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No good thing ever dies, Stephen King once wrote, and while he was talking about hope, the saying could well be applied to the hugely popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books from the 1980/1990s. That’s because one person has decided to revisit the magic of those books and old-school text-based RPGs, by inventing a bespoke…
My kingdom for a gaming handheld with better battery life. Well, other than the MSI Claw 8 AI+ and Asus ROG Ally X. I mean one I actually own, like my Steam Deck. But today I rejoice, for Valve’s latest Beta client update for the Deck is said to improve battery life. When the Steam…
Fortnite-dropping into The Lands Between wasn’t exactly how I thought I’d spend my weekend, but I also couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to experience Elden Ring Nightreign for myself. Despite being a bit confused and very afraid to start with, I soon got the hang of the fast-paced fights and chaotic boss battles, except…
Mass Effect 1 and 2 are, as far as I’m concerned, two of the best albums ever released, and the games they put out to promote them aren’t bad either. That’s in no small part down to composer Jack Wall, whose fingerprints are all over the iconic, wobbly synths of tracks like Vigil, Suicide Mission,…
Marvel Rivals is a bit of a genius trick, really. The concept of making a hero shooter, well, about super heroes? Downright savvy. Comic books are famous for having dozens upon dozens of characters with entire wardrobes of bespoke outfits pre-created—not to mention their powers lend themselves well to the ‘three-to-four abilities plus an ultimate’…
Marvel Rivals’ popularity has led to that most contemporary of cottage industries: A whole bunch of dataminers and supposed leakers that descend upon any new version of the game, and get into the guts to predict what’s coming next. Almost immediately after launch a large chunk of the future roster was apparently revealed via “hero…
If you’re a fan of 1990s disaster movies, you’ll know all about the potential damage that an undetected asteroid could wreak if it impacted Earth. While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder to spot. A team of physicists at MIT, however,…
AMD’s Frank Azor was quick to step on rumours last week of a 32 GB variant of the RX 9070 XT, categorically denying the mega-VRAM-equipped hypotheti-card would be released. Now it seems he’s just playing with us, as he’s taken to his X account once more to “tease” a 320 GB card called the 90700.05XTXT…
Live service games are treated like some great and powerful cheat code for generating awesome amounts of shareholder value. It’s so great that EA’s CEO thought that it could’ve saved Dragon Age: The Veilguard from underperforming, and a recent GDC survey revealed that a third of “triple-A developers” are working on live service games as…
Viewers of Super Mario 64 speedrunner, Bubzia, presumably spent an entire 60 minutes chewing off their fingernails—not because he was doing poorly, but because he was doing rather well. See, Bubzia is a special kind of speedrunner, choosing to tackle his game of choice with a blindfold on, and he’s been grinding at his world…