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Cities: Skylines 2 can't catch a break, as the long-awaited Bridges and Ports expansion is delayed again
Cities: Skylines 2 's had a rough ride since it launched in 2023. There's no denying that Colossal Order has made some ...
Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, joins the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game
Actually, maybe what they do all day is play loads of videogames. Cerny's not the only console exec out there bragging about ...
The CIA operated a network of gaming sites and even a Star Wars fanpage that were part of one of its worst-ever intelligence catastrophes
Head to the URL starwarsweb.net and you may be somewhat surprised to find yourself on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) homepage. But check it out on the Wayback Machine in December 2010, which is ...
Zoom's Eric Yuan becomes second CEO to use AI avatar on important investment call, ahead of the platform's new custom avatar addon release
With AI being on the lips of almost every CEO, it makes some sort of poetic sense that the lips of every CEO may soon be AI.
Pick up the Left 4 Dead games for cheaper than a pack of gum in the new Steam sale that's all about zombies, and also vampires
Heavy-hitting blockbusters like The Last of Us, Dying Light 2, and Telltale's The Walking Dead take a narrative posture, if ...
A month after Electronic Arts mashed the brakes, WRC rally racing games are coming back with a 'complete reboot' under a new publisher
The first new WRC game published by Nacon is to arrive in 2027. Less than a month after the end of its licensing deal with ...
Aureole – Wings of Hope is a high-speed, nifty platformer where you wrangle a supersonic, physics-based ring to eventually thwart a jacked devil
You play as Ramila, a slacker angel, and Ryleth, a soldier who got wrecked during the initial invasion and turned into an aureole—a special kind of ring housing Ryleth's soul. It's this ring you'll be ...
A fabric-covered PC case was not on my Computex 2025 bingo card but I'm surprisingly into it
Breathable being the key word there. The front panel of the Flova is actually coated in the stuff, which means any fans you might have sat behind it are going to be pulling air through it. That's ...
Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year
It turns out that Valve boss Gabe Newell is also the cofounder of a neuroscience company called Starfish that's "developing a ...
Oblivion Remastered is great and all, but Morrowind remains the Bethesda RPG that I could play forever
Watching the intro reminds me of the stories sparked from my previous experiences: vampire knights, noble savages, reluctant ...
Parries and timed blocks are the future of action games—and they've got a place in turn-based RPGs like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, too
The window to pull one off is far more forgiving than the all-or-nothing parries of past souls games, and the reward for ...
It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers
But we still shouldn't be squishing them, because they are adorable.