August 4, 2025

We’re in that strange gap between the big Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal and the start of its open beta, which means it’s prime time to overreact to everything. Right now, the overreaction is over recoil, or more specifically, the lack thereof. Thanks to one particularly misleading streamer clip floating around online, some folks are having…

First reported by GamesRadar, one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s most persistent bugs has once again resisted Larian’s attempts to squash it, with players on the BG3 subreddit sharing screens of their companions staring flatly into the camera in their portraits. I don’t know if it was around in early access, but I’ve seen screenshots of…

Since we first started hearing about the game that would become Battlefield 6, EA has talked up its mission to recapture the “golden years” of Battlefields 3 and 4. While it’s definitely on track to do that after my four hours of playtime last week, what revved me up was how much BF6 reminds me…

In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells shared stories of his time working on the PC gaming classic⁠—including how he sourced an unlikely art asset for the structures built by nasty worm aliens, The Many. “This is a funny moment, I don’t know…

In 2022, quality assurance testers at Call of Duty studio Raven Software became the first union to organize at a major American games company as the Game Workers Alliance-CWA. Today, after three years of negotiation, GWA-CWA members voted to ratify their first contract between the union and Microsoft. According to a press release from the…

The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA is running the playtest for two weekends, but there are a handful of ways to get two days of early access. If you signed up for Battlefield Labs before July 31, you’ll automatically be granted access…

I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it’d compile them before we started playing the game. Gripes Week (Image credit: Future) We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing…

I join three standup meetings per week. On paper, these video calls are where we check in, discuss what we’re working on, and assign stories for the immediate future. In practice, it’s a thrice-weekly Sisyphean gauntlet for my audio configuration, during which I’ll frequently discover that Windows has lost track of what input and output…