How to complete Order/Chaos in Marathon

After smashing glass to appease MIDA in Marathon, the rebellious Gantry will give you the Order/Chaos priority contract. Staying on theme with the faction, you’re sticking it to the UESC, this time by triggering alarms and hacking into encrypted data across Dire Marsh. Surprise, surprise, that’s easier said than done. You’ve got three different objectives…

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Birds Watching turned my comforting hobby into a fight for survival at the end of the world, against a monster that will haunt me for the rest of my life

I didn’t think there was any way birdwatching could become fear-inducing, but Birds Watching proved me very wrong. Instead of the relaxing walking simulator you’d expect from a game primarily about watching the birds, it keeps you nervous: looking over your shoulder at all times in case some towering monster is lurking behind you. I…

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Gamers are buying fewer graphics cards according to a new research report, although Nvidia looks to be sitting pretty with roughly 94% of the market share to AMD’s 5%

According to new Jon Peddie research, people are buying fewer graphics cards, and they’re still mostly Nvidia ones. For the final quarter of 2025, overall AIB (graphics card add-in board) shipments “decreased by 4.4% compared to the prior quarter.” And within that market, “AMD’s overall AIB market share decreased by -1.6% from last quarter; Intel’s…

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In the battle for our living rooms, Xbox Project Helix and the Steam Machine make for unlikely rivals on paper—but Microsoft’s new PC gaming-capable console might be raising some eyebrows at Valve

Microsoft is beginning to take the wraps off Project Helix, its newly-teased Xbox console that has been promised to play both Xbox and PC games. While we know very little about the machine for now, new CEO of Microsoft Gaming Asha Sharma says we’ll be finding out more at next week’s GDC. Which makes me…

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards’

OpenAI and Nvidia have had a tense relationship as of late. OpenAI is reportedly not very happy with Nvidia’s GPUs, and Nvidia’s plan to invest $100 billion in the company has stalled. Recently, in an interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference, he announced that OpenAI would…

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Marvel Rivals is bringing back Chrono Rush, among other fixes, in its latest patch: ‘With no cap on how many points you can earn’

Marvel Rivals’ latest patch brings back a popular event, Chrono Rush. It’s a modifier that basically lets you earn an infinite amount of Chrono Tokens, which you can then use to unlock battle pass tiers and cosmetics. “The Chrono Rush event is back for two weeks,” an official blog post reads. “Play matches and rack…

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Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight’s otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you ‘minimize leftovers’ even though Blizzard said it wouldn’t

I want to say something at the top of this—I still think World of Warcraft: Midnight’s player housing system is very, very good. That’s not just to soften the blow of the microtransaction analysis I’m about to hammer Blizzard with, if player housing sucked I’d say that. But the bones are really solid. You’ve got…

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