As AI continues to make its way into every walk of life, it seems like it has boldened and bolstered bad actors, with the FBI reporting crime complaints almost 20% higher than the previous year. Its latest analysis reports over 1,000,000 complaints in 2025. The FBI reports that, among the $21 billion lost to cybercrime…
The action-RPG, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, brings Adol’s latest adventure to PS4 next year, in which Adol finds himself imbued with a mysterious power and entwined in an ancient secret deeply rooted within the city he’s trapped in. The Pact Edition includes the “Monstrum Memoirs” mini-art book and “Melodies of the Macabre” soundtrack. Pre-order your…
Howdy! As you may know, PlayStation Meeting is happening tomorrow in New York City at the PlayStation Theater. It’s only open to members of the press, but we also wanted to open the invitation to PlayStation fans to watch live. So here’s your invite! Join us at live.playstation.com on September 7, starting at 12:00pm Pacific…
Larian’s next game, Divinity, is gonna have some big changes to the usual Original Sin formula—and it’s thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, so sayeth a Larian lead in a recent Reddit AMA. Nick Pechenin, head of design at the studio, said that its take on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset informed a lot of how…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was one of 2024’s most pleasant surprises, whipping in at the end of the year and delivering a triple-decker knuckle sandwich to everyone’s best games lists. It wasn’t just critics and players who were delighted by Indy’s long-awaited return to the virtual realm, either. Microsoft was also pleased with…
On February 27, 1996, two games for the Nintendo Game Boy were released in Japan: Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green. Now, 30 years later, Pocket Monsters/Pokemon has become a sprawling, global phenomenon, with countless multimedia adaptations, toy lines, and merchandise galore. Mixing RPG gameplay with collection-fueled dopamine and turn-based combat, the original Pokemon…
With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a major hit on Steam: An “overwhelmingly positive” rating across more than 83,000 user reviews on Steam, and concurrent player numbers that keep it high on Steam’s top 100 most-played list—not bad at all for a relatively brief narrative-based singleplayer RPG. And if you’ve played through it all and wish…
Top Deal: Solid state drives are the sexy storage option these days, but mechanical hard drives still have their place. They’re comparatively cheap, capacious, and generally offer superior data retention if you need to unplug it from a power source. If you’re looking for a new drive for your expanding data needs, check out today’s…
Listen now! Nintendo Music has added all sorts of albums recently, and today’s update sees the arrival of the Wii Fit Plus soundtrack. There are 90 tracks included in this album, with a run time of 1 hour and 54 minutes. Some are just quick musical notes or sounds that play during certain segments, while…