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It’s time for Garfield’s official Magic: The Gathering crossover now

Magic’s mini-sets called Secret Lairs, which are usually short-run reprints of old cards with new art aimed at collectors, have really been leaning into the joke over the last couple of years. The cards starring Dwight from The Office were a perfect example, and the upcoming Secret Lair called Cats are the Best seems like…

New Company of Heroes 3 DLC just added four fearless factions to the WW2 RTS

Company of Heroes 3 has just introduced four more factions to its roster, all focused around more ambitious strategies. The WW2 RTS game continues to deploy battlegroups DLC, and new addition Dare and Destroy is a bundle with the potential to approach combat in a variety of distinctive ways. Stall enemy assaults with a strong…

If these AI spying allegations are true, that’s another reason to get a VPN

ChatGPT knows an awful lot about its users. People ask it for health advice. People use it for therapy. People ask it to help solve problems at work. That gives it a lot of data to feast on. It feels like it was only a matter of time before there was some controversy related to…

Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are ‘a lie,’ says publisher

Ever since a study theorized that around 87 percent of videogames are not playable without finding a physical copy or nabbing a digital one via piracy or an archive, I stopped feigning shock when a game gets delisted. Games with licensed characters or music have an especially rough time staying on digital storefronts: Star Trek:…

Steampunk colony sim Steel Artery is here, and it’s “emergent chaos” aboard a giant train

Steelpolis is more than just a train – it’s the last hope of a crumbling empire, and you’re in charge. I’ve been waiting for Steel Artery ever since it first popped onto my radar back in 2025, and it’s finally pulled into the station. The self-branded ‘train city builder‘ bears closest resemblance to the likes…

This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime’s house with magnetism

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

Destruction sandbox Besiege’s new space DLC gets far bigger than anything you’ve seen before

Besiege: The Broken Beyond is working on a completely new level of scale. The next expansion for one of the most explosively satisfying sandbox games on PC is taking us off world for an adventure among the stars. The introduction of water in The Splintered Sea might have changed how you thought about constructing machines, but…

Overwatch slaps a loot box band-aid on its disappointing tenth anniversary event, promising more later

Ten years is a big milestone, yet Blizzard’s Overwatch anniversary event has felt like anything but a grand celebration. Ever since its total rebirth earlier this year, Overwatch has been riding high again, reclaiming its rightful place in the pantheon of multiplayer games with a clutch of new heroes and much more proactive updates. The…

A domain related to J-Pop idol phenomenon Love Live! went up for auction and the lead bid is a very sane $615 million

Japanese fans of the mega-franchise Love Live!, which spans anime, manga, live performances, and games, recently spotted that the domain for the official fan club of Aqours expired and is now up at auction. Top bid? 97.14 billion yen, or $615 million dollars to you, sir. There are various iterations of Love Live!, all of…

How to unlock new crafting blueprints in Subnautica 2

You’re only as good as your equipment in Subnautica 2; with the environment being so hostile, it takes specialized gear to be able to survive in the ambient conditions, and that’s before you throw in some very aggressive fish. Unlocking new crafting blueprints can give you what you need to forge ahead. Expanding your repertoire…