Think back to when coins used to drop into slots. Remember that unmistakable thunk! Or how about the staccato snap, crackle and pop of a flipper hitting a pinball? Coin-operated entertainment has captivated generations for more than 100 years. From the ragtag penny arcades of the 1890s, to the fluorescent-speckled arcade arenas of the…
Since Subnautica 2’s cetacean-sized early access launch last week, a contingent of its players have been vocal about their frustration over their inability to retaliate against its predatory sea life with their own lethal intent. Subnautica 2 devs at Unknown Worlds haven’t been swayed by those complaints, urging players to seek out one of the…
Elon Musk has lost his case against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for the very boring reason that he took too long to file the complaint. Musk sued over OpenAI’s pivot from nonprofit to for-profit (via a complicated restructuring scheme that has still technically kept a nonprofit in play), claiming that its leaders committed unjust enrichment…
Building a Metal Farm in Subnautica 2 is absurdly useful when it comes to duplicating rare metals like Troilite. Later on, when you’re repairing the Alien Power Plant, you’ll need a lot of this material and there isn’t very much to find on the map, so using a Metal Farm is a much better approach….
In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on Black Sails, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. He would’ve been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead…
Ken Levine recently sat down with IGN to have a retrospective chat about his career, and naturally one of the big touchstones was the series he’s best-known for: Levine co-directed Bioshock and was the sole director on Bioshock Infinite. At one point Levine is asked if it was tough to leave Bioshock behind after the…
Last week, Best Buy sent emails to affiliates that teased a May 18 kick-off for Grand Theft Auto 6 preorders. The emails were presumably sent in error, but that didn’t necessarily mean that the date was wrong: If GTA 6 is on target for its November 19 console release date, it wouldn’t be shocking for…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Remember when an FPS appeared on Steam that looked so real its developer had to…
Category: Announcements May 18, 2026 Introducing XBOX Player Voice: A Simpler Way to Share Feedback Team XBOX The community is at the heart of XBOX. Players have always told us what’s working and what’s not across XBOX. That feedback has shaped what we’ve built and how we prioritize our work. But we’ve also heard clearly…
Bring on the freebies. It may not be the Christmas Holidays yet, but No Gravity Games is back with a fresh line-up of daily free Switch games. The ‘Pixel Chaos Giveaway‘ gets underway tomorrow (19th May) and will be sticking around until 24th May, with one No Gravity Games-published title going for free every 24…