Mixed bag. Happy Monday, folks! The latest UK boxed charts are here, and we’ve got a few newcomers to acknowledge, but first… Yes, Mario Kart World is back in the lead at number 1. Nintendo’s grabbed a Golden Mushroom and stormed past the competition once again; let’s see how long it lasts this time. Cronos:…
Let’s make sure your next week of puzzle gaming gets off to a fantastic start. Go all green on the first row with a cheeky little peek at the answer to today’s Wordle if you like, we don’t mind. Or see how you get on and come back to us when you’re ready, confident our…
Just as prior wishlist chart-toppers The Day Before (lol), Manor Lords, and (briefly) Stray gave way to Hollow Knight: Silksong’s long reign, so too has Team Cherry’s platformer passed the torch to a new contender. Subnautica 2 is now the most wishlisted game on Steam, followed by Valve’s MOBA-shooter Deadlock. Slots three through five are…
System Shock 2 opens with playable character creation that also functions as a tutorial. Your trainee goggle-wearing badass walks off the street into a recruitment center and signs up to be a marine, or an engineer, or a psychic black ops agent. Then you choose where you’ll be posted for each tour—decisions that alter your…
As reported by Tom’s Hardware, a pair of hackers successfully compromised the cybersecurity of Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons. They uncovered “catastrophic” vulnerabilities so bad it led the hackers to comment, “We’re not even mad, just impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices.” Those “terrible security practices”…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
There I was in Hollow Knight: Silksong having a pretty good time. I made it through the Far Fields without issues and found myself riding the wind into a whole new area, Greymoor, full of blind mole monsters and dudes trying to snip me in half with giant scissors. Scary, but fun. I beat ’em…
At the end of the second episode of Noclip‘s video series on the history of MachineGames, studio head Jerk Gustafsson dropped a bit of a bombshell: The devs at MachineGames would like to make a direct sequel to 2017’s Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. “We have always seen this as a trilogy,” said Gustafsson. “That journey…
The future is here, but don’t expect much from it. The latest video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robot, which is supposed to be a pillar of the company’s future, shows the robot struggling to do anything for almost a minute straight. The video was posted on X (formerly Twitter) last week by Marc Benioff, the CEO…
The future is here, but don’t expect much from it. The latest video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robot, which is supposed to be a pillar of the company’s future, shows the robot struggling to do anything for almost a minute straight. The video was posted on X (formerly Twitter) last week by Marc Benioff, the CEO…