Steam celebrates all things boomer shooter with 'Boomstock 2025,' blasting up to 80% off the very best in retro-inspired FPS

Earlier this year we rang up a list of 10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play, and if you're a little behind on that particular homework you'll be thrilled to ...

A week after saying it was going quiet for the rest of the year, Palworld announces a crossover with the brilliant and bloodstained shooter Ultrakill

Palworld is collaborating with Ultrakill, a brilliant indie shooter by Arsi 'Hakita' Patala that's still in early access itself, and continuing to blow minds (the game sits at "ov ...

Baldur's Gate 3 now runs natively on Steam Deck thanks to a single Larian engineer who started the project after hours because he 'really wanted a smoother version of the game ...

Until now, Baldur's Gate 3 made use of the Proton compatibility layer, which enables Windows games to run on Steam Deck's SteamOS, which is Linux-based. But that added layer of so ...

Painkiller is coming in October with a new co-op roguelike mode that does not look very Painkiller-ish to me

I get that things have changed over the past 20 years but the new "Rogue Angel" trailer really doesn't knock my socks off.

Folks falling for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends 'unintentionally,' claims new study

A new study out of MIT offers a first-of-its-kind large-scale computational analysis exploring the how and why of folks falling for AI chatbots. The research team dove into subred ...

DreamScene is back: Microsoft's resurrecting video wallpapers, a Windows feature last seen in 2007

If you're new to PCs, you may have wondered at some point why your Windows desktop wallpaper is just so static. After all, since it's being displayed by the GPU, then surely it could be animated in ...

Hideo Kojima presents a Hideo Kojima credit card, fans immediately dub it 'debt stranding'

Action Hideo Kojima questionably visits Saudi Arabia to drop the news that he knows just what Death Stranding 3 should be but he wants someone else to make it Horror Kojima's OD just got 3 minutes ...

Fortnite's latest proximity chat-based mode saw thousands banned last weekend over slurs and toxic behaviour

And hell, Epic was right: over 126,000 concurrent players flocked to it during its weekend stint, according to IGN, making it one of the most popular game modes on offer during th ...

Stalker 2's 1.6 update brings with it nighttime fun and a bit of heat

Heart of Chornobyl is heating up today with the arrival of the 1.6 update—out now—which introduces a new anomaly, the fireball, and some nighttime fun in the form of night vision goggles. "Whether you ...

Borderlands 4 player finds bugged interaction that can cause 'Total Existence Failure' damage to endgame bosses without a proper build—and no legendary items or crit knives ...

Borderlands 4's fresh out the gun factory—which means busted interactions abound. Like, for example, the dreaded Crit Knife, which has been the terror of endgame bosses the world over. And while ...

Here's what to expect from the World of Warcraft: Midnight alpha, kicking off on October 2

World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight's new ...

Corsair Frame 4500X review

Corsair has a few options for the Frame 4500X: with RS-R ARGB fans for £120/€140, or with LX-R Link fans for £170/€195. I have the latter option for review, which includes an iCUE Link System Hub ...