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May brings more than just rainbows and sunshine — it’s also time for fresh adventures and epic battles. This GFN Thursday spotlights 20 can’t-miss games joining the cloud this month, with something for every kind of gamer. Gear up with the nine games available this week, on top of the launch of Rust’s Jungle Biome Read Article

Tools for Humanity, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman, has launched its its World eyeball-scanning identity verification system in the US. During an event in San Francisco, Altman reportedly said that World's technology provides "a way to make sure humans remained central and special in a world where the internet had a lot of AI-driven content." Altman is also one of the founders and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which is perhaps the most prominent artificial intelligence company today.  Worl...

For Nicolas Simon, advancing the field of robotics is a personal mission that could change his siblings’ lives. Two-thirds of Simon’s family members use wheelchairs due to mobility challenges related to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited genetic condition. As an engineering student and robotics club chair at France’s École Polytechnique, he saw the opportunity to build Read Article

Preservation is top of mind for many developers and professionals in the games industry nowadays. In the wake of the abrupt sunsetting of Concord last September and the news this past March that Sony has begun backing up its PS5 game builds as part of its larger ongoing preservation efforts, the simultaneous ephemerality and invaluable...

For such an ostensibly small game, there's such bigness to Despelote. On the surface this is a game about football, its humble joys and seemingly unstoppable knack for rendering whole nations enraptured. Beneath that surface however is something more inward facing, a reflective game about its creators, and the act of creating - about the act of remembering, too, this game being one about their own, half-imagined memories. The result is special, something personal and universal all at once.

The two games spent April entangled in drama.

I'd almost given up on ObRem's painstaking lockpicking until recently.

Earlier this week, 2K announced that it will release Borderlands 4 on September 12 — 11 days earlier than planned. Now, we're getting another look at the latest in Gearbox's series, including new features and a full-length gameplay trailer.   One of the most interesting tidbits announced is that Borderlands 4 will offer individual difficulty settings in co-op multiplayer. So, one person could play on easy and another on hard while still maintaining fluid gameplay. It's a cool option if you want ...

Making electric cars from scratch is hard. Out of all the homegrown EV startups, Tesla is the only company that has broken through to the mainstream. Nikola was a scam. Canoo recently filed for bankruptcy. And depending on how you're counting, Fisker failed not once but twice. Then there are companies like Aptera that feel like they have been nearing production for more than a decade. Among the ocean of EV companies hoping to outpace legacy automakers, Rivian and its second-gen models are making...

Google is rolling out AI-powered image editing capabilities to its Gemini app on iPhone, allowing users to modify both uploaded and AI-generated images directly within the app. The new functionality enables background changes, object replacements, and element additions to existing photos. Users can upload personal images and prompt Gemini to generate variations, such as visualizing different hair colors or styles. All images created or edited through Gemini will include invisible SynthID digital...

The new game releases in May are some of the experiences we’ve been waiting to have for too long. Not only is Elden Ring Nightreign coming out, but so is Doom: The Dark Ages. Of course, there are plenty of smaller games too, like to a T from the creator of Katamari Damacy and —...

Nintendo's partnership with Lego is continuing this summer with a fresh wave of Super Mario and Animal Crossing sets, including the first appearance of some fan-favourite characters.

It wasn't just you left staring at the Welcome screen for 30 seconds.

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB hasn’t even been announced yet, but recent rumors that the company had cancelled it are reportedly false. The rumor mill is now suggesting that the likely budget-friendly AMD card is still on the way, even if it might face a cool reception from gamers. Earlier RX 9060 XT 8GB cancellation rumors suggested that this particular GPU may not see a public release, with the poor press reaction to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB cited as a possible cause. The RTX 5060 Ti...

Hearts of Iron 4 remains a titan of the grand strategy genre. Nearly nine years after it launched, the Paradox-developed WW2 game continues to pull in tens of thousands of players daily, remaining among Steam’s top games thanks to the unparalleled level of depth in its recreation of the globe-spanning conflict. With its next DLC, however, HoI 4 is getting a little experimental, delving into prototype creations that, in most cases, never actually saw the light of day. Set to round out the game’s ...

In a year that has so far seen some demanding giants like Monster Hunter Wilds, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Oblivion Remastered, I have found myself routinely playing Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, a four-year-old sim that has you repeatedly changing the brake pads on busted vehicles and scavenging old engine parts from a nearby junkyard. So I feel a quiet delight to learn of the upcoming Car Dealer Simulator, due to release next month, which will let me not only fix up old bangers, but also sel...

The BBC announced a new addition to its Maestro series of masterclasses, featuring its first posthumous teacher, Agatha Christie, presenting her writing tips in 4K video. The best-selling author of literature in human history teaches an 11-lesson course on writing mysteries, and the BBC seems very aware of the issues circling AI, which provokes a mix of intrigue and, honestly, wariness. Christie, who died in 1976, has had her likeness composited through a blend of licensed images, limited footag...

Apple achieved impressive 13% year-over-year growth in Q1 2025, shipping 55 million iPhones worldwide and increasing its global market share to 19%, up from 16% a year ago, according to the latest Canalys research. Apple's performance is in stark contrast to the broader smartphone market, which recorded just 0.2% growth with 296.9 million units shipped globally. Samsung maintained its lead with 60.5 million units and 20% market share, but it grew only 1% compared to last year. Xiaomi secured thi...

Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, publisher Saber Interactive has announced.

Just what I wanted.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that Apple violated her own ruling back in 2021 on the lawsuit Epic Games filed against Apple a year before. Now, it's ordering (PDF) Apple to stop collecting commissions on purchases that weren't paid through the App Store effective immediately. In 2021, Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple did not hold an App Store monopoly. However, she also said that the company must allow developers to direct users to other payment systems that would let them bypass the 30...

Even with Netflix’s recommendation algorithm serving you new movies, new TV shows, and original programming tailored to your viewing habits, the streaming service’s fire hose of content makes what’s coming difficult to parse. We’re here to help. This month has some exciting back catalogue picks, like the whole Twilight saga, the Ocean’s Eleven movies, horror...

We're having a sensible chuckle from our (ivory) gaming towers.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has been played by over two million people, Ubisoft has announced, while hinting at more from the franchise to come.

Another big departure for the legendary studio. It's been announced in the latest issue of Famitsu Magazine that PlatinumGames designer Takahisa Taura is parting ways with the developer in order to start work on his own company, Eel Game Studio. As revealed in a post by Genki, and spotted by the folks over at VGC, Taura stated on a few social media sites that he hasn't got anything he wishes to share with regards to his new venture just yet, but really it's the fact of another big name leaving P...

We’re more used to sex in videogames nowadays. Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 - to name but a few - have bridged the divide between adult material and what’s historically been regarded as an immature medium. But back in 1987, Leisure Suit Larry, at least in terms of subject matter, was something of an anomaly. Now, 38 years later, what was once Sierra’s flagship point-and-click series is disappearing from Steam. The reasons are unclear, but the historic Larry games are vanishing fr...

A major European retailer has raised the price of Xbox Series X and both variants of the Xbox Series S overnight, prompting speculation of a wider price hike.

A new Path of Exile 2 update today is rolling out the major loot improvements promised by developer Grinding Gear Games - but not without a slight hiccup. The latest Path of Exile 2 patch notes are already here, and the overhaul was supposed to land with them, but a slip up that caused some skill gems to disappear has forced GGG to roll back the update. It will be making its return within 24 hours, however, so here’s a good look at what’s changing as the highly anticipated ARPG sequel and Diablo...

Inspired by classic Western adventures and blended with wholesome farming charm, Cattle Country is definitely one you should be keeping an eye on. The developers have announced it's set for launch on May 27th.

Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?

Nintendo has altered the way it ranks best-selling games in the Switch eShop, which could have big ramifications for both shovelware games and indies alike.

EA have announced they're "pausing" development of any future rally racers, including the filth-speckled WRC and Dirt series. Many rally games have historically been made by the now EA-owned studio Codemasters, a crowd of long-time motorsports specialists who've been soiling wheel arches as far back as Colin McCrae Rally for the first PlayStation. Well, no more, say the big wigs. The games have "reached the end of the road", they say. Bad news for fans of muck and sand on wheels, but there is a ...

With Nvidia’s latest gaming GPU lineup now being all the rage, now is a great time to snag yourself a huge bargain on a laptop based on one its (still very powerful) last-gen GPUs. This Acer gaming laptop deal is the perfect example, with the impressively low $699.99 price tag on this Acer Nitro V machine making it one of the cheapest RTX 4000 series laptops on Amazon right now, netting you an 18% saving in the process. We’re big fans of this Acer laptop, as our Acer Nitro V review shows, where ...

"only products from our U.S. warehouse are available". Yes, it seems as though the United States' bewildering tariff tactics are not through causing issues for gamers. Not by a long-shot, we'd imagine. Following on from the Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order debacle that's been occurring Stateside, popular peripheral maker 8BitDo has confirmed via its official website (thanks Polygon) that it'll no longer be shipping new inventory to the U.S. in the wake of uncertainty following Trump's ongoing tariff ...

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping from Happy Broccoli Games is now set for release on May 22nd, and it will come with Native Linux support.