Under Microsoft, Double Fine has made its weirdest game yet—and this is only the beginning: ‘We can take more risks.’

During a behind-closed-doors look at Double Fine’s latest game Keeper, I’m struck that this is probably the studio’s strangest game yet. With a back catalogue that includes everything from psychic summer camps to living Russian dolls, that’s really saying something. It stars a living lighthouse—tottering about on tree root legs—who travels through a post-apocalyptic world…

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Steam users in the UK who want ‘mature game content’ must now register a credit card on their accounts to prove they’re old enough

Steam users in the UK who want to access “mature content games” or related community hubs are now required to have a valid credit card associated with their account. The new requirement was implemented to ensure Valve’s compliance with the country’s Online Safety Act, which mandates age checks in order to gain access to adult-oriented…

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Supermassive Games is adding a new tool to its next horror game Directive 8020 that’ll give players a ‘second chance’ to save their favourite characters

One of the best and most infuriating parts of playing through a Supermassive game like Until Dawn or The Quarry is, without a doubt, the struggle to try and keep every single person alive. Unfortunately, I’m cursed with an awful mixture of indecision and rash choices so somehow I always manage to mess up critical…

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Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs

For many years, CPUs and GPUs got by with just using a smidge of power. It’s a very different story these days, and the AI boom has forced processor designs to consume vast amounts of power. To help shift all this heat away, some companies are creating such complex-looking thermal solutions that they could easily…

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