Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

The newly announced AETHUS is a sci-fi survival game all about doing things differently, set on an alien planet ravaged by a mega corporation. The hook here is in carving your own path through the capitalist wreckage, building a different world, and forging a new kind of future. The planet has been exploited by the…

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Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter ‘goomba stomp’ problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected

Dune: Awakening’s 1.1.0.15 patch makes a couple of notable changes to PvP, including a fix for the notorious goomba stomp meta where players were squishing each other with ornithopters. How did that work? Well, since players realized that ‘thopters take no damage from collisions with the environment, there was zero risk in repeatedly slamming the…

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Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly ‘panicking’ and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four

This feels like a weird nostalgia pull for a PC gaming site, but think back to the first time you really struggled in a Pokémon game—I bet the bleating of your caught companion’s dwindling health bar still makes your palms sweat. Well, it turns out Gemini starts to make questionable choices when its Pokémon team…

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Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review

The Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 is probably one of the most long-awaited keyboards in my possession. No, that isn’t a joke—I’ve been waiting to get my hands on it for the best part of a year since its initial announcement. Therefore, it comes with quite high expectations, and for good reason, too. Das has been…

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Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing for even better graphics but unless you’ve got an RTX 50 graphics card, it’s not worth using

When Doom: The Dark Ages launched back in May, developers id Software promised that it would add an extra graphics option in a later patch, specifically path tracing. The stompy-stompy shooter uses ‘normal’ ray tracing for all lighting, shadows, and reflections by default, and now that I’ve had a few days to explore the new…

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Microsoft’s exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn’t actually make it clearer if there’s an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming

So, Microsoft has announced it’s teaming up with—or maybe that should be sticking with—AMD for its next generation of Xbox hardware. But what does that actually mean for conventional Xbox consoles and the new trend of handhelds? Perhaps the key line from Xbox President Sarah Bond in the YouTube video announcement goes thus: “We’ve established…

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