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Intel has released its new Arc and Iris Xe non-WHQL graphics driver 31.0.101.5074 on Windows. It is optimized for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and also brings performance boost across many games.

The minds behind No Man's Sky are working on a brand-new sandbox game. Titled Light No Fire, it will offer players a planet-sized fantasy sandbox to explore, build, survive, and thrive in.

Jurassic Park: Survival is coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 as an Alien: Isolation style survival adventure. Players are returning to the island from the original movie.

Sony and Santa Monica Studio have announced a free DLC coming to God of War: Ragnarok at The Game Awards. Valhalla is a roguelike mode where Kratos will come back to life after each failed run.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Xbox Game Pass Core members can now try out Call of the Wild: The Angler, Chivalry 2, Just Die Already, and more as part of the latest Free Play Days event.

The two free games on the Epic Games Store that you can download and keep forever this week are the kaiju-mecha brawler GigaBash and the sci-fi themed first person MOBA title Predecessor

THQ Nordic has delayed the release of its remake of Alone in the Dark from January 16 to March 20, 2024, in order to give the development team at Pieces Interactive a pleasant Christmas holiday.

The 2023 Game Awards will begin later today at 7:30 pm Eastern time and, in addition to the awards themselves, we can expect a ton of major game announcements during the streaming event.

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora presents a gorgeous Pandora to explore, but an uninspired storyline and repetitive combat drags down the experience.

AMD's latest graphics driver brings support for The Finals, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, while also bringing a UI refresh, Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling for more GPUs, and more.

One of the developers of the upcoming photo-realistic first-person shooter Unrecord posted some new footage of the game on X, comparing it to GTA 6's graphics and also briefly showing some vehicles.

Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI is targeting the console platforms Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. There is no mention of a PC version being in development, at least for now.

Rockstar has published the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI a little earlier than announced, showing off the nightclubs, street races, crocodiles, airboats, and more from Vice City.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf teaser revealed new regions that players will explore in the game. The world will be larger than previous titles, showcasing more of the fantasy setting of Thedas.

Starbreeze, best known as the developer of the Payday first-person shooter series, has announced it is developing a new Dungeons and Dragons-themed game for a launch sometime in 2026.

Netherrealm Studios has released a trailer for the next Mortal Kombat 1 DLC fighter Quan Chi, but also gives us a brief look at the next DLC fighter, the DC Comics character Peacekeeper.

Epic Games has officially launched Chapter 5 of its battle royale game Fortnite, with a new map and lots of new content. In addition, more in-game experiences are coming very soon.

The official X pages for Halo Infinite and Fall Guys paid tribute to today's Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer announcement by making their own trailer news reveals in similar art styles.

CD Projekt RED has announced what will be included in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 2.1 update on December 5. It will bring a new city metro system for fast travel and more features.

Rockstar has announced that the trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto game, which will likely be titled Grand Theft Auto 6, will be dropped on Tuesday, December 5 at 9 am Eastern time.

Rockstar is finally bringing the wildlife from GTA V's story mode to GTA Online, but it will be exclusive to current-generation consoles. Yusuf Amir from GTA IV is also returning as a quest giver.

Larian Studios has just released the massive Patch 5 update for its D&D-themed RPG Baldur's Gate 3. It includes many new features and is so big, you may need to delete the full game beforehand.

This week, the Epic Games Store is giving away two free indie games in the fighting-brawler genre. One is the cartoony title Jitsu Squad, and the other is the arena-based game Mighty Fight Federation.

Microsoft is making December a massive month for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. Remnant II, SteamWorld Build, World War Z: Aftermath, Far Cry 6, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and much more are incoming soon.

The PC Gaming Show will have a second streaming event later today, and it will feature new game announcements, new trailers, and more as it offers its list of the "Most Wanted" PC games of 2024.

Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora lands in just a week with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 frame generation support, and AMD has released a special driver with support for the title.

Unity announced the layoff of 265 employees from its partnership with Weta Digital as the services agreement comes to an end. The layoffs will affect roles that support Weta FX's use of Unity tools.

Capcom has officially announced the launch date of Dragon's Dogma 2 to be March 22, 2024. The RE Engine-developed RPG by Hideaki Itsuno is incoming to fans just two years after its initial reveal.

Blackbird Interactive has released the PC hardware system requirements for its long-awaited space-based RTS sequel Homeworld 3. PCs will need much higher specs to run the game with ray-tracing effects

CD Projekt RED is ramping up the development of the next The Witcher trilogy. Almost half the studio is currently working on the highly-anticipated project, which will be powered by Unreal Engine 5.

Colossal Order has revealed an early access program for Cities: Skylines II's upcoming editor for assets and maps. A major update is also planned for December containing performance boosts and fixes.

After weeks of rumors, Bungie has officially announced a release date delay in the next Destiny 2 expansion pack, The Final Shape. The date was pushed back from February 27 to June 4, 2024.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has confirmed it will "restructure our gaming business" and could lay off hundreds of its workers in that division as a result of those changes.

Valve updated its long-running Counter-Strike 1.6 game with a new patch earlier this week. However, that patch also put in code for a very early prototype of its zombie shooter Left 4 Dead.

In the latest video dev diary for the upcoming grand strategy game Ara: History Untold, Oxide Games co-founder Dan Baker offers a lot of details about the game's proprietary Nitrous Engine.

The official Tekken 8 website has been updated with its PC hardware requirements, and it shows the game will need 100GB of storage, making it the latest such game to use that much drive space.

The next entry in the Call of Duty franchise will take players to the Gulf War according to a new report. The upcoming Black Ops title has reportedly been in development for four years.