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Defeating Sister Splinter in Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of your first major boss challenges on the main track through the game. It’s a taste of what’s to come in terms of utilising everything in your arsenal to take down some of the tricky bosses later on. Sister Splinter might seem annoying, but with a…
Monitors Unboxed’s latest 18 month OLED burn-in update is in and it’s mostly good news. Even after well over 4,000 hours of brutal, worst-case usage the YouTube channel’s 32-inch 4K QD-OLED panel is only just beginning to show sufficient signs of burn in to be “annoying.” Monitors Unboxed emphasises that their usage isn’t at all…
With how much prep you’ll have to do each week for your stall, fishing might be taking a back seat in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. If you’re not cooking a lot or using fish to craft pet treats, then there’s a chance you’ve started ignoring the skill altogether. However, you will need to go…
Climbing Mount Fay in Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the game’s most elaborate platforming sections. In fact, it’s essentially an entire region devoted to a single challenging goal—climbing your way to the top of the mountain. You’ll have to use every movement ability open to you, including the Clawline, which you’ll have to unlock…
Of the many challenges facing our home, the good ship planet Earth, surely none is greater than the fact our Steam libraries won’t organise themselves properly. If you own the Assassin’s Creed or Yakuza games, you know what I’m talking about: Steam’s rigid alphabetisation of your library means that series are presented out of order….
Recently I’ve been considering buying a GeForce Now subscription to offset my ageing gaming PC, but now I’m thinking it might be worth hitting the local auctions. Apparently you can get fully-fledged RTX 3080 Ti PCs for just $32 from them. No, really, that’s what one lucky (he says, through gritted teeth) Redditor got from…
GTA 6 may just be the most anticipated game release of the last decade (sorry, Silksong) as players have been waiting what feels like a lifetime to get the chance to drop into Rockstar’s next instalment. But as player excitement swells, the closer we get to GTA 6’s release, so does some developers’ anxiety. In…
There are a huge number of festivals and events that take place in autumn in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. Outside of the obvious, self-explanatory events like the crop show or bake-off, you’ll also be told about the Pumpkin Festival. This takes place on the last Thursday of Autumn each year, and functions similarly to…
I’ve been playing Silksong this week—a lot of Silksong. So much Silksong, in fact, I’ve nearly developed two blisters on my right hand. This happened once before when I got really hyperfocused on learning an Elphelt combo in Guilty Gear: Strive. The things we do for dopamine. Anyway, I’ve prescribed myself one “play a game…
Intel’s been on a roll of late in all the wrong ways. Borked CPUs, failing fabs, haemorrhaging cash, run-ins with the President of the USA. The woes never end. Until next year, that is, and the launch of Nova Lake. That’s right, peeps, when Intel’s next-gen CPU architecture arrives at the end of 2026, Intel…