Do I regret yeeting my blueprints and loot-filled stash into Arc Raiders Expedition? No, it actually made the game fun again

Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: enjoying my break, battling to become king in Metaphor: ReFantazio This week I’ve been: bum-rushing Stella Montis to try and get the new Expedition resources I’ve bounced back and forth on Arc Raiders’ Expedition mechanic. At first, I thought it wasn’t worth the…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s lead says they messed up a little by putting a ton of great endgame content next to a final boss you can easily outlevel: ‘We weren’t sure if our game was going to be that good’

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a brilliant RPG with one wrinkle—the endgame scaling its touch skewiff. It’s not bad, don’t misunderstand me: It’s just that if you’re a completionist like me, you likely hit Act 3 and roamed around the overworld, ticking off all of your checklists, only to loop back to the final boss…

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These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming

Although a lesser-known brand, Soundpeats earbuds seem to be pretty well-liked for the price judging by various comments and reviews online. And for CES 2026, it’s just announced the Aura Nebula earbuds, which look like they might offer a good balance between audiophile quality and gamer-oriented features and pricing. The earbuds feature a “breakthrough hybrid…

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Between bots calling themselves ‘Mecha-Hitler’ and 95% of businesses realising they don’t know the point of AI, 2025 was the year the tech lost its shine even for the most blinkered execs

As it progressed, I increasingly came to think of 2025 as ‘the year of headlines you’d normally read in newspapers in Deus Ex’. “America is now one big bet on AI,” read a piece in the FT. “CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears,” fretted the WSJ. “Google CEO’s warning about the…

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