Have you ever wished you could go exploring in Dark and Darker without worrying about getting ganked by a fellow adventurer who started playing the game 200 hours before you even discovered its existence? If so, good news: Season 6 of the game's early access release includes a new "Adventure Mode," a PvE-exclusive co-op format that gives players the opportunity for some risk-free dungeon crawling."Risk free," to be more specific,...

In Blue Prince you've inherited a mysterious mansion, but the twist is you also have to build that mansion, one room at a time, while you explore it. The deeper you get, the more mysteries you'll find, and even as you unravel one you'll stumble across a few more to take its place.There's a lot to grasp in the early hours of this puzzle strategy adventure, and as you begin...

I'm a big fan of the Talos Principle games, and so was happy to hear that the original, now more than 10 years old, was getting the remaster treatment as The Talos Principle: Reawakened. And it's not just a graphical overhaul: The updated edition also features an entirely new chapter that takes players back to the very earliest days of the simulation that brought about the rebirth of humanity.The Talos...

OpenAI is countersuing Elon Musk, and claims the company's co-founder is engaged in "bad faith tactics" in order to gain control of its industry-leading AI technology. Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, his fellow co-founder, last year in an attempt to stop him changing the corporate structure from a non-profit to a for-profit company.OpenAI was co-founded by Musk and Altman in 2015. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and...

The original music for Minecraft, alongside the reboot jingle for Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, have been inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress and are now part of the American audio canon.These were two of the 25 recordings that make up 2025's additions (thanks AP), all of which were chosen for their "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.""These are the...

Causal Loop is a new first-person puzzler with a sci-fi setting from Mirebound, a team of ex-Blizzard developers. While there's been something of a resurgence in puzzle games as of late, Causal Loop seeks to set itself apart from the herd by providing puzzles that don't just work as obstacles to progression but as a way to decide how you will progress."Unlike traditional branching narratives, Causal Loop embeds its choice-driven...

Just listen to that short clip above. Go on, I'll wait. That, my friends, is the sound that began some of my early computing experiences, when this hardware writer was a mere whelp dipping his toes into the wonderful world of personal computing. Whaddaya mean you don't recognise it? It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant...

As you'd expect from a new update, Marvel Rivals Season 2 brings tons of events you can complete for all sorts of free goodies. In fact, it's better than ever, as there are two events giving away great skins right now. While the Wanda's Chaos Gown event simply asks you to play some matches, the Cerebro Database event is much more complicated, at least at first glance.Thanks to stacked menus,...

Don't worry if you're feeling a bit stumped by Friday's Wordle, because we've got everything you need to win right here. Start with our general tips and see how you go, knowing our clue for the April 11 (1392) puzzle's here to help if you need it. Need more? You've got it. The answer to today's Wordle is never more than a quick scroll away.A wild guess on my third...

Schedule 1 is the sort of indie game that only gets more impressive the longer you stare at it. It's a drug dealing simulator, so you expect to grow weed out of a cramped apartment by day and hustle by night, but Schedule 1's complexity can catch you by surprise once you poke around its clockwork town full of named citizens with jobs, homes, schedules, desires, and unique habits.Jessi, for...