We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft's usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store, the Xbox App, etcetera. That's to say nothing of all those other reasons you might...

Grow a Garden is filled with different seeds and items you need to unlock as you upgrade your plot. However, a lot of these things can be expensive, so a little help goes a long way. Using Grow a Garden codes is the fastest way to unlock rewards without having to spend a single Sheckle, and if you've just started out, it can give you a decent head start to...

These daily Wordles aren't going to solve themselves, so let us help you work through them. You can make sure Thursday's puzzle gets off to a great start with our clue for the August 28 (1531) game, and then peek at our hints if you need a little more guidance along the way. Not quite enough? Today's answer will soon sort that out for you.A clue for today's WordleStuck on...

Contrary to some claims, the scariest thing about zombies is not that there's a lot of them. It's that they're dead, and dead things are scary. (I am sometimes startled by pigeon corpses.) But I'll agree that the second scariest thing about zombies is that there's a lot of them, and that's where John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, an upcoming co-op shooter with a story "inspired by" the famed horror director,...

Roblox is in the midst of expanding and implementing new systems and policies around age verification and user safety, including setting a date for when it plans to restrict unrated Roblox experiences for all users. Starting on September 30, 2025, (most) unrated games will not be playable or discoverable by anyone.When the new rules roll out next month, unrated games won't be deleted entirely, but instead locked to a developer-only...

I don't blame any of the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for not immediately thinking about DLC plans just as their game exploded in popularity and hit sales numbers in the millions earlier this year. But in the last few months they've acknowledged the hunger for DLC in every way but a direct confirmation and at this point I'd just like to know if those plans are real.In May,...

NEED TO KNOWWhat is it? An atmospheric adventure about guiding magical creatures to a new home. Expect to pay: $25/£20Developer: OkomotivePublisher: PanicReviewed on: Intel i5 6600K, RTX 3080, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official siteI loved Far: Lone Sails and Far: Changing Tides, the lonely, meditative side-scrolling forays into the unknown from Swiss studio Okomotive, so when its new game Herdling was announced last year I was immediately interested. Also, I admit,...

Three years after Shock recidivist Ken Levine formally unveiled his next game as Judas, we still don't know much about it, except that it sure looks like a new BioShock. But that situation will hopefully be changing soon: Levine posted the very first Judas dev log today, and said he hopes "to communicate more frequently to update you with new details of what we are working on."In previous BioShock games,...

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines.The family of a 16-year-old teenager who died by suicide in April after being coached and encouraged to do so by ChatGPT have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of...

No one is safe from the ire of players who feel like their toys were ripped away from them. Not even Blizzard when it tried to balance World of Warcraft's next Remix event after players overwhelmingly loved how unbalanced the last one was.The concept was simple: Break off an old WoW expansion as its own mode, add powerful new gear to it, and let players earn rewards to take back...