Doom runs on just about everything. From 100 pounds of mouldy potatoes to a pregnancy test, creators have endeavoured to run everyone’s favourite demon-blasting fest on all sorts of hardware—but cramming its code inside DNS text records is a new one on me. That’s what Doom Over DNS does, and it’s a remarkable bit of…
Solving the Sanctum of Absolution puzzle in Crimson Desert can be confusing, especially as one of the parts you need is very well hidden—it took me a fair while looking around to find it. This sanctum is also more complicated than others, like the Sanctum of Benediction, because it houses one of the Antumbra bosses:…
A brand new game launches this July. Toplan’s classic shump series Truxton is making a surprise return this year with a brand new game, the first in 34 years, with Truxton Extreme (thanks, Gematsu!). Developed by Tatsujin and published by Clear River Games, the game is coming to both Switch 1 and Switch 2 on…
Unlocking the White Bear mount in Crimson Desert is perfect for those who enjoy riding into battle. This hulking brute has multiple attacks he can unleash on poor bandits, similar to the clawed bears that you can find Black Bear enemies riding in Pailune. Unlike the legendary horses, which you have to tame, these scarier…
2025 was an excellent year for videogames. We got Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and of course, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game that I in no way expected to love as much as I did. But it seems as if its success was a surprise for more than just myself, as its…
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you ate thermal paste? I’m not sure, but I can advise you that you really, really shouldn’t. YouTuber mryeester looks to have been having similar thoughts, as they’ve endeavoured to create the world’s first truly edible thermal paste—and the secret ingredient is gold. Gold is known for…
Your whole goal in Marathon is to get the best guns in your hands, kill a few Runners, and eventually lose it all—especially if you’re playing Cryo Archive, AKA the ‘lose it all factory’. Collecting good loot typically means risking what you’ve already got against other players and high-tier UESC. But what if I told…
Getting the Silver Fang wolf mount in Crimson Desert is a lot of fun—after all, who doesn’t want to ride around Pywel on a white wolf, chomping on any bandits that get in your way? The problem is that this mount is locked behind a specific Hernand faction quest, Legendary Wolf, and this requires a…
Crimson Desert is one of those games that seems to be able to wrangle together all kinds of disparate gamers to attempt to master the bizarre behemoth of a multi-tool RPG. So it’s a little unfortunate that it has had far from perfect hardware support. We witnessed the game’s lack of Intel Arc support ourselves,…
When I want to run an adventure about unknowable horrors, 1930s investigators in over their heads, ancient books that send readers insane, and all that squirming Lovecraftian goodness, there’s one TTRPG I reach for every time: Trail of Cthulhu. Its clever system puts the emphasis on solving mysteries, giving players all sorts of tools to…