Game delays are a common part of life in videogames, but game advances—where a game's release date is moved up instead of back? Not so much. It happens, but it's a rarity—in most cases, developers are hammering away on games practically right up to the moment of their release. So eyebrows understandably went up yesterday when Gearbox moved up the release of Borderlands 4 by more than a week, from...

Last night Intel held its 2025 Foundry Direct Connect presentation where it outlined the next few years for the company in terms of production and fabrication. The company outlined the future roadmap of the 18A and second generation 14A nodes along with their focus on AI computing. As part of this Intel announced its lineup of partners for moving forward on manufacturing further silicon.Sadly, however, there was zero mention of...

Intel has just held its 2025 Foundry Direct Connect, where it outlines the future of the company especially in terms of chip fabrication. The aptly name direct focuses on what Intel is doing at a manufacturing level, including how it intends to move forward with silicon production. That is of course, when it's not trotting out new robotic hires days after announcing mass layoffs.The biggest takeaway from this roadmap is...

It was during Intel's Direct Connect Keynote for 2025 that I witnessed this atrocity of cyberpunk dystopic proportions. After being reassured by the brand that it would be listening to customers in its outlined roadmap, the team from automation was welcomed to the stage to go over some of their improvements. Excitedly they introduce us to their newest team member and Chip a robot dog Intel has worked on with...

Our hint for today's Wordle is a versatile thing. Use it early on as a springboard for your own ideas, ensuring your opening guess is as good as they get. Or save it for later, when you're feeling a bit low on spare rows and green letters. Either way, it'll help you win—and the April 30 (1411) answer is there to catch you no matter what.I'd say I stumbled towards...

Things could get pretty bleak in classic text adventure The Oregon Trail, with dwindling supplies, damaging storms, and hostile entities making the frontier journey a test of resource management and strategy. Dying of dysentery was only one of the risks, along with (depending on which of the many versions you played) broken limbs, typhoid, or starvation.Wagon, which launches this week on Steam, is a spiritual successor to The Oregon Trail,...

Remember NFTs? Essentially JPEGs that cost a lot of money, non-fungible tokens were really big for a brief while among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft, until the internet was finally able to bully them out of sight and thus out of mind: Not really gone, but mostly forgotten. But a funny thing recently happened that dragged them back into my memory: Thousands of NFTs that people had paid millions...

The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior camera angle to Arc Raiders' third-person), but I was sure that if anybody was going...

The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was "very fun," in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there's good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger open beta test is set to begin on May 22.The May beta test was first...

In 2006 Final Fantasy 12 was a brand new PlayStation 2 game, the Xbox 360's hard drive was at least in spirit still an optional extra, and horse armour DLC was the biggest corporate issue surrounding Oblivion's launch. I didn't play the game back then because I thought I didn't need to—I had Morrowind, a smug sense of superiority, and no use for a sequel. Need to knowWhat is it?...