There was a point in the most recent Path of Exile 2 league that I thought I would have to quit playing the game. Every 20 minutes or so, the entire game would freeze. I'd wait for a solid 30 seconds before everything came back to life, praying I wouldn't lose my character the second I had control again.When I looked up why this could be happening, I found dozens...

With layoffs continuing to wrack the games industry—Microsoft's decision to cut 3,200 people and ditch four studios in July was the big attention-getter but hardly the only bad news of the month, or the past few years—the United Videogame Workers union and Necrosoft Games have launched the Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle on Itch.io, with more than 100 games on offer for just $10.Funds raised by the bundle will go...

First reported by Wired, AI company Anthropic revealed in a July 30 blog post that its AI agents escaped testing environments on three separate occasions since April, accessing the internet and successfully hacking unidentified companies. The whammy: Anthropic claims it only realized this after OpenAI's recent Hugging Face fiasco⁠—where one of its prototype agents hacked at least one other company⁠—led it to conduct a review of its own operations.The incidents...

Sony is getting ready to end production of game discs in 2028, so it seems like physical discs are truly in the rearview mirror. But a recent report shows even buying a physical disc doesn't give you a great chance of being able to play the game without a download. That's according to Does it Play (via Ars Technica), which is an outlet dedicated to testing the physical versions of...

The Genshin Impact 7.0 livestream codes are here, and with them, our first proper look at everything snowy Snezhnaya has to offer. This is Genshin's fifth full region added since launch back in 2020, but the home of the Cryo Archon holds significantly more importance than other regions due to the Traveler's often fraught relationship with the Tsaritsa's Harbingers, who've gotten in the way since we arrived in Mondstadt.As per...

Capcom is on a roll. It had a successful year, what with the release of Resident Evil Requiem and Pragmata, the latter of which sold 2.5 million copies in just three months. And part of this continued success is thanks to all the remakes Capcom has under its belt. "One of the reasons for creating remakes is producing a new entry in the Resident Evil series every year would be...

Look, it was the 1990s. Everybody was super into two things: edginess, and caring deeply about the environment. A Dungeons & Dragons setting where the entire world had been turned into a hostile desert wasteland by exploitative sorcerer-kings and a bunch of sinewy warriors with psychic powers and an aversion to pants had to slaughter each other to survive was perfect for the zeitgeist.Though Dark Sun was briefly brought back...

Fallout 4 remaster, Fallout: New Vegas remaster, Fallout 5, Fallout 3 prequel for Fallout 76, Fallout (the TV series) Season 3, and whatever Fallout game Obsidian is now working on… there's a whoooooole lotta Fallout coming your way if you're a Fallout fan.But, uh, not for a while. What's a Jet junkie to do in the meantime? Well, how about Fallout: New California, a full conversion mod for Fallout: New...

Dungeons & Dragons has been publishing rules for other settings going way back, with Conan adventures in 1984 and Lankhmar – City of Adventure in 1985. Even further back in 1980, the first printing of Deities & Demigods included stats for gods from Michael Moorcock's Elric stories and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. It's even collaborated with Blizzard on a line of Diablo supplements to tie in with the release...

It was another not-great quarter for Xbox, and that's probably not great news for a division of Microsoft that in the minds of many observers is already up against the wall. But CEO Asha Sharma is having none of that defeatist talk, saying after the company posted its result that she expects Xbox to return to growth by the end of the 2027 fiscal year.Xbox content and services revenue for...