Messaging apps are one of the banes of my existence. Every time I connect with someone new it seems there's some back and forth on what app we should use to communicate. Often a part of this includes explaining to folks why I don't use things like WhatsApp, due to the mix of ownership, security, and general distaste. It's a horrible conversation where I look like an elitist jerk, but...

With end of financial year sales winding down, I can finally look at online stores again without fearing the loss of all of my money [er... I've got bad news for you, Hope -Ed.]. Of course, in global news Amazon has managed to put my own finances in perspective, pledging to invest around $54 million dollars into its operations in the UK. Now I feel poor without even having to...

The world of racing sims has grown so much in the past ten years. What was once a niche hobby only available to some of the wealthiest consumers—thanks to the cost and accessibility of sim hardware—is now a fairly commonplace gaming experience. We're even seeing tech and racing companies work together, bringing us neat collabs like the Moza Revulta wheel. Now Logitech and McLaren Racing have furthered their partnership to...

Guarantee yourself a speedy win with a quick click through to today's Wordle answer. We won't tell anyone (promise), and it's always nice to see a clean row of green letters reveal themselves without giving yourself a headache first. A bit much? Not a problem. There's a clue for the June 25 (1467) Wordle waiting below too.I made a nice tower of green letters today, thanks to a pleasant early...

When the original Death Stranding comes up in conversation, you can count on someone citing its tedious writing, pace-destroying exposition dumps, and reckless use of unexplained proper nouns as the biggest hurdle to enjoying it. Fair enough, but I submit that nothing sucked more in Death Stranding 1 than the menus.Kojima's first apocalyptic hiking sim had dozens of tiny annoyances that chipped away at my patience over two playthroughs totaling...

Just over a week ago, after devoting half my Sunday to delivering packages across the continent of Australia in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, I went to bed with a dull ache behind my temples. I wrote it off as a likely symptom of the usual suspects: maybe I hadn't drunk enough water, or by snacking my way through the afternoon instead of having a proper meal, by the...

Discord is pretty much the communications platform for gamers these days. Text, voice, video, shared screens, specialized servers: Discord does it all. A side effect of that ubiquity, according to a report released earlier this month by Check Point Research (via TechRadar), is that Discord server invites are now an attack vector that online scumbags can use as part of phishing operations.It's worth noting right off the hop that Check...

Two years ago, Palworld answered the question, "What if Pokémon had base building and multiplayer?" Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse, Pocketpair's next game, developed by a new internal team, is giving the same treatment to Hollow Knight.Announced in 2023, Never Grave was first planned to release in early access later that year. Everything about its art, animations, and boss battles screams Hollow Knight, but like Palworld, Never Grave...

Dune: Awakening is doing a well-deserved victory lap at the moment. Following its launch on June 10, the survival MMO has already reached the impressive milestone of 1,000,000 players, according to the publisher.That makes Dune: Awakening Funcom's fastest-selling game, even beating out its 2018 survival sandbox, Conan Exiles. The million player tally isn't the only set of digits Funcom has revealed: here's an infographic with all sorts of exceptional stats....

Valve has announced an upcoming Team Fortress 2 update as only Valve can. A new blog post begins:"Thirteen years ago, we launched Mann vs. Machine, a chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs. You didn't know it back then, but that was actually a literary device called 'speculative' fiction, where writers (us) accurately predict the future (the present), but then hide it so as...