When Fallout 76 was hated, Jeff Gardiner—the man responsible for eventually turning it around—felt more than a little déjà vu."It reminded me a lot of Fallout 3," he says. "We made a decision that was controversial, and we thought it was for the best of the game. We got buy-in from everyone, we executed on it. It proved to be the incorrect decision." (Image credit: Bethesda) You likely don't even...

David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna's Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere on the lower end of his filmography.It depicts a society of rats living and working...

Give your puzzle solving week a perfect start with our hint for today's Wordle. Take a look at it any time you need a bit of a push, it'll definitely help you out. Same goes for our more general tips too. And if all else fails or you're just not in the mood for some serious word-wrestling, the April 14 (1395) answer is here if you need it.One, two, three...

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...

The Borderlands movie was bad in a way videogame movies rarely are these days. In an era when Hollywood hears the phrase "existing fandom" and their eyes roll around and come up dollar signs, the idea of an adaptation casually disrespecting the original seems almost nostalgic.But that's exactly what the 2024 Borderlands movie did. It made Tiny Tina a genetically engineered part-alien "chosen one", turned Claptrap a kind of budget...

Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has uploaded a new video that interrogates one of the studio's most memorably strange non sequiturs: The giant guy made of rope who carries you from the kingdom of Ashina to the celestial Fountainhead Palace. It seems like there was once much more to Mr. Rope-a-Dope than we saw in the final game.Much like the giant crow who takes us to Lordran in Dark...

If you've ever wanted to perish in undersea alien ruins on one of the moons of Jupiter, now's your chance thanks to the latest update for 2D co-op horror game Barotrauma.The "Calm Before the Storm" update brings a slew of new features to support your frightening submarine expeditions on Europa, including a new mission, alien ruins, a ruin-themed outpost for PVP, additional modules for abandoned outposts, updated level backgrounds, and...

Would you pay $12,000 to escape notice for just three minutes? In GTA Online, perhaps you would. Say you've spent all weekend raiding drug dens, busting open crates at the docks and dancing for the pleasure of oligarchs in order to build a big pile of restricted goods. You've found a buyer, and now is the moment you set off in your plucky cargo plane to make the sale. The...

Frost Giant has announced that Stormgate's getting a fully-revamped campaign for its 1.0 release. The overhaul will touch every aspect of the campaign, from characters and voices to mission structure and how you manage your army."For 1.0, we have re-written the entire narrative structure of the campaign, are recording all-new dialogue, have scripted a completely different mission structure, and created a new 'mothership' hub area for players to explore between...

Microsoft's controversial AI screenshotting tool, Recall, is back again after being, well, recalled numerous times.Nearly a year after its divisive announcement, Microsoft is finally rolling out Recall on Windows 11, but it's still not available for most users (and you probably shouldn't use it even if you do have access).Recall uses AI to "remember" things you've done on your Windows 11 PC by taking screenshots every few seconds in case...