Space Marine Master Crafted Edition provides a slick second life for a Warhammer cult classic—but you might struggle to find a match in the multiplayer

Like a 10,000 year old super soldier, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine has aged surprisingly well. The new Master Crafted Edition is a light touch of a remaster, and I think that was the right approach—the things that earned the game a permanent place in the nostalgic hearts of Warhammer fans nearly 14 years ago are…

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Turn-based RPGs are officially back in fashion, but I want more: It’s time for modern developers to take another pass at FF12’s gambit system

So, we can well and truly state that turn-based RPGs are back in fashion, right? Baldur’s Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are some of the industry’s most successful entries in the genre—the argument has well and truly been won. Whether a game’s turn-based or not matters less than whether the game itself is…

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Nothing Ear (a) review

The Nothing Ear (a) earbuds are great for listening to music or movies but they’re not the best for gaming. As a pair of earbuds for the average user—especially for those who care about style—they’re great, but for a PC gamer I unfortunately can’t give them a resounding recommendation. Style points are valid points, though,…

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‘MSI Afterburner is a bit PowerColor Afterburner now’ as the dev had to buy another manufacturer’s GPU to build support for AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards into the next beta

GPU overclocking and tweaking tool Afterburner has been the app of choice for countless PC gamers around the world since it first launched way back in the late 2000s. Since then, it’s supported almost every graphics card to appear on the market, but as things currently stand, it doesn’t fully support AMD’s Radeon RX 9070…

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Atlus promises it hasn’t forgotten how to make new Persona games, says it’s ‘actively preparing for’ something I’d bet money is Persona 6

One of the games industry’s many badly kept secrets broke cover yesterday when Atlus finally came out and admitted that, yup, it sure is remaking Persona 4. In a trailer operating at the very limits of ‘telling us nothing at all,’ we got a glimpse of good ol’ Inaba in scintillating ultra-HD. Hey, I’ll play…

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Move over Ashcroft, Resident Evil 9 will have its T-virus poster boy back in the limelight according to notable resi leaker: ‘Leon Kennedy is not the only playable character but he is the main character’

I have some very mixed feelings about the trailer for Resident Evil 9. Don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly happy to see it in the flesh, and the idea of returning to some iconic places fills me with nervous joy, but I’m also left wondering if we’ll ever see some of my favourite characters again….

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Lian Li’s new Hydroshift AIO cooler doesn’t work properly on some motherboards but it will send you a replacement part if you can’t get around the issue in the BIOS

At this year’s Computex event, cooler manufacturers went somewhat overboard with new models touting all kinds of flashy new features. Curved screens, rotating screens, tablet-sized screens, even screens doubling as a figurette display. With its new Hydroshift II LCD-C cooler, Lian Li wanted to keep things a little simpler, but it’s turned out that for…

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Xbox is headed to handhelds but its gaming-first UI will also land on existing ROG Ally and ROG Ally X and ‘other Windows handhelds starting next year’

There are two Xbox handhelds on the way, the ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally, except they’re not really an Xbox at all. They’re Windows PCs—respins of existing ROG Ally X and ROG Ally handhelds with new controls, processors, and a fresh, gaming-first Xbox UI enabled. If you’re feeling a little left behind…

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