‘I’m as surprised as you are’: After 7 years, Quantic Dream is taking a ‘huge swing’ with its first competitive MOBA, Spellcasters Chronicles

If I had to bet money on what Quantic Dream’s next game would be, it’s fair to say that I’d be out of pocket, especially after the announcement that Spellcasters Chronicles will be an action MOBA full of titans, Swamp Witches, and little guys. “Quantic Dream has been innovating in games since 1997, starting with…

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Borderlands 4’s endgame modifiers make me irrationally angry while I replay old campaign missions on repeat

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: levelling up alternate characters in Borderlands 4 and contemplating a no-reload run…for some reason. This week I’ve been: getting stuck into Battlefield 6 while juggling Borderlands 4 grinding. Borderlands has always had an odd relationship with endgame systems and has experimented a bunch over…

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Apple announces new M5 chip with double the per-core performance of the M1 and it’s got me wondering why AMD and Intel can’t keep up with Apple’s single-core performance gains

Apple’s relentless in-house silicon release schedule continues this week with the announcement of the new M5 chip. And early leaked benchmarks of the chip suggest the new M5 is about twice as fast as the original M1 for single-thread performance. So, the question is, why can’t PC CPUs make those kinds of gains? The immediate…

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A new trailer for Disney Dreamlight Valley’s next DLC reveals two new villagers, and the ability to customise horses

Disney Dreamlight Valley‘s next DLC, Wishblossom Ranch, is scheduled to release on November 19 and a new trailer shown during the 2025 Showcase stream has given us a more in-depth look at some of the features and characters coming. Although its brief reveal trailer welcomed us to the new setting, there’s now more than enough…

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The Minecraft devs probably wouldn’t add the creeper if they were following their current design rules ‘because it would actually be so controversial’

I think we can all agree that the creeper is one of the most iconic videogame enemies—next to the murloc, the goomba, and whatever the hell’s going on with the tonberry. But it turns out that Minecraft‘s devs probably wouldn’t have added it based on their current design goals. That’s per a recent dev blog…

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AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now

In a development that will surprise nobody who senses the rising tide of AI slop, new research indicates that AI content has now overtaken human-written work on the internet. But there’s a good-news twist. The slop seems to have plateaued. Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between…

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