Diablo 4 player harnessed the power of an infinite damage exploit to breeze through an impossible dungeon 48 hours before Blizzard took it away

Diablo 4 players have proven once again that if there is a way to deal so much damage the game can’t calculate it anymore, someone will find it. This season the award goes to a druid player who figured out a combination of items that stacks their poison damage into infinity. That player was YouTuber…

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Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that ‘guns and football’ are in, ‘gay stuff’ is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

The rumours have been swirling for a while, before today brought a major industry announcement: EA has struck a $55 billion deal to go private in a Saudi-backed buyout. It’s the biggest leveraged buyout in history, meaning that the new EA is instantly saddled with $20 billion of debt, and will face intense pressure to…

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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he didn’t write any of GTA 6: ‘The world’s probably had enough GTA from me’

Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t just be the biggest game of 2026: it’s the first series entry since the departure of several Rockstar big-hitters who’ve been involved almost from the start. Things didn’t go so well for longtime GTA producer Leslie Benzies, whose studio Build A Rocket Boy released MindsEye earlier this year. That was…

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If you’re a House Flipper or PowerWash sicko you’ve gotta check out The Lift, a game about being a space-repairman in a spooky faux-Soviet research base

It’s odd, I think, that so few videogames focus on the tender process of repair. Restoration is satisfying in a way almost nothing else is. Taking something broken, shattered, discarded and, by careful work, returning it to purpose is inherently pleasing, like you’re reinstating a tiny bit of order in the world. I reckon that’s…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US needs to ‘go compete’ with AI chips against China because ‘they’re nanoseconds behind us’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in terms of AI technology and chipmaking. During an interview on the BG2 podcast, a tech and investment focused bi-weekly program, the CEO of Nvidia echoed a sentiment similar to that of comments he made back in May of this year about how…

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