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Secrets of Strixhaven Is Magic's Next Set, and You Can Preorder Already
Secrets of Strixhaven is launching next month with a ton of products. Here's what you can expect, and what you can preorder.
I tried dozens of mice, and the Logitech MX is my clear favorite - here's why
The Logitech MX Master 4 mouse features haptic feedback and deep customization, with a premium build that's hard to pass up.
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EA Drowns Out Sims 4 Complaints With Chill Beats to Ignore Feedback To
The Sims 4 has collaborated with popular music-streaming YouTube channel Lofi Girl to create an album of lo-fi remixes of various songs from the game's soundtrack. The playlist is available to stream for free now on YouTube and Spotify."Enjoy your favorite Sims classics, remixed into lo-fi vibes wit
I'm a Mac Mini power user - these 5 accessories make it the ultimate workstation for me
These Mac Mini accessories have proven reliable over time and are well worth the money.
Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’
In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.
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Epic Explains Its Blend Of Blockbusters And Smaller Games For Weekly Freebies
After hundreds of giveaways, the Epic Games Store can still deliver a few surprises with its weekly free games. Some weeks might see under-the-radar indies like Turnip Boy Robs a Bank given away through the Free Games program, while other drops have included GOTY winners like Deathloop. How does Epi
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As Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss rushes to fix pressing issues, players are asking for updates to the time-gated dragon mount
After a massive but divisive launch last week, Crimson Desert is the talk of the town. From its use of gen-AI that supposedly was "unintentionally included in the final release" to talk from anonymous sources that point to an unfocused creative vision, much of the buzz around the game is wary. That
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Bungie Knows The Hardest Part Of Marathon’s New Endgame Raid Is Scheduling The Time To Play
The studio is listening to feedback on how to improve the new map
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
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2019's Call Of Duty Has More Players Than Black Ops 7 And Warzone Combined Right Now On Steam
2019's Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare, is currently putting up big numbers on Steam, even outperforming the combined totals of Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone. This isn't a totally random event, however, as the game is currently marked down to just $6.On Steam, 2019's Modern Warfare had a p
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'The Jumping, Movement, and Attacks Are Way More Responsive': Crimson Desert PS5 Patches Fix Crashes and Controls
Studio said it'd respond quickly.Two major Crimson Desert patches have released in quick succession on the PS5 today, solving critical errors in the open world game.Over the weekend, Korean dev Pearl Abyss promised that it would respond to feedback regarding the release’s “uncomfortable” controls. I
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Younger Generations Are Struggling to 'Connect' With the Final Fantasy Series Because It Takes So Long for New Games to Come Out, Yoshi-P Says
Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, known to fans as Yoshi-P, has admitted that long development cycles right across the Final Fantasy series make it "harder" for new players or younger generations "to engage with" the franchise.
My favorite color e-reader is $80 off ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft brings a smooth color display to your favorite books, and it's $80 off right now.
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Dragon's Dogma 2 Fans Think Capcom Is Teasing an Expansion Set in the Game's Northern Region
Capcom tweeted a piece of artwork to celebrate Dragon’s Dogma 2's second anniversary. Nothing unusual about that in itself, but fans were quick to notice details in the picture which may hint at a possible expansion.
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Crimson Desert Players Are Begging For Mounts To Be Permanent
With Crimson Desert finally out, players are running around the world of Pywell in the hopes of unlocking every available mount--of which there are plenty. Unfortunately, while they'll all be permanent additions to your mount selection, they aren't forever rideable, and fans are begging developer Pe
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Marvel's Wolverine Preorders Waiting On Insomniac's Next Gameplay Reveal
Marvel's Wolverine slashes its way onto PS5 consoles later this year, but why are there no preorders for it yet? Despite a feature-packed gameplay trailer and a deep dive that went behind the scenes on the game last year, developer Insomniac Games might be waiting to show off more of its next Marvel
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Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced
If you're still recovering from last week's DLSS 5 nightmare and Crimson Desert's gen-AI fiasco, we're sorry to re-open old wounds by telling you that Square Enix has announced it's teaming up with Google to put Gemini AI into Dragon Quest X. Read more
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AI-Generated Assets Were "Unintentionally Included" In Crimson Desert, Devs Say
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss recently addressed the game's underwhelming visuals on PlayStation 5 with an easy fix. Unfortunately, the graphics issues players are running into now aren't so easily fixed, as they're the result of generative AI, something Pearl Abyss confirmed in a recent apol
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Did A Ratings Board Just Spoil A Big Super Mario Galaxy Movie Reveal?
The movie is just a week away and we might know one of its big character moments
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Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks to have everything I love about those Bullfrog and Lionhead classics, but the scepticism is hard to shake
Few developers can - even after all this time - get you quite so swept up in their enthusiasm as Peter Molyneux. It's an enthusiasm that has, famously, got him into trouble in the past, when passion and promise have failed to meet reality by quite some margin - with players often caught in the fall