Buying a new graphics card is an expensive and frustrating process in the year 2025. New GPUs are pricy, especially good ones, and that's if you can even find them listed for MSRP. Nvidia's solution, when it's not stealth launching new 50 series cards, is to go back to the old ways, and release yet another iteration of the 3050. And honestly? I think it's a pretty good idea.We've been...
Electronic Arts and DICE will reveal the next mainline Battlefield game on Thursday, more than four years after the release of Battlefield 2042 and EA’s ensuing promise to revitalize the flagging franchise with new management and an all-in approach from multiple game studios. Battlefield 6’s reveal will arrive on July 24, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT. Our first official look at Battlefield 6 features a squad of four soldiers...
Wield our Wordle tips if you want to win your battle with Thursday's puzzle. Or just give them a quick look and enjoy a game that feels a little smoother than usual. Up to you. Whatever approach you go for, the answer to today's Wordle is here if you need it, as is a fresh hint for the July 24 (1496) puzzle. Do your best—or your worst, we've got your...
There aren't many truly metal games—except for those that are accidentally very metal, like Dark Souls—but Brütal Legend is one of them. As Tyler pointed out yesterday, the late Ozzy Osbourne makes a cameo in the 2009 Double Fine action-adventure. Now the latter has made the game free on Itch.io to honour the prince of darkness, but you'll need to act fast, because the offer will only last for 666...
The launch of any new World of Warcraft expansion, Classic or not, always begins with the fastest players racing to see who can reach the new level cap first. For Mists of Pandaria Classic, which dropped earlier this week, players competed to see who could blast through level 85 to 90 before anyone else.When Twitch streamer Lmgd1 saw the "Realm First! Level 90 Monk" achievement pop up on his screen,...
Storied game designer Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary."11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while," he wrote in an X post on July 21. "Still bitter about the internet finding it...
Someone stop Supergiant from adding more stuff into Hades 2. The sequel to one the best action RPGs of all time was already overflowing with all kinds of new characters, weapons, and bosses when it launched in early access last year. And now, several updates later, Supergiant keeps messing with it as it nears the point at which it can call it finished.Supergiant said the update earlier this month would...
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Played loads of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and realized he never really knew what he was doing in THUG 2 for the PS2.It's increasingly impossible to ignore how ugly Call of Duty has become. In the last few months alone, Black Ops 6 and Warzone have been infiltrated by cel-shaded Beavis and Butthead, American Dad, Jay and Silent Bob, and...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Racing Layer is home to the Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong and, of course, Banandium Gems. The duo finally make their appearance on the eleventh layer where you can find them racing alongside Rambi and a bunch of other rhinos. The bananas on this layer are mostly on the starting island, but there are a few strays that are fairly difficult to find. Below, we...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Landfill Layer is the tenth layer and it’s full of, well, trash. But scattered amid the rubbish is a bunch of Banandium Gems. Inside this heap of garbage, you’ll need to search behind metal scrap, dirt, and loads of debris to to collect all of the golden bananas. Below, we list where to find all of the Banandium Gems in the Landfill Layer we’ve found...