Stupid Never Dies Is Easily the Worst Game of 2026

Hello all! Welcome to another wonderful week of PC games, and mounting bloodlust. As I type these words, a neighbour has started using a leafblower. I hate leafblowers. They are mutant hairdryers from Hell. They scatter my thoughts like the tiny, tiny quantity of leaves in the neighbour's garden – a quantity of leaves you could very easily sweep up by hand in two minutes, if you had even the slightest bit of gumption. What's that? You think I should release vipers into the neighbour's toolshed? What a capital idea! But sadly I don't have any vipers to hand, and besides, I have to finish writing this list of new PC games. There are exactly as many games in the list as there are leaves in the neighbour's garden. He'll be at it for hours, no doubt. Please read, while I order in some fresh vipers.

The explosion in card collecting, from Pokémon to basketball cards, has led people to pay a premium to get their collections graded by official third parties like PSA. Usually, the worst thing a customer can hear from a grading agency is that their prized card isn’t the mint condition they thought it was. But for Sky-B, a recent email from PSA had news that was way worse. PSA reportedly messaged him recently (via IGN) to inform him that a FedEX truck leaving its facility in Southern California was burglarized and his order was one of the ones impacted by the theft. “We understand how upsetting this news must be,” the email read. “While your items were not in our possession at the time of the burglary, we take our role in helping secure your items seriously and will work with you to resolve this situation as best we can.” "We will compensate you for the items from your order that were involved, which is based on fair market value up to the Maximum Insured Value ("MIV") you selected for each item. " @natsturner, I pray you handle this and take care of everyone affected in the most professional…

Infinity Ward has long been the Call of Duty studio to rely on for single-player campaigns. The original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 are still the best in the whole series, and the reboot got off to a strong start with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2019. Despite a slightly underwhelming runtime, Modern Warfare 4, the latest, is up there with the very best of them. There are two stories happening simultaneously in Modern Warfare 4. One follows the trials and tribulations endured by Sierra-1, a unit made up of both South Korean and United States soldiers, as they fight back against an invasion by the North Korean military. Over the course of several missions, you'll battle through the streets of the fictional Hajin City, explore a snow-covered wasteland in North Korea, and fight through trenches to prevent a nuclear reactor from exploding. Then there's the more traditional Modern Warfare storyline, which puts you in the shoes of the legendary Captain John Price, who is on the run after assassinating the traitorous General Shepherd at the end of Modern Warfare 3.

Jun Maeda, known for writing visual novels as well as for composing music for them, has chosen to enter palliative care after being diagnosed with throat cancer. Japanese visual novel publisher Visual Arts made the announcement on the company’s X page. We would like to share an important announcement concerning our creator, Jun Maeda. For details, please refer to the attachments. pic.twitter.com/4tUBOLPnNy — VISUAL ARTS Co., Ltd. (@VisualArtsUSA) October 19, 2026 In Visual Arts’ announcement, the publisher said that Maeda had chosen palliative care instead of undergoing chemotherapy in order to “conserve his strength and devote himself to his creative work.” At the time of his diagnosis, Maeda was writing for the free-to-play mobile RPG Heaven Burns Red as well as working on an unnamed music project. If you were a serious about video games or anime in the early aughts, you’ve experienced Maeda’s work. He wrote the main scenarios for visual novels that became the keystones of the “moe” subgenre of Japanese entertainment in the west.

Hellraiser creator Clive Barker was worried the franchise's new video game would be "overly censored," but he's "proud as f**k" of "how far they've been able to push it. "The mind behind one of horror's most twisted franchises spoke about his feelings on Saber Interactive's Hellraiser: Revival during a recent chat with Dread Central. Where other adaptations of iconic properties often come and go, Barker only had nice things to say about the experience. "I was fearful at one point that the game would be overly censored but I’m genuinely astonished by how far they’ve been able to push it," he said. So as not to mince words, Barker clarified: "I'm proud as f**k at the end result. "It's about as much praise as Saber and Hellraiser fans could ever hope to see for the new game. Revival ditched the asymmetrical multiplayer formula used by other adaptations through the last decade and instead delivered a single-player survival experience set within the Hellraiser world. Pinhead and other Cenobites helped Saber earn its now famously strict "M for Mature" rating, which warns players of "blood and gore, intense violence, nudity, and strong sexual content," among other things.