Atomfall review

Need to know What is it? A semi open-world sci-fi mystery based on a real nuclear disaster from the ’50s. Release date March 27, 2025 Expect to pay $50/£45 Developer Rebellion Publisher Rebellion Reviewed on RTX 4090, Intel i9-13900k, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Verified Link Official site I’ve spent years wandering many an inhospitable wasteland,…

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Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren’t happy: ‘I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins’

Ghouls made their way into Fallout 76 earlier this week, and since then it’s mostly been positive. Regular players can now rely on ghouls to collect irradiated ore and venture into radioactive zones during events. But there’s a small issue that’s recently split the playerbase down the middle: access to ghoul camps can be a…

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Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the ‘meme Turing test’ has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps

A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated captions are, generally speaking, found to score higher for creativity, humor, and “shareability” than those captioned by humans only, as well as humans in partnership with AI. The one bright spot: Humans did overall create the most exceptional memes. But not enough, fleshbags….

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest stress test update fixes heartbreaking bug that caused a total party-wipe on Ironman Mode at the game’s final boss, forcing dejected testers to restart the entire game

It has been exactly one year since we published news that Larian was done with Baldur’s Gate 3. You’d be forgiven for forgetting, given that the studio has released one patch and seven hotfixes for the game since then. But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, Larian announced that it’s got a third stress test update for…

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Acer Predator Z57 gaming monitor review

There is no single display technology that does everything well. That’s an objective fact and something the stupendous, incredible and delightful new Acer Predator Z57 does absolutely nothing to change. Along with the closely related Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC, this is one of if not the most spectacular gaming monitors available today. And yet…

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X-Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week

As much as I like getting friends sat down around a table, I breathed a deep sigh of relief when it was announced that tactical dungeon crawler Gloomhaven was coming to PC, due to the tabletop version being a terrifyingly huge (and expensive) obelisk full of smaller boxes, each containing innumerable smaller, easily lost pieces….

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CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?

“We are now running production silicon in Arizona.” So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Exactly what silicon? How many chips? Hold those thoughts. The term “production silicon” is a significant upgrade from previous confirmations from Nvidia that it merely had plans to make chips at TSMC’s factory in Arizona. Likewise, “production silicon”…

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After Ubi came crawlin’ back to Steam, Assassin’s Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla’s player record

Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin’s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media. It’s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this…

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Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn’t own the rights to Half-Life—’It wasn’t an idle threat—we weren’t going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich’

It’s the 2025 Game Developer’s Conference, and one of this year’s most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer. Harrington’s career has been very much on the business side of software development but, way back in Valve’s early days, she suddenly realised “there…

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