Is This Seat Taken? is an upcoming adorable puzzle game all about dealing with stinky triangles and snotty squares, and just trying to make everyone happy

I find that the best way to stay sane between playing frustrating competitive games like Valorant, Overwatch 2, or Marvel Rivals is to cut through the intensity with calm and relaxing puzzle games. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms, and this is mine. So I’m always on the lookout for a new cute little game…

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George RR Martin says there’s ‘talk’ of an Elden Ring movie but he might not be involved because, ah geez, he’s really gotta write this Winds of Winter book

George RR Martin famously took inspiration for a scene in his Song of Ice and Fire books from the Black Dinner of 1440, an event in Scottish history where two noblemen—believing they were safe as guests at a dinner—were suddenly seized and executed without trial. Coincidentally, this took place at roughly the same time as…

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‘A massive, massive moment of wow.’ Microsoft CEO predicts AI-generated games are a ‘CGI moment’ for the industry

Microsoft’s new AI-powered game generation platform Muse is akin to the impact that CGI had on the film industry. So, says CEO Satya Nadella in a wide ranging interview covering everything from AI and quantum computing, to the future of economic growth, while slightly ignoring the fact that Microsoft’s AI-generated games are only running at…

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‘It’s very straightforward’: Acer plans to raise the price of its PCs in the US by 10% in reaction to Trump’s tech tariffs

President Trump may have only come into office mere months ago, but it already has a buzzword—and that word is tariff. While it’s unclear if all of Trump’s threats to heavily tax imports from various countries into the US will materialise, his administration has already announced a trade policy that includes a 10% tariff on…

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There’s a simple way to enable FSR 3 frame gen in Avowed and it more than doubled my frame rate, but it makes waterfalls look ugly as sin

I’ve only spent a brief few hours with Obsidian’s RPG/fish-person-friend simulator Avowed so far, but I’m enjoying my time with it. What I haven’t been enjoying is the occasional frame rate dip, along with a general twitchiness our Nick highlighted in his performance analysis. However, it turns out there’s actually a simple tweak that enables…

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Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback’s grueling difficulty: ‘You could just chug gasoline’

Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I’ve played in a while, but don’t let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it’s that anything’s possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source….

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Fallout 76’s former project lead says it’s still his favourite game he worked on, but the initial reception was demoralising: ‘I got yelled at in an Apple Store, I’ll never forget’

Fallout 76 has become another feather in Bethesda’s cap, assisted by the fact that it’s the game best-positioned to take advantage of the popularity of Amazon’s fantastic Fallout TV show, and thanks to the cavalcade of transformative free updates. But it wasn’t always like this. At launch, the reception was rough. An online-only Fallout game…

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If you ever got the feeling a customer support line is intentionally keeping you on hold in the hope you’ll go away it turns out the HP is doing precisely that with a minimum 15 wait

That feeling a customer support line is deliberately designed to keep you hanging in the hope that you’ll just go away. We’ve all had it, right? Now it turns out HP has introduced a minimum 15 wait to PC and printer support phonelines in some territories with the explicit intention to push customers to use…

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