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Ubisoft CEO summoned to appear before French court in relation to harassment trial, as the publisher says it will 'continue to cooperate with the justice system in this matter'

Silent Hill f's director insists that its dodge and counterattack systems don't make it a soulslike: 'I think it's a label that's a little bit disingenuous'

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 25 (#1528)

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 25, 2025)

Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet

Disgruntled coder who admitted to deploying a malware 'kill switch' to get back at his bosses sentenced to 4 years in prison

Deadlock's latest character basically gets a portal gun, and his ult teleports enemies to a void hotel where they have to do a platforming challenge

It's shaping up to be a crazy month for new games, with Indiana Jones' beefy-looking story DLC finally arriving on September 4

'I'm working on other stuff': Double Fine chief Tim Schafer squashes hopes for Psychonauts 3 any time soon

Even in a year packed with great RPGs, you don't want to miss Disco Elysium-style time loop noir Rue Valley, which has a new trailer and a release date in November

The Mass Effect vibes are overwhelming in the latest showcase for Owlcat's The Expanse game—and yes, it has a loyalty system

One of the best detective games of the decade is free to keep on Epic this week

Two Point Museum's next free update will dive into the digital realm, letting you build a retro arcade among your exhibitions

The new game from Painkiller and Bulletstorm's creators is a tropical survival shooter that looks a teensy bit like Far Cry, and it's out in early access next month

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 24 (#1527)

The new Lego Batman game will have more of Gotham City in it than Arkham Knight did

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

We just got a free expansion pack out of nowhere for one of the most underrated FPSes on Steam⁠, and it adds a second open world to the one we already had

Chicago man sues Home Depot, alleging it's secretly using AI facial recognition at self-checkout

Two years after launch, Assassin's Creed Mirage is getting surprise free DLC adding a second city to the game

'The dumbest thing I've ever heard': Amazon Web Services CEO lambasts replacing junior employees with AI, but he still loves AI

All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14's, which was good for exactly one storyline

Speculatively plotting GTA 6's map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: 'We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed'

This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess

Survival climber Cairn is getting a free-solo mode, letting you channel your inner Alex Honnold when it launches in November

How well do you know your hacking minigames? Put your wits to the test with our latest quiz

History goes cheap in the Age of Empires franchise sale, with up to 75% off the classic RTS series

Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 23 (#1526)

Bluesky goes dark in Mississippi over 'likely unconstitutional' age verification law

By surrendering to an 'open weapons' default, Battlefield 6 is giving up the most special thing about Battlefield

Marvel Rivals dev's transparent, 18-minute breakdown of how ranked isn't rigged fails to placate players who hate losing

After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

Even more games are moving out of Silksong's way: 'I feel like a little krill trying not to get eaten by a blue whale'

Enshrouded's next big update is bringing way more water to the survival RPG than I expected

'I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel': US president Trump wants a piece of the action, says CEO Lip Bu Tan has already forked over $10 billion because he wants to 'keep his job'

Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age⁠—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight

I bought GTA+ so you don't have to—and I don't think it's worth the subscription even for GTA Online diehards

Dawn of War 4 developer King Art knows what you all really want: 'Overwhelmingly, it's singleplayer content and the campaign'

I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

Amid sweeping changes, it's refreshing to see that the Battlefield 6 beta was an actual playtest, and not a glorified demo

A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data

Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline

AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license

'Silksong lol': CloverPit devs delay the slot machine Balatro-like by 23 days to escape the blast radius of Silksong's launch

Microsoft's DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it's limited to the ROG Ally X for now

After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China

The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I'm not sure we should prepare ourselves for another 'meltgate' just yet

You've got approximately 12 months left to enjoy Overwatch 2 because it just got the Persona 5 collaboration kiss of death

Microsoft's CEO of artificial intelligence believes advocating for 'rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship' will become 'a dangerous turn in AI progress'