Game developers have suddenly become obsessed with eggs for some reason, and you can play two ovoid games for free right now

Eggs! They're the new gaming craze, baby. Forget roguelikes, or friendslop, or rogue friends, or sloplikes, eggs are the hottest they've been in the virtual realm since the days of Tamagotchi.

The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature ...

UnReal World has been in development since 1992. Dwarf Fortress has achieved mythical status for its furiously detailed algorithmic worlds, its legendarily long development, and the fact that its ...

Beloved boomer shooter Dusk celebrates coming to Xbox with new 'Dusk Gulch' level riffing on Halo's best multiplayer map

New Blood's Dusk is finally on Xbox consoles after seven years, and to celebrate, the studio has added a popular mapmaker's ...

GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% off XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale

GOG launched the program just under a year ago, with 100 games such as Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Blade Runner receiving the badge of +1 compatibility. As of now, that number has increased to ...

Beaver-themed city builder Timberborn will leave early access soon, and while there's no specific date yet, you can try out some of its new features right now

After four years in early access, Timberborn has gnawed within touching distance of a 1.0 release. While a specific date hasn't been set for the release, developer Mechanistry has revealed what's ...

Deus Ex's OG art director has seen the remaster: 'Oh, what the f***, No. This did not need to happen'

Aspyr's remaster of Deus Ex earned a fair bit of opprobrium ( including from me) when it was revealed in September, and, well ...

RX 6000 cards lose game-specific optimisations as AMD puts RDNA 1 and 2 in 'maintenance mode'

The first RDNA cards popped up in 2019, with RX 6000 series GPUs featuring RDNA 2 architecture. RX 6000 GPUs launched in 2020 ...

A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance

As peculiar Windows bugs go, this one is a doozy. It seems Task Manager in the latest October update for Windows 11 ( update ...

Hyperbeat review

What is it A bite-sized, dreamlike rhythm game with dizzying visuals. Release date October 22, 2025 Expect to pay $15/£12.79 Publisher Dreamware Media Developer Alice Bottino, Chancellor Wallin ...

You can now twerk enemies to death in Repo thanks to the big new Monster Update—and it's free to play this weekend to celebrate

"Butt physics," for the record, does not actually appear in the Monster Update patch notes: Instead, it's a sort of ...

GDQ's upcoming event, Games Done Queer, has already become a fierce rallying cry of support for LGBT rights in the US: 'We had 450 hours of content submitted for th…

Things are rough out there, right now, if you're any sort of queer—particularly in the US. The Trump administration has made ...

Arc Raiders technically doesn't have item trading, but there's a way to cheat the system and get missions done with the power of friendship

Loot is almost always plentiful in Arc Raiders —except, it seems, when you need to find something specific. The first few ...