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There's a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends how you use it

'Vibe coding kills open source' claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of 'human attention' towards OSS products

Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

'Slay, bestie' just some of the Gen Z slang used in programming language dreamt up by AI in a 'Ralph Wiggum loop' that its creator feared may be too powerful

How to complete On Deaf Ears in Arc Raiders

RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience

Turns out the best way to succeed in this new mech vs kaiju roguelike deckbuilder is just to jump up and down on your enemies' heads like a 200 ton Mario

Helldivers 2's next Warbond has a hammer that explodes in your face, and it's about the most Helldivers thing I've ever seen—also, the Cyborgs are back for round 2

Arc Raiders players are celebrating a 'huge update' for rubber ducks as the OG gets a facelift alongside several new funky variations

This 'scientifically dubious' Linux CPU scheduler makes decisions 'based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles'

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D review

Arc Raiders has been hit with 'extensive' and 'coordinated DDoS attacks' as Embark reassures players that it is working hard to mitigate the issues

Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI

How to complete Combat Recon in Arc Raiders

You can expect some of WoW's big timers to bite it during the Worldsoul Saga trilogy: 'It’ll be a lot of death, I’m afraid'

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster won't tell us where The Elder Scrolls 6 is set, but the team originally agreed on it way back in the Fallout 4 days

Arc Raiders' snap hook just got another use case as The Burnt Peanut shows off a new movement tech that lets players fly through the sky

Nvidia might be doing what was once unthinkable: asking Intel to make some of its future AI chips

How to complete The League in Arc Raiders

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta

Leon Kennedy's 'hot uncle' design in the new Resident Evil is thanks to the women on the dev team, says director, who 'would point out and comment on even the finest details like the wrinkles on his neck'

One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century

Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane

What's the next step in these adventure game puzzles?

Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 recap: 'Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans'

The game that coined the term 'visual novel' just got its first-ever fan translation for its 30th anniversary

Terraria's ginormous, 3 years in the making 1.4.5 update is live—a full 15 years after the game was deemed finished

Trains are taking over the survival genre: there are a half-dozen survival base-builders on rails coming in 2026

Maybe I should just buy Factorio? I'd like Arknights: Endfield a lot more if it would stop trying to be Genshin Impact and just let me build

Grounded 2's first major content update delivers a new biome, bugs, a sweet new mount, and a really big snake

Bluey, the inescapable Australian cartoon dog, is getting official Minecraft DLC

Baldur's Gate 3 modder adds legally distinct Poké Balls so you can 'capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don't)'

All Tap Simulator codes for January 2026: Tokens, potions, and crystals

Valve needed to 'verify' footage of the 'alien orgy' in Earth Must Die before it was allowed to launch on Steam

Internet confused as Highguard studio says Dr Disrespect lied about attending a press preview and his photo of an access badge was fake: 'DDR was not invited to any Highguard event past or present'

Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great

$900 million lawsuit accusing Steam of overcharging gamers in the UK and 'abusing a dominant market position' will proceed after Valve loses appeal against it

North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total

The Midnight Walkers launch time and release date

Highguard deserves a chance, so don't kill it out of spite

New Vegas modder fixes one of those glaring issues you'll never un-see once you notice it: Your pooch pal doesn't have a sneaking animation

Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: 'It was just meant to be'

A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind'

New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year

Get ready to battle bruxae and swipe sorceresses in Reigns: The Witcher, out next month

Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO, and then the studio closed: 'I still feel like no-one has really done the action MMO I see in my mind'

Arc Raiders' Headwinds update finally adds a new epic augment that lets you safely stow away your guns

The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers

How to get Rusted Bolts in Arc Raiders