Combing through a house full of a dead loved one’s possessions to figure out who they were feels like the anti-Unpacking

Where Unpacking is a game about unravelling someone’s life through moving boxes, A Storied Life: Tabitha is one where you piece together who someone was by boxing up their possessions after they die. It’s a wonderfully thoughtful story, one which leaves some nice wiggle room for me to create my own narrative for who this…

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How to fish in Runescape: Dragonwilds

Fishing in RuneScape: Dragonwilds is as straightforward as it comes in terms of casting your line, but unlocking the ability to do so in the first place is a little more challenging. The game doesn’t exactly hold your hand or give you a starting rod. Instead, you need to craft your own gear first before…

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Even after Ubisoft confirmed ‘gaming’s worst-kept secret’ of an Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal

Sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches and, credit where it’s due, Ubisoft eventually leaned into the fact that its Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake became, in the publisher’s own words, “the worst-kept secret in gaming.” The remake’s existence was revealed ahead of time by countless leaks: everything from age rating boards to anonymous…

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‘A performance tool that requires a graduate seminar before breakfast has already lost the room’: Why Windows Task Manager looks like it’s getting CPU usage wrong

People have had a problem with how Windows 11’s Task Manager shows CPU usage stats for a long time. While recent discussions have revolved around the idea that the app only bases its reporting on base clocks, Dave Plummer, the creator of the original Task Manager, explains in a recent video how it might actually…

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