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Actor Michael Madsen, known for his portrayal of brooding, intimidating tough guys in a career spanning more than 40 years, has died at age 67. The Hollywood Reporter says the cause of death has been reported as cardiac arrest. Madsen appeared in hundreds of films and televisions shows over the years, beginning with something called…
RAM manufacturers try their best to keep prices high for their latest memory chips, but alas, price trends have worked in our favour in recent years, despite AI’s best efforts to bolster demand and raise prices in recent months. The introduction of DDR5 saw prices increase for the latest memory, and this initial memory had…
Marvel Rivals has a monumental task in front of it after promising players a new hero every month and a half. So far, the devs have made good on their promise with new heroes every half-season, the latest being Phoenix and Blade, with the former arriving in under a week for the start of Season…
Blitz Royale is Fortnite’s newest mode, and players can’t get enough: it’s currently more popular than Fortnite’s core 100-player battle royale. I love its frantic firefights and, as I wrote at the start of the month, I hope it’ll be a gateway for new players to other game modes. It has a new map, faster…
I love graphics cards. They’re absolutely my favourite PC component. That’s not a hot take; I’m a simple man and thing-makes-pretty-pictures-flow-faster-in-front-of-eyes is an easy thing to become obsessed with. And I’ve had a long time to get nerdy with them, too, having built my first PC in the early ’90s and been professionally testing PC…
It’s become my solemn duty to keep tabs on the whole Silksong situation. The “we announced a game several years ago and barely talk about it” situation. The “we have people coming up with conspiracy theories including Napoleon” situation. The “every time there’s a showcase, we bet it all on red and lose” situation. Imagine…
Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per the calculations of its own data scientist Kristian Miller—Valve makes more money per head than Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and any other tech titan you care to name? That was remarkable, as news days go, but there…
During the pandemic, while most of us were stuck inside, the RocketWerkz dev team, including former DayZ creative director Brian Hicks and head honcho Dean Hall, were roaming around in Eco—an early access sandbox that Hicks describes as a “little educational game for middle-schoolers”. Hicks was there at the birth of the modern survival genre,…
I’ve played Marvel Rivals almost every day since launch, and while I’m far from the best, most consistent player, I’ve hovered around the Grandmaster regions in competitive, peaking at Celestial 2. At times, trying to take Rivals seriously and play competitively has been an act of self-targeted psychic damage, largely because the hero balance has…
Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any modern OS—have finally released its much-anticipated 0.49 update. Okay, work actually began on it…