Xbox Game Pass might be popular among gamers, but if you ask Arkane Studios founder Raphael Colantonio, it's bad news for gamers and developers alike in the long run.If there was one takeaway from Microsoft's annual Xbox Games Showcase last month, it was the central role of Xbox Game Pass in the future of Microsoft's gaming strategy. This weekend, Colantonio, who parted ways with Arkane eight years ago, spoke out...

Deus Ex recently celebrated its 25th birthday. But in a parallel universe, PC gamers with eight arms and two heads are commemorating the 25th anniversary of a first-person Command & Conquer game to blow C&C Renegade out of the water. That's because Warren Spector's platonic ideal of the immersive sim very nearly became part of Westwood's beloved strategy universe, so desperate was the legendary designer to realise his vision.This all...

Dwarfish bullet-heaven spinoff Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is already more hotly sought after than legendary-tier beard oil, having sailed past a million copies sold despite still being deep in the early access mines.Now, Survivor is finally planning to breach the surface of a 1.0 launch, and as detailed by developer Funday Games in a recent Steam post, one of the big new features coming to the release version is a...

Gaming preservation group Hidden Palace has discovered a "nearly complete" prototype of a cancelled game based on Animaniacs, the beloved 90s animated show created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Steven Spielberg.Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was being developed by UK studio Full Fat Productions, which was also a frequent collaborator with Maxis on series like The Sims and Spore, and now mainly develops mobile games. Intended for the Game Boy Advance,...

Rust's latest patch may not be as dramatic as its recent jungle update, which added a huge rainforest biome to explore, but it nonetheless makes some important changes to Facepunch's survival sim. The headline update is a party system allowing players to join servers as a group. This makes playing with your friends slightly easier, not only from an organisational perspective, but also because it spawns you into a map...

Blaze through your daily Wordle game with our fantastic help. We've got a few quick tips to warm you up, a clue for todays' Wordle ready to go whenever you feel you need something extra, as well as the July 6 (1478) Wordle answer if you need a hand. However you want to win, we can help make it happen.Four yellow letters—fantastic. That's almost the full set, just like that....

This year will see the release of the first major expansion for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, following three years of updates since its 2022 release. Previously delayed from summer to fall, the War Sails expansion will take your medieval fantasy adventures and conquest to the high seas, adding ownership of ships and naval combat to the detailed land battles.War Sails will also add the Nord civilization and expand the...

Developer Unknown Worlds has shared a letter asking for patience from Subnautica fans after publisher Krafton announced the departure of its senior leadership⁠—including studio co-founder Max McGuire⁠—and the installation of Dead Space producer and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol) CEO, Steve Papoutsis, as the new studio head.The news prompted a backlash from fans, including a popular post calling for a boycott of the upcoming Subnautica 2 on the PC gaming...

It's sometimes weird to see what academics make of videogames, coming to the medium as they do with a very different set of principles and goals than most gamers and critics. One recent paper in the Journal of Rural Studies is about a game that's a phenomenon in its own right: Farming Simulator. Specifically, Farming Simulator 22.In the paper "Agricultural videogames and 'good farming,'" authors Simon Foureaux and Thomas Daum...

I don't remember a time when picking the best graphics card was such a tough decision. In previous years we've maybe made it easier on ourselves by going on essentially a sliding performance scale, with a nod to price banding, but this year I want to be a bit more definitive about the actual GPUs we recommend rather than just giving you a big ol' list of graphics cards to...