Someone’s already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through

Elden Ring Nightreign is crushingly hard even with a couple of buddies to take on the Nightlords with—let alone solo. Having sunk almost two dozen hours into this misery simulator myself, the sheer cliff of difficulty you run into as a lone rider—with no mates around to revive you—is a challenge in itself. So, naturally,…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, June 2

The perfect start to your Wordle week is right here. Spend a while with our tips if you’d like to give your daily guesses a bit of polish, or take a look at the June 2 (1444) clue if you’d rather read something more specific. It’ll help, promise. The answer to today’s Wordle is only…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 2, 2025)

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…

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Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it’s still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great

Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC,is just a couple weeks away. Like every year previous, it sounds like Apple is going to squeeze gaming into its software announcements. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to unveil a “dedicated gaming app” that “will serve as a launcher for titles and centralize in-game achievements,…

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Elden Ring Nightreign’s Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character

In a new video about hidden or poorly explained Elden Ring Nightreign character mechanics, FromSoft LoreTuber-in-Chief VaatiVidya revealed that the new game’s default, John DarkSouls character, Wylder, actually has some fighting game-worthy combos and movement tech. The tricks were first outlined months ago during Nightreign’s network test by user OnslaughtCasualty42 on the FromSoftware subreddit. In…

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