Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him ‘ammunition’ to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

You ever get sick of trashmob fights? I admit it: sometimes I just want to run from A to B without massacring half a village, cutting down group after group of bandits, goblins, and imps who have only really been placed there to stop me from getting bored. I am, apparently, joined in this philosophy…

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Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 review

I’ve always admired Turtle Beach’s Stealth 700 range. The cheaper headsets, like the Turtle Beach Recon 70, don’t quite hit the right price-to-value ratio for me, and though the Turtle Beach Sealth 500 seems like a solid offering, I’ve always liked the more heavy-duty feel of the pricier gaming headsets. They have thick cushioning around…

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The Bark Ages Returns — Raising Hell for a Good Cause

Category: Announcements May 28, 2025 The Bark Ages Returns — Raising Hell for a Good Cause Team Xbox Summary Xbox and Bethesda are donating $32,000 to three animal welfare locations (Nebraska, Seattle, and Montgomery Co., MD) in honor of DOOM’s 32-year legacy.  A new “The Bark Ages” charity t-shirt will launch on May 28 at…

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Listening to Google’s CEO talking about what about the future of AI holds just reinforces the fact that nobody can know what the future of AI holds

Every other week we seem to get a tech CEO or some other bigwig telling us how great AI is and how revolutionary the AI era is going to be. But whenever they start talking about what exactly that will look like, I’m reminded of the frightening strength of historical variability and humanity’s incapability of…

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