Season 5 launched in Battlefield 6 this week as planned, and though most of the new additions - new maps, weapons and vehicles, and gameplay changes - were well received, the season began on a low note due to accusations of generative AI use and because of a major hit to XP gain.
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Gmail's search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers.
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"The triple-A industry has become over-specialised, specialised to the point of hyper-fragility," Mark Darrah states in a foreboding interview found deep in the pages of the Summer Eternal Anthology, recently covered by Edwin. As a former executive producer at Bioware, who corralled teams on Anthem and Dragon Age, after starting his career as a programmer on Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Jade Empire, Darrah has seen firsthand the growing scale of video game production and the challenges...
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Released back in 2018, ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a classic Fallout-like and the developers just gave it a nice upgrade and DLC
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From Neil Gaiman to Haruki Murakami, these are the most fascinating low fantasy books that treat the ordinary as something extarordinary.
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Caves of Qud: Diaspora is the first expansion for the incredible roguelike, coming December 9th in Early Access
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Digiphile (former Humble Bundler staff) just launched their new Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle, with some fresh games to get spooked with
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With the news recently about RimWorld dropping Unity for their own game engine, we now have a little more info on the tech behind it called BRUTAL
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Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux
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Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux
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Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta and a Steam Client Update for the Steam Frame - here's all the changes
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Another big new Steam Beta release for all platforms has arrived - bringing with it a 64bit Linux client, and a fancy Achievement Sets system
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Movie makeover. The new Street Fighter live-action movie starring Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and various other characters from Capcom's long-running fighting game universe is out this week in cinemas. To celebrate the premiere, new codes have been released for Street Fighter 6, which gives select character outfits a unique EX color. These codes can be used in all versions of the game (including the Switch 2 release), but will require you to own the respective outfit.
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Gary Larson's comic strip The Far Side was known for its visual humor, but this is the best-ever quote from the series
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Back to the future. Originally revealed in 2023 as a working title named Project Life is RPG, Marvelous didn't show too much of their new IP, but said they were creating a game that pays respect to the classics of the genre, along with some gorgeous concept art. Jump forward to this year, and Eternal Anima was officially unveiled in September's Nintendo Direct. A bunch of game industry veterans are working on this title, such as Katsuhisa Higuchi (Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xen...
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A bonus available in France. As we get closer to Zelda: Ocarina of Time's return, more retailers around the world are announcing midnight launches and special bonuses.
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Effective as of 16th November 2026. Switch 2 and Switch have already been hit with global price hikes in 2026, and now, Nintendo has announced it will increase the cost of hardware repairs in Japan. According to an official notice on Nintendo's Japanese website, the price revision (which will be applied to both the Switch 2 and Switch) will take effect next month on 16th November 2026.
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Tesla's Roadster event was pretty exciting, to say the least.
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Roadside Picnic ends with one of science fiction’s most beautiful lines, a simple wish for happiness that still resonates more than 50 years later.
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"That Stinks!" and other Wario Land songs return. Last month, Nintendo released a new update for its music application Nintendo Music, adding the WarioWare: Move It! soundtrack. Now, in a new update this month, it's added the Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 album to the paid service. Here's what you can expect from this latest update. This includes the full list of songs and various other details, including the game's composers.
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Tesla has finally unveiled the next-generation Roadster.
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Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to help complete The Batman Part 2, starring Robert Pattinson, as questions remain about the DC sequel's release date
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Apple has an unreleased iPad mini Smart Folio listed on its French regulatory website, hinting that a new iPad mini is coming. The case's A3632 model number doesn't match current or past iPad mini cases. Apple appears to have added the case to its website recently, and it's listed alongside iPhone 18 Pro accessories added in September. The listing doesn't include any iPad mini specs, but it does suggest design changes to the device it's meant for. The iPad mini 6 and the iPad mini 7 both...
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Representative Ritchie Torres will introduce a bill aimed at protecting videogame ownership, including for online games that are decommissioned.
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It's in beta now, but will likely release widely in about a month.
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The smart health company is gating third-party app syncing to its own subscription plan for new users.
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Apple is "pretty much done" with M6 chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated today on his podcast. Apple debuted the M6 chip in the Mac mini and has plans for an M6 iMac and entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, but the company is not planning to make M6 Pro, M6 Max, or M6 Ultra chips. Apple will instead go from the M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra to the M7 lineup. The upcoming OLED MacBook Pro models will use the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips Apple uses in the current MacBook Pro models, with no ch...
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Welp, that was short lived. Earlier this month, Jagex made some big RuneScape announcements, namely that they're making a fourth version of the MMO (aptly, currently called RuneScape 4), but also the arrival of RuneScape Reignited, a new character type that would come with its own, new economy. The intention here seemingly was to bring new people in to breathe some life back into the game. This did not go down well with the old timers. And now, it's been flat out cancelled.
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If the proposal is enacted, it could cost $240 a year to watch YouTube in the UK.
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The Mummy 4 has been titled The Mummy: Book of the Dead. It arrives in theaters exactly one year from today.
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Castlevania Belmont's Curse fast travel is locked behind a significant amount of progress. Here's when you can fast travel in Belmont's Curse.
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In the wake of a furious backlash from players, Jagex admits it "missed the mark."
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It's inevitable we'll see Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave characters in the next Smash Bros game. Hopefully, some of these make the cut
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The Magic: The Gathering Star Trek teaser has been released sharing hints of what is coming in the upcoming Universes Beyond set.
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