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Here’s a twisty tale of alleged corporate espionage for you. A number of TSMC employees have been accused of attempting to feed trade secrets to Japan-based competitor Rapidus, having allegedly shared 400 technical photos with the smaller startup foundry. According to Money.udn.com, this communication exposed details relating to TSMC’s upcoming 2 nm-class fabrication process (via…

OK, everybody stay calm. What do you mean you’re calm? Well I’m also calm! I’m totally fine and not-at-all losing my unsteady grip on my own mind. We might genuinely have a (tentative, tenuous) Silksong release date. Naturally, it hasn’t come from Team Cherry, but it’s the strongest dose of cope we’ve had so far….

It’s hard to remember Creative Assembly wasn’t always synonymous with the Total War series, and yet, once upon a time, they were so well-known for sports games that pivoting away was seen as a risk. That’s part of the story told in a retrospective video about the making of Total War: Shogun put together to…

Get that Friday feeling in your daily puzzle gaming by treating yourself to an easy Wordle win. We won’t tell anyone if you take a sneaky peek at the August 8 (1511) answer, promise. And if you want to browse today’s hints and helpful clue at any time while you’re here? We didn’t see a…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved…

When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis’ astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game?…

Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of…

I am fully on board with the year of the ninja. A month ago I was pleading with my PC Gamer colleagues to consider Ninja Gaiden 2 Black for this year’s Top 100 list of the finest computer games to play right now; I’ve played dozens of hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the stealth…

I’ve been hooked on Hell Clock since it was released last month. Few games nail what I want out of a loot-driven action RPG like Diablo, and Hell Clock pulls it off while also having the roguelike-driven improvisation of games like Hades. Hell Clock is a game that wants you to break it, and its…

Balatro is beginning to seem like less of a game and more like an all-encompassing cosmic force that stretches along inscrutable dimensions until everything is folded within it and reshaped into clowns, cards, and hypnotic chillwave. Today, we have yet more evidence thanks to new crossover content for Rusty’s Retirement, the delightful robotic farming idler…