About once a week I head on over Steam to peek at the most wishlisted games because I want to know: what are PC gamers looking forward to most? Are there any highly anticipated games on the brink of release? And is anything new blowing upThis week I definitely spotted something new: Dear Passengers, a co-op game about running "the world's worst airline" with your friends, is now seated comfortably...

A little less than a month after the release of its Titanfall-inspired shooter Empulse, developer 1047 Games has reportedly laid off more employees. While the studio hasn't made a formal announcement of the cuts, multiple employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer) have said they've been let go in what one described as "the third wave of studio layoffs."Reports of layoffs at 1047 began to surface last week. "A bunch of...

Less than a week after Ubisoft promised that a new Ghost Recon game is coming but probably not anytime soon, the company says it will mark the series' 25th anniversary in August with some proper news on what's coming next."It’s been a while Ghosts!" the announcement excitedly states. "We know some of you saw some updates, we’ll have more to say on the 6th of August when we celebrate the...

Jennifer English, who gained fame for her portrayal of Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3 and then won a BAFTA award for best performer in a leading role for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has announced that she is withdrawing from the role of Gwendolyn in the upcoming Tides of Annihilation in order to "properly look after [her] mental and physical health."Revealed in 2025, Tides of Annihilation struck me as an Arthurian...

The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Florida resident, identified as Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, for allegedly distributing malware embedded in a series of Steam games to approximately 8,000 PCs. Arrested last week, Wilkins—alongside two unnamed co-conspirators—is accused of using the private information stolen from those infected computers to steal over $200,000 in cryptocurrency.According to criminal complaint filed by the FBI (via Techspot), Wilkins and his associates allegedly encouraged social media...

Steam's Train Fest has begun, meaning there are deals and discounts on lots of locomotive games, even a few brand new ones like Denshattack, which just came out this month. But when it comes to train sales there's really only one train game to talk about: Train Simulator Classic, a sim notable for having a whole heck of a lot of DLC: a whopping 790 pieces of it. And almost...

Of the many remarkable abilities possessed by Dishonored hero Corvo Attano, perhaps the most remarkable is, well, possession: Corvo can possess creatures, most famously the game's plentiful rats, to get up to all sorts of trouble, including accessing locations that would be inaccessible to his full-sized body. As it turns out, this wasn't an entirely original idea. More than a decade earlier it had been considered for use in Dishonored's...

You might be surprised to hear that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14—I'll spare you the free trial copypasta—has a mobile version. Well, it does… though er, not for much longer. A little over a year after launching in China, Final Fantasy 14 mobile is shutting down and taking its unreleased global version down with it.The mobile MMO was originally announced in November 2024, with Square Enix handing the...

Translating brain activity into game inputs is the stuff of absurdly long-running sci-fi anime. It's also a tech that, though very much in its infancy, now exists in the real world too. For instance, attendees at this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai could have a go at playing Black Myth: Wukong with just their brain waves.AI enthusiast Huang Lu shared a video of the non-invasive brain-computer interface at...

The Odyssey looks set to become this summer's big blockbuster hit, and its director, Christopher Nolan, is busy working the interview circuit. After his comments last week around AI slop and the younger generation's rejection of the tech, the Oscar-winning filmmaker went one step further in a chat with YouTube channel HugoDécrypte - Grands formats.When asked about the Trojan horse metaphor in relation to AI, Nolan responded: "I think AI...