Rise of the Ronin review

Need to know What is it? A PC port of Team Ninja’s Edo-era action RPG that landed on PS5 last year. Expect to pay: £40 / $50 Release date: Out now Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Koei Tecmo Reviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 3060, Intel Core i7-10875H, 16 GB RAM Steam Deck: Unknown Link: Official site Rise…

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2024 was Steam’s ‘best year ever’ of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn’t celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet

Yesterday, Valve published its yearly “Steam Year In Review” blog post, a retrospective highlighting Steam feature additions and customer data trends from 2024. Calling 2024 “a year of growth,” Valve said Steam’s number of peak concurrent users is nearly twice what it was in March 2020—and last year, all those users were playing more new…

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Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 510: Cereal Monsters

Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 510: Cereal Monsters

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Sid, O’Dell, Tim, and Brett are back this week to discuss MLB The Show 25 early access, including an interview with San Diego Studio Gameplay Director Chris Gill. The crew also swaps Monster Hunter Wilds stories and highlights this week’s news….

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The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions

If you’ve heard of The Bazaar, it’s probably not for a good reason. Any excitement around its recent launch into open beta seems to have been almost entirely overshadowed by community outrage about its newly introduced microtransactions. The pot has only been stirred further by creator (and former professional Hearthstone player, esports team owner, and…

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Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it

After buying a fancy new $2,000 RTX 5090 card, some VR users are discovering their Varjo Aero headsets are not working with their rig. The answer, for now, seems to be plugging the headset in via a Thunderbolt cable, setting the Varjo Base (Varjo’s software) to ‘Very Low’, or waiting for drivers—but none of these…

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Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a ‘diminished skill for independent problem-solving’ and at least one AI model seems to agree

If you think that workers heavily reliant on generative AI may be less prepared to tackle questions that can’t be succinctly answered by the machine, you may just be right. A recent paper from Microsoft and Carnegie researchers attempted to study generative AI’s effects on “cognitive effort” from workers in a recent self-reported study. In…

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