Gaming

“Don’t shoot!” Forget Wolfpack grenades and Snaphooks: those two words can be your most powerful tool in Arc Raiders. My favorite runs have all started with that voice line, such as the time when I spent 15 minutes hunting an espresso machine in Buried City with a South African guy who loved talking about rugby, or when I teamed up with four other solos on Spaceport to destroy…

Nintendo Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World has just received a meaty update that finally adds custom item rules, and tweaks a long list of course layouts. Fans of Mario Kart World’s brilliant soundtrack, which is filled with toe-tapping remixes and fresh renditions of classic Nintendo tunes, will also now be able to see the name of each melody, and the game it was originally featured…

Megabonk may have withdrawn itself for consideration for best indie game at next week’s The Game Awards 2025, but it’s now long-listed as one of 30 fan-favorite games in the running for the Players’ Voice category. Megabonk was nominated for Best Debut Indie, alongside Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Despelote, and Dispatch. Developer Vedinad, however, withdrew their…

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game’s AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game’s riddles. The Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China only debuted on PC and PlayStation 5 on November 14, but players are already finding creative — and highly amusing — ways to make use of the…