Tempest Rising’s next update will add massive superweapons that’ll let you ‘unload devastating payloads onto the enemy’

Throwback RTS Tempest Rising doesn’t exactly skimp on large-scale destruction, but the booms are about to get a whole lot bigger in Slipgate Ironworks’ Command & Conquer tribute. Its next patch will introduce two new superweapons to its near-future conflict—one for each faction—each with the potential to reshape the battlefield. Introduced to Tempest Rising “by…

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For its 15th anniversary, anime sleuth ’em up Danganronpa is cheaper than ever by a wide margin—but only for a few days

If you enjoy visual novel adventure games like Ace Attorney or underappreciated masterpiece Ghost Trick, you probably owe it to yourself to try Danganronpa—a wacky game in a similar vein that PC Gamer’s Andy Kelly called “brilliantly funny, disturbing, and entertaining” in his 2016 review. There’s been no better time to try it than its…

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Team Cherry may not attend The Game Awards even though Silksong is nominated for GOTY, but they’re pretty sure a different ‘exceptional and broadly palatable’ game will win

Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the biggest games of the year, finally arriving after years of rarely matched anticipation, but its creators aren’t certain it’s cinched the GOTY crown in a crowd of critical darlings—at least not from The Game Awards. As Team Cherry developer Ari Gibson told Jason Schreier in a recent Bloomberg…

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Silksong devs felt they didn’t ‘have a lot of control’ over its release date and sympathize with all the games that were delayed to avoid it: ‘To some extent that probably is unfortunate’

In retrospect, it was probably a good idea for some developers to delay their games as far away from Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date as possible. Steam fell apart the moment it came out, preventing people from buying it for the first few hours. And even if you survived the initial blast, you’d be lucky…

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Revived survival RPG Hytale already has a release date after springing back to life, but the owner is reminding everyone the game ‘isn’t good yet’

Hytale has had a rough go of it, but things are finally looking up. It looked like curtains when Riot canceled the game after seven turbulent years in development, but earlier this month the original owner bought the game back in hopes of realizing the “original vision” that predates Riot’s involvement. Developer Hypixel has been…

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I freed myself from my organizational sins by simply sticking my desk clutter where I don’t have to see it, and you can do the same with this $9 Black Friday deal on nano tape

Rather than using chemical adhesives, nano tape sticks things together using the physics of its microscopically-textured surface. Snip off a piece or two, and you’ve got a great non-permanent mounting solution for whatever cabling sins you might want to hide beneath your desktop. Key specs: Double-sided | 2 rolls | 0.94 in. x 10 ftView…

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Warframe’s next big, WWI-inspired story update happened because a developer wrote the words ‘Trench Warframe’ on a whiteboard

Warframe’s next major update, The Old Peace, is a doozy. When it releases on Wednesday, December 10, it’ll be the first time Warframe players get a firsthand look at the Tau system that’s been mythologized by more than a decade of in-game storytelling, witnessed as their characters relive induced war flashbacks from a forgotten, failed…

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In a major plot twist, Intel could soon be making chips for Apple once again, only this time, it’ll be the Arm-based M-series

Well, now this is unexpected. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has just revealed that Intel is expected to begin shipping Apple’s M-series processors in 2027. This would mark a huge comeback of the partnership between the two companies, which Apple started to move away from in 2020. Intel used to make chips for Apple, well, Apple used…

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