The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to ...

Somehow, Heroes of Newerth returned: One of the first standalone MOBAs is back, but fans are mixed on its new look and bizarre launcher

All this makes the re-release sort of a headscratcher for any outside of Newerth's niche fanbase. If you long to play Dota, ...

A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend

Mabutts Valley with cheeky physics puzzles. PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor was among that player count earlier this week, and in her impressions said "things are a little janky right now" ...

Latest CS2 patch has skin collectors in meltdown over a supposed $2bn in losses, with others saying 'this is the best update ever', but maybe Valve is just doing some cour…

In other words, what some are painting as an economic disaster may actually make a lot of sense for the CS2 economy that ...

Vermintide's developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: 'I was so scared'

Fatshark succeeded. When I first played Vermintide I experimented with a few different characters, and the only one I didn't ...

Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series

Into the bargain, millennium-era DICE also picked up an in-development FPS named Battlefield 1942. Yep, the first-ever game ...

It breaks our hearts to cut great games from the Top 100 list, but sacrifices must be made—these are some of the omissions that caused us psychic damage this year

There are a handful of equivalents in Skyrim, but not nearly as many. Instead, it earned its place on the Top 100 in previous ...

Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof

Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI's videogame development ...

Chain smoking and chugging beers are the only ways I can handle being chased by a bear who wants to to tear my ramshackle motor home apart in RV There Yet?

There's plenty of stuff to pick up at these stops: scrap metal to repair any dinks to the RV, additional survival tools, and ...

Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?

Naroditsky was a serious talent: an under-12 world champion who earned the grandmaster title in his teens, a US junior ...

Suspicious Scarface: The World is Yours re-release taken off Steam and Epic, along with a community announcement that has also vanished without a trace

In fairness, Scarface: The World is Yours achieved some solid commercial and critical success—it was developed by Radical ...

Halo: Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Halo 1, is coming out next year

"Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign. Experience the original story ...