It’s official, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a hit—selling over 1 million copies in 3 days and beating Metaphor: ReFantazio’s Steam peak despite being on Game Pass

Dear reader, I’m fresh off a week’s holiday—and while I wish I could tell you that I spent it tidying my apartment, getting back into drawing, or socialising with my friends, I instead spent around 50-odd hours glued to my screen playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game I had no idea was going to…

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‘Strategists face increased pressure’: Marvel Rivals devs fold under pressure from the ongoing ‘Support Strike’ to make Strategists stronger

Hell hath no fury like a Strategist scorned. It’s been a week since streamer Necros set off a small atomic bomb in the Marvel Rivals community by calling support mains “idiots” and “morons.” Since then, Strategists have been refusing to pick their role in competitive matches. I even came across one player who flexed a…

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Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced

At the end of May, it will be exactly one year since Microsoft announced its Copilot+ AI PC initiative, an ecosystem for AI-infused Windows installed on Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered laptops. One of its biggest features was an all-seeing, all-remembering AI database called Recall, but after numerous concerns over safety and security, Recall was recalled into…

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Ultra-faithful Oblivion Remastered inexplicably fouls up a key bit of Dark Brotherhood lore with a gussied-up door texture

If there’s a single word you can use to describe Oblivion Remastered, it’s ‘faithful’. The secret glitched door that lets you skip the game? Still there. The voice acting flubs? Preserved for eternity. Its horrible levelled loot system? Untouched (except by modders). It’s all just as you remember it except everyone is ugly in 4K…

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Green Minecraft ‘Creeper Milk’ is made with ‘petroleum-based synthetic dyes’ that even the Trump administration wants to ban

A Minecraft Movie has proven an enormous success, thanks in no small part to an all-out marketing blitz that’s seen the game popping up everywhere from McDonalds to Monster Munch. One tie-in might make you pause for thought, however: Minecraft “Vanilla Green Lowfat Milk“, which is also known as Creeper milk. The product is being…

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After a ‘catastrophic’ hack, 4chan has risen from the grave: ‘No other website can replace it, or this community’

Tear down the bunting, Tumblr users, it seems reports of 4chan’s demise were premature. Earlier in April, a hack of the infamous edgelord imageboard perpetrated by someone from a rival board called Soyjack.party forced 4chan offline and resulted in its anonymity being peeled away. Now it’s back, with a blog post explaining how the “catastrophic”…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 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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