Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling ‘less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day’

US President Donald Trump has once again pushed back a deadline requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese owner, Bytedance. Last year the US passed a law requiring either a sale or that the app be banned. This marks the third time that Trump has extended the deadline. Trump signed the executive order yesterday,…

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I’ve already found the best fishing game in Steam’s Fishing Fest, Scale the Depths, which lets you feed fish to Nessie in Loch Ness and hunt for the mythic Beithir

I love a good fishing game, which may be a controversial opinion for the PC Gamer team, but I stand by my convictions. Fishing is a nice, calming experience that gives me a desperately needed break from my regular horrifying and brutal games. But sometimes fishing with Willie in Stardew Valley doesn’t quite cut it,…

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SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB external SSD review

The SanDisk Extreme Pro has given me a glimpse at what proper USB4 external SSDs like this have in store for us, and it’s enough to make me rather excited. Mainstream usable 40 Gbps USB4 drives are finally here, and they’re fast. This, too, in the same year that SanDisk has shown us the first…

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Design your perfect battle car block by block, then watch a legion of alien robots blow it up because you suck at 3 point turns, in this explosive Vampire Survivors-like

When it was announced at our very own PC Gaming Show, I thought the premise of TerraTech Legion was pretty irresistible: a Vampire Survivors-like where instead of playing as a person, you’re a fully customisable battle car. Now there’s a demo available on Steam, and I can confirm two things: building your dream vehicle and…

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No, 16 billion passwords didn’t just get exposed in a mega-hack, but you should get with the program and stop reusing passwords anyways

Looks like hackers are trying to flog a fresh batch of user passwords on the web, again. Or are they? A recent report has been rotating around the web claiming that 16 billion passwords are up for grabs following a “record-breaking data breach”, though many cybersecurity experts argue it’s not what it seems. The original…

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Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing ‘instance gacha’

As I wrote when it first launched, I’ve quite enjoyed Occult Crescent, the Bozja-esque field operation mode. It’s far from perfect, mind—it’s a real ‘you snooze, you lose’ mentality that’ll see you late to any fight you’re not speeding towards within 0.2 seconds of it spawning. Its biggest problem by far, though, is Forked Tower….

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Despite bankrolling Square Enix, ‘cost’ is somehow the reason Final Fantasy 14’s newest raid (which has only been cleared 400 times in 23 days) wasn’t given an easier version

Dear reader, my job is to find clever, informative, and interesting ways to deliver news to you—but upon hearing that the Forked Tower, a raid at the end of Final Fantasy 14’s recent exploration zone the Occult Crescent, wasn’t given a normal version most people could do because of “cost”? I am struggling for words…

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GOG says it won’t repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now

Remember the Daggerfall Unity GOG Cut? Odds are you don’t. It was, in essence, a pre-modded version of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, in the excellent fan-made Daggerfall Unity engine reimplementation. The idea was that if you wanted to play Daggerfall but didn’t want to go through the rigamarole of modding it into modernity, you…

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