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The first half of 2026 has already dropped a stack of strong releases, and with GTA 6 and Marvel's Wolverine still to come, there's plenty to keep you busy in the meantime. This is our running list of the best games to play right now across PC, PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch 2 — some brand-new, others a few years old but still at the top of their genre thanks to regular updates. We've split everything by genre, so jump to whatever you're in the mood for. One thing to set straight up front: this is a "what to play now" list, not a "came out this year" one. A few entries are older, but they keep pulling players back with new seasons, expansions and patches.

The season of game showcases and conferences has officially begun. Yesterday’s Skulls Showcase broadcast brought us a slew of new details about upcoming Warhammer 40,000 titles, as well as updates for existing games — both from the grimdark future and the fantasy realms of Warhammer. We've gathered all the key highlights in this article.

Grand strategy games are slow-paced but incredibly addictive experiences that let you step into the shoes of a national leader or the ruler of a mighty faction. Expanding your realm and competing with neighboring powers in a geopolitical dance can be so captivating that you might easily find yourself gaming until sunrise. The “just one more turn” phenomenon is no joke. In this roundup, we’ve collected the best grand strategy games for those who want to test themselves as a suzerain or a military commander.

The most demanding PC games aren't poorly optimized games — they're projects that honestly load powerful hardware in the name of real technology and real visuals. The difference is fundamental, and this top sticks to it strictly. A demanding game taxes a top-tier graphics card and CPU because it's showing off expensive tech: path tracing and full ray tracing, Nanite and Lumen on Unreal Engine 5, dense world simulation, the streaming of vast open spaces with no loading screens. For every frame it spends, it pays you back in a picture you can actually see — on a flagship system these projects work as a showcase of what a PC can do, and they're also the best-looking games around right now. Crysis once set the bar, and "but can it run it?" became a meme for years. Today there are dozens of such games. As for the ones that drop frames equally on any hardware and give you neither photorealism nor a wow factor in return — that's not about being demanding, that's about bad optimization, and we've got a separate top of the most optimized games for them.