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Microsoft to change Windows's infamous Blue Screen of Death to something much darker in response to last year's CloudStrike crashes

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 30

If you're curious about the crazy-ambitious space survival game from the makers of EVE Online, it's got a free trial running through the next week and change

Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 30, 2025)

Facebook users say they've caught the app analyzing their camera roll with Meta AI⁠ without their knowledge—here's how to make sure it doesn't happen

Deltarune's Tenna was first envisioned in 3D almost a decade ago in a delightfully janky prototype

A rising Peak lifts all boats as climbing sim Cairn breaks 500k demo downloads after endorsement from mountaineering megahit Peak's devs

The best stealth game of the year just released its source code

Don't want to switch to Windows 11? There is one last way to stick with Windows 10 a little longer

The dev behind one of my favorite recent FPSes is making a 'horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters' set in a real city that doesn't actually have a subway

'AI is no longer optional': Microsoft is allegedly pressuring employees to use AI tools through manager evaluations

Our favorite RPG from last year is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale

Wreckfest 2's latest update lets you drive a grotty motorhome that's definitely had meth cooked in it, and ensures that 'realistic damage mode is now more realistic'

For the first time in three years, Sable is free to keep on the Epic Store

The brilliant Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascades into 1.0 this July

Owlcat is 'redoing everything from scratch' in Dark Heresy, its next Warhammer 40,000 CRPG, which is the best thing I've heard about it so far

Gloomwood's latest research update adds the most scientific thing of all: headshots

Space Marine's underwhelming remaster is getting an extended refund window, and a discount for owners of the original

The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS

Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based

I played Lovecraftian doctor simulator Do No Harm, and let me tell you, my brother in Cthulhu, I did some serious harm

Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster

Two Point Museum's first DLC adds a fantasy flourish to your exhibitions, letting you display mimic chests, a giant d20, and a chicken statue that turns people into poultry

Atari's reboot of Mad Max-style racer Fatal Run is coming later this year, and its new trailer shows a hefty dose of Burnout in its irradiated DNA

Hellblade 2 is getting an enhanced edition that brings back the fake permadeath system from the first game, but there's every chance it's real this time

MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'

This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it

How to use the Sound Recorder in Phasmophobia

New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'

Dave the Diver In the Jungle DLC is delayed, but the free Godzilla Content Pack is back and Ichiban Kasuga has extended his vacation until the end of 2026

I asked the man in charge of a major live service game if ugly crossover skins are a problem, and I didn't care for his answer

Diablo 4's old and forgotten dungeons will be renovated into loot-packed marathons that culminate with a duel against a familiar boss in its next season

Fortnite cheater wins $6,850 in competitive tournaments, gets caught, now owes Epic $175,000

Demonic sci-fi RPG Illusion City is one of those timeless pixel art games that still looks incredible in GIFs 34 years later

Randy Pitchford makes people mad again by warning that Borderlands 4 will take even longer to get deep discounts than Borderlands 3 did

Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory over Sony as the 'review bomb' cape finally appears in the game: 'We won the biggest and longest running Major Order in the game to date'

Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times

DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'

Razer Joro & Basilisk Mobile review

Call me Victor Kermit Kiam, cos I liked this mobo so much I built my new gaming PC around it

Glorious Model O Eternal review

'We were super confident in third-person': Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it's not to everyone's liking, 'A decade of muscle memory exists'

Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'

LaCie Rugged Pro 5 SSD review

Inzoi's biggest problems right now are overwhelmingly the fact it's 'lacking simulation content' and its painfully awkward social interactions, player survey reveals

Monster Hunter Wilds second Title Update arrives next week with 2 returning monsters, but I'm more interested in whether its promised performance fixes can help rebuild its reputation

'We are aware': Square Enix president knows golden goose Final Fantasy 14 is losing its lustre

No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game

EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022

Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and brushes from just 52 kB of data