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Rainbow Six Siege is having a moment. The tactical FPS is one week into a major update that introduced a new name (Siege X), a wild 6v6 mode, modernized maps, and most consequential of all, a new price point: After holding out for 10 years, Siege is finally free-to-play.Siege X is now more popular than ever, sustaining the kind of top-five Steam numbers that it used to only reach during...
On an Internet of Shit, a cool website feels newsworthy, and graphic designer Josh Worth has made a very cool website. If The Moon Were Only One Pixel is a "tediously accurate" recreation of our stellar neighborhood you can explore in your browser, and it's a meditative, thoughtful way to break up the monotony of being advertised to on the web.Like it says in the title, the page scales down...
Chinese game company Cognosphere is known for four things: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and its aggressive pursuit of anyone who doesn't toe the line on its announcement and release schedules. In the latest example of how much it really, really does not like leakers, the company is now suing a guy who streamed Honkai: Star Rail gameplay on Discord that included a look at a new...
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 there was more, the good news is that there might be."We're currently exploring a wide...
Dune: Awakening is off to a great start: excellent Steam reviews, a growing playerbase, and few of the launch problems that regularly plague popular new multiplayer games.There is some trouble brewing, however, as players begin exploring Dune: Awakening's endgame, much of which revolves around PvP in the deep desert—a massive, uninhabitable zone only traversable by air where players can compete for precious resources like spice and titanium.But there's one more...
The original Nintendo Switch had such a massive piracy problem, hackers were able to play new first-party games weeks before they were available to the public. Since its release in early June, hackers have wondered if the Switch 2 might have similar vulnerabilities, but early reports suggest that Nintendo has anticipated typical methods of meddling with its portable hardware. Hackers on social media sites are beginning to share photos and...
Doing well in Mario Kart World is the same as putting a target on your back when it comes to blue shells. For some, the combination of a high skill ceiling, tough NPCs, and prevalence of the spiny item has proven irksome, but it doesn’t have to be this way. You have more tools in your arsenal to deal with the blue shell than might be immediately apparent. As detailed...
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Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake still theoretically on track for 2026, Ubisoft tells skeptics
The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is still in the works, according to a recent post from the official Prince of Persia X account. “Yep, we’re still deep in the game — exploring, building, and ensuring the sands move with purpose,” the post reads. “This game is being crafted by a team that truly cares, and they’re pouring their hearts (and a lot of coffee) into every...
There are only so many ways to capture the majesty of sharks in reality television programming. In a genre all-but dominated by Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and National Geographic’s SharkFest, how can a contender like Netflix make a splash in the shark space? How about steal the hook of the Pokémon Snap games, but replace every Pokémon with a breed of shark? That’s effectively the premise of All the Sharks,...
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Genshin Impact’s 5.7 patch (aka the Skirk patch) is coming soon, with some new heavy Danslief story coming with it. If you’re one of the people who immediately went feral for Skirk when she appeared in Fontaine, this is the patch for you. Below, we explain when Genshin Impact maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release time of version 5.7. We’ve also added some details about what to expect from...