September 2022

Looking for the best Cyberpunk 2077 mods? You’re not alone. Nearly two years after its contentious and troublesome launch, players are suddenly flocking back to Cyberpunk 2077 in record numbers (opens in new tab), and sales (opens in new tab) of CD Projekt’s first-person RPG are on the rise, too. There are some good reasons for that. First, Cyberpunk 2077 has undergone some serious changes and improvements over the past 18 months, fixing lots of bugs and adding long-requested features like transmog (opens in new tab) to the RPG. Providing another big boost is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the Netflix anime series that’s…

Audio player loading… Driving recklessly is an open world game tradition. Leaving a wake of smashed cars, dead pedestrians, and downed lampposts behind you is just a fact of life, whether you’re racing off on a world-saving quest or just driving to the store to buy a new pair of kicks. The wreckage, meanwhile, is all neatly cleaned up and there’s no sign of your wanton destruction the next time you go roaring past that same street corner.It’s not really fair to the citizens of the world whose cars you sideswipe, ding, scratch, smash, or destroy, however, and now a…

Audio player loading… Activision has gone to war on the maker of popular Call of Duty cheat software, a German-based entity called EngineOwning (hereafter EO). The videogame publisher has filed a new document in an ongoing suit in California against dozens of named individuals, and among the charges is one that does raise an eyebrow: racketeering. Activision accuses the individuals involved in EO of not just violating the software’s terms of use, and wire fraud, but of a RICO violation: essentially saying that this amounts to criminal conspiracy.I’ve read quite a few suits like this over the years, and usually…

Audio player loading… Google Stadia is dead. Well, dying in January. While it always struggled to get off the ground, it had a dedicated fanbase and people who found some incredibly clever uses for it. Destiny 2 players will be familiar with Lucky “Luckstruck9” Lai, also known as ‘The Checkpoint Guy’. He’s been making use of 11 Stadia accounts to share checkpoints with fellow raiders, cutting out the more mundane parts of loot grinding. It’s something our own Destiny Guy Tim Clark has made good use of. But with the disappearance of Stadia, it casts an uncertain future for The Checkpoint…

Audio player loading… Whether you’re searching for a helpful clue to help nudge you in the direction of today’s Wordle answer or you’d like the solution to the puzzle of the day handed out as quickly as possible, you’ll find everything you need to solve the September 30 (468) puzzle on this very page.As if to make up for the unpredictable rollercoaster Wordle’s had me on this week, today’s answer came with the minimal amount of fuss. A few productive guesses swiftly followed by the answer isn’t especially exciting, but it’s not a bad way to start my Friday either.Wordle…

Audio player loading… As far as strategy games go, Master of Magic is one of the old school all-timers, right up there with Civilization and Master of Orion. Originally released in 1994, it gave you a settlement and a scout in the traditional manner, but it also made you a wizard rather than, say, boring old Abraham Lincoln. Researching varied kinds of magic let you summon different troops and call down different spells from its selection of hundreds. If you never tried it, Master of Magic Classic is available for free right now on GOG (opens in new tab).Though originally…

Audio player loading… It’s notoriously hard to cut through the noise on Twitch: for every million-sub streamer, there are tens of thousands of aspiring streamers with almost no views. Streamer KeatDawg has come up with a good way to get attention, though: self-punishment, in the form of a dunk tank contraption. As you can probably guess, KeatDawg’s nasty machine drops him into a tub of water every time he fails. And if being dunked in a tub of water with every mistake isn’t bad enough, KeatDawg is playing Jump King, a notoriously tough platformer about scaling an increasingly ludicrous tower with…

Audio player loading… The Dread X Collections are packages of bite-sized horror that are at least partially responsible for the recent resurgence of retro horror games, particularly of a PS1 vintage. The games featured across the five collections range from comedic through to genuinely creepy, and touch on genres ranging from first-person shooters through to point and click adventures. You could say, given their episodic nature, that they resemble George Romero’s old horror anthology Creepshow, which was a feature length film consisting of five short, grizzly stories. If you’ve ever said that, you can now feel vindicated, because the team behind…