Riot Games is turning an East London pub into a Valorant-themed pop-up for a weekend, and they’ve enlisted a local online personality to run the place. Big John, a London-based content creator known for his hearty eating videos, will act as landlord of The Phoenix Arms in Hackney Bridge from 19 to 21 June. The pub will be decked out with Valorant pint glasses, beer-tap labels, team flags,...

The Puppet Frenzy still haunts Krat, even three years after the original game’s release. I returned to this corrupted Belle Époque city in 2026, drawn back by the Overture DLC and a desire to bend the rules. This time, I came armed with a full suite of mods that rewired the experience into something both terrifyingly beautiful and wonderfully broken. It began with atmosphere. I...

The Steam Machine, powered by Valve's SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system, faces a significant limitation for prospective buyers: many of the biggest PC games simply will not run on it. This is not due to any hardware weakness—the machine is more than capable of handling these titles—but rather a persistent software incompatibility. The core problem is anti-cheat software. Most...

На китайских серверах Neverness to Everness (NTE) вышло обновление, затронувшее образ персонажа стихии Космос — Шинку. После жалоб части сообщества на «ослабление сексуальных элементов» разработчики скорректировали некоторые костюмы героини, чтобы они точнее соответствовали рекламным материалам, используемым в других регионах. Глобальная версия 1.2, в которой появится этот...

I'll admit I was skeptical when I first heard about 007 First Light. It's from IO Interactive, the studio behind the brilliant Hitman World of Assassination trilogy—so a perfect match for a spy game, you'd think. But early reports compared it more to Uncharted than Hitman, and that didn't exactly thrill me. So imagine my surprise when it became one of my favorite games of 2026. The...