Taking Life Slow

In Outbound, the upcoming open-world cozy crafting adventure from Square Glade Games, it’s about freedom. The ability to be untethered from society, free to go where you want, and just be. After five hours behind the wheel experiencing that freedom for myself, I think I might just be one of those pe

Marathon isn't deathmatch gone wide, it's multiplayer Alien: Isolation and every other player is a xenomorph

The human colony on Tau Ceti IV has been abandoned for half a century, as far as anyone can tell. The only exports leaving the planet are those nabbed by Runners in mechanical bodies, like fruit pickers at the end of the universe. But there are imports, too, of a sort: elements pulled in from other

Slay the Spire 2 early access review

I worried about Slay the Spire 2 before its early access release because everything I saw reminded me of the original. I understood there were differences, but they didn't seem big enough or pronounced enough to warrant a new game. In the back of my head a sly voice wondered: had Mega Crit, creator

What are we all playing this weekend?

Surprise, Friday WAP attack! No, I've (hopefully) not mucked up the time the WAPs are posted, as I did last time this particular RPSponsibility was trusted to me. It's a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the bank holidays around Easter. More time for playing games, in theory. Assuming you don't

Warren Spector's Thick as Thieves gets a bit less interesting as it ditches PvPvE for solo and co-op play

In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, "we don't play it safe. We take chances." He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a multiplayer immersive sim that's basically Thief, except other

Skyblivion isn't "dead in the water", the Oblivion remake mod's lead says, a recent call for extra hands is about maintaining "good momentum"

Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some "final" and "vital" veteran help to get their work over the line in 2026. Given the mod's delay late last year and the fairly lengthy list of roles the post on Nexus Mods cited the Skyblivion crew as looking to

Xenonauts 2 hits 1.0 after almost three years of early access and paves the way for mods galore

"The year is 2009," opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game's alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of the world that differed greatly from my actual experience of worrying about swine flu and whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! was cool any