F1 25 review

Sebastian Vettel once said over the radio: “We have to remember these days because there’s no guarantee they will last forever.” There’s an odd feeling of that here, and not only due to F1’s stablemate WRC being ‘paused’ by EA. Rather, 2016’s genius revamp of the career mode was arguably perfected in 2018 and here…

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CDPR didn’t put harsh themes in Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 ‘for the sake of edginess’, but because ‘you’re probably not making art’ if the devs are never challenged

It’s not exactly news that Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 both grapple with heavy-hitting themes—but there are a few stand-out moments that can really crawl under your skin. For me, just about all of ol’ 2077 was a bit of an existential nightmare, though it was one I was thoroughly enthralled by. Speaking to…

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Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since ‘the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG’

Peter Mandelson, the oleaginous right-hand of Tony Blair’s Labour Party in the late ’90s, once remarked to a colleague that the party had no need to focus on its traditional voter base, and could safely dedicate itself to chasing more affluent, middle-class, conservative voters. After all, said Mandelson, its base had “nowhere else to go”….

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I’ve seen every PC case that Computex has to offer and this new Havn chassis is my top pick thanks to its abnormally large fans, front grille and airflow optimisation

This year’s Computex tech show in Taipei was filled with new and lavishly designed PC cases. Some big, some small, some in the shape of cats with swords from popular videogames. Yet one stood out to me more than most, and that’s the Havn BF 360. Available in black and white, Havn has stuck with…

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After 4 years, Final Fantasy 14 finally has a new exploration zone in the Occult Crescent—and even if I’d have liked one sooner, I can’t wait to get stuck in

For grumpy old Final Fantasy 14 enjoyers like myself who won’t stop banging on about how the game doesn’t have midcore content—good news! The game has midcore content now, and we can finally shut up until patch 8.0. Released in Patch 7.25 today, the Occult Crescent, a new Bozja-style exploration zone, is now open to…

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