The Fridge

A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don’t want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store

I like puzzle games but I’m not especially good at them, so it’s very important to me that any puzzle game I play finds the sweet spot between looking difficult, but not actually being difficult. I love The Talos Principle games, for instance, but I noped out of the third part of the Road to…

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Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it’s secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: ‘They’ve been done for months! They just sit on the game! They’re just relaxing!’

It’s not like the Half-Life 3 rumour mill ever went away, but over the past few years the tinfoil hats have been a-twitching more than ever. If it’s not one thing, it’s another: the anniversary of Half-Life 2, the latest mention of “HLX” (speculated to be an internal codename) in the Steam backend or, my…

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How to beat Josee in Code Vein 2

Josee the Blind Hero is one of the five heroes that must be slain during Code Vein 2‘s main story, and she’s the first one you’ll meet after leaving MagMell and entering the open world. After defeating the Metagen Remnant and returning from the Sunken City’s past, you can finally open Josee’s cocoon. If you…

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EU regulators say that TikTok has ‘an addictive design’ in a preliminary report, and that it might receive a hefty fine if it doesn’t change its infinite-scrolling ways

The European Commission has declared its preliminary findings in an investigation into everyone’s favourite infinite-scrolling app, TikTok. In a press release, the EU regulator says that it found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act (DCA) for its “addictive design”. “This includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised…

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