Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Escape from Tarkov owners will have to buy it again if they want to play through Steam, and the Steam version will require a Battlestate account anyway
News The Steam release comes with a caveat for players looking to consolidate their game library.
The new Splinter Cell: Deathwatch trailer is action-packed, but there's a Michael Ironside-shaped hole
News Hey, at least the goggles make the sound.
Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them'
news Turtle WoW, one of the most popular fan-run takes on World of Warcraft's "classic" era, has been named in a lawsuit for its use of Blizzard's code and art.
AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request
news LLMs once again prove too pliable.
Crusader Kings 3 players have struck out on nearly 5 million seduction attempts, but we still don't know how many Popes have been kidnapped
news Give us the real CK3 stats!
Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself'
News Yoshida also mentioned he's a "maniac about One Piece." Aren't we all?
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel
news Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 promises "a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge."
Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions
news Leaf lovers despair.
In the wake of Perfect Dark's cancellation, Joanna Dark's voice actor urges fans to help save the series: 'Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you'
news Alix Wilton Regan told fans to 'speak up if you wanna see Perfect Dark survive.'
CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'
news The media union once touted a positive relationship with Microsoft, but wave after wave of layoffs has changed its tune.
Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years
Good news All the carnage that's fit to post. No more, no less.
A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%
News The Collector's Bounty event nudges the odds in your favor, but you might still walk away empty-handed.
A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
News A revised proposal that changed it to five years was quickly introduced and then abandoned.
Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week
News The House of Ideas' hero shooter keeps the momentum going.
'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation
News Cain said he wasn't allowed to save the original Fallout's source code for his own archive, and some of its assets may be lost for good.
Palworld just got a huge Terraria-themed update, which as it turns out is a lot less ridiculous than Silent Bob in Warzone
News New friendship mechanics and a fishing minigame accompany familiar foes from Terraria.
Rematch review: A bar-setting football game
One more game A few kinks aside, Rematch is pitch perfect.
7 Rematch tips to help you hone your football skills
Kick Smart Football is life (and that means it's complicated).
Should you play Rematch with a mouse or a controller? It's a harder decision than you might think
Rank up A controller might seem like the obvious choice, but there is one reason to try the mouse and keyboard controls, too.
How ranks work in Rematch: What you need to rank up in each league and division
Rank up Go for the gold. Then platinum, then diamond, and so on.
Ball hogs and 'wannabe Messis' are already the heels of the Rematch community: 'Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick'
news Captain Tsubasa would be disappointed.
Summer Game Fest no-shows: 9 big games that were absent from 2025's showcases
SGF 2025 The heavy hitters that were radio silent over Summer Game Fest weekend.
After a weekend packed with game reveals, I can't stop thinking about Clockwork Revolution's time-traveling shenanigans
big swing inXile's steampunk shooter looks like my kind of overambitious.
