How to use Soulstones in The First Berserker: Khazan

Smashing your first Soulstone in The First Berserker: Khazan is a bit confusing—a little message pops up saying “You’ve destroyed a mysterious energy-emitting ore” but nothing else happens. You can find these red glowing crystals scattered throughout each of Khazan’s missions, and while you might have assumed they impact the ending as mysterious objects often…

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Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ culture war nonsense

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has landed some solid success on online storefronts, and an overall decent critical reception. PC Gamer’s own Morgan Park gave it an 80 in his review, which is none too shabby. To celebrate, Ubisoft has gone from avoiding treading on eggshells, to getting its biggest, chunkiest eggshell-stomping boots and marauding through an…

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Total War: Warhammer 3 rolls out a cool Kislev overhaul, changes befitting Tzeench’s magic, new projectile units and creakier skeletal horses

Despite being the poster faction for Total War: Warhammer 3, actually playing the Russian-inspired Kislevites in Creative Assembly’s ever-expansive strategy sandbox has always been a bit contentious. The pain-points went beyond mere frostbite, with the fiddly political back-and-forth between the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy putting a chilling effect on those wanting to play…

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‘We’re actually getting GeoGuessr on Steam before GTA 6’: the Google Street View puzzler arrives on Valve’s platform this April

Online puzzler GeoGuessr has taken players across the globe, but its most recently revealed location is perhaps its unlikeliest yet. The game, which involves identifying real world places based on contextual clues from Google Street View images, is getting a Steam edition that arrives next month. “We’re bringing Duels to Steam,” announced the GeoGuessr X…

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Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal

If you thought the Napster peer-to-peer music sharing platform was long since toast, a new $207 million deal says otherwise. Turns out the brand has been bought and will be reborn as a metaverse-based platform with which musicians will connect their melodic wares to fans. Not to put too fine a point on it, but…

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Don’t panic! The ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ option Amazon just removed was only used by 0.03% of customers and they can still have it

Take a deep breath. While we are definitely living in a weird dystopian cyber future, the news around Amazon ending opt-out support for sending recordings from its personal devices isn’t actually as bad as it sounds. It’s probably one of the few times something like this isn’t as insidious as it implies, so enjoy this…

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Intel is reportedly ‘working to finalize commitments from Nvidia’ as a foundry partner, suggesting gaming potential for the 18A node

If the reports that Nvidia is interested in partnering with Intel’s foundry business “potentially for gaming appplications” is actually genuine, then this indeed good news for struggling chip giant. Over the past year we’ve seen the company’s struggles lead to the retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger, who’s now spearheading the Christian faith tech company Gloo….

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