September 2025

Prototype was a landmark release in videogame sweatshirts, featuring a permanently hooded, perpetually grumpy man harboring a mutagenic virus and powerful 2009-era angst. Admittedly, I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was left filled to the brim with bioweaponry against my will—until my nasty meat tentacles could fling helicopters around, anyway. All of life’s troubles…

Not quite two months after Avalanche halted work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband, seemingly fallout from the massive wave of layoffs and cancellations imposed by Microsoft earlier in the year, Avalanche has announced the upcoming closure of its studio in Liverpool, and layoffs at its remaining operations. “In light of current challenges to our…

Cairn made quite a splash when it debuted at the Summer Game Fest in 2024: PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor said that despite her distaste for “verticality,” the reveal trailer left her with an immediate urge to grab a carabiner and go climbing. She’s going to have to wait a bit to embark on that particular…

It sure feels like Judas isn’t all that far away. Three years after the game’s announcement, Ghost Story Games’ main man Ken Levine is suddenly popping up all over the place to drop tidbits about the upcoming shooter, and last month brought the game’s first dev log and a promise to “communicate more frequently.” So…

Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, the upcoming survival strategy game, just peeled back the curtain a wee bit more, giving us a new trailer that shows off the sci-fi romp’s main pillars, like exploration, combat and ‘what if?’ scenarios. The trailer appeared last week, but I was busy making friends with penguins in…

Cities: Skylines 2 just got a free content update in the form of the Netherlands Region Pack. This will provide Netherland-loving players the opportunity to build up a Dutch-inspired city with a bunch of new service buildings and an eerily realistic cemetery. “The interest and size of the Dutch Cities community is not a secret;…

Dear reader, I have a confession to make: I never really got into Minecraft. Sure, I dabbled—but then I’d turn around to see the literal cathedrals folks were building with their blocks and I simply decided to go play something else. We’re not all destined to be architects, and I’m more than okay with that….

If you know the name ‘Energizer’, there’s a good chance an image of a pink bunny just shot into your brain the second you read the headline. Well, the famous battery brand is now being emblazoned on a productivity laptop, and unsurprisingly, the battery is absolutely massive. As reported by The Verge, three laptops are…