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Last month Unity, one of the biggest game engines, tried to push out a massively controversial change to the way it does business. Namely a retroactive fee taken from devs for every install of a game—no matter how that install happened. Putting your game up on Game Pass or Humble Bundle? Doesn’t matter, Unity wanted…
Ah, Microsoft Edge. When the topic of which browser to use rears its ugly head, the room tends to quickly devolve into two main camps: Chrome or Firefox, with an occasional incursion from a group of Safari enthusiasts in the corner. However, when the debate dies down and there’s a lull in the conversation, a…
Konami has fixed one of the more glaring issues with the Master Collection version of Metal Gear Solid 1. When the game hit Steam three days ago, players were supposed to be able to download different language packs—Japanese, US English and what-have-you—via the game’s launcher. Unfortunately, the relevant Steam pages were inexplicably AWOL, making international…
There’s good news for Intel, as it has beaten expectations with its latest financial forecasts. Perhaps that’s why CEO Pat Gelisinger is so bullish about the threat from a new generation of Arm chips. During an earnings call with investors, Gelsinger dismissed the threat to Intel’s traditional x86 CPUs from a new generation of Arm…
Iron Lung has just had a major update that includes a ‘Markiplier mode’. This indie horror game grew in popularity after the YouTuber did a full playthrough last year that gained over 8 million views, and he enjoyed it so much that he is currently directing and starring in an Iron Lung film adaptation. The…
At the launch of the RTX 20-series, Nvidia promised “Graphics Reinvented“. That was five years ago, and you could point to various graphical options in games since that were simply not possible before ray tracing acceleration and upscaling came to be. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty springs to mind. Yet Alan Wake 2 feels a much…
If you’re looking for Cult Stashes in Alan Wake 2, you’ve come to the right place. These containers are filled with ammo, health items, and batteries, so it’s worth your time working out how to get into them so you can stockpile as many items as you can. Most of these containers are secured with…
You’ll find Manuscript Fragments fairly early on in Alan Wake 2 and these little scraps of paper are needed to upgrade your weapons. The fragments are always hidden inside colourful lunchboxes and the amount you get from each will vary, so don’t be disappointed if you only get one as the next might give you…
If you’re trying to figure out how to enter Caldera St. Station in Alan Wake 2, you’re not alone. Locating the station isn’t an issue as you’ll find a map pretty quickly once you get out of the Talk Show Studio and onto the streets. What is an issue though is knowing how to get…
The Nursery Rhyme puzzles in Alan Wake 2 can be pretty confusing at first, but once you’ve solved a few of these riddles, the rest become much easier to figure out. Each puzzle has a number of colourful, child-like pictures drawn on the ground in chalk with a “rhyme” at the centre. You need to…