Games

HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life

HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new...

2025-08-15

Rough with the smooth, but the smooth looks plenty slippery, at least.

Samsung has announced the world's first 500 Hz OLED monitor, but it's the new 5K2K panel that's got my wallet twitching

Samsung has announced the world's first 500 Hz OLED monitor, but it's the new...

2025-08-15

40 inches of 5K2K gaming precision is awfully tempting.

Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build your own wave shooter from its demonic menagerie

Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build...

2025-08-12

Id's FPS prequel also gets a massive combat update.

'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time

'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair...

2025-08-12

But this isn't why Clair Obscur has a parry system, honest.

AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: 'Grok doesn't actually know why it was suspended'

AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the...

2025-08-12

X's AI chatbot was briefly suspended from X on Monday, and then said that its opinions on Israel were to blame.

Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a 'Mage of the Way' who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea

Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a...

2025-08-12

Details are scant, but Woochi the Wayfarer's announcement teaser is pretty slick.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing...

2025-08-12

Google has called Gemini's habit of self-abuse "annoying."

A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'

A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately...

2025-08-12

The kiddies can't get enough affine texture warping these days.

Ubisoft announces a live-action Far Cry TV series then immediately pretends it didn't announce a live-action Far Cry TV series

Ubisoft announces a live-action Far Cry TV series then immediately pretends...

2025-08-12

The show is reportedly in the works at FX and will star Rob McElhenney of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia—but Ubisoft quickly took down the announcement.

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the...

2025-08-12

Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it.

I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time

I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the...

2025-08-12

The creators of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages are going unholy with Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists.

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the...

2025-08-12

BioWare had floated the idea in the past, but it never went anywhere.

Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our initial expectations' despite its rough start: 'The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn'

Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our...

2025-08-12

Civ games traditionally have a long time and Strauss Zelnick believes Civ 7 will too.

Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same

Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have...

2025-08-12

The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations."

'We're genuinely psyched that there are more options out there': 2XKO head says he's jazzed to see more studios jumping in to help revive the humble tag fighter

'We're genuinely psyched that there are more options out there': 2XKO head...

2025-08-12

Despite not even releasing yet, Jaffe said 2XKO is "the old new kid on the block."

Let's take a moment to appreciate the true GOAT of the Battlefield 6 open beta: the drag revive

Let's take a moment to appreciate the true GOAT of the Battlefield 6 open...

2025-08-12

Pour one out to the squadmate who's hauled you to safety three times in the last 30 seconds.

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

2025-08-12

Corsair's buffed the rough edges off its first desk, and some of the width too, creating the best compact gaming desk you can buy.

The biggest thing that needs balancing in Battlefield 6 isn't the weapons—it's the attachments

The biggest thing that needs balancing in Battlefield 6 isn't the...

2025-08-12

Min-maxing has never been this easy, and that's the problem.

'Everyone's little monkey brains like shelter and food': Subnautica 2 designer says primal instinct is the reason we're so drawn to smashing blocks of wood into weapons

'Everyone's little monkey brains like shelter and food': Subnautica 2...

2025-08-12

Survival games tap into our inner barbarian, it seems.

Mortal Kombat 1 has cemented itself as the best-selling fighting game of this generation despite ending support after just 20 months: 'We're still committed to refining MK1 to be our most balanced game'

Mortal Kombat 1 has cemented itself as the best-selling fighting game of this...

2025-08-12

Ed Boon took to X to ask fans how to improve the game's balancing.

Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's woes, domestic chip manufacturing, and that awkward moment Trump called for his resignation last week

Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's...

2025-08-12

That was one way to force Intel to the negotiating table...

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security experts

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US...

2025-08-12

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security...