Almost four years after its initial release, Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most popular Microsoft operating system. That's not much of a surprise with only a few months left before Windows 10 officially loses support on October 14, 2025.Even so, it's a crucial turning point for Microsoft, which has seen slow adoption of Windows 11 over the past few years. It looks like that's finally changing...

I mostly enjoyed RoboCop: Rogue City when it launched in 2023, by far the best of developer Teyon's roster of licensed shooters based on classic '80s action films. It did have one amusing problem as an FPS though, namely that RoboCop's signature Auto 9 was so good it made virtually every other available weapon redundant.RoboCop fans would probably say that's how things should be, and from the perspective of respecting...

"What if we recreated this game in that engine?" is a classic modding conceit, up there with "What if Stalker was even more miserable?" and "What if this character had no clothes on?". In fact, I'm surprised it's taken 25 years for someone to stick Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life. It's the sort of harebrained scheme I would have eagerly read about on Planet Half-Life back in 2006.Regardless, all credit to...

Now you're here, you can relax and enjoy winning your Saturday Wordle however you like. Treat yourself to an instant win if you like, just by scrolling or clicking your way to the answer to today's Wordle. Or sit back and take it nice and slow, using our helpful tips and the July 5 (1477) hint together if you happen to need some guidance. You've got this.One green and three...

It's beyond a cliche to point out that games' TV and film adaptations consistently sucked for decades before there were any good ones, and frankly, it's getting harder to remember that time. One of the best examples of how things have gotten better in recent years is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—or as I like to remember it, the first time I wondered if I should reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 (an impulse senior editor...

There's a term in tabletop gaming: "beer and pretzels." It's an epithet you'll find tacked on to any game best played with unserious intentions and inebriants aplenty. I've described Deep Rock Galactic to friends as a "beer and pretzels" sort of horde shooter, so I don't know why it never occurred to me that one of the best co-op games on Steam would also make a great party-friendly board game....

Ratatan, the spiritual successor to the wonderful PSP rhythm game Patapon, turned up at the PC Gaming Show earlier this year to reveal a new trailer, as well as a demo on Steam and an early access release date of July 25.But with that date now just a few weeks away, developer TVT Co. has decided to push it back, and for that you can blame—or thank, as the case...

Perfect Dark was one of the biggest projects gutted by Microsoft's latest round of layoffs, which is really saying something given one of the other canceled games is an MMO. The rebooted shooter was in under-wraps development for several years before a fantastic-looking gameplay reveal debuted just last year—and now that all that work is circling the drain, the voice behind Joanna Dark herself is desperate to save it.Alix Wilton...

Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees earlier this week, cancelling games Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO in the works at ZeniMax Online Studios in the process. Romero Games' new shooter fell victim to the massacre too. One game that apparently didn't get cancelled, though, is OD, the new thing from Hideo Kojima, with support from Xbox Studios, that was announced in 2023.You'd be forgiven for forgetting OD....

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced around 9,000 layoffs—many of which gutted teams and canceled games all over Xbox Game Studios—and it hasn't gone over great with, well, anyone whose conscience is intact. The Communications Workers of America, a major media union with several locals within Microsoft, took the moment to address its disappointment with a formal statement.“We are deeply disappointed in Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands more workers, including...