You, a bumbling cloaked wizardy figure, tumble out of a wormhole into a new world. You jog a short distance to the spot you can install your extractor—which is a tower that sucks juice out of the land. Your initial juice budget lets you buy a few defensive towers well, which you place along the path you just followed, which also happens to be the path shadowy blob monsters will...

Developer Tripwire Interactive has announced that Killing Floor 3 will release on July 24 via Steam and Epic Games. That follows a delay from the originally planned March 25 release date.The first launch date delay—just three weeks before the original date—followed a beta test that led to some harsh feedback."Since delaying the launch of Killing Floor 3, we've dedicated the additional development time to responding to the community's feedback, ensuring...

We've got a fresh clue for today's Wordle all written up and ready to use. Take a look at it before you begin to supercharge your first line. Save it for later, a little something extra in case you need help turning yellow letters green. It's entirely up to you. And don't forget: the May 12 (1423) answer is here too, ready to save any game in an instant.Today's answer...

Best of the best(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge...

If you've ever found yourself stuck on the phone trying to cancel an unwanted subscription or end a "free trial," you're in luck because the FTC has a new rule to fix that. The only problem? They're delaying actually enforcing it.The "Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Plans", or more simply the "Negative Option Rule", is a regulation passed under the Biden administration late last year that's designed to...

I've always said that my favourite chapter in Half-Life is Office Complex. In a game all about recontextualising the FPS from abstract mazes into a realistic, coherent setting, to me Office Complex felt like the ultimate expression of that. It's the most mundane part of Black Mesa's clandestine research facility, swapping the hellscapes of Doom and the fantasy realms of Heretic for a cold and clinical administration centre.There are no...

Thanks to the efforts of one glorious modder, there’s a whole new reason to play Dark Souls again. The Seamless co-op mod, released in April, lives up to its name just like it did for Elden Ring. No longer do you have to suffer FromSoftware’s bizarre multiplayer functionality—you can finally take an uninterrupted road trip through Lordran with your friends like god intended, and I lost a whole weekend doing...

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the anthology's interactive, choose-your-own (miserable) TV adventure, is being removed from Netflix on Monday, meaning you've got just a few more days to sample the series' most experimental episode.Set in 1984, Bandersnatch tells the story of Stefan, who makes a demo for a game called Bandersnatch based on a book once owned by his dead mother. The demo is picked up for a full release by game...

Rarely have I been so instantly enamoured with a game as Straftat, a gleefully chaotic micro-FPS created by two brothers who couldn't find a decent deathmatch shooter to play. Straftat pitches two players against each other in lightning-paced 1v1 duels. Less of a throwback and more of a distillation of the classic deathmatches of yore—particularly Half-Life with shades of Quake and Unreal in there too—it features dozens of weapons, 150...

In the same way that, no matter what their setting, many of the Final Fantasy games have a duo named Biggs and Wedge in them, most of them have a Cid. Final Fantasy 7's Cid Highwind is the pilot of your plane, while Final Fantasy 16's Cidolfus Telamon is the outlaw whose hideaway becomes your base. They might be inventors or scientists, and they're often responsible for getting you the...