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NASA has demonstrated a successful transmission of a high-definition video from a probe over 30 million kilometres away in space. Instead of using the traditional method of radio waves, the system onboard asteroid-probe Psyche utilises a powerful near-infrared laser beam. Rather than showing us the unnerving splendour of the empty void, engineers chose a 15-second…
After nearly three decades and a genuinely unhealthy number of hours spent raising armies and devouring maps, I confess that my passion for 4X games has started to dwindle. As grand strategy games like Crusader Kings have grown ever more complex and flavourful, Civilization and its children just don’t pack the punch that they once…
Going out with a bang, Mimimi’s final game, Shadow Gambit, was our favourite stealth game of the year. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page. Phil Savage, UK Editor-in-Chief: Since 2016, Mimimi Games has been single handedly keeping the stealth tactics genre alive. Its first game, Shadow Tactics: Blades of…
Less than a week ago, AMD released the full source code for its FSR 3 generation technology, and one of the first mods to utilise it has been released. This one is a bit special, though, as it can be used to replace DLSS 3 Frame Generation in any game that uses Nvidia’s system. It’s…
JoCat, creator of the ‘A Crap Guide to X‘ series for both D&D and Final Fantasy 14, has announced that he’ll be taking an ‘indefinite break’ in the wake of harassment, as announced on his Twitter yesterday. In a further thread, JoCat lays out a timeline following the wake of his I Like Girls video—a…
Iron Lung, an indie horror game so popular it’s getting a movie adaptation starring Markiplier, has raised its pricing on Steam to $8 (£6.70), a price hike of two whole dollars. For some reason, this has upset people to the point where the game’s developer David Szymanski felt the need to respond. In a thread…
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has endured a torrid road to launch. In April, the game was delayed to February next year, after its State-of-Play presentation two months prior saw a tepid response from audiences. The more recent Story and Gameplay deep-dive showed greater promise, but since then the Internet has been flooded with…
Undisputed is the quintessential enthusiast videogame, where an industry outsider who just really likes something—pro boxing, in this case—takes it on themselves to make a game about that thing with all the elements they think it should include, regardless of what conventional game development wisdom may say. Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to…
Win Wordle today in record time with our help—just click your way straight to the answer and then spend the rest of your day basking in the warm glow of a job well done. Alternatively, you might prefer to take a look at the clue written for the December 19 (913) puzzle instead, if you’d…
Now that The Finals has been out over a week and lots of people are still playing, its burgeoning community is grappling with a question that we all ask of our preferred shooters at some point: is it too sweaty, and is it skill-based matchmaking’s fault? It started last week, when developer Embark Studios released…