2025

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle just a little further down this page, all freshly written up and ready to help you win. Use it right at the beginning to get your guessing off to a fantastic start, or save it for when you’re further down the board and need a bit of a nudge—either’s…

Changes to the campaign AI of Creative Assembly’s border-gore simulator Total War: Warhammer 3 were the focus of a recent beta test, which revealed one reason the AI was playing too defensively was a bug that made it overreact to the presence of a single hero. Since that beta a second round of improvements has…

I am prepared to break my own rules and impulse buy the Oddworld bundle that has just popped up on Fanatical. It includes every single Oddworld game—a series of lavishly animated 2D puzzle platformers starring a weird-looking green guy—for just one dollar, a price that compares extremely favourably to its usual $84.92. That dollar gets…

More than two weeks after launch, Schedule 1 is still the top-selling paid Steam game. That means that the open world drug-dealing RPG is raking in more dough than Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Steam, which released only five days earlier. Its active player count is often over 300,000 (with a peak of over 450k), suggesting…

The Xbox Games Showcase is returning in June with a look at new games from first-party studios and third-party partners, and a deeper dive into Obsidian’s upcoming sci-fi sequel The Outer Worlds 2. The double-feature format follows similar Xbox showcases in 2023, when Starfield took center stage, and 2024, which featured Call of Duty—although we…

The Last of Us Season 2 doesn’t hit the airwaves until April 13, but HBO has already renewed the series for a third season. “We approached season two with the goal of creating something we could be proud of,” executive producer Craig Mazin said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “The end results have exceeded even our…