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A screenshot of It Takes a War showing the ultra realistic graphics

It Takes a War review that is not a review of It Takes a War

It Takes a War is bad. It Takes a War is brilliant.

A netrunner from Cyberpunk 2077 watches a floating screen displaying Tilly Norwood

Cyberpunk 2025: One rotten girl in the city of the future

Part 3: The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.

A netrunner in Cyberpunk 2077 by a floating screen showing Katy Perry in space

Cyberpunk 2025: My heart is alloy // I live in boxes

Part 2: Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams

A screenshot from Prey in first-person perspective. The prtoagonist is carrying the heavy industrial gloo gun in the cramped industrial spaces of the space station Talos 1, while black inky

Rogue shares our scariest gaming moments for Halloween

A medical bill for $25,000, which drives the protagonist's motivation in the itch clicker game Bloodmoney!

We're all broke, and horror games are digging into that dysfunction

An era of rage and hatred and fear

A screenshot from The Outer Worlds, depicting the protagonist from behind cloaked in shadow, standing against the illuminating circle of a space rift.

The Outer Worlds 2 examines the clash between cults and capitalism

A firefight between the protagonist in Pigface, who is using a machine gun with a laser sight, and a masked antagonist. In the distance, the sun is setting, turning the sky a vivid red.

Pigface is a grimy, early access murderfest for real sickos (it's me, I'm sickos)

A 2000s-era desktop that is glitching and falling apart, with distorted windows opening and distorting. In the center is a woman with long hair obscuring her face, ominous and foreboding.

Oneway.exe and horror found in the fading internet

Oneway.exe taps into an Internet that’s fading fast

A screenshot from the Nintendo Direct reveal of Animal Crossing: New Horizon 3.0, with a player character outside Kapp'n's new seaside hotel.

Animal Crossing: New Horizon is getting a seaside update alongside Switch 2

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 is a surprise update to the cozy life sim island game arriving on Jan. 15 alongside a Switch 2 version of the game.

A group of heroes in Fellowship battle a large pirate zombie

Fellowship is amazing, but matchmaking isn't cutting it for me anymore

Fellowship is a real delight, and has reignited my love for dungeoning in WoW. But the better I get, the harder it becomes to play

A survivor combs an abandoned beach in a screenshot from Darkwood 2, coming across the corpses of starved beasts and worn down tents.

Darkwood 2, a surprise sequel to a survival horror classic, appears on Steam

A page for Darkwood 2 just went live on Steam, showing that a surprise sequel is on the way for the survival horror cult classic.

Cyberpunk 2025: Lowlife and high-tech

Cyberpunk 2025: Lowlife and high-tech

What does cyberpunk even mean?

A Headless One attacks Guardians in Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is getting better, but its latest event only reinforces that the best way to play is to wait

Destiny 2's bug problem is getting worse and worse

A Cyberpunk 2077 character in a chair while a floating tv screen shows Boris Karloff's Frankenstein

Cyberpunk was unprepared for 2025

A player POV showing a tin of sitnky rations hidden in heretic territory during a mission in Warhammer 40K: Darktide

Darktide players can't stop scarfing down fucked up, evil food

Warhammer 40K: Darktide players are having a blast gobbling down evil food in the newest rations-related event.

It's the big ol', dang ol' Steam Next Fest Best of Wishlist Roundup Wrap-Up list

It's the big ol', dang ol' Steam Next Fest Best of Wishlist Roundup Wrap-Up list

Here is the complete collection of all of our Next Fest demo recommendations, and where (or if) you can download them.

A player is typing a sequence of words about waking up on a sunny day in Final Sentence, a new typing-focused battle royale. An armed guard stands over

I've finally found a battle royale for the humble writer

Type for your life

A castle rolls down a road in Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road

Steam Next Fest highlight: Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road

This big, stupid toddler town has no wheels, and yet it rocks and rolls on its own

An elevator heads down into Ballbylon in Ball x Pit

Kenny Sun on Ball x Pit's inspiration, iteration, and what Devolver helped add

How one of the best roguelites of the year came to be

Screenshots from Motorslice, Cairn, and Hellmart

13 more of our favorite demos from Steam Next Fest

A glitching desktop from Desktop Explorer

Steam Next Fest highlight: Desktop Explorer

Two-factor horror

A steer from Pathologic 3, a masked nun with a warhammer from Tormented Souls 2, and the anguished low poly face of a bearded man from Father, in a piece together for the Steam Next Fest.

Rounding up some of Steam Next Fest's most intriguing horror demos

Some our favorite Next Fest demos for spooky season

A sci-fi environment left abandoned, with books and personal materials scattered on the floor. The scene is lit by a circular window through which we can see a pink sky and strange land masse

Ambrosia's Sky's demo is a little bit like being Samus with a spray gun

Ambrosia Sky mixes the joy of powerwashing with the action and mystery of a serious sci-fi campaign.

The main character of Ball x Pit shooting balls at skeletons

Ball x Pit is an exceptional, bottomless roguelite rabbit hole

"Breakout but a roguelite" goes deeper than you can possibly imagine