Wireless charging is one of those technologies I thought I wouldn't be much fussed over until I actually started using it. Now, it's one of the main things I hope for in many products, unless battery life is exceptionally good. So I'm quite excited to hear the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) announce a new Qi spec that comes close to doubling how fast things will be able to charge wirelessly...

Buying a new graphics card is an expensive and frustrating process in the year 2025. New GPUs are pricy, especially good ones, and that's if you can even find them listed for MSRP. Nvidia's solution, when it's not stealth launching new 50 series cards, is to go back to the old ways, and release yet another iteration of the 3050. And honestly? I think it's a pretty good idea.We've been...

Wield our Wordle tips if you want to win your battle with Thursday's puzzle. Or just give them a quick look and enjoy a game that feels a little smoother than usual. Up to you. Whatever approach you go for, the answer to today's Wordle is here if you need it, as is a fresh hint for the July 24 (1496) puzzle. Do your best—or your worst, we've got your...

There aren't many truly metal games—except for those that are accidentally very metal, like Dark Souls—but Brütal Legend is one of them. As Tyler pointed out yesterday, the late Ozzy Osbourne makes a cameo in the 2009 Double Fine action-adventure. Now the latter has made the game free on Itch.io to honour the prince of darkness, but you'll need to act fast, because the offer will only last for 666...

The launch of any new World of Warcraft expansion, Classic or not, always begins with the fastest players racing to see who can reach the new level cap first. For Mists of Pandaria Classic, which dropped earlier this week, players competed to see who could blast through level 85 to 90 before anyone else.When Twitch streamer Lmgd1 saw the "Realm First! Level 90 Monk" achievement pop up on his screen,...

Storied game designer Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary."11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while," he wrote in an X post on July 21. "Still bitter about the internet finding it...

Someone stop Supergiant from adding more stuff into Hades 2. The sequel to one the best action RPGs of all time was already overflowing with all kinds of new characters, weapons, and bosses when it launched in early access last year. And now, several updates later, Supergiant keeps messing with it as it nears the point at which it can call it finished.Supergiant said the update earlier this month would...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Played loads of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and realized he never really knew what he was doing in THUG 2 for the PS2.It's increasingly impossible to ignore how ugly Call of Duty has become. In the last few months alone, Black Ops 6 and Warzone have been infiltrated by cel-shaded Beavis and Butthead, American Dad, Jay and Silent Bob, and...

So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don't let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be!Those have been common sights for users of Garry's Mod for, oh, let's see… 20 years or so? And one of the biggest culprits for those missing textures and models is that players didn't...

Sometimes the world delivers you a bit of proof that you've done a good job cultivating your online environment. For me, that proof was seeing RPG Site post on Bluesky about Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera—a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha action game from indie studio Tiger Team—and watching as a bunch of sickos near-instantly flooded my timeline with a unified, resounding "hell yeah."Looking at Ironwing Valiant's Steam page, it's not hard...