The dark web doesn’t have your Steam account on it, Valve has confirmed in a news post after a report on LinkedIn claimed there was a massive data breach of more than 89 million users. “You may have seen reports of leaks of older text messages that had previously been sent to Steam customers,” Valve…
The history of Star Wars is the history of visual effects. For decades, Lucasfilm and its effects division Industrial Light & Magic have—through innovations in camera technology, miniature techniques, practical effects, and computer-generated imagery—charted the course of Hollywood film production, establishing a visual canon that resonates so strongly with its fans that many of them…
Surprise attack! After a short hiatus spent shoring up its forces and launching targeted strikes on planets with a weaponized black hole, the Illuminates have launched a new campaign in Helldivers 2’s galactic war. The cunning beasts are marching closer to Super Earth than ever before. Players suspect the latest offensive will culminate in a…
A new item in Marvel Rivals’ latest event has broken the idea many players had about its ranked mode—namely that it’s an accurate way to measure your skill at the game. One loss is no longer necessarily weighed the same as another: The Galacta’s Gift event lets you earn up to eight free Chrono Shield…
Category: Accessories May 14, 2025 Introducing the Designed for Xbox Floral Collection 2025 Pamela WangSenior Program Manager, Xbox The new Designed for Xbox collection has arrived. Introducing the Floral Collection, designed for players who seek accessories that blend beauty with performance. Each piece in this collection is adorned with unique intricate floral patterns, bringing a…
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8 was stuffed full of wonderful things, like 12 new subclasses and a photo mode, but once it was out some players stumbled into new dialogue they had never heard before. A chat with a certain corpse revealed a snippet of a storyline that didn’t actually exist anywhere else in the…
And its heading to North America. The Pokémon Company has revealed that the Pokémon Fossil Museum, a travelling exhibit of Pokémon skeletons and fossils for pudding paleontologists, will be leaving Japan for the first time in 2026. The first exhibit to debut outside of Japan will be at Chicago’s Field Museum in Illinois, and is…
Space pilots on Xbox are taking flight into Wrath of the Ancients, the final expansion for Everspace 2! Here are a few non-spoiler things to know before getting started. Beginning the New Story and Sidequests Everspace 2: Wrath of the Ancients adds a variety of new post-game quest lines and multiple sidequests, but don’t worry,…
Oblivion players of a certain vintage will recall that, after the original game’s release, there were various community trends based around what you could do with the game’s physics system: specifically, just how elaborate of a domino run could you make? This has of course been repeated across Bethesda’s games up through Starfield, because something…
The scramble to turn every videogame into a movie is now in full swing, and another film adaptation has just been announced: this time it’s Riders Republic, Ubisoft’s 2021 open world extreme sports sandbox. The game didn’t have much of a plot beyond competing in biking, skiing, snowboarding, and wingsuiting races and competitions, so if…