Ready or Not’s Home Invasion DLC feels like the expansion packs of old. There’s a wedge of new missions, a few new weapons, some cosmetics and a QOL update (free for all players) that eases a few of the game’s pain points, refreshing its multiplayer lobbies while also beefing up AI and audio. Home Invasion also comes in at $9.99, making it a steal for those already invested in Void Interactive’s misanthropic cop-’em-up.

Home Invasion adds three new missions taking place after a once-in-a-century storm has burnt through the city of Los Sueños. This is the only thematic link between them, but it’s reinforced well—while each of the levels is different, flooded landscapes and scattered debris give them a cohesive visual identity.

The three new additions to the game’s arsenal feel inessential. Weapons in Ready or Not have always felt like they were there to fetishise rather than to provide meaningful gameplay options, and the…

It may have escaped your notice, but word on the street is that Nvidia is doing rather well of late. Fourth quarter earnings released earlier this year revealed gigantic revenue and net income figures thanks to surging AI demand, and now a recent report from Trendforce shows that the company has overtaken Qualcomm to become the biggest chip designer by revenue, too.

The figures show that Nvidia raked in $55.268 billion in revenue in 2023, in contrast to the second biggest chip designer, Qualcomm, which managed $30.913 billion over the same period. That puts Nvidia firmly at the top of the table, beating out Broadcom, AMD, Mediatek and others by a substantial margin and leaving the company at an estimated market share of 33%, up 15% over the previous year.

Notable by their absence in these figures are Intel and Samsung, as the list doesn’t seem to include chip makers with their own fabrication facilities. Presumably Intel will appear once the switch to its “internal found…

That sure didn’t take long. Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered is out today, delivering a very nice graphical update to Lara Croft’s original three adventures along with some other niceties, including modern controls and high framerate support. Within hours mods for the remaster were popping up on the Nexus page, most of the initial wave seemingly focused on adding the classic graphics into the remastered graphics mode so they can be appreciated with the updated lighting and added environmental details. It also took less than 12 hours for someone to upload a topless Lara mod, because, well, of course.

It’s hard to think of a more primal bit of gaming lore than the “Tomb Raider nude code,” a schoolyard rumor that made its way into gaming magazines and message boards and circulated for years even though it did not exist. In 2021, one of the game’s developers reflected on the rumor, indicating that publisher Eidos didn’t exactly go out of its way to debunk it.

“Even during developm…

Award-winning singer and songwriter Post Malone is bringing “two weeks of mayhem” to Apex Legends in November. What does that mean? I’ll be blunt with you: I have no idea.

Word of whatever this might be came by way of Post Malone’s Twitter account, where he wrote, “Get ready for two weeks of beautiful mayhem #ApexLegends.” The cryptic message was laid atop a brief video clip in which Posty, sprawled out on the floor like he’d just eaten a burst from an R-301, plaintively calls out, “Can someone rez me?”

When I first read that Post Malone was coming to Fortnite, my mind immediately flashed to Travis Scott’s groundbreaking (and money-making) virtual concert in Fortnite. Anything’s possible, and it would be very cool if something like that was in the works—it would be a huge step forward for Apex Legends as a digital world—but I don’t think it’s a realistic expectation: Apex isn’t a metaverse type of thing like Fortnite, and setting up an in-game event of that s…

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is getting its first tier of raids’ Savage difficulty today, and you know what that means: It’s time to speculate on balance changes! Imagine me clapping for emphasis between those words at your leisure.

Patch 7.05 brings with it a few neat additions—the expansion’s first treasure map dungeon, for example—but it also adds the first avalanche of controversial job tweaks to help sand off some rough edges, just as statics begin their race to world first.

With the aid of the game’s Job Guide (that includes further explanations for these tweaks) I’m going to sum up each job’s changes in a broad overview. The boffins over at resources like The Balance are bound to crunch the numbers in short order, but for now, you’ve got me.

Patch 7.05 job changes

The most interesting part of these patch notes, by far, is actually the exclusion of the Pictomancer from them entirely. Everyone’s new best caster friend hasn’t been nerfed as e…

To me, Gord will never not be a very weird name for a videogame. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad videogame, and in fact based on the new gameplay trailer released today, Gord looks like it might be very cool—if not entirely pleasant.

We predicted that unpleasantness when we got our first look at Gord in 2021. “Horrible things are going to happen to your villagers,” we warned, adding that being eaten by a giant spider might not even be the worst of them. We got a closer look in September 2022, describing it as “a Diablo town manager,” and if you know anything about the towns in Diablo you’ll know that’s bad news too.

Today’s trailer doesn’t paint that picture any prettier. Gord is a singleplayer strategy game about the Tribe of the Dawn, who find themselves struggling to survive in forbidden lands inspired by Slavic folklore. On the surface, it looks like a fairly straightforward city management sim—build, upgrade, expand, and keep your people hap…

Focus Entertainment has unleashed another trailer for its upcoming retro shooter Warhammer 40:000: Boltgun, a game that I was genuinely excited for before I watched it. After watching it, I must confess I’m slightly less excited than I was before. Not because of the game itself, but because the trailer’s voiceover is actively off-putting.

The trailer’s clearly shooting for an attitude-eta, “John Romero’s-about-to-make-you-his-bitch” vibe that the classic shooters Boltgun is inspired by emerged alongside. Putting aside that this is the one element of mid-nineties shooters we don’t want back, the obnoxious narration and slightly lame metal backing track doesn’t fit with the gothic grandeur of 40k, even when viewed through the lens of a fast-paced, pixelly FPS. It smacks of a marketing department that only understands what it’s selling at a surface level, and as someone who has played pretty much every retro shooter since DUSK, it doused my interest in the game rather…

Keep your impressive Wordle win streak heading in the right direction with our help, no matter how many green letters you’ve revealed already. Give your guessing a boost with a clue written especially for the August 6 (778) game, or head straight for today’s answer (we promise we won’t tell anyone).

I only scraped by at the very end with a win today, with one letter in particular doing a fantastic job of thoroughly throwing a spanner in the works about halfway down today’s puzzle. Phew, I’m hoping Wordle goes a little easier on us all tomorrow. 

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Sunday, August 6

Dusting off your old biology school books might help you solve today’s Wordle, as the answer can refer to a small protruding cluster of cells growing somewhere inside the body they shouldn’t, as well as small and broadly tubelike sea creatures. There’s one vowel today. 

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Warframe’s next major story update, the 1999 expansion, will introduce plenty of new features to the mix, like ’90s boy bands and instant messenger clients. However, one thing that definitely wasn’t on my bingo card is a romance system that could end with a New Year’s kiss from any of the Hex, a new syndicate made up of Protoframes. 

“[I] always wanted to put some type of romance system into Warframe,” creative director Rebecca Ford says during an interview with GamesRadar. “[But] there was never an appropriate scenario to do it.” 

It took 11 years for the romance system to be added to Warframe, and it seems like one of the main reasons for it being greenlit was Baldur’s Gate 3’s success: “I think two things really gave us the courage to proceed,” Ford says. “Of course, the success of Baldur’s Gate and their romance system [made us go] ‘Okay, people do want this fantasy.’ It does help, there’s no doubt, but we did have ambitions of it that fit the Warframe arch…

I’m an old man. I’ve created many an autoexec.bat and config.sys file in my life, vividly remember plugging in my first 3D accelerator card with pass-through cables through a Matrox Mystique GPU, and have benchmarked practically every graphics card released since 2006. And the appearance of this gorgeous new Galax graphics card (via Videocardz) this morning was like snorting a hit of pure nostalgia, bringing all those memories flooding back.

Now I’ve gotten over the stabbing reminder that my brief youth has utterly gone— and that I am tumbling inexorably, and ever more rapidly towards the end—I can take some comfort in the fact that the spiritual successor to one of the best graphics cards ever made is coming. And I just hope I can find someone at Galax to send us one to play with.

The best graphics card ever is, obviously, the Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (fight me). It’s a single-slot beauty of the like I feared I’d never see again. It was affordable, punched abov…