August 2025

Square Enix is putting its foot down once again when it comes to modding in Final Fantasy 14. The creator behind Mare Synchronos—a player-made plugin for synchronizing and sharing appearance mods between FF14 players—is shutting the three-year-old project down after apparently receiving a cease and desist order from Square Enix. It’s not the first mod…

Tucked at the bottom of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition’s 1.2 patch notes is the whammy I’d been waiting for: “Added support for custom campaigns (fan missions).” Balance mods were good to go from launch, but now ‘Shock 2’s extensive back catalogue of modded missions and campaigns is fair game too. The new “FMs”…

I know Starfield has kind of a bad reputation these days, but I never thought it was a bad game. It’s a good game, and I should know: I played over 100 hours of it when it launched. But it’s not a great game, and it simply doesn’t have the staying power of other Bethesda…

Thanks to a decade of accumulated contradictory live-service grievances, Destiny players are rarely unified in their discontent. Today, however, is a special day: Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced his departure, offering the Destiny community a chance to join together in slamming the door behind the man whose leadership has become synonymous with studio mismanagement….

Diablo 4’s next season has me hopeful that Blizzard understands its greatest weakness as an action RPG—and how to fix it. Every experienced player has had to learn one reality of Diablo 4: Not every skill is created equal. And by that I mean, the skill tree is full of cool abilities that don’t necessarily…

Longtime Bungie CEO Pete Parsons announced today that he is stepping down from the role, saying it’s “the right time for a new beginning” at the Sony-owned studio. He will be replaced by Justin Truman, formerly the studio’s chief development officer, who Parsons said “has been instrumental in bringing some of the most memorable moments…

Every year since at least 1826, hundreds of questionably-hinged individuals from around the globe gather at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire to enjoy the privilege of throwing themselves down a steep slope to chase a rolling wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Competitors risk any number of bodily injuries, as the annually overtaxed emergency medical services of…