Don't worry if today's Wordle has left you scratching your head, we've got a wide range of help ready to go. Take a look at our tips—a general refresh is never a bad thing. Faced with a generous helping of yellow letters but no real idea what to do with them? Our clue for the June 12 (1454) game will soon turn that around. And if you're really stuck, or...
A whole decade is a solid run for an RPG ruleset, but the success of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, released in 2014, was such that replacing it would be an obviously terrible idea. Instead, Wizards of the Coast did something more akin to 4th edition's Essentials line—a refresh that's compatible with the previous rules, but makes changes to address criticisms that have emerged over the rules' lifespan.The 2024 update...
As if Elden Ring character stats weren't confusing enough, FromSoftware further obfuscated their purpose in Elden Ring Nightreign. Each Nightfarer has letter ratings instead of numbers to denote their relative proficiency with each stat, but the real values are hidden. You just have to trust they're going up a meaningful amount each time you level up.Dataminer and YouTuber Zullie the Witch went under the hood to figure out how stats...
After an ugly launch that saw its Steam rating crater to "mostly negative," briefly climb to "mixed," and then biff it back to "mostly negative," MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says it's working "around the clock" on performance improvements, and that the first in a series of planned patches is slated to arrive on PC at the end of this week.The team acknowledged on launch day that the game's...
A day after reaching a tentative agreement with major game companies over "critical AI protections" for voice actors, the SAG-AFTRA union has suspended the strike that's been ongoing since July 2024 and given its members the green light to return to work.That the strike is "suspended" and not ended is meaningful, as the new agreement still has to be ratified by union membership. But the finish line is close enough...
Mecha Break hit some turbulence when its open beta period started earlier this year. The mecha battler's online beta dropped in late February and thousands of Chinese players couldn't access the game due to server issues. Their response was a Steam review bomb.Hundreds of reviews trashed developer Amazing Seasun for not being more prepared for a global launch, bringing the review consensus on Steam to "mostly negative." Amazing Seasun CEO...
Space is the final frontier, and for Supermassive Games, it's also a new one. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in The Dark Pictures anthology, the studio finally takes to the stars. But even as it grapples with a shape-shifting alien and the constant, imposing doom posed by the void of space, Supermassive is finding ways to iterate on how it does horror.Supermassive Games has made a name for itself...
This past Summer Game Fest weekend was so turgid with reveal trailers I had trouble keeping track of it all. Earlier this week, we took stock of what we saw with a list of our favorite games at Summer Game Fest 2025, and now here's a list of the biggest games that weren't at Summer Game Fest.For one reason or another, these notable games with rapidly approaching release dates ghosted...
Squeezed in between his controversial appearance at the Summer Game Fest wearing a MAGA-style "Make FPS Great Again" hat and his subsequent apology for it, Splitgate 2 boss Ian Proulx couldn't help himself from slipping a quick knock against a former Call of Duty developer—and former Splitgate 2 developer—in a video on X.It was posted on June 8 to explain how the $80 store bundle—which was halved in price after...
AI image generator Midjourney could be facing some serious legal headaches, as The Verge reports that the company is being sued by Hollywood powerhouses Disney and Universal, who say the company's unauthorized use of its characters make it a "bottomless pit of plagiarism."Midjourney is a generative AI service that yacks up images based on text prompts, enabling subscribers to churn out pretty much whatever they want—including things like, for instance,...