With the current crop of consoles from Microsoft and Sony nearing the end of their natural product cycles, tech rumours are abound as to what hardware and systems the next generation will have. Amongst a whole raft of claims as to what the PlayStation 6 will be like are a list of specifications for Sony's return to the handheld market, with a beefy custom AMD chip at the heart of...

Today's Wordle tips can help you quickly turn an unruly collection of yellow letters into a complete line of winning greens. Take a look at one of our hints if you're after specific advice, or mull over Friday's clue if you like the idea of receiving more general insight. Any time's fine, they're just as helpful halfway down the board as they are at the top, and the August 29...

Good news for fans of Space Marine 2's multiplayer modes, which Saber Interactive has committed to supporting for a whole 'nother year. As the developer announced, patch 10, on the first anniversary of Space Marine 2's release, will be the beginning of a second year of updates and additions.Patch 10 is apparently the "biggest patch to date." Due on September 4, it includes a new boss (the Chaos Spawn, in...

There's a tweet from early 2021 I think about more often than I should think about any tweet not written by dril, because it really does feel like it speaks to The Times We're Living In: "Trying to explain to my parents (very gently) that basically nobody under 40 right now expects good things to happen ever again." Overly broad? Sure: For one thing, this gloomy outlook couldn't account for...

While you start out in a Dragon Ball Z-inspired world, Anime Eternal is in no short supply of other popular shounen destinations and that's easily its biggest draw. Brawling your way through the streets is the key to unlocking even more themed locations from series like Bleach and Jujutsu Kaisen, but you'll need to beef up to power through. That's where Anime Eternal codes come in.It's certainly one of the...

Countless Reddit threads and social media posts piled up this week strongly criticizing Blizzard's decision to add a MOBA-style draft system to Overwatch 2's popular Stadium mode. Specifically, players were against the removal of mirror matchups where both teams can play as the same heroes.The response in the last few days, following the launch of the new season, has been so overwhelmingly negative that Blizzard has abandoned the system less...

The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are still a long way off, but CD Projekt is slowly but surely ramping things up. The company said in its H1 financial report today that the development teams for both game have continued to expand, and that further "gradual growth" is expected by the end of the year.A chart released as part of the H1 report indicates that The Witcher 4, which had...

Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has imposed another round of layoffs, putting an undisclosed number of people out of work in the face of "evolving business conditions.""Today we made the very difficult decision to part ways with a number of our talented colleagues as the result of evolving business conditions," the studio announced in a message posted on LinkedIn. "This decision was not made lightly. It was necessary, however, to...

The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so.Game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff all "voted strongly in favor of union representation" by signing an authorization card via an online portal, according to a news...

The Battlefield 6 server browser had my curiosity, but now it has my attention: Battlefield Studios just confirmed that servers spun up in its "Portal browser" can be made persistent. Theoretically, that means the Portal browser will behave like a classic FPS browser, allowing someone to host a "24/7 CAIRO ONLY" server that won't disappear after everybody goes to bed.BF Studios' exact wording for how server persistence will work came...