While we wait for Borderlands 4 to unlock, let’s make a definitive ranking of the series’ many musical cinematic intros

As synonymous with the Borderlands series as its trillions of guns, masked psychos, and dodgy vehicle controls are its iconic musical intro cinematics. Serving to acquaint us with four new Vault Hunters and the setting they’ll be gunning through, they’ve taken us everywhere from a bus driving across Pandora to a rocket hurtling through space….

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With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I’ll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there’s yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn’t flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple’s latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC…

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Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core ‘or equivalent’ CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser

Roughly two months ago we got our first look at the system requirements for Borderlands 4, a process that involved many of us on the hardware team scrunching up our noses. Listed on the Steam page was the insistence that the game would require eight CPU cores as a minimum, which seemed highly unlikely given…

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In tribute to a player’s departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in ‘hundreds’ to pay respects to his namesake: ‘It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke’s shop’

MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….

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Helldivers 2 won’t be getting Fortnite victory royales for the democracy anytime soon, but Arrowhead certainly isn’t shelving the idea entirely

If it exists, you best know Epic Games is probably going to get its hands on it and churn out a 1,200 V-bucks skin for the pleasure of feral Fortnite fans. Something it seemingly won’t be snagging anytime soon, however, is a Helldivers 2 collaboration despite Fortnite’s newest season leaning very heavily into that game’s…

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