gaming articles published February 1, 2026

February 1 articles

• 2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
• 'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
• Fallout 76's Crossover DLC With The TV Show Is Stupid And Lore-Breaking
• 21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
• Pokemon Go January 2026 Events: Raid Bosses, Spotlight Hours, Community Day, And More
• 3 Clever Uses For Your Old Video Game Controllers
• The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now
• 3 Clever Uses For Your Old Nintendo Wii
• Can you guess which game these competitive rank crests are from?
• 'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
• Fighting Force Collection Review: 2 Beat ‘Em Ups Return
• Final Fantasy 7's Tetsuya Nomura reveals concept art made in the JRPG's "very earliest" stages that "envisioned combat" not fully realized until FF7 Remake
• "Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that's the game you want to play again," says Skyrim lead, who thinks players "will cringe" at a possible remake
• The Biggest Games Releasing in February 2026
• Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
• Steam hit Escape From Duckov gets official crossover with Escape From Tarkov, bringing the two extraction shooter giants together
• Skyrim lead thinks Starfield "would be talked about like the second coming" if a new studio made it, but "expectations were so much higher" with Bethesda
• Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
• I almost missed these 4 excellent cozy games launching in February
• On-Together is the first focus tool videogame I've used that understands the importance of partnered-up productivity
• Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
• Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
• Hate Captchas? Then you'll love this hilarious game
• Wait, Google Project Genie can generate playable Mario and Zelda games?
• Game review: ‘Metroid Prime 4’ mostly sticks to a familiar formula
• Ranking The Themes of Deadlock's New Heroes From The Old Gods, New Blood Update
• Deadlock Graves Quick Ability Guide
• I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential
• Deadlock Rem Quick Ability Guide
• WWE 2K26 Release Date and Full-Length Trailer Released
• Marvel Super Heroes Precon Face Commanders Ranked
• 5 Video Games That Were Sabotaged By Hardware Limits
• The 5 Best Websites For Custom PS5 Controllers
• Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes
• New Marvel Super Heroes Precon Face Commanders Revealed