Mini Review: Morsels (Switch) – A Punishing, Obscure, But Thoroughly Entertaining Roguelite Dungeon Crawler

Searching for scraps. A scared mouse scurries through an unforgiving landscape packed with abominations that may be friend or foe. This timid squeaker can join forces with Morsels, strange creatures with offensive abilities that fight at their side. With this help, the mouse travels upward toward the domain of the evil overlords who control this…

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Captain Wayne Is A New Retro FPS About A Ticked-Off Sailor With A Shotgun For An Arm

Out now on Steam! If you like your retro first-person shooters to be colourful, gory, and feature extravagant, larger-than-life characters, then Captain Wayne – Vacation Desperation could be exactly the game you’re looking for. Released earlier this month exclusively on Steam, the “fast-action” shooter has previously been described by its creators as “half game, half…

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Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn’t a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout’s co-creator said that isn’t either

The Outer Worlds games take place in an absurd dystopia: a slice of the universe dominated by corporations and the perverse, dehumanising logic that comes with making profit your god. Its people are cogs in a great, blood-greased machine overseen by CEOs, executives, and corpulent moneymen. But it’s not about capitalism. Not intentionally, anyway. So…

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Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD’s dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores

Intel is planning to sock it to AMD’s dominant X3D CPUs with a 52-core version of its upcoming Nova Lake processor. Incredibly, it’s claimed the chip will pack 288 MB of last-level vertical cache memory. That’s well over double the 128 MB of V-Cache currently offered by AMD’s top X3D CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9…

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The Sims’ biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that’s more than some of Steam’s top games: ‘It doesn’t make sense to me’

Despite its tame rating, sex has always wormed its way into The Sims series—I fear it’s a canon event to Google “how to make Sims naked” as a teenager. But it arguably didn’t blow up into more mainstream simming until Turbodriver’s WhickedWhims came along in 2016, offering a package of nudity, animated sex, birth control,…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 didn’t sell as well as Paradox expected, and the publisher is taking the blame: ‘The responsibility lies fully with us’

The saga of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is coming to a close. After a decade of development, a midpoint studio switch and some last-minute drama surrounding launch DLC, it all culminated in disappointment. “We’ve had high expectations for a long time, since we saw that it was a good game with a strong…

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