This underwater city builder had me more emotionally invested in my corals than SimCity does in my human citizens, and you can try it at the next Steam Next Fest

I love metropolitan city builders, but once I’m done turning fertile riverside plains into a mess of eight-lane highways and coal plants, I can’t help but wonder if I’ve maybe been a net negative for the world around me. When I saw Life Below on Steam—a city builder all about constructing reefs that opens its…

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SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review

I really wanted to love the SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless, and in some ways, I do. It’s very versatile, sturdy, and has reminded me of the very real benefits of removable batteries in gaming mice. It’s also pretty well priced. Because of all this, I reckon it’s ideal for some select use cases….

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It’s taken the genius behind Elden Ring’s seamless co-op mod less than 24 hours to get a working prototype going for Nightreign, allowing 2-person matches

FromSoftware, I love thee dearly—but I think we can all agree that your multiplayer elements are always a little goofy. In the Dark Souls games and Elden Ring, the laborious process of summoning phantoms to your world is kinda part of the charm: a diegetic way to invite spirits beyond the rift into your RPG….

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Civilization 7’s senior historian once deleted Civ 6’s massive Civilopedia, replacing every entry with a single warmongering emperor: ‘The entire folder just went, and I looked, and it was just my one little entry’

The Byzantine emperor Basil II had an illustrious career. He ruled for almost 50 years, stood fast during a time of perpetual civil war, subjugated the First Bulgarian Empire and won a large number of military campaigns. And thanks to Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, he briefly conquered history, replacing every single entry in Civilization 6‘s…

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ASRock acknowledges AMD is not at fault for recent CPU failures and recommends updating the BIOS now, though we still don’t know if problems have actually been fixed

ASRock’s motherboard saga has been an ongoing story for months now, with CPUs appearing to fail, ASRock finding debris at fault for one problem, and then over 100 cases of AMD 9800X3D chips dying in just a few short weeks. Just days ago, ASRock acknowledged problems with its board, with an accompanying BIOS fix, and…

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