US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect’s Steam account, but I’m not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

As reported by Bloomberg, the FBI and Secret Service are looking into the Steam activity of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah native accused of assassinating high-profile right wing organizer Charlie Kirk at a September 10 rally. The account is 11 years old, with nearly 5,000 hours of gameplay logged in that time. This includes 399…

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A hardcore Souls player already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign’s max-difficulty Depth 5, but he doesn’t recommend it

Soulsborne challenge runner Ongbal, whose exploits include no hitting Malenia, Promised Consort Radahn, and every single boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, has uploaded a video showing a solo completion of Elden Ring Nightreign’s maximum-difficulty Depth Five. But he doesn’t really recommend it. Depth Five was introduced as part of Nightreign’s recent Deep of Night…

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In yet another victory lap for Hazelight Studios, Split Fiction just became the first videogame to get a design award from Swedish royalty

Hazelight Studios proved it could go the distance when It Takes Two sold an eye-watering 20 million copies and took home The Game Awards’ Game of the Year, and follow-up Split Fiction is keeping the momentum strong. Not only did it sell a million copies in two days, it’s also rapidly amassed glowing reviews and…

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If you use inverted camera controls, you might rotate shapes in your mind more slowly—but more accurately!—according to a recent neuroscience study

While history counts a lengthy and horrific tally of the arbitrary divisions we draw amongst ourselves, there have been and will ever be only two kinds of people: those who invert their camera controls and those who don’t. And now, thanks to a recent study from MIT researchers, we might have a better idea why…

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‘We’re going to build revolutionary products’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: ‘Nothing of its kind has ever been built before’

Speaking at a press conference earlier this evening, Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, and Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan took questions from the media about the newly-announced collaboration between the two. While both CEOs refused to be drawn too far in on questions regarding which process the chips created would be built on (or whether Nvidia would…

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Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: ‘Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent’

I remember when Dark Souls was the new hotness, it didn’t take long for the “actually, this game isn’t hard if you’re just cool and smart about it” crowd to crop up. I see a lot less of that with Silksong, which PC Gamer reviewer Tyler Colp called the “videogame equivalent of sticking your hand…

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Now that I’m done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I’m expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

BioWare fans can never agree on which era of the studio was its peak—classic Baldur’s Gate 2, the original Mass Effect, or (correctly) Dragon Age: Origins—but there’s no debating that it was the frontrunner in a golden era for RPGs that influenced at least a decade of other games. If that sounds like the beginning…

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