The next freebie on the Epic Games Store is not just worth your time — it’ll also respect your time. Sable, an open-world exploration game developed by Shedworks and released in 2021, is free now until July 3 and offers a desert to explore from the air-conditioned confines of your own home. Sable first caught my attention not through its gameplay, but through its soundtrack. Composed by Japanese Breakfast, Sable’s...
Gloomy color tones might dominate the Death Stranding 2 landscape, with its minimalist architecture and military shades. But by changing your suit color, you can inject more life to the places you visit. There are plenty of customization options in this game when it comes to showing some personality, whether by changing your cap, backpack, or sunglasses. You can also change the porter suits Sam wears. While the game gives...
[Ed. note: This review contains minor spoilers for the first three episodes of Ironheart season 1.] Ironheart, Marvel’s spinoff of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has more in common with Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? than any MCU fan might guess. The existential question at hand: Can a machine truly feel or be human? In the Disney Plus series, the young, Tony Star-esque hero Riri Williams resurrects...
PlayStation Plus is celebrating its 15-year anniversary later this month, and it’s amazing to see how much the service has evolved since it first launched on June 29, 2010. From all of us at Sony Interactive Entertainment, we want to send out a huge thank you to all our fans for your support throughout these years. We hope you can join us for a number of celebratory activities we have...
You'd think a genre with the word "immersive" in its name would obviously be a good match for virtual reality, but there haven't been that many VR immersive sims. There was Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice and the Espire series, but mostly we've seen immersive sim-adjacent stuff like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners—games that take inspiration from immsim classics to spice up a regular shooter. (0452 games, basically.)Sure, you...
In the EU, a class action lawsuit has been leveled against Sony for what the claimants say are artificially high prices on the PlayStation store. The lawsuit claims Sony's monopoly and control over pricing on its proprietary store has cost Dutch PlayStation gamers 435 million euros since 2013.According TechSpot the case began when the Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation launched the 'Fair PlayStation' campaign back in February this year. In...
Solve your daily Wordle easily—with a little help from us if you need it. Our compact selection of tips can brush up your general technique, and when combined with our hint for today's Wordle are sure to quickly lead you to another fantastic win. Or if you'd rather keep things nice and simple, the June 26 (1468) answer is never more than a quick click or scroll away.Green letters? Present....
A few days ago we were treated to a sneak peak of the recent collaboration between Xbox and Meta Quest. The Xbox themed virtual reality headset was leaked by a BestBuy employee earlier this week, but now the official news blast is out. This limited edition black and green Meta Quest 3S is now available for purchase on Meta's website, or at Best Buy for folks in the USA, Argos...
It was 2015—10 years ago—that we called Nuclear Throne "a crowning achievement for Vlambeer, and one of the finest action-roguelikes ever made" in our 90% review. Seven years later, in 2022, we said it was still the best roguelike around. And now, in 2025, eight years after its last update, Nuclear Throne has suddenly sprung back to life."Good news for (future) Nuclear Throne fans: there's an updated beta build on...
The Mario movie. The Minecraft movie. The Borderlands movie. Jack Black is everywhere in pop gaming culture lately, and will even make another appearance (well, technically two) in next month’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake. Black will reprise his role as Officer Dick, in addition to voicing Constable Richard, Dick’s UK counterpart, in the game’s London level. As a child, Dick, real name Richard Ennvee, “was mocked...