Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: ‘The critique is fair … we got work to do’

The narrative FPS Industria 2 caught my eye in 2024 with a creepy trailer that gave me serious Half-Life 2 vibes. Set years after the original game, it tells the story of a woman trapped in a rather awful parallel dimension that’s being ravaged by an out-of-control artificial intelligence. It looks and sounds very cool,…

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YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Hey, it’s mryeester again. We’ve covered this particular YouTuber’s attempts to build an infinite ice-based CPU cooler, and edible thermal paste. The PC prankster has upped their game this time, though, as they’ve now figured out a way to cool a CPU with dry ice, regular ice’s even cooler cousin. Sort of. Anyway, it turns…

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Razer Kiyo V2 X review

There’s a good argument to be made that 1440p webcams are almost as niche as 4K ones. A webcam has a specific purpose (fitting on your monitor and letting your meeting participants/gamer buddies see you), and if you end up paying enough, it almost just makes sense to go for something dedicated instead. At least…

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This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

I’m dating myself here, but the operating systems I remember most clearly banging my head against in my youth were Windows 95 and Windows XP. Obviously, plenty of computer interface history predates the panel-style design we’re so familiar with now, and Microsoft has announced fresh efforts to preserve this. Microsoft has shared the source code…

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Everyone’s favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

Only recently did we swap out the internet’s most beloved egg-shaped mouse, the Logitech G305, as our pick for the best budget wireless gaming mouse, with the Mchose G3 V2 Pro. Although the G3 V2 Pro shares the same eggy shape—it’s a G305 ‘clone’—the Logi mouse is simply a little dated compared to the G3…

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ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD’s FSR upscaler or Microsoft’s NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming

With the vast majority of handheld gaming PCs using an AMD chip to handle graphics duties, users have been mostly limited to using FSR upscaling to give frame rates a healthy bump. However, with its latest update, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X now offers Microsoft’s Auto SR as a different option, and this upscaler…

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