As reflected by my 2025 Steam Replay, I poured a lot of time into Bongo Cat last year. So when someone said, ‘What if Bongo Cat, with knives,’ you best believe I was intrigued. That is, essentially, the premise for Tap Tap Loot, a cute and significantly more violent clicker game that’s rolled out a…
Path of Exile 2 spoiled me with all the things about it that feel like a modern videogame. Even though it’s extremely similar in a lot of ways, Path of Exile 1 had me fighting against all the fussy parts of it that have gathered dust over the years. Part of the reason developer Grinding…
The Information Commissioner’s Office, a regulatory body charged with regulating and enforcing online privacy matters in the UK, has fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) after an investigation found that the platform had “failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information of…
80 minutes of Mario Wonder and Pokopia. You might think that we’ve already seen all there is to see about upcoming Switch 2 titles Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park and Pokémon Pokopia, but you’d be mistaken. Here to show even more in the gameplay department for…
Resident Evil 2 Remake had the tough job of living up to the highest of expectations when it released in 2019, and outside the fixed camera purists there aren’t many people who’d say Capcom failed to deliver. It’s still the tense, eerie journey through the RPD and beyond that we all remember, but Leon and…
Software engineer Sammy Azdoufal had a humble goal: He wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, because controlling things with a gamepad is cool. Shortly after pursuing that dream, however, Azdoufal found he had gained control of over 7,000 robots that were happy to provide him camera feeds and floor plans of…
Something I love about videogames is the way that a single line of patch notes can have a disproportionate butterfly effect on millions of sessions. This little sentence, part of today’s Shrouded Sky update, will alter the fate and behavior of countless raiders: Wolfpack – Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting cost. The Wolfpack is…
If you dig boomer shooters (or any kind of shooter, really), you might just dig the new Boomer Shooter Blueprint collection rolled out today by Digiphile. It’s a collection of seven old-school shooters, some of which I can attest are very good, for just $17, a portion of which will go to support the Whale…
The Shrouded Sky update has arrived in Arc Raiders, and Embark is throwing us a curveball. Today’s patch introduced a hurricane map condition, two new Arc enemies, and some meaningful balancing changes, but the masterminds in Sweden snuck something else in, too. Some players are spotting a UFO in the shrouded skies, a broad aircraft…
After drawing widespread criticism with the announcement of a new global age assurance policy earlier this month, Discord is now delaying the rollout of its age verification changes until the second half of 2026. In a blog post acknowledging that the company had “missed the mark,” Discord co-creator and CEO Stanislav Vishnevskiy said it’s revising…