Since arriving at the station of our lives in mid-2025, Train Sim World 6 has been expanded with lots of new DLCs. Looking back at how the series has grown and morphed over the years, it's cool to see how much the relatively simple concept at its heart has been developed. Whether you've been riding the rails since the series' origins in 2017, or have yet to taste the sweet nectar of train simulation, it's well worth taking a peep at the Train Sim World 6 Humble Bundle, which includes the base game and seven DLCs at 89% off, with 50% discounts thrown in for its bigger editions.

I've reviewed PrivadoVPN dozens of times in my career as a VPN journalist, and have even been to one of its data centres in the Netherlands. Over the past few years it's gone from strength to strength, launching new features and tools to improve the app - all while keeping its prices low.

It wouldn't be a weekend news round without a new(ish) strategy or building game now, would it? Seriously, whenever I'm drafted in to see what's worth bringing to your attention at the end of a long week, there's always some critically acclaimed simulator I've never heard of hitting an apparently long overdue 1.0 release to stellar reviews. Shapez 2 - Factory is the name of this weekend's surprise strategy release, and I'm convinced people secretly yearn for the manufacturing line.

The gift of Guild Wars Reforged just keeps on giving. That is, if you're the type to fixate on naming your fantasy roleplay characters something super-specific - or love to find creative ways to link your name to something that'll make grown adults chuckle like Beavis and Butthead. It's a good time to be an immature idiot, let me tell you!

JRPGs emerged on the NES, gained prominence on the SNES, and conquered the world on the PS1. This paved the way for countless developers to launch their own iterations of Japanese-made RPGs, some strictly following Dragon Quest's blueprint, while others innovated as far as the hardware allowed.

The Super Nintendo marked a major milestone for the industry, with a technical leap that brought consoles much closer to the visual quality seen in arcades.

Upcoming expansion FF14 Evercold is about to introduce a completely new way to play every job in the game, and for a lot of them the difference is significant. 'Evolved Mode' transforms each of the game's 21 classes into a fresh form, designed to feel streamlined, more flexible, and with more individual personality. However, you don't have to use it. If you like the way things are right now, 'Reborn Mode' will keep the classic style that you know and love, and it'll continue to be supported, remaining equally viable for completing everything the MMORPG throws your way. During a Fanfest Q&A session, I asked game director Naoki Yoshida when and why he decided to commit to this two-part future.

Turns out Star Citizen isn't the only multiplayer space adventure struggling to ship a first-person shooter mode. Elite Dangerous - the space game that erroneously convinced me that we'd all be gaming in VR every day nearly a decade ago - just delayed its new Operations mode. Again. And if the last gameplay sneak peek was any indication of the experience we almost had this month, I'm shocked the announcement wasn't made earlier.

Developing a game is becoming an increasingly long process. I don't understand much about the backstage of a dev team, but I imagine that as time passes, technology improves, and software becomes more accessible and democratic. Take Expedition 33, for example, where the devs mentioned that 95% of the gameplay systems were made with Unreal Engine blueprints.

Long before Electronic Arts gained a stranglehold on the four major North American sports, there was a time when multiple developers would be assigned to make games. Football, basketball, hockey, and baseball used to be represented by multiple development teams, and there would sometimes be completely off-the-wall sports games like NFL Blitz or NBA Street. If you grew up liking sports, the 1990s and 2000s represented an incredible time for sports video games.

Horror games are known for having you run around in circles while trying to figure out what to do, eating away at your time and energy to maintain interest. However, not every horror game will keep you in that tight of a chokehold after all, some games actually respect you and your time.

Valheim is, perhaps, one of the greatest indie success stories ever. It's a simple concept: a Norse-inspired survival game where you build a house and fight monsters. Set to release in 1.0 this year - five years on from its initial debut - Valheim is in many ways akin to Rust and other genre stalwarts, but there's something about it that just keeps bringing people back. That phenomenon bears examination - so we've teamed up with Thames & Hudson and Read-Only Memory to show off the Valheim chapter from Nathan P. Gibson's latest book, Indie Game Works. Turns out that veering away from being an MMO is "the best design decision" that the team ever made.