July 2025

Rust’s latest patch may not be as dramatic as its recent jungle update, which added a huge rainforest biome to explore, but it nonetheless makes some important changes to Facepunch’s survival sim. The headline update is a party system allowing players to join servers as a group. This makes playing with your friends slightly easier,…

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This year will see the release of the first major expansion for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, following three years of updates since its 2022 release. Previously delayed from summer to fall, the War Sails expansion will take your medieval fantasy adventures and conquest to the high seas, adding ownership of ships and naval combat…

Developer Unknown Worlds has shared a letter asking for patience from Subnautica fans after publisher Krafton announced the departure of its senior leadership⁠—including studio co-founder Max McGuire⁠—and the installation of Dead Space producer and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol) CEO, Steve Papoutsis, as the new studio head. The news prompted a backlash from fans, including…

It’s sometimes weird to see what academics make of videogames, coming to the medium as they do with a very different set of principles and goals than most gamers and critics. One recent paper in the Journal of Rural Studies is about a game that’s a phenomenon in its own right: Farming Simulator. Specifically, Farming…

I don’t remember a time when picking the best graphics card was such a tough decision. In previous years we’ve maybe made it easier on ourselves by going on essentially a sliding performance scale, with a nod to price banding, but this year I want to be a bit more definitive about the actual GPUs…