Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever

Castlevania’s defining trait, since the beginning, is that it’s better than it has any right to be. I’m talking about the animated series on Netflix, which found its groove in Season 2 by combining surprisingly articulate conversations between murderous vampires and ruminations on loss and legacy with explosive action sequences. You could say the same…

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Logitech G RS Wheel Hub and RS Track Wheel review

Owners of the Logitech G Pro Racing Wheel rejoice! We can finally upgrade our sim racing setup as we always had hoped. With new shifters, handbrakes, and, as I’ll cover here today, new wheels and wheel hubs. Logitech has two new racing wheels on offer, one designed for the track and another largely aimed at…

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Deadlock’s ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out

When Valve first introduced ranked play to Deadlock the player distribution was a little funky. Seeing that Deadlock was and is still in closed beta, this was to be expected, but still, instead of the normal bell curve, players were spread out across all the ranks. It was a little chaotic to begin with, but…

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9 years after launching his own studio, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo finally reveals what he’s doing with it

In 2016, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new venture called Bonfire Studios, made up of former Blizzard colleagues and ex-Nexon CEO Min Kim. Nine years down the road, he’s finally revealed the studio’s first project: A team-based PvP game called Arkheron. Pardo told VentureBeat that Arkheron has been in proper…

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Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset review

Alienware has been taking a run at the high-end peripheral market recently with its Pro line of gaming accessories. Following the Alienware Pro Wireless keyboard and Alienware Pro Wireless mouse, we now have the Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset, presumably completing a line up of peripherals that Alienware hopes will tempt buyers away from other…

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Looks like the Nintendo Switch 2’s Joy-Cons double as gaming mice, which is neat but I can’t help think about how I basically never use the Legion Go’s same feature

I didn’t expect to be spending today writing about a console, but here we are. The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially announced in a teasingly slow-to-start video, and hold up, did those Joy-Cons just start slipping and sliding around like the rodents we PC gamers are so used to? Yes, I believe they did. In…

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