PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared

If you’re a fan of farming simulators and cosy games, then Puffpals: Island Skies has probably come up on your radar at some point over the last few years. This sweet, Animal Crossing-esque farming simulator being developed by plushie company Fluffnest was originally announced on April 6, 2022 with a Kickstarter project launched the following…

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Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen chips will reportedly see a 10% price hike soon, partly in response to ‘the lackluster performance of AI PCs’

If you’ve bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen them labelled as AI PCs. Turns out the desire for AI is lower than we might have thought, if recent Intel reports prove true. According to Digitimes (machine translated),…

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AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we’re not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon

An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…

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Remember that great Friday the 13th game that got shuttered? The same studio is doing it all again, except this time it’s Halloween

Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…

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