July 2025

After a year of agonizing over passing sales and jealous gazes at better setups, I finally did it. I bought a fancy OLED of my own, and I love it. Specifically, I went with the 34-inch Alienware QD-OLED (AW3423DWF). It’s certainly bigger and more than I need (you can find it for $650 on Amazon…

Everything feels like it’s happening so fast. I’ve barely had time to blink since our last Winter Sale roundup, and a fresh mountain of interesting and oddball indie games have come, been, and faded from memory already. But I remember, and I’m here to shine a belated spotlight on another set of games from the…

Romero Games, whose in-development shooter was cancelled last week in the wake of (but not necessarily as a result of, more on that later) the major layoffs at Microsoft, has issued a statement on social media clarifying that it is not closed down, and that “we are doing everything in our power to ensure that…

They say the peak Peak experience is reaching the titular peak, but I’d argue peak Peak is falling from very high up while five to six friends watch helplessly. That feat is usually impossible thanks to Peak’s unenlightened four-player limit, but of course, modders found a way. Very quickly, at that. Since the week Peak…

Dune: Awakening’s endgame continues to evolve. The massive Deep Desert, the only place where huge spice deposits and top-tier level materials can be found, was nearly entirely PvP at launch, with only about 10% of the map marked as PvE-only. A hotfix on June 26 made the Deep Desert an even 50/50 split between PvP…

Despite being a game about a troop of adorable climbers being subjected to a variety of poisons, lethal weather conditions, and deadly falls, Peak is impressively delightful. If you think your wobbly little scouts aren’t exposed to a sufficient amount of woe, however, let me suggest the work of modder BSMG_Steven, who’s created a way…

By all appearances, 2025 was going to be the year Xbox turned things around. Doom: The Dark Ages, no less than three new games from Obsidian Entertainment, Indiana Jones on PS5, another post-acquisition Call of Duty, and the absolute whopper of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. After two years of mass layoffs and studio…

“I love my steam deck but I’ve got one huge problem,” redditor Alpha-Quartz recently wrote (via GamesRadar). It might be closer to the truth, though, to say what he really has is, well, two small problems. “I have an abnormal hand, where I have two small thumbs instead of one big one, on my left…

The story of the yet-to-be-titled Battlefield 6 has so far focused on a series of promising playtests. DICE is all-in on its mission statement to return to the good ol’ days of Battlefield 3 and 4: a grittier art style, more destruction, and no operators. Meanwhile, EA is focused on making Battlefield as popular as…