How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

Surviving the harsh wastes of Arrakis is much less intimidating with friends, but Dune: Awakening multiplayer isn’t the easiest thing to set up thanks to some awkward menus. With a much more linear opening than most survival sandboxes, there are also a few kinks to iron out if you’re looking to play with others. Below,…

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Doom: The Dark Ages review

NEED TO KNOW What is it The latest FPS from the makers of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein.Release Date May 15, 2025Expect to Pay $70/£60Developer id SoftwarePublisher MicrosoftReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel Core i9 9900KS, 32GB RAMMultiplayer NoSteam Deck UntestedLink Official site In a time when the FPS campaign is so vanishingly rare that the…

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Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn’t a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine

Doom has been around so long—32 years and counting—that you’d be forgiven for thinking that developers id Software must have produced hundreds of entries for the franchise on PC. The shocking truth is there have just been five, if one ignores all the third-party versions, expansion stuff and rejigged editions. And it’s been five years…

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HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop review

The 16-inch gaming laptop is a wonderful invention. The slightly larger screen over a 15.6-inch model, made even wider thanks to modern slim bezels, looks great, and allows for a chassis that’s just that tiny bit roomier, so we get full-size keys, numpads, even speakers. They’re not as ridiculous as 18-inch laptops—those silly machines—and you…

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MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all

Science classrooms across the globe have been pedalling a lie for decades, maybe even centuries. Eggs are not stronger when dropped on their ends. So say researchers from MIT, who claim that eggs are far stronger on their sides. Apparently, “sideways eggs bend like shock absorbers, trading stiffness for superior energy absorption.” Apart from overturning…

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All Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes

The Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes have arrived, giving you a little bump of Stellar Jade you can put to use when pulling for new or returning characters in the big update. For those of you who might have only started playing recently, miHoYo runs a livestream for Honkai: Star Rail every six weeks,…

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Oblivion Remastered mod makes being a stealthy murder king easy, boosting your sneak attack damage modifiers from good to Grim Reaper

If, like me, you enjoy playing stealthy characters in fantasy RPGs, then a new mod that boosts sneak attack damage multipliers in Oblivion Remastered is well worth checking out. As standard in Oblivion Remastered, almost all weapon types deal the same sneak attack multipliers, which are x2 at Novice, before climbing (and crucially stalling) at…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s got its first proper hotfix patch, and as promised, the 2 billion damage build is well and truly dead. Stendhal’s been de-juiced, and a second, surprise nerf to Medalum will also tone down Maelle’s damage just a bit. Overall, the update’s relatively minor—it has a bunch of fixes to ultrawide support…

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