This ’90s PC game’s one-of-a-kind combination of puzzles and RPG heroics was the perfect way to jumpstart my brain for the new year

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Kogado Studio Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, X68000 (Image credit: Kogado Studio) The mysterious snack-hoovering gap between holiday celebrations and getting back to normal is a great…

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‘Geralt cannot let Yennefer go’: The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep has an easter egg that was cut from the main series, and it’ll likely include more about Geralt and Yennefer

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is a new animated project from Netflix that’ll explore one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, A Little Sacrifice. In an interview with SFX magazine (via GamesRadar), writer Mike Ostrowski discussed what fans can expect from this movie including a neat little easter egg. Sirens of the Deep is set…

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US congressman calls again for the government to ban Chinese-made TP-Link routers: ‘I would not have that in my home’

While the TikTok US ban debacle rolls on, it looks like TP-Link is being considered for the same treatment. After a letter signed by two US congressmen called for a ban of TP-Link devices last summer for having “unusual vulnerabilities” linked to Chinese cyberattacks, one of its signees is now voicing continued concerns. Rep. Raja…

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Sniper Elite: Resistance review

Need to Know What is it?: A third-person snipe ’em up with tense combat and fun stealthExpect to pay: £44.99 / $49.99Developer: Rebellion Publisher: RebellionReviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core processor, 32GB RamMultiplayer?: Yes, co-op and adversarial Link: Official Site Nazis are pretty much the definitive bad guys. They’re perfect videogame…

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You don’t need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor’s subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens

The best gaming monitors are engineering marvels, packed with millions of pixels, that can change colour quicker than you can imagine. You do need a decent graphics card to push them all around, though, but one inspired coder has a solution to this in the form of a game that just uses your monitor’s subpixels….

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