Category: Games Eternal Strands Is a Remarkably Fresh Action-RPG Woven from Familiar Threads Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published January 27, 2025 Eternal Strands – launching into Game Pass today – doesn’t so much draw from its influences as treat them like some kind of thought experiment. What if, in a Monster Hunter game, every…
Anyone who has been around in PC gaming for a long time will know that every time a new high-end graphics card gets launched, supply is never enough to meet demand. In the case of the GeForce RTX 5090, board partner MSI says that its cards will have limited availability and it’s down to an…
While the TikTok US ban debacle rolls on, it looks like TP-Link is being considered for the same treatment. After a letter signed by two US congressmen called for a ban of TP-Link devices last summer for having “unusual vulnerabilities” linked to Chinese cyberattacks, one of its signees is now voicing continued concerns. Rep. Raja…
SanDisk Desk Drive | 4 TB | USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 10 | 1,000 MB/s | $379.99 $268.99 at Amazon (save $111)This external SSD is only ‘portable’ in the sense that a laptop is ‘portable’—you’re not going to be putting one in your pocket. But what you get is something incredibly capacious, reliable, and consistent,…
Marvel Snap—a cardgame I distinctly remember losing a month to in 2022 before I got a little tired of the typical TCG progression cycle—has made a downright generous apology to players who missed out during a recent outage, due to TikTok being temporarily banned in the US. In case that just gave you a case…
With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If your statistics aren’t good enough to defeat an enemy boss, just defeat enough…
US-based companies have been at the forefront of the AI revolution, but now it looks like a new challenger has emerged. China-based DeepSeek is just over a year old, but the startup has released an open-source AI model called R1 that seems to have the rest of the industry worried. DeepSeek was founded in 2023…
Need to Know What is it?: A third-person snipe ’em up with tense combat and fun stealthExpect to pay: £44.99 / $49.99Developer: Rebellion Publisher: RebellionReviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core processor, 32GB RamMultiplayer?: Yes, co-op and adversarial Link: Official Site Nazis are pretty much the definitive bad guys. They’re perfect videogame…
Violent vermin. After releasing the first Tails of Iron in 2021, developer Odd Bug Studio seemingly hasn’t taken a moment to rest, returning to its bleak world of anthropomorphic rats, frogs, and bats with a sequel that looks to offer fans a slightly expanded experience in Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter. And while…
Signal – Shortwave Transmission recreates the Signalis’s original Steam demo. The survival horror title Signalis, which is available for PC and modern platforms, has just received a surprising new unofficial Game Boy demake from a talented member of the game’s community (h/t: RetroDodo!). The new demake, which is called Signal – Shortwave Transmission, is a…