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Julian Gollop’s next game does not look like a Julian Gollop game. The man forever fated to be referred to as ‘XCOM creator Julian Gollop’ in headlines is making a game with no RNG, no turns, and no apocalyptic bleakness. Chip ‘n Clawz vs The Brainioids is as perky as its name suggests, and its…
It’s not easy surviving in the Living Lands. Everywhere I go in Avowed, I meet desperate, scared people, laid low by nature, or criminals, or political conflict. They tell me their sad stories, and I swear to help them however I can. And then I walk into their house and steal all their possessions. Fair…
As a man who has listened to one third of Mike Duncan’s History of Rome podcast and seen James Purefoy absolutely tear it up as Mark Antony in HBO’s Rome, I’m something of an expert in Roman history. So, naturally, when Alessandro Roberti’s new RPG Never Second In Rome came out in early access a…
I’ve been around this game long enough now to have sat through many immersive gaming experiences. VR headsets, racing wheels, game-synced RGB room lighting, bum-rumblers, the lot. But there’s inevitably a point where all this gear transitions from a gameplay-enhancing experience booster into something genuinely terrifying, and I think TikTok user Idaxix may have found…
If you didn’t play My Friend Pedro, you missed out. Specifically, you missed out on clearing a room full of Real Bad Dudes by ricocheting bullets off a casually thrown frying pan while leaping from a skateboard in midair slow-motion. DeadToast Entertainment, the developer of My Friend Pedro, is back with another slow-mo gunfest called…
Despite NetEase’s promise that Marvel Rivals will get a couple of new heroes every half of a season, some players still think there are too many Duelists compared to the amount of Vanguards and Strategists on offer. There’s no sign of this being solved just yet, so in the meantime, one player has decided to…
For as long as I’ve been writing about PC hardware, I’ve hoped for a processor with an integrated GPU that was genuinely good for gaming. The AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 is that chip. It’s a mobile API that’s desktop-grade in a few ways, with a Radeon 8050S bringing 32 Compute Units (CUs) of graphical…
Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Lenovo) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Lenovo) Image 3 of 3 (Image credit: Lenovo) If you think foldable phones are a bit too much, look away now, as a leaked Lenovo image shows off perhaps the largest foldable device I’ve ever seen. Think of a normal laptop, then…
I find that the best way to stay sane between playing frustrating competitive games like Valorant, Overwatch 2, or Marvel Rivals is to cut through the intensity with calm and relaxing puzzle games. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms, and this is mine. So I’m always on the lookout for a new cute little game…
George RR Martin famously took inspiration for a scene in his Song of Ice and Fire books from the Black Dinner of 1440, an event in Scottish history where two noblemen—believing they were safe as guests at a dinner—were suddenly seized and executed without trial. Coincidentally, this took place at roughly the same time as…