Peak was a surprise viral hit when it released for PC in June, and it's still consistently in the top 15 most-played Steam games. Like other contemporary indie breakthroughs such as R.E.P.O., Phasmophobia and Abiotic Factor, it kinda came out of nowhere. And also like those previous hits, its success has led to some flagrant clones on Roblox, which is seemingly the go-to place if you want to play a...

Smooth out those Wordle-shaped lumps and bumps with our helpful hints. Go on, treat yourself. They won't spoil your fun, they'll just save you from spending too many rows chasing a bad idea, and give you a bit of a nudge in the right direction. Combine them with our clue for today's Wordle for maximum effect, and don't forget that the August 5 (1508) Wordle answer is always here if...

Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 marked the last of Larian's major updates, but that doesn't mean we can't get a hotfix or modding surprise as a treat. As part of the RPG's second anniversary community update, the studio shared a few bite-sized fixes and a quick breakdown of more BG3 player stats. But most notably, the developer revealed that it isn't done working on the official modding toolkit.Specifically, Larian says...

We're in that strange gap between the big Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal and the start of its open beta, which means it's prime time to overreact to everything. Right now, the overreaction is over recoil, or more specifically, the lack thereof.Thanks to one particularly misleading streamer clip floating around online, some folks are having a mini panic over the possibility that every Battlefield 6gun will have so little recoil that...

First reported by GamesRadar, one of Baldur's Gate 3's most persistent bugs has once again resisted Larian's attempts to squash it, with players on the BG3 subreddit sharing screens of their companions staring flatly into the camera in their portraits.I don't know if it was around in early access, but I've seen screenshots of the blank-faced stare bug out in the wild since Baldur's Gate 3 released. Rather than flattering,...

The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA is running the playtest for two weekends, but there are a handful of ways to get two days of early access.If you signed up for Battlefield Labs before July 31, you'll automatically be granted access to the early bird days. There was also a chance to get a beta code via...

I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it'd compile them before we started playing the game.Gripes Week(Image credit: Future)We're spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing in 2025. Hit up the Gripes Week hub for more of what's grinding our gears.Fine. Good idea. That...

I join three standup meetings per week. On paper, these video calls are where we check in, discuss what we're working on, and assign stories for the immediate future. In practice, it's a thrice-weekly Sisyphean gauntlet for my audio configuration, during which I'll frequently discover that Windows has lost track of what input and output devices are plugged into it despite the fact that nothing has changed since the last...

McFarlane Toys' upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, "The Big One:" A premium, $50 take on the elite NCR Ranger from New Vegas, complete with an arsenal of weapons out of the game. The figure is up for preorder now, and set to ship in Q4 of this year.The figure is part of McFarlane's "Elite Edition" line, which seems to mean...

The slick fishtank system before you is the supremely effective sweet spot for a modern, high-end gaming PC. This Corsair Vengeance gaming PC isn't packing in the absolute best hardware available right now, but it is rocking a CPU/GPU pairing that absolutely delivers on a bang-for-buck level.After all, not everyone can afford to spend $5,000+ on something like the Alienware Area-51, or another Vengeance rig sporting an RTX 5090 at...