Marvel Rivals players will be able to complete the luxury battle pass even after the season ends which is music to my busy ears

Marvel Rivals is launching this evening, and is available to preload on Steam now. When players finally get into the game, they’ll be greeted with the first battle pass, and some cosmetics for the 33 heroes which, all things considered, aren’t that ridiculously priced. “Marvel Rivals is free to download, and heroes, maps, and other…

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The best solo board games

Best of the best Best board games — Best co-op board games Just because you’re looking for the best solo board games, doesn’t mean you have to conduct that search alone. We’re here to help you find the perfect way to spend an evening with just you, your tabletop, and a lovely box of tokens…

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Charity event Jingle Jam is off to a lively start, raising £750,000 in a day with just under 2 weeks to go—plus, you can get 18 very good games if you donate £35

Sometimes, it’s nice to remember that videogames can be a force for good in the world—as is the case with Jingle Jam, a charity event founded by The Yogscast that’s already pulled in £750,000 in its first evening. At the time of writing, that number’s already jumped to £1,400,000. Not a bad start, not bad…

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I really want to believe Intel’s claim that the drivers for its new Arc B580 1440p graphics card suffer from ‘no known issues of any kind’

Intel’s new Arc B580 graphics card looks super promising for budget 1440p gaming. But if there’s any doubt over the new GPU, it’s driver quality. After all, the initial driver quality for the first-gen Intel Arc A series cards like the A770 was pretty diabolical. But don’t panic. Because Intel says the drivers for the…

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Dungeon Clawler’s early access is quickly becoming one of my favourite roguelikes, even as I get dunked on repeatedly by the cruel claw of fate

‘You can’t always get what you want’ is great life advice—it is also what I have been repeating to myself, through gritted teeth, while playing Dungeon Clawler this afternoon. Objectively, the concept of “what if Slay the Spire, but you barely control the hand you play” shouldn’t be working as well as it is for…

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Former Blizzard president thinks Marvel Rivals is a rip-off of Overwatch and that Black Widow is a copy of Widowmaker, or maybe he’s joking—it’s impossible to tell

Mike Ybarra, the former President of Blizzard Entertainment, has graced us yet again with a terrible take or a terrible joke concerning the upcoming release of Marvel Rivals—we honestly can’t decide which one it is. “Looks like Overwatch Marvel Rivals ships tomorrow,” Ybarra says. “Much like Light of Motiram (a clear copy of HZD) out…

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Microsoft says 64 GB is the ‘ideal spec’ for Flight Simulator 2024 but I’ve tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference

When Microsoft released the system requirements for its latest iteration of Flight Simulator, there was probably a worldwide intake of breath, followed by a groan of despair from the sim community. Apart from recommending a Core i7 14700K and RTX 4080 combination as the ‘ideal spec’, Microsoft also suggests 64 GB of system memory would…

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Valve’s new ‘Powered by SteamOS’ branding has been unveiled, but it’s more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines

Hooo mama, what a time it is for Valve. It seems like a Steam Controller 2 is already in mass production and now it looks like SteamOS might soon be making its way onto third-party handhelds, or perhaps even other machines. It sure is an exciting time for anyone interested in GabeN’s gubbins, which is…

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There was a Lego James Bond pitch that never got made, presumably because of all the murder and sex involved with James Bond

A concept trailer for an abandoned Lego James Bond game has leaked online, and is currently being chased around by lawyers in a game of copyright whack-a-mole. The minute-long trailer, first shared on X but now mirrored across various platforms and easily findable, shows a selection of the different Bonds and recreations of some iconic…

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Intel just launched a brand new gaming graphics architecture but it has already designed a new generation of GPUs and it’s working on the generation after that

Intel’s brand new Arc B580 graphics card looks very promising for budget gaming. But it turns out that Intel has already designed the generation of GPUs that will follow. What’s more, Intel’s engineers are currently designing the generation after that. So says Intel’s lead gaming graphics spokesperson, Tom Petersen. Speaking to the Full Nerd podcast,…

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