Grounded 2 was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend, and it's releasing into early access next month—July 29, to be specific. Early access can be a real boon for games, as it enables developers to iterate with (hopefully) large-scale feedback toward a complete, as-good-as-it-can-be final release, but there are risks involved too, especially when you're following up on a big hit."When you're a sequel to a game...

I've been spending my free time sifting through all the new demos showcased in this month's Steam Next Fest. And while there's a whole host of incredible multiplayer games that are right up my alley I've landed on Sizzle and Stack, an infuriating, stress-inducing cooking card game.It all starts slowly. At first there are just a couple of dishes for you to learn and cook, mostly revolving around all the...

The Divine Comedy is one of the classics of world literature, and still taught in Italian schools to this day. This epic poem was finished in 1321, shortly before author Dante Alighieri's death, and essentially follows his quest to right the world's wrongs and put a lot of people he didn't like in hell. Virgil mouths off a bit too, though once he's replaced in Purgatorio it all gets much...

In our Outer Worlds review back in 2019, we called Obsidian's sci-fi satire "a quirky romp across a solar system ruled by brutal corporations," but the zany ribbing about the excesses of corporate misconduct didn't land for everyone living in the world where the delivery drivers of major companies are pressured to pee in bottles to be able to make their quotas. In The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian says that—while...

Glorious' new entry-level lightweight gaming mouse is out. At least the Glorious Model O Eternal is out literally everywhere across the world except the US. And the reason? "Ongoing global supply chain issues," apparently.Quite how a "global" supply chain issue prevents release in just one country isn't clear. Perhaps the real reason would more accurately be adjacent to tariff uncertainty and the Texas-based Glorious doesn't want to court the wrath...

However much help you need with Tuesday's Wordle, we've got something for you. Keep it nice and light with our general tips, here to give your guesses a broad boost. Use our brand new clue for the June 10 (1452) puzzle to quickly turn confusion into a confident win. Or go straight for the win with today's answer.One very weird green on my opening row solved the whole game for...

Sandworm-riding isn't part of Dune: Awakening, at launch, anyway. As creative director Joel Bylos told Eurogamer last year, Funcom looked into it but decided the technical cost was too steep and "it needs a purpose." In the movies, sandworms are ridden through the otherwise impassable southern sandstorms and used to attack Arrakeen. You don't do either of those things in Dune: Awakening, at least not yet.So sandworm-riding isn't an official...

The elite of the tech industry are unrivaled in their ability to stand on a stage and earnestly pitch you something you've seen before as stunning, groundbreaking, unprecedented. This is an important skill, because much as history repeats itself on a grand scale, design trends repeat on a cycle of 10 or 20 years or so. Skinny jeans are back, and after a few years dabbling with sharp corners and...

The "endless cat breeding RPG" Mewgenics showed up at the PC Gaming Show yesterday with another bizarre trailer and a new release date: Instead of arriving in 2025 as planned, it's now set to arrive on February 10, 2026. And there's actually a pretty good reason for the delay."Dude, listen. Launching in Nov–Dec is hard," Mewgenics mastermind Edmund McMillen explained on Steam. "We want this game to get the attention...

Dark Souls players spent months trying to figure out if the pendant that's in your inventory when you start the game unlocked something secret. Even though it's literally labeled "useless," people were convinced there had to be more to it. It turned out to be just a joke, but you can't blame anyone for being curious, especially when FromSoftware is known for hiding all kinds of stuff in its games.Now...