Anime Eternal codes: All active codes in August 2025

While you start out in a Dragon Ball Z-inspired world, Anime Eternal is in no short supply of other popular shounen destinations and that’s easily its biggest draw. Brawling your way through the streets is the key to unlocking even more themed locations from series like Bleach and Jujutsu Kaisen, but you’ll need to beef … Read more

The combined fury of angry Overwatch players forced Blizzard to reverse a change it made less than 72 hours ago: ‘We’re grateful to everyone who tried it out and shared feedback’

Countless Reddit threads and social media posts piled up this week strongly criticizing Blizzard’s decision to add a MOBA-style draft system to Overwatch 2’s popular Stadium mode. Specifically, players were against the removal of mirror matchups where both teams can play as the same heroes. The response in the last few days, following the launch … Read more

We’re still feeling aftershocks from Microsoft’s destructive July layoffs and cancellations

Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has imposed another round of layoffs, putting an undisclosed number of people out of work in the face of “evolving business conditions.” “Today we made the very difficult decision to part ways with a number of our talented colleagues as the result of evolving business conditions,” the studio announced in … Read more

You don’t need to wait for SteamOS to ditch Windows: I’ve been running Linux for the past 2 months and the revolution is already here

We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft’s usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store, … Read more

Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’ AI image editor can’t crop a picture, but its penchant for deepfakes ‘while keeping you, you’ makes me want to wear a brown paper bag on my head forever more

Ready for another bleak application of generative AI? I’m not sure I am, but here we are with Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’. Alright, alright, get it out of your system and let me explain. The aforementioned fun-size fruit is in fact the name of a major update to Gemini’s AI image generation capabilities. The update is … Read more

EA knows Battlefield 6’s settings menu was a mess in beta, and ‘it’s probably still going to be a little clunky when we launch’

As simple and mundane as they are, there’s an art behind making a good menu, and sadly, the Battlefield 6 beta missed the mark in that regard. The menus felt designed for controllers over mouse and keyboard, though even that felt remarkably clunky. It’s a shame, considering the interface in previous Battlefield games has been … Read more

The MMO granddaddy you’ve never heard of is celebrating its 35th anniversary, and it still pulls in ‘a few thousand active players’ and needs a staff of 40 to run: ‘We want to be able to survive for another 35 years’

If any one thing can claim responsibility for sending me down the dark, dark path of writing for a living, it’s probably MUDs—text-based MMOs from an era before 3D graphics that somehow still endure today. It wasn’t school, it wasn’t uni, it wasn’t a mentor’s encouragement or some precocious childhood proclivity. I just spent most … Read more

Final Fantasy 14 director does his best to assuage dooming around the next expansion’s release date with another hint of shaking up its usually rigid timeline: ‘You won’t have to wait long’

Earlier this week, Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida unveiled the three Fan Fest dates for 2026: April for North America, July for Europe, and October for Japan. Those dates put the playerbase in a little bit of a tizzy—traditionally a new expansion comes around six months after the final Fan Fest, which … Read more

Kevin Spacey got ‘a little weird’ on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: ‘We all had to fake laugh’

2014’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will always be the game that made us “Press F to pay respects”, a weird moment of interactivity that undercut what was meant to be an emotional scene. Even when we’re all gone, the meme will live on. If there’s one other thing that you’ll probably remember about Sledgehammer’s … Read more