Here is what I want from a videogame player home. It should be a single room so I don't have to go through loading screens once I'm inside just to get to my stuff. It should have options so I can decide whether to give it wall hangings or not. And I should be able to reach it from a nearby fast travel point without passing any guards in case...

An initial glance at May game releases almost had me calling it a quieter month, but I think it's just because there's no gauntlet of back-to-back RPGs. I'll gladly accept the breather, but there's still plenty on the docket for these next few weeks if you're looking for something to play with a friend.Among Us 3D kicks things off for something to build hostilities within bigger groups, while Revenge of...

Popular gaming streamer Benjamin Lupo, better known to his fans as DrLupo, has been kicked out of the PogChamps 6 online chess tournament for a "fair play violation"—in other words, he got caught cheating.Hosted by Chess.com, PogChamps—not to be confused with the PogChamp Twitch emote—is a series of amateur chess tournaments featuring well known streamers and celebrities competing for some pretty serious prize money. PogChamps 6, which began on April...

Stadium is more than just an Overwatch 2 mode—it's different enough that it could almost be classified as its own game, and a separate game needs a separate roadmap. The developers have planned out the next three seasons of Stadium, albeit roughly, that'll coincide with the regular cadence of seasons.Season 17 will introduce two new maps, Esperanca and Samoa, as well as a crossplay feature, new custom games, saveable and...

I've been playing a lot of Overwatch 2's Stadium mode since it launched a couple of weeks ago. But I do like to diversify, so I also decided to check out the hero bans in ranked. Or at least I tried to. It took me a whole seven minutes to find a match—outrageous, I know. It turns out I hadn't been blacklisted, everyone was just playing Stadium."Stadium is Overwatch 2's...

The other day, I was frantically crouch walking around Skingrad in Oblivion Remastered, tailing the neighbors of a seriously paranoid guy named Glarthir, and thought: This is new, right? When did Oblivion get all these weird, engrossing sidequests? Didn't I play this game a lot back in the day?Technically yes, I played Oblivion in 2006… when I was nine, had a horrible attention span, and had only recently picked up...

As we roll towards Computex, and hopefully a whole bunch of PC gaming hardware announcements, I can't help but get excited about talk of entry-level components. Probably most of all, I'm excited about the prospect of an (as-yet uncertain) AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT announcement which will hopefully rock the entry-level graphics card segment. So I'm most certainly excited by rumour that there will, in fact, be an 8 GB...

Generative AI has gotten its deep learning tentacles into many parts of gaming life, and tabletop is no exception—take Dungeons & Dragons for example. While Wizards of the Coast has endured controversy after controversy for accidentally putting AI art in sourcebooks, and has a generally anti-AI stance, Hasbro's CEO Chris Cocks has been on the record as, uh, not doing that.Which is why I've found myself pleasantly surprised to find...

The 27-inch 4K OLED market has been the media darling since CES 2025 so you'd be forgiven for forgetting the good ol' staple 34-inch OLED ultrawide. Funny because it was Alienware's fantastic AW3423DW that kicked off the OLED gaming monitor race a few years ago. Gigabyte has quietly dropped its first OLED ultra-wide, the Gigabyte MO34WQC2—a 3440x1440, QD-OLED panel, with a 240 Hz refresh rate, USB Power Delivery, and a...

Turtle Beach's budget gaming headsets fuelled my childhood years of yelling at friends on Call of Duty, but there's a reason I haven't touched them in a while. In my experience, poor audio quality, flimsy builds, and mediocre microphones proved to me (or more so, my mum) that putting just a little extra cash in often gets a much better investment in the long run. However, I'm fully prepared for...