FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail’s playerbase has likely been on the decline

I concur with PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor, my fellow Final Fantasy 14 enjoyer on our illustrious staff, that FF14’s Occult Crescent patch has made the game feel like an MMO again. I actually got downright emotional, hopping into my first critical encounter and seeing swarms of strangers crowding around a chance to give a boss…

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Elden Ring Nightreign is finally getting Duo Expeditions as FromSoftware caves into pleas from players who can only find one other friend to match with

Elden Ring Nightreign has had a slightly tumultuous launch, at least for a FromSoftware game. Despite achieving a monumental 2 million copies sold in just the first 24 hours, Nightreign also had a somewhat poor reception, with it garnering Mixed user reviews on Steam (though it’s since picked up to Mostly Positive). Since then, FromSoftware…

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I tried the ‘oops, all status effects’ Executor loadout in Elden Ring Nightreign that turns his starting katana into a god-killing uber-sword—shockingly, it’s pretty good

Most of my time playing Elden Ring Nightreign has involved scrambling to piece together a good build out of the garbage the game gives me—I don’t have good luck in roguelikes, you see. If I need a four in Balatro, I won’t get one. But last night, cackling with glee as my starting sword gave…

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The world’s biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can’t keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty

Uncertainty thanks to wildly fluctuating tariffs might be making it hard to predict how much your next graphics card is going to cost. But apparently it hasn’t stopped Taiwanese chip fab TSMC from cranking out as many GPUs as humanly possible. Speaking at TSMC’s annual shareholder’s meeting today (via Reuters), CEO C.C. Wei said tariffs…

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