Here’s our exclusive first peek at massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity 2 in action, and would you look at the size of this thing

Strip away the impressive tech and Ashes of the Singularity’s main hook is that it’s big. Big wars, big battles, big weapons. Ashes of the Singularity 2‘s hook is that it’s even bigger, with planet-wide wars featuring thousands of machines and humans—split into three factions—duking it out across multiple fronts. Cast your eyes above and…

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Forget High Elves, the winner of Total War: Warhammer 3’s Tides of Torment DLC is the Norsca glow-up, featuring troll waaaghs, burrowing beasties, and finally actual melee cavalry

I’m just going to come out and say it: I think Sea Lord Aislinn’s campaign is the weakest of all three in the new Tides of Torment expansion. I know, I know, I was expecting the High Elves finally getting their naval treatment to appeal to the sea-faring sicko in me, after all, I did…

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion review

Need to Know What is it? An old-fashioned side-scrolling beat ’em up starring a cast of iconic Marvel superheroes.Release date December 1, 2025Expect to pay $30 / £25Developer Tribute Games IncPublisher Dotemu, Gamirror GamesReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck PlayableLink Official site That this beat ’em up has…

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Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February

In what I am increasingly coming to regard as an accident of chronomancy, Avowed—Obsidian’s first-person fantasy RPG in the Pillars of Eternity universe—somehow came out last February. Since then, it’s been gradually working its way through its post-release roadmap. There’s been the update that overhauled fighters and rangers, the one that gave you six more…

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‘I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit’: Sam Altman calls for a ‘code red’ alert at OpenAI as Google’s Gemini 3 gives it a scare

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT in the face of stiff competition, according to an internal memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google’s competing Gemini AI has made progress in great leaps and bounds since the summer—and Altman looks to have called for an all hands…

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Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year’s count and at points there’s been about one attempt every second

If you thought the AI industry deals with big numbers—millions of tokens, giga-zigga-exa-flexa-FLOPs (a very real metric, I tell you)—wait until you hear about the internet. That thing has been taking an absolute beating over the last year. We’ve seen very visible effects of this with various memorable outages, but now we’ve also got some…

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