If you've been searching for new games to try out, but don't want to break the bank, you won't want to miss Steam's Tiny Teams sale. Live until August 14th, this sale spotlights games made by small dev teams, from cozy deckbuilders to haunting psychological horror thrillers. It's also a great chance to take a look at demos for upcoming games by indie devs.The highlight of this sale is all...

In a recent episode of Nightdive's Deep Dive podcast, Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc shared his recollection of how the team came up with the audio logs in System Shock, which are now a ubiquitous game design standby.LeBlanc came to the topic after describing why Shock 1 eschewed RPG stats, unlike Ultima Underworld before it and Shock 2 after. Basically, Looking Glass was struggling with a perennial action-RPG conundrum:...

On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service. AOL announced this week that it will be discontinuing its dial-up service next month, which probably isn't as surprising as the fact that AOL was still offering dial-up in 2025 to begin with.Dial-up usage has plummeted over recent years. AOL had some 1.5 million dial-up users in 2015, but as of 2021 that number...

Steam's beta program for Chromebooks is officially coming to an end on January 1, 2026. As reported by 9to5Google, Chromebook users will now see a pop-up warning when attempting to install Steam, announcing that the beta app will no longer be available at the end of the year.The notice states: "The Steam for Chromebook Beta program will conclude on January 1st, 2026. After this date, games installed as part of...

Promise Mascot Agency was already wonderfully weird when it released back in April, so when I saw that its latest update adds Tony Hawk-style grinding tricks into its bizarro Japanophile delivery sim, my instant reaction was, "Oh yes, of course." If anything, I'm surprised the game launched without the ability to propel your van along a steel road barrier in a glorious shower of sparks. Shame on you, Kaizen Game...

I've never met a ghost in the machine, but I remember every time an AI enemy surprised me by doing something deeply human. I know where in the church rafters I was standing when a Wolfenstein paratrooper started bunny-hopping on the spiral staircase, so that he could get a better look at me. And I'll always recall knocking a warhammer from the hands of an orc bandit on the road...

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...