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On paper, relics are one of the more interesting mechanics in Elden Ring Nightreign, providing a collection of passive modifiers to choose from that expands with every run you complete, successfully or otherwise. In practice, however, most of the randomized relics you earn at the end of an expedition are only fit for the wastebin….
The rising cost of videogames is a common concern among those who play them—witness, for instance, the upset over the prospect of an $80 Borderlands 4. But what if you think games don’t cost enough? What if you, the concerned consumer, want to pay more? You can now do just that on GOG, which has…
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 (Gen 3) has come a long way since its first generation, in terms of aesthetics, sound quality, and battery life. The internal tech has improved tenfold, with the design has been steered away from that gamer-style look in favor of a sleeker, more reserved appearance and a matte colourway. But…
The rise of the mechanical keyboard for gaming was a real turning point for the tippy tappy PC-connected peripheral. Suddenly typing feel and response was a big thingTM in gaming keyboards. Then the enthusiast gaming crew came in, deepening the rabbit hole for nerds like me to get lost in, and then the marketers and…
Valve is currently in the middle of a big push towards improving both Steam’s accessibility features, and those of the games it hosts. In April it announced the Steam store would start highlighting accessibility features on store pages then, once this feature dropped, allowed users to start searching for games by individual accessibility features. Now,…
Noctua seems to be on a bit of a roll this year, chucking its fans into other companies’ products left, right, and centre. And now it looks like the maker of the world’s best and brownest fans is throwing some at Japanese system builder Sycom for use in some Silent Master RTX 50-series graphics cards….
As a tech journalist, I’m far from heartened by the AI feeding frenzy we’re seeing. Besides the Trump administration rolling back Biden-era guardrails and handing OpenAI a frankly eye-watering amount of money via various contracts, the UK government attempted five times to pass a bill (which has since passed) that allows AI developers to largely…
Earlier this week, it seemed like some big Red Dead Redemption news was in the pipeline as John Marston voice actor Rob Wiethoff said he had “such exciting news” that he couldn’t share. On its own, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but given he was playing Red Dead Redemption and said “I truly cannot think…
The age-old tale of capitalism teaches us that more competition is good, fostering innovation and lower prices, as technology trickles down from top to bottom. Well, that’s what my economics class taught me several years ago, but the principles there have some application to keyboards, believe it or not. Rapid trigger gaming keyboards—ie those with…
You will not, as a rule, run across many players from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea) in the Steam community. In place of the world wide web, most DPRK residents keep to the Kwangmyong—the country’s nationwide intranet where you can find homegrown alternatives to Google (called Naenara, also the…