August 2025

Well, here’s a cannon blast from the past. Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2 hit 1.0 on Steam while nobody was looking. What’s that? You don’t remember Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2? Don’t blame yourself. There’s a reasonable chance you weren’t born when it first set sail into the freshly pixel-shaded waters of Half-Life 2 modding….

Subnautica 2 has become one of the year’s most talked-about games, albeit for reasons I don’t think anybody wanted. A big legal brouhaha has developed in the wake of publisher Krafton abruptly dismissing the entire leadership team of Subnautica 2’s developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Those former leaders, including co-founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, subsequently…

Give your weekend puzzle gaming a boost with our fresh selection of clues and hints for the August 16 (1519) Wordle, written just for today’s game and designed to give you the sort of nudge you’re after without handing over the winning word. Of course you might like the idea of clicking through to today’s…

If Steve Wozniak had “only” designed the Apple II, one of the foundational computers of the early PC era, he’d still be a computing legend. But after leaving Apple in the mid-’80s Wozniak went on to help establish the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sponsored the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, and has spent the last…

Reaper Actual is a hard sell. It’s a plain-looking modern military extraction shooter with Web3 stuff, and I’ve seen enough of those to know that I’d probably rather be playing Battlefield. But the man behind Reaper Actual, former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak head John Smedley, has snared me before. I spent a whole summer…

This week saw the release of the version 1.021 update for Monster Hunter Wilds, adding yet another difficulty tier to high level hunts and pairing them with a new endgame grind that opens up new buildcrafting potential. Like the additions in previous post-release patches and Title Updates, these are welcome changes, answering the complaints of…

Talking in Twitch and YouTube chat just isn’t the same as standing in a crowd watching your favorite vtuber perform. Live shows and concerts aren’t new for Hololive, one of the biggest vtuber agencies in the world, but a virtual space that attempts to emulate what it’s like to meet your favorite streamers is “the…