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I’m used to HoYoverse making fantasy worlds that explode with color. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s calming tones with vibrant characters is what you expect from its popular games like Genshin Impact. Zenless Zone Zero wrapped its post-apocalyptic setting in anime characters, neon streets, and hyper-stylized combat. But the latest announcement hits different. Nodus Fall looks like a very mature entry from HoYoverse. Revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live, it is a new co-op action game set in a world consumed by chaos and “ancient hatreds.” Players become Weavers, using divine powers to hunt and defeat enormous…

By Ricardo Ferreira, EMEA Field CISO at Fortinet Ask a board to list its critical organisational inputs, and the answer is quick: capital, energy, connectivity, data. Still,one that is never mentioned istime. This is not about time management, but time as a foundational signal within a microsecond precise broadcast, unauthenticated from satellites above Earth, on which every trade, every network handover, and the grid silentlydepend on. Ricardo Ferreira Telecom networks synchronise every 5G tower to within a microsecond, andpower grids rely on the phasemeasurement unit that does not work when the clock drifts. Logistically, ports operations all assume that time…

PUBG is apparently done being serious for a minute. PUBG Studios has revealed DED.NET, a new multiplayer first-person shooter that takes the franchise into a much stranger direction. Revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live, the game is set in a bizarre version of 1990s Cascadia and combines multiplayer FPS action with roguelite progression across runs. PUBG, but make it weird The announcement trailer wastes absolutely no time establishing that DED.NET isn’t trying to be another PUBG. Instead of military realism, we’re getting characters penguin-sliding across the map, graffiti-covered weapons, and enough general nonsense to make you wonder whether someone accidentally…

Game of Thrones fans have tried their hand at ruling Westeros before, but never quite like this. During Gamescom 2026‘s Opening Night Live, PlaySide Studios unveiled the first gameplay trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, an officially licensed real-time strategy game arriving on PC via Steam in early 2027. What does gameplay look like in War for Westeros? The game was originally announced back at Summer Game Fest 2025, though it only received a brief cinematic trailer at the time. This new footage is our first real look at how the game actually plays. You can pick your…

Metro Exodus spent much of its time proving this series could survive outside the Moscow Metro. Artyom was always a dreamer and hoped for a better world for the people of the Metro. And despite everything, hope seemed to prevail if you made the right choices in Exodus. So why is Metro 2039 drawing me back in? It’s not just the name and the setting that’s worth its weight in gold, no. It’s the fact that it takes the bleak world of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro series and takes us deeper into darkness. 4A Games dropped a new Renegade gameplay trailer…

Neon Giant, the studio behind The Ascent, has finally given us our first proper look at NO LAW gameplay, and I’m already intrigued. The first-person cyber-noir shooter is set in the lawless port city of Port Desire, where you play veteran Grey Harker and can apparently approach problems with stealth, shooting, hacking and a healthy disregard for other people’s property. The game is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It’s giving Cyberpunk, Thief and Deus Ex — and I’m not complaining The new footage makes the game’s influences pretty obvious. Cyberpunk 2077 is the most immediate comparison, from…

When I got my first gaming laptop nearly a decade ago, Witcher 3 was one of the first games I tried out. I could finally play the game in high graphics settings and immerse myself in the fantasy setting. After spending an ungodly amount of time with that game, I closed the chapter with its main story and DLCs. Now, 11 years later, I can’t believe I’ll be going back. At Gamescom Opening Night Live, the studio revealed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered, a sweeping free upgrade launching September 29. The crowd was already cheering, and then it…

Staring at a pile of unedited clips is often the exact moment we give up on posting entirely. Instagram just tackled that problem head-on, by rolling out First Draft, a new one-tap tool that assembles your raw footage into a finished Reel in a few seconds. For now, First Draft is rolling out exclusively on iOS, with no word yet on when Android users might get access. How does First Draft create Reels for you on Instagram? The process starts just like making any other Reel. You select clips from your camera roll, but instead of manually trimming everything yourself,…

Fantasy games have given us plenty of medieval Europe, Norse mythology, and Japanese-inspired worlds. 1001 Threads of Mizan is taking a rather different route. MBC Game Studio’s debut action game draws heavily from Arabic folklore and One Thousand and One Nights, wrapping that inspiration around a gorgeous-looking fantasy world. And honestly, after seeing what the game is going for, I’m quite happy to see someone finally explore this side of fantasy at this scale. This is Arabic folklore with a serious visual upgrade The game’s world is packed with deserts, fantastical architecture, mythical creatures and enormous bosses, but it’s the…

Gears of War: E-Day is getting closer, and if you were hoping Marcus Fenix might catch a break before launch, its latest trailer has some very bad news for him. The Coalition dropped a new story trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live, giving us another look at the early days of humanity’s war against the Locust. More importantly, it introduces a particularly unpleasant new enemy who seems determined to make an already disastrous situation even worse. And yes, at one point, someone gets Emulsion poured directly over their head. E-Day certainly isn’t easing us back into the Gears universe gently.…