Best of the best (Image credit: Rockstar) 2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard…
Pillars of Eternity turned 11 years old last month, but Obsidian just put out a transformative update for the venerable CRPG: A full turn-based mode alongside the game’s original real-time with pause (RTWP) mechanics. The mode had previously been available via a Steam beta branch since last November. There’s a whole list of patch notes…
Not every TV series based on a game can be a real corker like Fallout or Arcane. The Halo TV show was a disappointment. The Witcher series on Netflix started strong but fans found more and more to dislike as time went on. Critics and viewers both gave a pretty strong thumbs down to the…
The New Yorker has published an enormous feature about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his disputed trustworthiness, citing more than one person who has accused the generative AI mogul of habitual dishonesty. The 16,000 word article (available online or in The New Yorker’s latest print edition) adds new context to a number of widely-reported episodes…
It’s a given that the question “What’s the oldest computer you can run modern Linux on?” would produce a more gratifying answer than “What’s the oldest computer you can run modern Windows on?” given Windows 11’s draconian hardware requirements. But I have to say I had no idea the answer to the former question dated…
Manage society’s survival. The city-building survival series Frostpunk recently held a special broadcast about “all things Frostpunk”, and during this event, the developer 11 bit studios announced a Switch version of the original title. This was announced alongside Frostpunk 1886 – a definitive version of the original 2018 release featuring “substantial new content” that’s arriving…
As the saying goes, records were made to be broken—and that’s especially true if you invent a bunch of records just so you can say they’ve been broken. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie came out last week and, despite it kinda sucking, predictably had a monster of a weekend at the box office. But after…
Hot on the heels of fan-made PC port Jak 3, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will soon have a playable PC release of its own. As with previous ports of Nintendo classics like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64, the Twilight Princess port is based on a decompilation of…
Adding mouse and keyboard support! Ubisoft has announced it’s releasing a new update for Assassin’s Creed Shadows this week across all platforms. Title Update 1.1.10 comes loaded with all sorts of gameplay improvements and fixes. Most notably on the Switch 2 you look forward to mouse and keyboard support, allowing you to take “full control…
Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope spoke about what he’s working on next—and why we’re not hearing about it more—on the latest episode of Mike & Rami Are Still Here, the podcast of Nuclear throne developer Rami Ismail and No More Robots founder Mike Rose. Though Pope said he typically…