August 2025

Going right back to my first preview of FBC: Firebreak, my question has always been the same: who is this for? Its chaotic, systems-driven co-op action does have impressive qualities and lots of imagination to it, but I never understood where it could possibly fit in the crowded and competitive multiplayer space. Unfortunately since then…

Fae Farm, the cozy co-op farming sim released in 2023 by Phoenix Labs, is going offline. A message posted to the game’s Steam page says the game will remain playable offline in singleplayer mode, but “will no longer be playable online and will not receive any future updates.” It also appears that developer Phoenix Labs,…

In terms of numbers, it’d be hard to argue that the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend was anything other than a success. At times, the beta attracted more than half a million concurrent Steam players—enough to beat Call of Duty’s peak player count record since 2022. Our Morgan Park was impressed enough to declare that…

I remember when prices collapsed for solid state drives. It started slow at first, but before we knew it, most PCIe 4.0 SSDs were tumbling into our shopping baskets with nary a second thought. Fond memories. Thankfully, any attempt to increase Gen4 SSD prices since then have largely failed, with drives like the Biwin Black…

Mark Darrah has been on a tell-all, recently, speaking with YouTuber MrMattyPlays about the failures and foibles of BioWare in the wake of Dragon Age being likely being dead and gone. Darrah, who was an executive producer, left the studio back in 2020; though has been speaking up on his own YouTube channel recently. He…

You know the whole LED TV or PC monitor thing and how misleading it is on account of the “LED” bit being just a big, dumb backlight for an LCD panel? Well, it’s kinda happening again with Samsung’s new Micro RGB tech, except it’s a bit better and a bit worse than you might expect,…

If there’s one thing that Marvel Rivals unequivocally does right, it’s putting together a strong hero roster. There’s a cute shark, a K-pop idol, Norse gods, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers we all know and love, and many more. Despite all these great characters, Marvel Rivals has one big issue with its roster: over half…

There’s something about the WinRAR stacked-book logo that makes me all nostalgic, giving me a proper case of the warm fuzzies deep inside. What turns those fuzzies into ouchies, however, is the idea of a zero-day vulnerability in my beloved file compression and extraction tool. ESET Research first identified the exploit, now classified under the…

A lot of the badges you’ll collect in Peak revolve around things you can do while you make your way through each biome, or they challenge you with carting a specific item to different areas of the climb. There is the odd exception to this rule though, and the Ultimate Badge falls into that category….

The Mafia series has never had a clue what to do with its open world. In Mafia 1, the titular city of Lost Heaven was set dressing—something that felt like it existed because, ‘Hey, GTA 3 has just come out and is tremendously popular, and we’re making a game sort of like that.’ In Mafia…