The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: ‘We help them with money and advice’

Landfall has been making games for over 10 years now. Recent ventures include the co-op climbing sim Peak and the multiplayer horror game Content Warning, both of which I absolutely loved. But now Landfall is preparing for its next step: publishing games. “We made a publisher to only publish our own games,” Landfall announced on…

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Crimson Desert lets you watch NPCs build statues and bridges in real-time which Kingdom Come: Deliverance director thinks is ‘absolutely insane’

Watching paint dry is drab. Tired. Boring. Watching half a dozen virtual lil’ guys chisel away at a big hunk of stone to turn it into a statue? Now that’s entertainment, baby. Crimson Desert is a lot of game, both good and bad—it’s ambition and scale cut with frustration and bizarre design choices. For every…

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Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

Minor Microsoft SNAFU detected. Turns out it has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries for months (via Neowin). Belatedly, Microsoft is now compensating customers by sending out a rechargeable battery kit, plus a USB Type-C cable for free. Xbox controllers are actually a little old school in having a user-accessible compartment that takes plain old…

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Cherry XTRFY K5 Pro TMR Compact review

I’m not one for snap judgments, but when this keyboard first crossed my desk, I couldn’t help but wrinkle my nose. My initial ire centred on the plastic construction and the pricing. To be fair to this 65% gaming keyboard, it’s a sturdy bit of kit with minimal flex that also offers TMR switches. That…

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