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...

This laptop feels like it was made specifically for me, and those like me. Its lush brushed metal and slightly curved but still square design, plus comfy typing, is exactly what I want for a work and travel machine. But on top of that, you're also getting decent gaming performance and great battery life, all packaged in a lovely 14-inch form factor. There we go, that's the review done… alright,...

Make sure you start the week with a Wordle win. Wait, we can do better than that—win Monday's puzzle in your own way. You can use our clue to give your opening line a boost if that sounds like your idea of a great start, or take a look at the August 4 (1507) hints if you want a bit of guidance. And if that's all too much to think...

Best of the best(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventuresOn an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of...

The Guild series has always seemed like an interesting proposition, a kind of miniaturized Crusader Kings where your medieval dynasty doesn't encompass an entire realm, but instead a single business and family you grow until you achieve your ultimate aim of becoming a moderately wealthy burgomeister—not so much grand strategy as modest strategy.The Guild's peculiar combination of life sim, management sim, and RPG will be returning in The Guild –...