Europa Universalis 5 review

Europa Universalis 5 widens the frame again, adding a new wrinkle: People. It's nothing less than an attempt at simulating ...

Deus Ex's OG art director has seen the remaster: 'Oh, what the f***, No. This did not need to happen'

Aspyr's remaster of Deus Ex earned a fair bit of opprobrium ( including from me) when it was revealed in September, and, well ...

Condemned: Criminal Origins, the best game about beating people to death with a lead pipe I've ever played, has been delisted from Steam and Xbox, and fans are hoping that ...

Monolith's classic brain-smasher was delisted on Halloween, and yeah, that might be a coincidence but I sure hope not.

If you're still on the fence like I was, take the plunge and try a lightweight wireless gaming mouse because they're seriously fantastic

I've been pretty exclusively using lightweight wireless gaming mice for the last few years, so I'm always surprised by how many people are still sceptical. Over the years, I've se ...

My favorite horror game of the year went on sale on Steam just in time for an NG+ update that adds new weapons, enemies, mechanics, and story revelations

I'm a sucker for replaying the games I love, but I often find NG+ modes can leave me feeling cold. I always want new story beats or remixed levels, like Dark Souls 2's devious black phantom mixups and ...

Corsair announces a Hall effect stick-less fight controller with rapid trigger, in the hopes of button bashing faster than anyone else

I have a main in Street Fighter (add Sakura to 6, please, Capcom) and don't often swoop to the lows of button bashing, but it doesn't take much panic to send me there. Well, luckily, Corsair has ...

RX 6000 cards lose game-specific optimisations as AMD puts RDNA 1 and 2 in 'maintenance mode'

The first RDNA cards popped up in 2019, with RX 6000 series GPUs featuring RDNA 2 architecture. RX 6000 GPUs launched in 2020, and could still be bought new this year, so this seems like a ...

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices 'have resisted matching inflation' because publishers have been pocketing the 'cost savings' from digital distribution

Wind blows, birds fly, and Tim Cain YouTubes. The Interplay, Troika, and Obsidian developer (and OG Fallout co-creator) is once again nattering on his YouTube channel (via GamesRadar), and his topic ...

While some SSD prices surge ahead of Black Friday, this Nextorage 2 TB drive is now only $130

Black Friday is nearly upon us. Falling on November 28 this year, now is not only the perfect time for a gentle reminder to be kind to your fellow retail workers this winter, but also a few words ...

A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance

As peculiar Windows bugs go, this one is a doozy. It seems Task Manager in the latest October update for Windows 11 ( update ...

You can now twerk enemies to death in Repo thanks to the big new Monster Update—and it's free to play this weekend to celebrate

"Butt physics," for the record, does not actually appear in the Monster Update patch notes: Instead, it's a sort of ...

Arc Raiders review in progress: An extraction shooter for the masses

The premise of Arc Raiders is simple: the world has gone to hell thanks to robots and AI, so now all the humans are holed up ...