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Core Keeper was probably 2022’s best co-op survival experience, getting the mix of cosy and creepy just right. An awesome mix of battling, exploration, crafting and farming in a sandbox setting, Core Keeper has already received substantial post-launch support and, with upcoming expansion The Shimmering Frontier, gets bigger than ever. The Shimmering Frontier will introduce…
Ubisoft has excelled itself with the PR for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, coming up with one of the daftest PR stunts I’ve ever seen and, yes, I’m writing about it so it worked. Forget people in vans with parcels. What the gamers need, you see, is a bird of prey delivering the latest hotness straight to…
While CD Projekt Red is sadly moving on from Cyberpunk 2077 to focus on the sequel, meaning we won’t be getting any more expansions or significant updates, there’s still a wee bit of polishing to do. Update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty arrived in a good state, but there’s still some room for improvement, which is…
You’ll gain notoriety If you’re caught robbing people, banging into and aggravating guards, or straight-up murdering folk in Assassin’s Creed Mirage. There are three levels of notoriety that increase your chances of being attacked on sight as each stage progresses, but thankfully, there’s a way to step out of the light and into the shadows…
Imagine an even more rubbish modern Nvidia GPU than the RTX 3050. Tricky, isn’t it? Well, according to rumours Nvidia dares to dream. Allegedly, there’s a new 3050 in the works with a smaller memory bus, lower clockspeeds and less VRAM than the existing RTX 3050. That’s right, a new RTX 3050, not a new…
Battle.net, Blizzard’s own PC game launcher and storefront, and your only port of call (for now) to play games like Diablo 4, World of Warcraft, and other Blizzard games, is having technical issues. A tweet from the Blizzard CS EU account from earlier this morning says the company is “currently investigating an issue” affecting its…
Intel has unleashed yet another new driver for its Arc gaming GPUs claiming major performance boosts. There are 20 DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games are on the list, with performance increased by up to 119%. The big winner from driver version 31.0.101.4885 is Deus Ex: Human Revolution running DX11 mode and 1080p High settings,…
In a series of events that future historians will point to as emblematic of our age, NATO— y’know, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, established in 1949 to wage Cold War against the Soviet Union—is “actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites” following an alleged intrusion by a group of “gay furry hackers”. That’s what…
With the rising demands of today’s modern games, and the propensity for these games to demand speedy solid-state storage, the demand for 4TB NVMe SSDs is understandably soaring. I’ve got good news for you, as well. These 4TB drives aren’t all that expensive anymore, as proven by this excellent Lexar NM790, which will set you…
It won’t actually hit the markets for another couple of years, but Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake CPU architecture has made an early appearance in the SiSoft Sandra database. The entry has all kinds of confusing information and while it only covers the numbers from just one benchmark, they’re actually quite promising. Intel’s roadmaps for its…