One of my favorite shooters of the 2020s⁠—a sleeper 'Overwhelmingly Positive' on Steam⁠—just got a second episode that more than doubles its length for $10

One of my favorite shooters of the 2020s⁠—a sleeper ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ on Steam⁠—just got a second episode that more than doubles its length for $10

After a three-year wait, the phenomenal FPS Cultic is finally done, with creator Jasozz Games and publisher 3D Realms releasing its second episode on Steam for $10⁠—the same price as Episode One. I’ve loved Cultic since before launch for its art style: Severely dithered and with a limited color palette that calls to mind ’90s…

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GTA 6 fans are convinced that a new trailer is going to release on December 27, because the moon and a license plate told them so

The latest mind-boggling theory spreading through the GTA 6 subreddit involves the moon, the identification order for Bonnie and Clyde, and a license plate. Apparently, everything points toward the number 27, which fans think means we’ll finally get a trailer for GTA 6 on December 27. This theory started on a GTA 6 leaks Twitter…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it’s still Baldur’s Gate 3’s world we’re living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian’s next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio’s admission of experimenting with generative AI. Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn’t know what it was doing next—only that it…

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Employee uploads 187,000 explicit images to US Department of Energy network intending to create ‘robot porn’, gets caught and loses his security clearance, complains he’s facing ‘the Spanish Inquisition’

A US Department of Energy (DOE) employee has lost his security clearance after uploading *checks notes* 187,000 pornographic images to the DOE network (first reported by 404 Media). The individual’s appeal against this has been made public as per DOE guidelines which, while not naming him, says he’s “a distinguished professional with decades of experience…

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Capcom is so devoted to samurai authenticity with the new Onimusha, it went and licensed the face of Japan’s most legendary actor

Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune—best known for starring in films like Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa—has been dead for nearly 30 years. But apparently that can’t stop him from starring in a new videogame in the year 2026. Since December Capcom has been teasing the revival of its early 2000s…

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