October 2025

Critical Role 4’s Overture is officially all wrapped up, and we’ll be moving onto the three-group, 13-player campaign that’s had me salivating ever since it was announced. As confirmed during the last episode’s cooldown, one of its most shocking moments had been pre-planned. Kinda. As confirmed then—and re-emphasised now—enough was left up to chance that…

Randy Pitchford, Gearbox CEO, chronic tweeter, and known warlock, has performed his greatest magic trick yet. The magician has resurrected the dead—summoning the spirit of the most tedious videogame discourse of 2010 in a new documentary from Shacknews called 24 ‘Til Launch: The Making Of Borderlands 4. “I love that we’re just getting started,” says…

Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars. A slightly more eventful post happened when the X…

There’s no feeling quite like taming a horse in Minecraft, trying to ride it back to your base, and being met with a huge body of water. The sinking feeling in your chest, knowing that you’ll either have to leave it there and run off in an attempt to find the materials to craft a…