Terror has a new shade. What once was blue darkened with time until all that remains is a backend void, empty as the OLED allows. Yes, that’s right, Microsoft is changing the infamous Blue Screen of Death, aka the BSOD to black instead of blue. At least we won’t have to learn a new acronym…
Here we go. Welcome to your first Wordle win of the week, and the last one of June too. Whether you’d like to take today easy or do it all yourself, we can help you out. Keep it simple with our tips, use the June 30 (1472) hint if you’d like a guide any time,…
CCP Games’ space survival MMO, EVE Frontier, is having another free trial for curious players. The trial period started on June 27 and will run through July 7, and you can get in on the action by making an account through EVE Frontier’s website. EVE Frontier is a weird one: CCP has described it as…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
You might notice eerily familiar AI-generated images in your Story suggestions on the Facebook app lately—because Facebook has been automatically creating AI-generated versions of photos from users’ camera rolls. If you try creating a new Story on Facebook right now, you could get a pop-up asking if you want to “Allow cloud processing to get…
Tenna, the CRT-headed game show host antagonist of Deltarune chapter 3, first showed up in a videogame this year—but Deltarune creator Toby Fox first started working on the character all the way back in 2016. Fox recently said so in a social media post where he quoted himself of nearly a decade ago trying to…
Time for some good news for a change: After blowing past two million copies sold in just two days, the devs of climbing game Peak have shown some love to fellow mountaineering sim Cairn, and it seems to have paid off big time. The mutual love fest began on X, “The Everything App,” with Cairn…
Blendo Games has publicly released the source code of its latest game, Skin Deep, encouraging other developers to build more stealth games in its footsteps—or at least to take a look at the sick game engine it built. I, for one, am shocked by a specific thing about it: It runs on a core of…
If you’ve been dreading the day Windows 10 officially loses support, coming up in October, you can still buy yourself a little more time before switching to Windows 11. Microsoft has announced an update to its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10, which gives users an extra year of updates for a $30…
Spytihněv, the developer behind the excellent 2023 boomer shooter HROT, has finally unveiled his next project: Brno Transit, a gnarly-looking horror game set in a surreal subway system. Specifically that of Brno, a major city in the southeast of Czechia which does not actually have a subway system in real life, only getting a single…