The ***** time continues at Warhammer 40,000 maker Games Workshop, which has announced it’s handing out £20 million (approx. $27 million) to its staff as a bonus. The Nottingham, *** company behind the Warhammer tabletop games and their expansive settings, said that for the 52 weeks ending June 1, 2025, core revenue was £560 million, up from the £494.7 million in the previous *******. Licensing revenue was £50 million, up from £31 million. Core profit is £210 million, up from £174.8 million, and licensing profit is £45 million, up from £27 million. That amounts to profit before tax of £255 million, up from £203 million. Off the back of those huge profits, and “in recognition of our staff’s contribution to these results,” Games Workshop is giving employees £20 million, up from the £18 million it handed out last year. The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff. Games Workshop is estimated to have around 1,500 staff. If that’s accurate, it means each employee is set for a £13,333 (approx $18,000) bonus. Games Workshop’s main business is the ***** of miniatures fans assemble and paint for use in tabletop wargames, such as Warhammer 40,000. But it is increasingly an IP business, with huge revenue from smash hit video games such as last year’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and animations, such as Amazon’s Warhammer 40,000 Secret Level episode. Last year, Games Workshop and Amazon finalized a deal for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, which will involve the creation of films and television series. Space Marine 3 is also in development. Where does Games Workshop go from here? The company pointed out that licensing revenue in the ******* is at a record level and it does not expect this to be repeated in 2025/26, although it remains a core focus. Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer generally is ******* than it’s ever been, and based on these results, it’s not slowing down any time soon. Games Workshop recently held its annual Warhammer Skulls showcase, and we’ve got all the announcements and trailers right here. Highlights include a Definitive Edition of Dawn of War and Siege mode for Space Marine 2. Photo by Uli Deck/picture alliance via Getty Images. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article
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The moratorium applies not only to AI models but also to any products or services integrating AI, effectively banning and overriding state regulations in those areas. The restriction affects several critical sectors, including automotive, consumer IoT, social media, medical equipment, and more. Read Entire Article View the full article
Zenless Zone Zero has officially revealed the full character banners for Version 2.0, which will add three new Agents to the playable roster. Zenless Zone Zero's ambitious Season 2 is scheduled for June 6 with a ton of content and rewards. View the full article
Even if you aren't feeling Cities Skylines 2 right now, there are plenty of options available in the city-building space. Captain of Industry has a big overhaul with trains and space travel. City Tales puts a medieval spin on proceedings. Transport Fever 3 is on the way. And now, 20th-century city builder Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic is winding back the clock with its new Early Start DLC, which lets you approach your construction from an all-new era. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Soviet city builder Workers and Resources steps back in time with next DLC Soviet city builder Workers and Resources adds North Korea and more in map DLC After five years, huge 92% rated Soviet city builder finally hits 1.0 View the full article
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When is Elden Ring Nightreign coming out? It's almost time to return to the Lands Between, but now you can bring a couple of pals along for the ride. Elden Ring Nightreign is putting a co-op, roguelike twist on one of the greatest RPGs ever made, and its debut is just around the corner. I'm sure there are quite a few of you out there eager to jump in at the earliest possible moment, and now Bandai Namco and Fromsoftware have revealed the exact Elden Ring Nightreign release times for every region around the world. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Elden Ring Nightreign release date and time, preload, and latest news Is Elden Ring Nightreign on Game Pass? How to revive party members in Elden Ring Nightreign View the full article
Between Civilization 7, Manor Lords, Tempest Rising, and so many more, if you're a developer, the world of strategy games is a tough one to inhabit right now. Standards are high. Competition is extensive. If players don't like your new update or latest DLC, they have plenty of other places to go. Crusader Kings 3 Khans of the Steppe, which introduces new governments and regions to the grand strategy game, has struggled somewhat on Steam so far. A month after it was released, the expansion has a 'mixed' rating from players, who cite some performance problems and balancing issues. But Paradox has a recovery plan. The developer explains how it manages feedback, and which changes it now will - and won't - be making to CK3. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Before Europa Universalis 5, get Paradox's finest grand strategy games cheap New Crusader Kings 3 DLC Khans of the Steppe is all about ruling on the move Best strategy games on PC 2025 View the full article
Fallout 76 has announced the launch date for its Season 21 content will be June 3. Cleverly titled Gone Fission, the additions in Fallout 76 Season 21 will focus heavily on the game's newly introduced fishing mechanics, offering the ability to fish in any deep body of water and bringing a lot of related gear and decorations. View the full article
On Thursday, May 29, Xbox Game Pass will be adding Game of the Year nominee Metaphor: ReFantazio to its library alongside the brand-new day one co-op game Spray Paint Simulator. Xbox Game Pass subscribers have been eating good as of late, with a steady stream of brand-new, day one games added to the Ultimate tier of the service since January. View the full article
If you're looking for the next great RPG to dive into after The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, one has just seen its full release today, May 23. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has just left early access, has great reviews on Steam (and from our review-in-progress), and is getting a lot of endearing Elder Scrolls comparisons. View the full article
Even though S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy - Enhanced Edition released on May 20 offering free "fully remastered and optimized" upgrades for all owners of the original trilogy, developer GSC Game World has been under siege by a review bomb campaign after players discovered the Russian voice acting and "Soviet-era" landmarks had been quietly removed. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy - Enhanced Edition includes remastered versions of Shadow of Chornobyl (2007), Clear Sky (2008), and Call of Prypiat (2009) with upgraded visuals, next-gen console optimizations, and expanded mod support. However, shortly after release, all games plummeted to a "mostly negative" rating on Steam as players flooded the review section to complain about blurry visuals and register their dismay that the games were now "blurry, censored, and revised, [with] added advertisements." "So I own the originals and played them to death. If I get an enhanced edition I want to be excited when I boot it up, to see something different that makes we want to re-engage with the game. This isn't it," explained one player. "The graphics aren't upgraded enough to get excited about, I have mixed feelings about stripping out the Russian references - honestly I see the original games as products of their history and although I understand the sensitivities of the developers I'm not sure whats to be gained by retconning them. "So it's free so I've nothing to complain about, but it's not a huge step up from the original and to be honest, if you want an enhanced edition you can just mod the thing to your hearts content or play anomaly. GSC needed to do much more here and some cosmetic tweaking doesn't really cut it." GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game studio based in Kyiv, although some staff are currently working out of Prague after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, temporarily halting the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 as a result. At least one former GSC developer, Volodymyr Yezhov, has been killed in action. While not formally acknowledging the negative reviews, GSC has today posted an update and a patch that it says will fix crashes on unsupported PC hardware and some consoles, address save issues, and repair "missing geometry on several levels." "Stalkers, we care about your feedback and are working on fixing the most critical issues," the team said. "We really want to make your comeback to the Zone special." It then said it would "continue to work on improving the trilogy." The "missing geometry," players believe, refers to the missing Soviet relics found across all three games. It's not clear if GSC chose or was compelled to revise Soviet iconography, but PC Gamer was able to confirm that the monument/sign outside Chornobyl itself, which reads "ChAES in the name of VI Lenin," had at least been deleted. All that was left was "the two concrete blocks it used to stand on." The update made no explicit mention of the missing audio or the blurry textures. "THEY LISTENED! THEY LISTENED! THEY LISTENED!" cried one delighted player on Reddit. "EE still has some issues but ******** it, so glad they actually work on fixing the game and do not ignore the feedback." One player said: "That's a million time better solution than just removing it without a trace. That's both applauding the current decommunization efforts while not censoring anything that existed before it." "This is a good first step. Hopefully we see some other fixes to notable things like the popular blur issue and items not appearing in marked stashes," added another. Read more on how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has changed everything for the studio amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article
Square Enix has recently released a new update for the Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, which fixes a few problems and adds some quality-of-life features to the role-playing game. The update is great news for gamers who still play the Dragon Quest 3 Remake, and it shows that the developers are dedicated to continuing to improve the title. View the full article
Dungeons and Dragons just released its first Ravenloft novel in 17 years, luring Strahd superfans everywhere back to their favorite Domain of Dread. As a die-harder currently running a Curse of Strahd campaign, I was stoked to get my hands on an early copy. My high hopes pined for more material to enrich my portrayal of the vampire lord and his land. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All DnD races and species explained DnD stats explained DnD Rogue 5e class guide View the full article
Xbox Game Pass adds a lot of games, but if you're following along with the service, it's relatively easy to keep track of them. Since the subscription's biggest value is its library, Microsoft tends to promote new additions as clearly as possible, especially when it comes to day-one releases. It's occasionally possible for something to get shafted, however, which happened on a couple of levels with the most recent slate of announcements. View the full article
Summerfall Studios co-founder and former Dragon Age writer David Gaider has been reflecting, not for the first time, on his career at BioWare under EA. In a brisk recap of a decade-and-change of sequels, changes of direction, and mid-project reboots, he sums up EA's difficulty with Dragon Age as basically one of having no real faith in the wide appeal of role-playing games. Read more View the full article
Is it weird to have nostalgia for an operating system? I don't mean missing a particular feature that's been removed from modern versions or a specific productivity setting that's no longer supported. I mean a sense of longing for the vibes of the computer interface you grew up with, an ache for the aesthetics of user interfaces past. I would have thought I was immune to this particular brand of nostalgia. Then I happened upon Desktop Survivors 98, a new Vampire Survivors-style "bullet heaven" autoshooter that leans hard into the aesthetics of the late '90s Windows machines I grew up with. And while that low-res, 256-color presentation is what drew me in, it was the intriguing mouse-controlled gameplay underneath that has kept me coming back for more retro-styled action all week. Start me up When it comes to capturing the feel of the '90s computer environment, Desktop Survivors 98 gets everything just right. This is in large part due to rampant theft of familiar old-school icons; items like My Computer, Calculator, Minesweeper, Search, and more look like they were taken directly from a classic Microsoft tile set. The game's low-res desktop backgrounds and Windows also look like they came out of a years-old Microsoft style book. Read full article Comments View the full article
Despite the community's interest in expanding the game's multiplayer features, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will not be increasing its co-op party size beyond three players, the developer has confirmed. The sequel to Relic's iconic Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is limited to three players in its campaign. The publisher of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Focus Entertainment, recently announced a new co-op Siege mode for the game in an upcoming update. View the full article
Dragon Age: The Veilguard left me conflicted. On one hand, seeing Thedas brought to life so beautifully, and finally getting to visit regions I'd only heard about in lore snippets and storybooks, was a dream come true. On the other hand, its narrative - what, for me, made the series so special - felt weaker than its predecessors', and the action-driven combat never quite gelled. Yet it worked for many others, earning largely solid reviews that weren't far off the now-lauded Dragon Age 2. But there's been an air of sadness or finality over the game since its launch, with no expansions on the horizon - a first for the series. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Dragon Age The Veilguard builds Dragon Age The Veilguard system requirements Dragon Age The Veilguard price slashed less than six months after release View the full article
WD and Samsung have only just jumped on the PCIe 5.0 gaming SSD bandwagon, but the next generation of super-fast drives is already waiting in the wings. A new PCIe 6.0 SSD from Micron has just been demonstrated at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan, and its potential speeds are immense. Of course, none of the best gaming motherboard designs for desktop PCs feature PCIe 6.0 support yet, and the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) hasn't even started certifying PCIe 6.0 devices yet, so it will be a while before this Micron tech makes it into your gaming rig. Even so, it's cool to see the tech that could be used in the top-speed SSDs of tomorrow this far in advance. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This new SSD is great for Steam Deck, but better for the ROG Ally X DDR5 has arrived! Micron's next-gen DIMMs are 85% faster than DDR4 View the full article
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is out, and it's already quite popular. In light of this, Level-5 has announced some free DLC is on the way, in recognition of the new Fantasy Life's positive reception. Announced on the Level-5 site, the developer has confirmed free DLC is coming to Fantasy Life i. While no release date is set yet, the team is teasing some new recipes, as well as new content to "update the world" (via Gematsu). It will also apparently allow players to utilize high-rarity weapons obtained from Treasure Groves and other sources. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time went live for early access on May 18, with its full launch on May 21. It quickly climbed the Steam charts and started drawing players in, whether they were on the look-out for a new life-sim game or just eager for a new Fantasy Life game. Level-5's latest sits at a 'Very Positive' user review rating on Steam at the moment with over 3,000 reviews, and given the early confirmation of free DLC, it seems like the new game has certainly taken off. It feels like a solid win for Level-5, even after the departure of Keiji Inafune last year to "reassess and restructure" the project. Business operations of Level-5 Comcept were transferred to the parent company after Inafune left. In a post from March 2025, Level-5 boss Akihiro Hino described Inafune's departure as an "unexpected challenge." Fantasy Life i has taken off though, which hopefully bodes well for the rest of Level-5's roster of upcoming games. The studio announced a slew of games in a February 2023 Nintendo Direct, and while some have released, others are still in development. The yet-to-be-released games include some heavy hitters, like futuristic detective RPG DecaPolice and the next installment in the Professor Layton series, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam. While we wait to see when and how those games land, at least Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time players have some more chill life updates to look forward to. If you're currently playing Fantasy Life i, make sure to head over to our Fantasy Life i Gift Codes hub, where we're cataloguing all the Gift Codes and how to redeem them for some in-game goodies. Eric is a freelance writer for IGN. View the full article
Since it launched last year, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 has strictly supported only three-player co-op for the campaign and PvE Operations, but a new mod increases that limit to let 12 players fight the Imperium's foes together. The mod is certainly impressive, and adds some new variety to the game, but the developers at Saber Interactive are adamant that Space Marine 2 is sticking to its three-person limit. View the full article
StarVaders from developer Pengonauts is a colourful and action-packed mix of a deck-builder with fast grid-based tactical combat and it's a thoroughly great time. I've never seen another game so smoothly blend these two together. I'm hooked on it. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Amazon is currently selling Alien: Fate of the Nostromo for $22.49 in the US, a 25% markdown from its MSRP. This cooperative survival board game is part of Ravensburger's series of movie adaptations, and like a surprising amount of that catalog, it's really very good. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best movie board games Alien: Fate of the Nostromo review - slick sci-fi survival View the full article
Fortnite has announced that players now have the ability to claim the Burnoff skin for free by logging into the app on any iOS or Android device. Epic Games recently launched Fortnite's first Star Wars-themed mini-season, which has added iconic characters like Emperor Palpatine, General Grievous, and Mace Windu to the game. View the full article
Star Wars Battlefront 3 has long felt as far out of reach as fellow theoretical third entries such as Half-Life 3. The original Pandemic and Lucasarts games only managed a pair, and EA's Battlefront 2 was met with a mixed reception at launch thanks to its microtransaction model. Post-launch support from EA and DICE, however, took great strides to improve it, and it now holds an 87% positive Steam rating. As player counts soar in the wake of Andor Season 2, a former developer says his team "want to get the gang back together" to make Battlefront 3. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A Star Wars classic and a Wild West RPG go 'free' with Prime Gaming May 4 ***** has players checking out this Star Wars multiplayer game Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers get Titanfall 2 style glow-up View the full article
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The ***** time continues at Warhammer 40,000 maker Games Workshop, which has announced it’s handing out £20 million (approx. $27 million) to its staff as a bonus. The Nottingham, *** company behind the Warhammer tabletop games and their expansive settings, said that for the 52 weeks ending June 1, 2025, core revenue was £560 million, up from the £494.7 million in the previous *******. Licensing revenue was £50 million, up from £31 million. Core profit is £210 million, up from £174.8 million, and licensing profit is £45 million, up from £27 million. That amounts to profit before tax of £255 million, up from £203 million. Off the back of those huge profits, and “in recognition of our staff’s contribution to these results,” Games Workshop is giving employees £20 million, up from the £18 million it handed out last year. The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff. Games Workshop is estimated to have around 1,500 staff. If that’s accurate, it means each employee is set for a £13,333 (approx $18,000) bonus. Games Workshop’s main business is the ***** of miniatures fans assemble and paint for use in tabletop wargames, such as Warhammer 40,000. But it is increasingly an IP business, with huge revenue from smash hit video games such as last year’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and animations, such as Amazon’s Warhammer 40,000 Secret Level episode. Last year, Games Workshop and Amazon finalized a deal for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, which will involve the creation of films and television series. Space Marine 3 is also in development. Where does Games Workshop go from here? The company pointed out that licensing revenue in the ******* is at a record level and it does not expect this to be repeated in 2025/26, although it remains a core focus. Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer generally is ******* than it’s ever been, and based on these results, it’s not slowing down any time soon. Games Workshop recently held its annual Warhammer Skulls showcase, and we’ve got all the announcements and trailers right here. Highlights include a Definitive Edition of Dawn of War and Siege mode for Space Marine 2. Photo by Uli Deck/picture alliance via Getty Images. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]