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Indie Dev's Needle-in-a-Haystack Game Has 5 Million Pieces of Hay Aug 24

Roblox game Steal An Egg hides a TikTok treadmill inside its grind Aug 24

Streamers File Class Action Against Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training Data Aug 23

VTuber Komai Ume Gets Community Support After Face Glitch on Stream Aug 23

Xbox CTO Backs Take-Two After Judge Approves GTA 6 Leak Subpoenas Aug 23

Agent00 Offers to Split Brand Deal with Viral 1-Viewer Streamer Nitro Camden Aug 22

Nintendo Wiped 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in One Day Aug 22

Rockstar Furious Over GTA 6 Leaks, Netflix Premiere Stays Aug. 27 Aug 22

1-Viewer Streamer Gets Punched by Mom Mid-Raid as Thousands Watch Aug 21

Take-Two Subpoenas Microsoft and Discord to Find GTA 6 Leaker Aug 21

YouTube Is Paying Creators Millions to Stay Away From Netflix Aug 21

Call of Duty's official account sent a beta code to a fan who hated the MW4 trailer Aug 20

Mattel's $324 Xbox Collector Set Has Halo and Morrowind Minifigs Aug 20

Stop Killing Games distances itself from GTA 6 leaker despite shared values Aug 20

KFC Singapore Goes All-In on Pokemon with Charizard Jacket and Gaming Chopsticks Aug 19

Those Viral GTA 6 Leaks Are Years Old, Insiders Say Aug 19

Xbox and IKEA Tease a Gaming Furniture Line Ahead of Gamescom Aug 19

Fortnite x Cyberpunk 2077 leak points to male V skin and dual SMGs Aug 18

McDonald's and Xbox team up for Fallout, Halo, and Forza Horizon 6 collab Aug 18

Mount & Blade 2 studio offers $13,000 for best modder Aug 18

Ex-LSF Mod Stale2000 Banned from Reddit After Showing Up to HQ Event Aug 17

ImperialHal tells Respawn that Apex Legends has lost its identity Aug 17

South Korean man sentenced to 7 years for $3.4M streamer donation scam Aug 17

NoPixel V Closed Beta Lands on Rockstar Launcher September 8 Aug 16

Pokemon Gamma Emerald Dev Spent 18 Months Solo Building It From Scratch Aug 16

Razer's Pompompurin Kraken Kitty Headset Lands at Target in October Aug 16

Carlsen and Hikaru Take Lie Detector Shots at GothamChess at Esports World Cup Aug 15

Chris Hansen Got Banned From Roblox Live on Stage at CrimeCon Aug 15

Pokemon Bank Closes Feb 2027, Taking Exclusive Forms and Shinies With It Aug 15

Crunchyroll Puts 50,000 Anime Episodes on BMW and Mini Dashboards Aug 14

Twitch's Knut Took 60 Seconds to Notice Cops Behind Him While Reading Chat Aug 14

What 'Sweaty' Means in Gaming and Why It Matters Aug 14

Pokemon Bank Shuts Down for Good in February 2027 Aug 13

Twitch Turns On AI Training With Streamer Content by Default Aug 13

Warner Bros. Discovery Officially Confirms Hogwarts Legacy Sequel Aug 13

Faker and Chovy's Signed Chess Board from EWC 2026 Is Going to Auction Aug 12

MegaLag's Honey Expose Has Now Cost the Extension 7M Users Aug 12

WARDOGS dev lists 10 reasons to skip buying its own top-selling FPS Aug 12

GTA 6 Insider Claims Car Combat and Fighting Mechanics Are "Next Level" Aug 11

Modder squeezes Steam Deck motherboard into a Game Boy-shaped shell Aug 11

Terraria's Calamity Mod Shuts Down After Lead Dev Allegations Aug 11

Free browser game turns asking out your crush into a Soulslike boss fight Aug 10

Mavericks Offer 32 Years of Season Tickets for Cooper Flagg's Rookie Card Aug 10

Valve warns Steam hardware buyers after CEVA Logistics breach Aug 10

A Real FNAF Pizzeria With Animatronics Is Coming to New Jersey in 2027 Aug 9

Hungrybox Faints After Winning a Tense Game 5 at Supernova 2026 Aug 9

Japan Officially Warns US Government to Stop Using Nintendo and Pokemon in Memes Aug 9

Take-Two CEO calls discs pointless as GTA 6 skips them too Aug 8

TikTok Viewers Are Paying to Pelt a Streamer With Pellets Aug 8

Valkyrae blocks fan update account after public streaming complaints Aug 8

Indie Dev Claims Google Gemini Leaked a Private Character Name from Their Google Doc Aug 7

John Romero Reveals id Software Paid Taiwanese Pirates to Distribute Doom Aug 7

Kick's Active Chatter Count Is Putting Viewbot Gaps on Full Display Aug 7

Chinese Dad Sues Four Gaming Giants for $1.50 Over Son's Addiction Aug 6

Rockstar Confirms GTA 6 Extended Look Premieres on Netflix August 27 Aug 6

YouTuber hotdiggedydemon reverses assisted death decision after fan outpouring Aug 6

Ex-Rockstar Animator Says GTA 6 Could Still Slip to 2027 Aug 5

PUBG's $95,000 modding contest will let players build the next mode Aug 5

Roblox Loses $70 Billion in Market Value After Viral Game Drought Aug 5

A Pokemon Train Is Running Tokyo to Yokohama Through September Aug 4

EA FC 27's Open World Has Dodgeball, Basketball, and Mbappe to Chat With Aug 4

Teen dev made $1.38M on Steam but kept only $2,045 Aug 4

Black Ops 2 PS4/PS5 Gets Security Update After Prestige Hackers Run Wild Aug 3

Dev Made a Free Spanking Game to Apologize for Delaying His Spanking Game Aug 3

EA FC 27 devs admit FC 26 Ultimate Team lost its core players Aug 3

Deadlock Gets Ranked Mode With Strict Hero Requirements Aug 2

ExtraEmily's Twitch Streams Get the Hulu Treatment in New Show Aug 2

Gen Con 2026 Hit by Roof Leaks and Tornado Warning During Convention Aug 2

Path of Exile 2 Dev Mailed Nvidia a Whole PC to Squash a Year-Old Crash Bug Aug 1

Twitch bans streamer for joke about needing to "go away," then apologizes Aug 1

Twitch streamer accidentally exposed donating 20 subs to himself mid-fart challenge Aug 1

EA FC 27 Career Mode Lets YouTubers and Fans Build Custom Challenges Jul 31

Gears of War: E-Day Horde Siege Hands-On: 12 Players, Three Squads Jul 31

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Lays Out Four Priorities, Promises Bigger Minecraft Bet Jul 31

Japan Arrests Man Accused of Uploading Pirated Anime to Nyaa Jul 30

Kick Spent Nearly $700K Promoting One Streamer's Clips in a Month Jul 30

Rust Player Paralyzed in Swatting He Pre-Warned Police About Seeks $176M Jul 30

Asmongold explains tooth loss changed his facial structure Jul 29

One Dev Is Building Their Own Elder Scrolls RPG While TES6 Takes Forever Jul 29

Zelda Streamer Beats No-Hit OoT Randomizer After 18 Months and 135 Tries Jul 29

GTA Online's Diamond Casino Goes Dark for Australian Players Jul 28

Halo: Campaign Evolved Rebuilds the Original in Unreal Engine 5 Jul 28

Twitch Streamer hmblzayy Finishes 3,000-Mile Walk After Being Hit by Cars Jul 28

Meccha Chameleon Workshop maps hid malware that hijacked its Discord Jul 27

Ubisoft Has Two Far Cry Games in Development, Report Says Jul 27

What Is Copium? The Gaming Meme That Never Gets Old Jul 27

Kick Streamer Clavicular Detained After Miami Nightclub Brawl Jul 26

Kratos Returns After God of War Laufey, Santa Monica Confirms Jul 26

Touch Grass: The Insult That Gaming Made Famous Jul 26

Microsoft Acts After Gamers Nexus Catches LG Monitors Pushing Antivirus Ads Jul 25

Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Backs Physical Games If Fans Want Them Jul 25

The $1,400 MouthPad lets tongue-controlled gaming go mainstream Jul 25

Apex Legends dev hid a handwritten note from his late mom in E-District Jul 24

Princess Donut Gets a Chocolate Bar and Browser Game Ahead of Her TV Debut Jul 24

Viral raccoon Jimothy is officially joining World of Warcraft Jul 24

Halo: Campaign Evolved Reviewed as the Definitive Way to Play the Original Jul 23

Linus Tech Tips Calls Valve's Steam Machine His Best Desktop PC Ever Jul 23

Rockstar Workers Union Lays Out Demands After First Meeting With Studio Jul 23

Dev runs a VTuber avatar natively on a 26-year-old PS2 Jul 22

GreenVita App Lets Modded PS Vitas Stream Xbox Game Pass Games Jul 22

Palworld Dev Stokes Fortnite Crossover Speculation After Survey Leak Jul 22

Ex-Rockstar Dev Says Cut GTA 5 Content Could Surface in GTA 6 Jul 21

Modern Warfare 4's TTK Sits Between Old Infinity Ward and Recent CoDs Jul 21

YouTuber Dies After Ingesting Poison on Livestream in South Korea Jul 21

GTA 5 and mascot costumes inspired viral hamster game Sweet Hamster Days Jul 20

What Is Smurfing in Gaming? The Practice Explained Jul 20

YouTubers Built a Trojan Horse to Sneak Into The Odyssey Jul 20

Nintendo's Pokemon Patent Rejected After Examiner Cites 2013 Fan Game Jul 19

What Does Poggers Mean? The Twitch Emote Explained Jul 19

What It Means When Someone Calls You an NPC Jul 19

Draw Countries from Memory in This Addictive New Browser Game Jul 18

Poland makes 'trash streaming' a crime punishable by up to 5 years Jul 18

Tiny indie studio's first game trailer buried in Sony disc protest comments Jul 18

What 'E-Girl' Actually Means in 2026: The Culture, Explained Jul 17

Infinity Ward fixes MW4 muzzle flash after players couldn't see their targets Jul 17

GameStop Calls Physical Games 'Irrelevant.' Preservationists Disagree Loudly Jul 17

How 'Gamer Girls' Became an Identity, Not an Insult Jul 17

Women in Gaming 2026: The Data Behind the Rise Jul 17

How Women Streamers Turned Charity Marathons Into a Real Force Jul 15

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What we mean by gaming culture

Gaming culture is everything that happens around the games themselves: the creators who stream and make videos, the communities that form around a favorite title, the memes and rituals, and the ongoing conversation about who gets to play and feel welcome. It is the human side of the hobby, and it is where a lot of the best stories live.

We give real space to women in gaming, from the players and developers shaping the scene to the communities making room for more people at the table.

Creators, community and the conversation

We profile the people behind the play: streamers, cosplayers, modders, speedrunners and the developers who rarely get a spotlight. We also cover the harder conversations honestly, including harassment, accessibility and representation, because a healthy community is worth more than a polished one.

Creators: the streamers and makers shaping how we watch and play
Community: fandoms, events and the culture around big releases
Voices: women in gaming and the push for a more welcoming scene

For the competitive communities specifically, our esports desk follows the teams and fans, while the gaming news feed keeps the wider industry in view.