Look, I like Elden Ring: Nightreign—I actually like it quite a bit—but it wouldn’t be accurate to call it a soulslike, now would it? Nightreign uses the Dark Souls formula for its combat, but might I call the jury to examine the thing: It’s a multiplayer co-op action game based on short, semi-permadeath runs with…
The official end of the summer isn’t back-to-school day. It’s not Labor Day. Nope, it’s Gamescom Opening Night Live day, the second Geoff Keighley-hosted world premieres showcase of each year that kicks off the gaming trade event in Cologne, Germany which signals the end of the Gregorian Calendar’s videogame ‘announcements season’ and the beginning of…
We’re thrilled to reveal Javier “El Mago” Báez as the cover athlete for MLB The Show 20! Known as “El Mago” which translates to “the magician,” Báez has dazzled the baseball world for years with his enchanting skills that have rightfully earned his nickname. Whether Báez is stealing a base by masterfully evading a tag,…
Human beings are incredible at recognising patterns—which is an evolutionary reflex. See, we’re hunter-gatherers, so being able to recognise the pattern of an edible plant against the pattern of an inedible one could mean the difference between life and death. Well, at least, it used to. Now we sit around and play videogames. But those…
Peak, the breakout hit climbing game whose wobbly scout characters you’ve probably seen tumbling down mountainsides on social media over the last few days, was a product of indie dev collaboration. It was created as a partnership between Another Crab’s Treasure developer Aggro Crab and Content Warning creators from Landfall, and according to the studio…
There’s nothing quite like setting up a custom, intricate hell maze in a level editor, sending it to friends, and watching as they trounce it with minimal effort. Turnbound, which debuted at today’s PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, is boxing up that unique brand of shame and delivering it to your door in the form…
Let’s be real for a second: repairing weapons in games is not a fun activity. In fact, the only time I remember ever enjoying upkeeping my shooters was in Red Dead Redemption 2, when I got to lather them with gun oil and make them all nice and shiny. Is repairing weapons in Arc Raiders…
Lacking attraction. When Super Mario Bros. Wonder launched in 2023, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. Finally, after a deluge of perfectly serviceable yet uninspiring ‘New’ entries, it felt like 2D Mario had gotten its mojo back. Fast-forward to 2026 and Wonder is making its grand return with a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition on…
In a blog post on Tuesday(via The Verge), OpenAI supremo Sam Altman said that a typical ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water. Altman doesn’t go into any detail over that claim, including whether it’s a consequence of the cooling hardware used to manage server computers or also the broader environmental…
Mid-tower case at a premium price Our apologies if you spit a swig of coffee on your monitor after reading our headline. That’s not a typo, folks — Lian Li is asking $399 for its latest mid-tower computer case, the PC-X510. How does it attempt to justify the premium price tag? The primary selling point…