Anthem isn't getting shuttered for good until January 2026, but it's already spent years as one of the industry's preeminent tragedies. This week, former Anthem executive producer and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah published the first of a multi-video YouTube series about the game's ill-fated production history, and how BioWare's storytelling chops might have been too capable for its own good.While Darrah didn't take over as Anthem executive producer until late...

We don't know a whole lot about the setting for Battlefield 6, but the broad strokes were revealed late last week: "Major European countries" have pulled out of NATO, leaving the US and some unspecified number of remaining allies to stand alone against a massive mercenary outfit called Pax Armata. It's a scenario that feels at least loosely rooted in reality—how firm is NATO's footing these days, really?—but EA insists...

Elden Ring Nightreign's latest update brought many great things with it: a new Everdark boss (Augur), highly anticipated duo expeditions, and a brilliant new relic sorting system. But something rather unexpected also came with: whispers of upcoming (unannounced) Nightreign content.After the recent patch, dataminers got to work sifting through files to see if there was anything new to find, and there was quite a bit, actually. Not only was there...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it's bad.Do you ever wish everyone in our hobby were more angry about something that grinds your gears? For me, it's the state of bots in multiplayer games. A time-honored, genuinely useful feature has been contorted into something insulting and...

If you've got enough money in your pocket to buy a Double Whopper combo but you're not feeling especially hungry right now, I've got a good alternative plan for getting rid of it: Humble Bundle's "Play the Legends" collection of Warner Bros. games, which includes 16 really good games (well, 15, plus Suicide Squad) for just $12.Okay, first things first, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League isn't bad, really, it's...

You'll find missing optical disk locations around Brookhollow Park in Grounded 2; they'll be marked on your map almost right away. Since you're told where to look, you'd think they'd be easy to find, but they're missing for a reason.In fact, the map markers can be somewhat misleading, as grabbing the missing optical disks generally involves delving into some pretty scary caves, only accessible far from the marker. So make...

In its latest Q2 financial report, AMD had good news for investors and fans of Radeon graphics cards. Gaming revenue was up 73% compared to this time last year, and no small part of this has been down to the success of the RX 9000-series of graphics cards. So much so, that in an earnings call, AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su confirmed that demand was "very strong" and "outpaced supply."Of...

Die-hard Windows XP fans rejoice, your footwear of choice has arrived. Microsoft has launched special anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs. Yes, that's Crocs as in the famously ugly foam clogs. And, yes, these special edition versions have been plastered liberally with an XP-inspired colourway.That, of course, means they've been fitted up with the iconic Bliss wallpaper. The top of the Crocs have been Blissed out with fluffy white clouds and...

It's 3 am. You can't sleep. You're tossing and turning because you simply must speak to your MP to ask them what their favourite crisp flavour is. Or if they'd be up for reintroducing the death penalty. Or how they feel about the many pointless uses of AI that are being foisted upon us.Good news! Your MP might be asleep, but an unnerving homunculus pretending to be Mark Sewards, MP...

Some facts about videogame canon you wish you could scrub not just from the internet, but your very own mind. Unfortunately, I am burdened with the unenviable task of informing you of things that are true, and it is apparently very much true that a bunch of well-paid Americans, sitting around a room, had the fleeting thought: What if we gave Pikachu a heaving bosom.It's an old anecdote, over two...