2025

Late last week, we reported how Path of Exile 2 players were questioning Elon Musk’s claims of having one of the highest-ranked hardcore PoE 2 characters on the planet, thanks to a livestream showcasing his seeming confusion over game mechanics that would be rudimentary to any high level player. It’s with a heavy heart that…

We still don’t know how Larian plans to follow the massive success of Baldur’s Gate 3, but whatever it is, it’s now occupying the “full attention” of developers at the studio. First things first, we do know a little bit about Larian’s next project, which are actually projects, plural—the studio apparently has two things on…

Powerwash Simulator was a surprise hit when it popped up in 2022, earning critical plaudits, enviable player numbers, crossovers ranging from Spongebob Squarepants to Warhammer 40,000 and even an academic thumbs-up from Oxford. Despite all that success, it hasn’t been able to crack the thick-skinned nut that is virtual reality, and today FuturLab has announced…

At the end of 2024, I got to try one last hour-long preview of Hyper Light Breaker ahead of its early access launch on January 14. It does the thing: This is a great action game that nails the look and feel of Hyper Light Drifter in a 3D open world. Now there are two…

It kind of makes sense why there are so many little gimmicks in the gaming space. At certain price points, you can only ever expect so much from your hardware. You therefore end up with brands doing very similar things, except with their logo slapped on the side. I like the look, feel, and sound…

Your next upgrade (Image credit: Future) Best CPU for gaming: The top chips from Intel and AMD.Best gaming motherboard: The right boards.Best graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher awaits.Best SSD for gaming: Get into the game ahead of the rest. There’s an new king of the HWBot overclocking hill and it’s the Intel Core i9 14900KF….

Fortnite Festival is rolling out Season 7 on January 14, and Epic Games have announced that virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku is leading the charge. As someone who has actively avoided most things Fortnite, I hate to admit that this might be the thing that lures me in like a siren’s song, but it was…

Dungeons & Dragons will be completing its trio of 2024 rules revisions—a little confusingly—on Feburary 18, 2025. Its third source book, the Monster Manual, comes on the heels of both the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. I recently got to sit down last week, with a bestiary of other outlets, for a preview…