Should you unlock the research menu in Dune: Awakening?

The fight for survival starts right away in Dune: Awakening when you’re suddenly given a daunting decision between using either a locked or unlocked research menu, with little context about what it actually does. With crafting being the main focus of a survival crafting MMO, it’s pretty important to make the right choice for you….

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Nvidia’s research boss claims the company’s Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports

Nvidia’s been banging the drum against the United State’s China chip export restrictions for a while now, but while it had previously highlighted this in broad terms, the company now seems to be getting more direct with its claims. According to a machine translation of a report from Taiwan Economic Daily (via Wccftech), Nvidia’s chief…

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Goon it yourself with the new editor for pulp-noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, or just visit a ’20s nightclub version of Doom’s famed first level

It has been almost a year since Fallen Aces arrived on the early access scene, bringing impeccable Dick Tracy gangster comic vibes to the immersive sim genre. While there’s still a little ways to go until the second episode launches, the game was updated just a few days ago with a powerful level editor, Steam…

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Sword of the Sea: hands-on report

Giant Squid’s upcoming title, Sword of the Sea, is a well-crafted union of all the titles the studio and Game Director Matt Nava have worked on. The aquatic wonder of Abzû, The Pathless’s sense of adventure, and Journey’s beautiful desert world. Sword of the Sea weaves those influences together so skillfully that it feels like…

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Best Dune: Awakening class mentor, homeworld, and caste to pick during character creation

Unlike most sandbox survival games, Dune: Awakening gives you a great deal of character customisation beyond just the appearance of your poor little survivor. After deciding on their look, you’ll have an intense…discussion (read: interrogation) with the reverend mother, where you’ll need to pick your homeworld, caste, and mentor. Each of these three character customisation…

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Russia assures World of Tanks players they won’t end up in prison as it takes full control of the studio in charge of it domestically, accusing it of funnelling funds to Ukraine

Russia has come down hard on Lesta Games (via Meduza), the domestic company that inherited local rights to World of Tanks (or Mir Tankov, as it’s known locally) after its original dev, Wargaming, exited Belarus and Russia in protest of the latter’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Wargaming, which has a studio in Kyiv, has since…

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