The best multiplayer Steam games under $10

Summer movie season may be in full swing, but you don’t have to drop $15 whenever you and your friends want a few hours of entertainment. So-called “Friendslop” games, low-budget multiplayer games that tend to be very easy to pick up, are an excellent way to burn an afternoon. Similarly, many amazing stories, puzzles, and…

Netflix Hit With $105 Million Lawsuit After Losing Nicolas Cage Film

Netflix is being sued for roughly $105 million in California federal court by the writer and producer of the upcoming Nicolas Cage-led film Fortitude, after the streaming giant confirmed that an unreleased master copy of the film was pilfered when “someone stole a good amount of drives” from its Sunset Bronson Studios office in Los…

Oats, Cheese, Beef, and Mead: Manor Lords adds a veritable feast of new produce and ‘advanced’ buildings

A new Manor Lords update has just arrived for testing, and it’s the one we’ve been eagerly anticipating, adding a wide range of new mechanics, features, and foodstuffs to the medieval city builder. Developer Slavic Magic took a detour from such additions over the past few months to tidy up backend systems that were starting…

Box Art Brawl: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (GameCube)

Review New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Wii) Um Bongo Guide Best Donkey Kong Games Of All Time Swing when you’re winning North America Image: Nintendo / LaunchBox The North American design sees DK flying up from the bottom corner, with a determined look on his face. A bunch of foes extend into the…

The maker of the Baldur’s Gate 3 over-the-shoulder camera mod has gone to great lengths to demonstrate it’s not like other third-person viewpoint solutions

BG3 Camera Comparison – Vanilla vs Native Camera Tweaks vs True Third Person Camera – YouTube Watch On Sometimes I understand why modders flame out, burn their bridges, and give up entirely. Every time I look at a posts page on Nexus Mods, for instance. A perfect example of this has been the reaction to…

Did You Know Gaming Disputes Metacritic’s Top Rated Entry

While we’re seemingly beyond the days of payouts hinged on its review scores, the influence of Metacritic on games is hard to overstate. Since the early 2000s, it has composited and averaged review scores for film, music and games, the latter of which it seems to weigh on the most. Most people would not dispute…

Age of Empires is doubling down on Vikings with a pair of new Norse expansions

World’s Edge has got a double dose of Vikings in store, with both Age of Empires 4 and Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition set to receive new DLC by the end of 2026. Whichever flavor of the legendary RTS games is your favorite, each expansion will bring more civilizations into the mix, with AoE…

The biggest X-Men clue in Spider-Man: Brand New Day has nothing to do with Sadie Sink

We already know that the X-Men are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Many of the stars of Fox’s X-Men movies have already been confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday, and casting rumors are swirling about who will be playing the newest version of the mutants going forward. There have even been some X-Men-related rumors swirling around…

Suppliers Scramble As Rare Books Destroyed To Train AI

This week, heavy readers and casual posters alike were aghast at emerging reports of rare books being mulched in bulk as a sacrifice for LLMs. Word traveled that book suppliers were receiving abnormally large orders, believing that AI firms sought cleaner source material while skirting copyright laws. At the center of the controversy was ISBNdb,…

A Quiet Place Deadzone codes (August 2026)

When you’re under attack from creatures hailing from the stars above, what else are you to do but redeem new A Quiet Place Deadzone codes to help you get through the struggle? Paste them cleanly into the redeem box, and you’ll barely even hear a peep from your keyboard. That’s how you stay alive. Based…