Mackie CR3.5BT + CR8SBT subwoofer review

I’ve long been of the opinion that you don’t necessarily need a set of gaming-specific speakers for great gaming audio. That probably sounds rather counterintuitive, I know, but unless you’re prepared to run the cabling nightmare that is a 5.1 system around your gamer cave, a good set of regular speakers has long been my…

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Animal Use Protocol’s dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era

When chimp-and-rat buddy horror adventure Animal Use Protocol was first announced late last year, I felt fear. Not the good kind that tiny South African indie outfit The Brotherhood had so well cultivated with their Stasis point-and-click adventure series, but worries that shifting to a real-time, first-person perspective would ruin the perfectly unpleasant vibes the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 21

Our flexible clue for today’s Wordle is here to help and ready whenever you are. Read it before your first row to supercharge your opener and then work out the rest from there. Or save it for later if the clues you’ve found aren’t making much sense, or maybe haven’t turned up at all. And…

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Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting a new mountain next month and a whole bunch more throughout the year, including a game editor

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting lots of new content in 2025, studio Megagon Industries announced today. The wait won’t be long either: a new mountain will be added on April 9 in a free update, bringing the total to four. Like the existing slopes it’ll boast four trails, each with harder variations and challenges….

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‘The Middle East’s answer to Marvel Rivals’ is an ‘AI-powered’, crypto-infused hero shooter that looks like hot garbage

If Farcana is “the Middle East’s answer to the acclaimed Marvel Rivals,” as its developer claims, I don’t see Disney quivering in its boots anytime soon. Developed by 160-person Abu Dhabi-based studio Dizzaract—which apparently makes it the largest game studio in the region—Farcana is a 5v5 hero shooter packing the noxious double whammy of AI…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director was ‘starving for new turn-based RPGs,’ and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who’d want to play his game

I had the chance to talk to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer François Meurisse during the 2025 Game Developers Conference, and the Sandfall Interactive COO got down to brass tacks about how the game draws on JRPG history, the types of stories that can be told with these mechanics, and how the ambitious Expedition 33…

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In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: ‘The hubris of man’

Sometime in the first or second century AD, the ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria invented the world’s first steam engine. In Echoes of Elysium, an upcoming survival game from Loric Games, Heron didn’t stop there: He’s punched a hole into Elysium, the mythic paradise of Greco-Roman mythology, where he’s harvesting the souls…

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