Call of Duty’s matchmaking is no longer a mystery. Last year, Activision promised fans that it’d finally open up about how matchmaking works in Call of Duty. Today, it delivered: The unprecedented blog post dives deep into exactly which factors Call of Duty is looking for when grouping you with other players, and where its…
Category: The Game Awards December 11, 2025 Daddy’s Coming Home with Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Amelia Savery, Blizzard Entertainment Summary Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred arrives April 28, 2026, on Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Steam. New classes, new region, and a complete evolution of Skills and Itemization. The Paladin…
Sweepstakes casinos might be getting kicked out of California. Online sweepstakes casinos are under legal pressure California has passed anti-sweepstakes Assembly Bill 831 Chumba Casino, Global Poker and others face being banned In a shock move, California is pushing to ban sweepstakes casinos. This is bad news for gamers living in the Golden State, many…
Hello, No Man’s Sky turns 10 in August, and we feel very lucky that we still get the chance to work on it every day. What we love about sci-fi, and about No Man’s Sky, is that it can be a canvas for so many ideas. Our last update introduced Pokemon-style pet battling, which players…
Solve your daily Wordle game in seconds. One click is all you need to see the January 22 (1313) answer. Is it all a bit too much, too soon? Then why not spend a little time with our general tips, or read through today’s hint and see how you get on first? However you want…
You want a sassy pitch for an upcoming game? Heroes of Valor is, per publisher Iceberg Interactive’s press release, “the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play.” Clearly, it kind of is: It wears its inspiration on its sleeve as a spiritual successor to the now decade-dead free-to-play shooter. It also has a (free) playtest running…
My first impressions of the Logitech G321 Lightspeed gaming headset were not positive. It’s a noticeably cheaper-feeling headset than the comparably priced Corsair HS55 (this is before mentioning that Corsair’s offering is older and regularly reduced). It creaks under pressure, and the speakers in the earcups aren’t even padded, meaning you can tap plastic if…
“I keep the ends out for the tie that binds, because you’re mine, I walk the line.” -Johnny Cash Gritty, unmistakably smart and brewed in a combination of adventure, action, survival-horror and shooter gameplay, Surreal Software and Midway’s The Suffering was a combined million-seller on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox when it was released in 2004. It…
The Chinese government has reportedly mandated that its domestic data center operators nationwide should source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers. The mandate is said to have originated in guidelines proposed last March for the Shanghai municipality, which stipulated that “adoption of domestic computing and storage chips at the city’s…
The ultimate controller for Sega’s robot-battling series. If you played Sega’s Virtual-On back in the day, then you’ll be aware that the game has a twin-stick control setup which, during the Saturn and Dreamcast eras, was replicated for the home via special bespoke controllers. If you want to play Virtual-On on more recent hardware, you’re…