System Shock 2 opens with playable character creation that also functions as a tutorial. Your trainee goggle-wearing badass walks off the street into a recruitment center and signs up to be a marine, or an engineer, or a psychic black ops agent. Then you choose where you’ll be posted for each tour—decisions that alter your…
As reported by Tom’s Hardware, a pair of hackers successfully compromised the cybersecurity of Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons. They uncovered “catastrophic” vulnerabilities so bad it led the hackers to comment, “We’re not even mad, just impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices.” Those “terrible security practices”…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 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…
There I was in Hollow Knight: Silksong having a pretty good time. I made it through the Far Fields without issues and found myself riding the wind into a whole new area, Greymoor, full of blind mole monsters and dudes trying to snip me in half with giant scissors. Scary, but fun. I beat ’em…
At the end of the second episode of Noclip‘s video series on the history of MachineGames, studio head Jerk Gustafsson dropped a bit of a bombshell: The devs at MachineGames would like to make a direct sequel to 2017’s Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. “We have always seen this as a trilogy,” said Gustafsson. “That journey…
The future is here, but don’t expect much from it. The latest video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robot, which is supposed to be a pillar of the company’s future, shows the robot struggling to do anything for almost a minute straight. The video was posted on X (formerly Twitter) last week by Marc Benioff, the CEO…
The future is here, but don’t expect much from it. The latest video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robot, which is supposed to be a pillar of the company’s future, shows the robot struggling to do anything for almost a minute straight. The video was posted on X (formerly Twitter) last week by Marc Benioff, the CEO…
As with all big releases, Silksong’s launch was the starting gun for two gaming races: Modding and speedrunning. The latter is still in a discovery phase before recordkeeping begins on Speedrun.com on October 1, but the Silksong Nexus already has mods up the wazoo—mostly to make the challenging metroidvania a little bit easier. The number…
Among Us meets Werewolf in the latest game from indie dev WakaStudio: Cut That Wire, a four player co-op puzzle game where you and your fellow players have to figure out how to diffuse bombs while an imposter attempts to sabotage you. If you fail, you risk cutting the wrong wire and blowing yourself up….
If you were to walk down Lackrow Boulevard in Dunwall—taking care not to linger outside The Black Friar, the dilapidated hotel where the Hatters Gang conduct their business in the legal district—you might stop at number 131. These are the premises of the company who build audiograph players: the rudimentary recording devices which capture the…