For most open-world enthusiasts, few moments rival those first tentative steps into a new and unexplored sandbox. Everything is fresh, unknown and ripe for discovery as we ponder eschewing arbitrary map icons in favour of checking out far-off landmarks simply because we can.GTA 6 will deliver this experience for the vast majority of nomadic crime-sim enjoyers when we finally get the chance to visit new-age Vice City for the first...

Some days there are just too many possible words, and not quite enough rows to whittle down the potential candidates to today's answer. We get it. So make things easier for yourself with our Wordle help. Our clue can give whatever you've found a bit of direction, and our hints can save you some wasted guesses too. Need more? That's what the August 9 (1512) answer was made for.A clue...

An investigation by The Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine, and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has sought to lay out the specific relationship between tech giant Microsoft and the Israeli military, which has faced international condemnation over its ongoing assault on Gaza, which has killed over 60,000 people, including thousands of children.In April and May, Microsoft employees staged public protests over the company's supply of Azure Cloud services to the Israeli military....

Like some kind of bat signal for FPS players who like to ruin the fun, the Battlefield 6 open beta's popularity has already attracted a number of cheaters.Players have found evidence of people using wall hacks to easily track enemies no matter where they go. And it's happening despite EA's kernel-level anti-cheat, Javelin, that is surprisingly picky about what kind of PCs it'll run on. According to a post by...

In real life I'm pretty sure I can't pick up a rock, grab a stick, collect some "plant fiber" (whatever the hell that is), then use those three items to craft an axe that can cut down a few dozen trees. Most likely, my "axe" would break on the first swing and I'd have better luck just punching the tree with my fist.Even though the most realistic survival games aren't...

We noted, when Light of Motiram was first unveiled in late 2024, that it looked a lot like Horizon: Zero Dawn—to the point that we also wondered whether it might earn the ire of Sony. It took the better part of a year, but sure enough, Sony eventually filed a lawsuit against Tencent, parent of Motiram studio Polaris Quest, calling the game a "slavish clone" of the hit Horizon games.Tencent...

Everyone's laughing until someone gets whisked away by a dust devil with a backpack full of food. This is how I imagine Peak's Mesa Update is going to go when it drops next week.The goofy co-op climbing game will add the mesa biome to the rotation on August 11 along with new items, badges, and cosmetics—oh, and dynamite.Over on X, co-developer Aggro Crab said it will replace the alpine as...

The Battlefield 6 open beta is here, and it's almost actually open. We're on day two of early access, and the lineup of modes and maps for weekend 1 is set. It's just Conquest, Breakthrough, and Domination on the menu for now, playable on three maps: Liberation Peak, Siege of Cairo, and Iberian Offensive.Three maps, two of which are kinda small for Battlefield. It's an infantry-heavy map pool—Siege of Cairo...

Five years after leaving Gears of War studio The Coalition to take the reins of the Diablo series at Blizzard, Rod Fergusson is calling it a day."After five years driving the Diablo franchise with four big launches, it’s time to step away from Blizzard/Microsoft, sword in hand, and see what’s next," Fergusson wrote on Bluesky. "I’m proud of what we’ve built and excited for what’s ahead for Diablo, and for...

PC Gamer once declared virtual toilets the secret to understanding the unspoken priorities of a game and the people making it, but I'd argue virtual ladders have even more to say. If you approach from the top, does it wrest away control or let you Wile E. Coyote yourself right off the ledge? Does the game give you a button to slide down like an action hero? Will the back...