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Thoughts might be turning toward PowerWash Simulator 2 - and developer FuturLab has now shared a fresh look at its recently announced hose-'em-up sequel - but the original also just got another free update, letting hardened sprayers unload their nozzle somewhere new.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew. The department, which was created to oversee banks and financial institutions, has cut about 1,500 jobs, leaving about 200 employees and reducing the agency by about 90 percent. In addition to cutting most of the staff, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sent a memo detailing the changed priorities for the CFPB. The bureau has been ordered to deprioritize subjects including consumer data, digital payments, medical debt ...

It's the first free weekend for the submarine horror game since it went 1.0 in 2023.

It’s been a big month for Path of Exile 2, as its Dawn of the Hunt update dropped and saw huge swathes of players switch back over to the early access ARPG. One of its main rivals, Last Epoch, foresaw this and delayed its own Season 2 update to dodge it. It seems that this forward thinking, and the exciting contents of Season 2, have worked in perfect harmony, because its player count has just skyrocketed on Steam. So much so, in fact, that there are currently more people playing it than Path of...

A three-level dip no longer.

As part of tonight's Galaxies Gaming Showcase, developer Remedy Entertainment has shown off a little more of its upcoming three-player co-op Control spin-off, FBC: Firebreak, with a more substantial reveal now confirmed to be airing next Thursday, 24th April.

Verizon today announced new features for its Unlimited Ultimate plan, which is the company's highest-tier plan at the current time. Unlimited Ultimate customers now have access to 200GB of premium Hotspot data, which downgrades to 6Mb/s after that. Verizon is also offering unlimited data in more than 210 countries and destinations around the world, plus customers can choose one of 140 countries to get up to 300 minutes of calling from the US per month. High-speed data worldwide is capped at 15GB...

Remember back in 2003 when Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out, and fans kept circling back to the topic of how every time they thought the movie was over, Jackson added a new epilogue, finale, wrap-up scene, or coda? (Even so, some people still didn’t think the...

Look, I'm sorry, but Unbeatable has the best hook of any game ever. As the headline notes, this is a game where music is illegal, and you do crimes. It's a rhythm game, no less, which it couldn't really be anything else but that, right? I've been waiting for it for about four years now, since the Kickstarter launched, and unfortunately it's still not quite ready yet. However! As of today, the next best thing is here: a demo.

Here's your chance to see what it's all about.

A live-action Pacific Rim TV series is in-development at Amazon, according to Variety. News of the project was first shared in 2024, when Variety reported that Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer was attached to develop and write the show. The new series will apparently be a prequel to Guillermo Del Toro's original Pacific Rim, a movie about Kaiju-fighting giant mechs and the humans that pilot them. Legendary, which produced Pacific Rim, is also backing the series alongside Amazon MGM. The studi...

Instagram today announced the launch of Blend, a new feature that's designed to allow users to connect to their friends in new ways over DMs. Blend is essentially a shared feed of Reels that combines recommendations that users and their friends might like. To start a Blend with a friend or a group of friends, users can go to a DM and then tap on the Blend icon. From there, everyone in the DM group is able to participate. The Blend will include Reels that users in the group are interested in, bas...

When I heard that a small group of former Call of Duty, Halo, Destiny, and Apex Legends had got together to make a new game, my thoughts immediately rushed to the project being a fast-paced, ability-laden shooter set on some distant-future planet. What I didn’t expect it to be was Covenant, which is essentially Dark Souls as an FPS game. That’s of course a bit reductive, but that’s the elevator pitch. Thanks to its appearance at the Galaxies Showcase, we’ve just got a fresh look at Covenant, and...

The latest free update to PowerWash Simulator doesn’t take place in the Shrek universe or the Warhammer 40,000 universe. It’s completely home-cooked lore in The Muckingham Files 5 DLC that dropped today. This free bonus job tasks you with cleaning up a dessert parlor in the town the game is set in. The description claims...

Earlier this month Blizzard outlined their plans for Diablo 4 across 2025 that, notably, teased the action game would be getting a few collabs. They didn't mention what said collabs would be, just that they exist, to which I said "ugh", because, well, ugh, why does everything have to have collabs these days? The annoying thing is that Blizzard kind of nailed it with the first one, which just so happens to be with the iconic dark fantasy series Berserk.

When U.S. President Donald Trump levied 145 percent tariffs on goods imported from China, Apple CEO Tim Cook started working to score Apple an exemption that would keep iPhone costs down. According to The Washington Post, Cook had a phone call with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week, explaining how the tariffs would cause ‌iPhone‌ prices to increase. He talked to senior White House officials about the tariffs, and made sure not to say anything negative in public about Trump's policies t...

A high-octane experience like nothing you've ever seen before: hover hard, hit harder.

Blue Prince, Dogubomb’s rogue-like puzzle adventure game, has quickly become a favorite here at Polygon, and for good reason. And it should come as no surprise that I am also hip deep in the strange mansion of Herbert S. Sinclair, drafting rooms, hoarding keys, and bartering coins.  I’m a known simp for the Series of...

MapleStory Classic World was revealed as part of the game's 20th anniversary.

Resonance Stone + Shadow Blade = Sicko Mode.

Sonos is offering discounts on its refurbished gear just in time for Earth Day. Select purchases of the audio company's certified refurbished products are currently 25 percent off. That means you can pick up a pre-owned Arc soundbar for $599, or $120 less than the usual sticker price. The deal is running through April 22 or as long as supplies of the refurb items last, so if you're considering one of these revitalized audio products, it's probably best to act quickly. Here's the list of what's c...

Path of Exile 2's 0.2 update wasn't all bad: The endgame finally feels like it's headed in the right direction

Abiotic Factor is getting a $10 price increase just before it's 1.0 launch, but you can save $15 if you grab it in April.

Many of us have moved on to the second season of Arcane, the Netflix animated seried inspired by League of Legends. But, if you’d like to make the inaugural season a permanent part of your collection, you can currently pick up the 4K Blu-ray of Season one of Arcane for its lowest price ever on...

Animation Studio Titmouse's debut tabletop board game, Drunkards, Druggies, & Delinquents, is now available for pre-order.

Armored Core is a FromSoftware series that absolutely rips, and has done since its debut way back on the PS1. Technically us PC players only recently were graced with the ability to play something from the series with the release of Armored Core 6, but soon we'll have a couple more to mess around with. The only caveat is that it would be helpful if you could speak Japanese, as they're not getting an English language release.

Xbox's Spring Sale is live, with big discounts on old and new classics and plenty of forgotten gems. But the deals aren't limited to Xbox console games; there's plenty on tap for PC, too. (You can filter by platform under the "Play with" option in the sidebar.) Some of the standouts in the Xbox sale include 75 percent off Red Dead Redemption 2 (a mere $15 for the 2018 masterpiece), Elden Ring ($36) and 20 percent off Baldur's Gate 3 ($56). Also available are Subnautica ($9.89), the feline advent...

New Jersey's Attorney General Matthew Platkin is suing Discord over the chat company's child safety features. The lawsuit claims that Discord has "misled parents about the efficacy of its safety controls and obscured the risks children faced when using the application." The Office of the Attorney General and the state's Division of Consumer Affairs concluded that Discord violated New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act after a multiyear investigation into the company. The details of the lawsuit are curr...

One of the gnarliest games ever published by a AAA studio is available at a steep discount on Steam. That’s great news… if you can get past the game-breaking bugs. When Activision published Prototype 2 in 2012, the big-budget video game scene was stuck in a creative rut. You could have whatever you wanted, so...

Hello, I’m Eser Kaya, I’m part of the Ubik Studios team developing Leila. I’d like to tell you a little bit about the world of Leila that you’ll be diving into. Leila puts you inside the mind of a middle-aged woman and lets you wander there. You are allowed to enter her mind and you […] The post Are You Ready to Enter Leila’s Mind and Journey into Her Past? appeared first on Xbox Wire.

The TV adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal is coming back for a second season on July 31. Just like the first season, this won’t be a weekly release. All of the episodes will be available on Peacock on that date. The first season was surprisingly decent, and occasionally hilarious. One thing we didn’t see in that batch of episodes, however, was the titular tournament. The show is rectifying that, as the second season looks to revolve entirely around the Twisted Metal demolition derby. Co-...

Canonical has today released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed "Plucky Puffin", their latest feature upgrade release to one of the most popular Linux distributions. This also includes updates for all the other editions like Kubuntu.

The long-awaited second season of weekly Playdate game drops commences on May 29. During a showcase on Thursday, Panic revealed that players will get two fresh games on their console every seven days for six weeks. It's also promising a surprise of some kind. Unlike the first season of games that's included with every Playdate, you'll need to pay extra for this one. Playdate Season Two will run you $39. You can pre-order now through the Playdate Catalog. Part of the allure of Playdate's seasons ...

Bad news for everyone hoping to see skins from League of Legends television adaptation Arcane return to Fortnite: You’re going to be waiting a long time, if not forever. “We’ve had a lot of conversations with Epic about what might be possible,” League of Legends co-creator and Riot Games co-chairman Marc Merrill said on X...