NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as ‘a monopolistic crime against the consumer’

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to the press revealing the existence of an extensive US digital surveillance regime, has come out as a surprisingly scathing critic of Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series of graphics cards. “Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to ‘F-tier value for S-tier prices,’” Snowden wrote on…

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Sony bullies Bloodborne 60fps mod off the internet with DMCA takedown as it continues to let the FromSoft classic gather dust on PS4

First reported by Eurogamer, FromSoftware dataminer and modder Lance McDonald has revealed on Bluesky that his 60fps hack for Bloodborne has been DMCA’d by Sony. It remains possible to remove Bloodborne’s original 30fps cap via the ShadPS4 emulator on PC, but the decision remains a heavy-handed attempt at intimidating the modding and emulation community. “On…

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I didn’t think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick

The last thing I need in my life is another factory game, if only because allowing any factory game into your life risks it being consumed entirely by its sprawling, hopelessly absorbing logistics puzzle. But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year’s colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I…

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Snowrunner follow-up RoadCraft shows off its roadbuilding and logistics automation in a new trailer, and I’m already in love with its mobile quarry

I was wooed consistently through the latest trailer for RoadCraft, Saber Interactive’s follow-up to Expeditions: Mudrunner about rebuilding infrastructure across global disaster zones, but it was the phrase “mobile quarry” that convinced me Roadcraft is the one. Quarries, as you may know, are generally static affairs, given they are literally the ground. But RoadCraft’s portable…

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Put Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Hades and Risk of Rain in a blender and you get Helskate, plus a whole lot of jank

Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined with the roguelite progression and drip-feed of supernatural drama that Hades redefined the genre with, topped off with a dash of Risk of Rain’s escalating combat challenge and frantic character-building. It sounds too good to be…

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Split Fiction’s latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds ‘completely different’ from the main adventure

Hazelight Studios’ upcoming adventure Split Fiction does more than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative action of It Takes Two. A newly released trailer shows that the follow-up to Josef Fares’ wildly successful third-person platformer isn’t a strictly linear affair. According to Fares, who provides the trailer’s voiceover, players will be able to embark…

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DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse

DeTechtive 2112 feels like a gorgeous set of environments looking for a game, if my casual run through the first half of its story missions is any indication. Developed by Turkish indie outfit M11 Studio, it’s a stealthy isometric shooter about a depressed noir detective in a very snazzy jacket, solving crimes in post-WW3 England….

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