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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…

With yesterday’s hangover still in the back of their mind, bleary-eyed engineers and product managers sit down to hash out the details and delivery dates for their upcoming products in 2026. The cycle begins again. New hardware is coming, look busy. Look past the dire news of extended memory shortages through this year and into…

Bloober Team has been on a roll these past couple of years, releasing the very popular and successful remake of Silent Hill 2, announcing a similar do-over of the original, and closing out 2025 with its own horror confection Cronos: The New Dawn. Now it seems to have something new in the works—but what, exactly,…

You may remember the march of Liberty Prime, a set piece from Fallout 3 where the massive communist-hating robot stampedes across the wasteland and terrorizes everything in his path. Even climactic moments like the faceoff against big bad Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion, which released two years before Fallout 3, seem static compared to Prime; Dagon…

With each passing year, the PC gaming scene grows increasingly fragmented. More games are released, and on average they’re better, too. There’s just not enough time to cover them all, and 2025 was packed with gems you probably haven’t heard of. For those willing to go just a little off the beaten path, the current…

Former Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor has revealed his reason for unexpectedly leaving ZeniMax Online Studios in July 2025 after nearly 20 years with the company, and it will probably come as no surprise that Microsoft’s summertime bloodbath is to blame. Microsoft laid off roughly 9,000 people on July 2, 2025, many of them…