Blue Prince foundation elevator: how to use it

It’s not long into Blue Prince when you first find “The Foundation”—a rare draftable room that has the unique attribute of always appearing in the same place on the map. This permanent room has some noteworthy features, like dirt floors with several diggable spots and three doors in the east, west, and south walls. Most…

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Black Mirror Season 7 has an episode about a sim game where you take care of cute little creatures, and here’s the twist: it’s a real game you can play right now

Black Mirror Season 7 has begun streaming on Netflix, and one of its episodes, “Plaything,” is about a sim game from the 1990s where players care for little critters in the wild and teach them to survive on their own. The fictional game is called Thronglets, and guess what? It’s not so fictional after all….

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It took me 25 hours to ‘finish’ puzzle strategy game Blue Prince—and 15 hours after that I’m still uncovering new mysteries

The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince—and I’m talking about the first time I played a demo way back in March of 2024—I noticed something interesting about one of its rooms. I won’t say what it was that I noticed—I’m going to be obnoxiously vague throughout this…

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Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change

It’s that time of the GPU season where we patiently await affordable graphics cards after the initial high-end launches (and yes, referring to a generation as a ‘GPU season’ is a thing, okay). And while there’s no official word yet from Nvidia or AMD regarding new low-end cards, rumours and leaks abound, the latest being…

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Multibillion-dollar MMO Dungeon Fighter Online is huge in Asia but ‘not as well known in the West,’ and The First Berserker: Khazan was meant to change that

2D MMO Dungeon Fighter Online could quite possibly be the most lucrative game ever made that you’ve never played. Launched in Korea in 2005 as Dungeon & Fighter, it’s since spawned sequels and spin-offs that have earned some $22 billion over the years. Despite being a massive hit in Asia, Dungeon Fighter Online never quite…

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Valve Deckard, a long-rumoured standalone VR headset, might not be too far off if these leaked shipping manifests are legit

There’ve certainly been a lot of Valve Deckard rumours over the last couple of years, but this one, at least, seems more tangible than previous ones referencing driver files and so on, because it’s at least about something physical that’s actually moving around in the world. The word on the street according to prolific Deckard…

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Marvel Rivals is launching an ‘experimental feature’ to help players deal with the game’s awful performance and insatiable appetite for RAM

The worst part of Marvel Rivals is its optimisation—loading in can take an age, and I’ve encountered my fair share of stuttering and even some crashes. The fact that I really enjoy playing this game, spitting whole teams off the edge of the map as Jeff, makes all of that even more frustrating. I’m suffering…

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