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Maybe it’s a coincidence and maybe it’s not, but as the Artemis 2 spacecraft comes rolling around the moon like Jimmy Kirk and co. heading off to save the whales, the aging reach-for-the-stars simulator Kerbal Space Program is seeing a major uptick in players on Steam—according to SteamDB, achieving the highest concurrent player count the…
Marathon just completed its second full week since the rollout of its Ranked competitive mode, and despite the mind-boggling complexity of its holotag system, its players have been confronting a simple problem: When a game has ranks, players will cheat to climb them. Since its launch, reports of Ranked cheaters have become so prevalent that…
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (River City) series, has died at the age of 64. The news was announced by Kishimoto’s son Ryūbō on Facebook, who wrote (via machine translation) “I am sorry to inform you that my father has passed to rest on 2nd April 2026. Thank you very…
Last week, Valve rolled out a refresh for the Steam storefront that made the whole thing look quite a bit nicer than it used to. This week, the Steam Workshop is getting a similar treatment: An update to the UI designed to make browsing Workshop content quicker and easier. “The Steam Workshop remains a heavily…
Keith David has some big-time sci-fi videogame credits to his name, like Fallout, Halo, Mass Effect, and Destiny 2. But this may be his most impressive role yet: Making me think that Starfield sounds pretty damn cool. David’s dramatic reading in the new “This is Starfield” trailer, marking the long-awaited release of the Free Lanes…
The reveal of DLSS 5 was pretty much the biggest thing to happen in PC gaming last month, and also one of the most contentious. Indeed, our own team reacted with a whole heap of different emotions, from general antipathy to vitriolic ranting. In fact only a few of us were in any way measured…
There’s been a decent level of buzz around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite chip for a while now. That’s for good reason. It popped up on Geekbench last month, beating its x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance, and early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple in power. Now we’ve finally seen it…
Rumours around Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake CPUs have multiplied rapidly in recent days. Highlights include an IPC performance advantage over AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 chips, a core count upgrade for some models, and a massive APU variant to take on AMD’s Strix Halo or its successor. First up, those IPC claims. IPC refers to instructions…
With things getting kind of dicey on Earth, mankind is looking to the stars. We’ve got that big Starfield update, those guys off loitering around the Moon, and now even Crimson Desert—a game not renowned for its hardcore space simulation—is getting in on the action as players send Kliff into orbit. As documented by YouTube…
SteelSeries has updated its longstanding Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 rodent for 2026 as it seeks to bring a veteran of the ultralight rodent world up to date. The changes are mostly inside, with a shiny new sensor, higher wireless polling and major improvements to battery life. The £100/$100 price tag is enticing, although we’ve…