Dear reader, I've started to be able to set my watch by the amount of time between the release of a new FromSoftware game and the eventuality, sure as the heat death of the universe, of a YouTuber swaggering along and making me feel very bad for the amount of times I've seen the 'You Died' text. Or, in the case of Elden Ring Nightreign, 'Defeat'.Parry master Ongbal, who has...
Though you can only pick one class during character creation, Dune: Awakening trainers offer another way to learn the art of all five specializations—so don't worry too much about locking yourself into one skill tree. After picking a starting class between the Trooper, Planetologist, Mentat, Bene Gesserit, or Swordmaster, the other four class specialists will take you as their pupil.Dune: Awakening starting tips: Conquer ArrakisDune: Awakening fast-travel: Take a rideDune:...
It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since Divinity composer Kirill Pokrovsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53. I still remember being shocked by the news: Pokrovsky was one of my favorite videogame composers, and he was a high-profile presence at Larian Studios, having created the music for every game the studio ever made up to Divinity: Original Sin—including The LED Wars, the one only true die-hards...
Grab your snacks, fill up your Stanley cup and get ready: The games are coming. Summer Game Fest 2025 kicks off at 2 pm Pacific, and we'll be covering all the announcements from the LA showcase as they happen.How to watch Summer Game FestSummer Game Fest goes live on Friday, June 6 at 2 pm Pacific. That's 5 pm Eastern, and 10 pm in the UK. Use this time zone...
It's not often a GPU cooler design makes me do a double-take, but here we are. The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 8G Cyclone OC has made my head involuntarily rotate for two reasons this morning—firstly, because it looks wildly different to what you might think of when it comes to graphics card designs, and two, because I saw a prototype version of this cooler at Computex with a screen in...
The time has come around again for summer videogame showcases. Sony kicked things off with a State of Play on Thursday (the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real and coming to PC, yay) and the festivities continue on Friday with Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest livestream.When is the 2025 Summer Game Fest?You can watch Summer Game Fest live this Friday, June 6 at 2 pm Pacific. That's 5 pm Eastern,...
Keep scrolling down our page and you'll soon bump into our Wordle tips, designed to help you find fresh insight on your daily game, as well as a freshly written clue for the June 6 (1448) puzzle and, as ever, today's Wordle answer too. Whether you need a little or a lot of help, we've got your game covered.Talk about a fight. I don't think I've seen such a stubborn...
The banners in Genshin Impact are constantly changing, so it's a good idea to keep track of what the current banners and next banners are, to prepare for a sudden hit to your precious Primogem reserves.Limited-time rotating banners are called 'Event Wishes' in Genshin, and they usually run for three weeks. An Event Wish Banner is never gone for long though, as another one—with a different set of characters—will soon...
Borderlands 2 is free to keep on Steam until June 8, and if you think people are happy about that, well sir, you are wrong. They are in fact madder than hell, and they are expressing their displeasure in the time-honored way of gamers: With a good old-fashioned review bombing.Borderlands 2 is an older game, having come out in 2012, but it's also widely regarded as the best game in...
Path of Exile's whole thing is that it's an action RPG in the style of Diablo 2. It's extremely dense and filled with so many different items and skills that its most dedicated players do all their buildcrafting in a program outside the game. It's for the true sickos who feel left behind by all the modern games that try to simplify the genre. And even though developer Grinding Gear...