Tempest Rising’s elusive third faction will get its own singleplayer campaign as a paid expansion, and you can play the demo right now

When the excellent Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising released last year, it featured three factions battling for supremacy across a war-torn future Earth. But only two of those factions—the GDF and the Tempest Dynasty—were playable with their own singleplayer campaigns. The third faction, the mysterious Veti, were wholly computer controlled. Developer Slipgate Ironworks has…

Matt Damon’s most underrated sci-fi movie is now free to stream before The Odyssey

Matt Damon has always had a knack for playing extraordinary leading men in movies. His casting as the cunning, resourceful Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey makes perfect sense once we consider Damon’s decades-spanning filmography. Films like Good Will Hunting (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and the Bourne (2002-2016) series showcase Damon’s incredible range…

EA Removes Controversial College Football 27 Microtransactions

College Football 27 released on Steam earlier this week. It is the first time EA’s student athletics series has touched down on PC. On a meat and potatoes level, the game is considered one of the best so far, including the NCAA hayday. Despite that it has garnered an overwhelmingly negative reaction from players. This…

Doom dev Id is now “about the same size we were when making Doom 2016” after layoffs

It’s been a tough week for Doom studio Id Software. The team that established the groundwork for basically all FPS games to come with classics including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake was hit with devastating layoffs this week. With 3,200 job cuts announced by Xbox amid wider losses impacting 2.1% of Microsoft’s global workforce, a…

Reminder: Tetris 99’s New Crossover Event Celebrates The Return Of Star Fox, Unlock A Special Theme

Update [Sun 12th Jul 2026, 9am]: Here’s your reminder that this Star Fox themed Tetris 99 event is currently taking place. Nintendo has also released an official game trailer. Once again, if you participate and earn 100 event points you’ll unlock this theme featuring art, epic music and Tetrimino designs inspired by Star Fox’s outing…

You can mod out the yellow filter in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

After Traffic and Breaking Bad used it for scenes set there it became know as “the Mexican filter”, though it’s sometimes used for scenes set in South Asia or anywhere a bit tropical. You may recognize it as “the piss filter” that stained the original incarnation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s the yellow gradient…

Microsoft Responds To Right-Wing Conspiracies About Layoffs

The “Xbox reset” is a misery. An unforgivable consequence of an era of mismanagement. Studios under their umbrella have been let go or eviscerated as Microsoft aims to lay off over 3,000 employees. The turmoil has made its way to Fox News, whose “fury” framing of it has dredged up the “Great Replacement Theory” circuit…

Is the new GTA Online heist a last hurrah, or a sign of things to come?

It isn’t quite what I envisioned when I wished for GTA on PC in 2026, but Rockstar has just announced that its new GTA Online expansion The Kortz Center Heist is mere days away. That’s right, it’s time to load up Grand Theft Auto 5’s multiplayer mode once more, and I’m particularly taken by the…

TennoCon 2026 news: Warframe’s Banshee is getting a rework

One of Warframe’s oldest playable Warframes is finally getting a much-needed new kit. Since Warframe’s debut in 2013, it has transformed from a methodical and monochrome shooter into a riotous fast-paced space opera. The roster of playable Warframes has, in turn, grown with increasingly complex abilities. Banshee, who debuted in the game’s first year, is…

Big Walk Is Destined To Be Your Next Big Co-Op Obsession

Often my job involves playing games before they come out. Sometimes, this means I’ll come away feeling like I’ve just played the next big thing. That’s one of the most exciting parts of my job, really, and it happened yesterday; I’m certain Big Walk is the next big thing.  Developed by Untitled Goose Game’s House…