Counter-Strike 2 has kicked in the door with its release, and now that the entry flashbangs have cleared up, ranked modes are calling to us to accept their challenge. The previous system from CS:GO has been changed up for CS2, and there’s now more than one way to see how you stack up against the…
Ubisoft’s annual financial report isn’t exactly “for us”—that is, people who like videogames and not stocks—but surely someone at the company had to know saying microtransactions make games “more fun” in a publicly-available document wouldn’t play well. The report, filed on June 19, is pretty extensive, but only ten pages in, it dives into key…
Category: Games November 11, 2025 Play GTA Online for Free on Xbox Series X|S This Week with Free Play Days Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor This week, everyone can enjoy Grand Theft Auto Online on Xbox with no Game Pass membership required. There’s a host of new content and updates to jump into, whether you’re…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to…
Plus Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake gets new trailer. Intrepid adventurers, if you’ve been holding off on playing Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and have a Switch 2, today’s news might come as a nice little incentive. Announced during the Japanese Nintendo Direct, Square Enix has dropped a free performance update for the…
It’s not uncommon for videogame sound effects to be sourced from sound effect libraries, which is why you sometimes hear the same ones show up in movies and TV shows. I’ve heard the whooshy Doom door sound effect in Doctor Who, Event Horizon, Galaxy Quest, and plenty of other places. But there is one specific…
I played a demo of Naiad back in 2022, so it’s no wonder that I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve had an update on where this gorgeous minimalist adventure will take us next. But, to my utter surprise and slight disbelief, the game has finally been released during the Wholesome Snack…
Mouse pads are admittedly something I don’t tend to think about too much. If it feels good under the palm and doesn’t become a hindrance to my movement, I’ll continue using it. But, alas, I’m not a pro, and it turns out they get through some of the best gaming mouse pads like an actual…
Last week, we asked for shots of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 greatest villains using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: jet_black_gaming shares Venom letting out a toothy roar in the rain beneath a full moon LvlUpVP shares a portrait of Mysterio surrounded by a green mist DeathStalker131 shares a pink and black Symbiote enemy stalking…
The AI future would be bad enough on its own, eroding the human spirit and upending the economy in the name of a homework cheating revolution, but I find it especially galling that Microsoft is spending so much money trying to get me to turn on Copilot in Windows 11 and not fixing basic features…