Despite adding an eternal fast travel stone, Dragon’s Dogma 2 director maintains you don’t have to use it: ‘It’s just you now have a third option’

Back when Dragon’s Dogma 2 released, getting somewhere was a hassle. I, myself, had one of my journeys utterly dismantled when my ox cart was ambushed, destroyed by my own pawn’s ill-advised spell, and summarily attacked by a gryphon that stole me miles away from my original location. That was somewhat addressed in a June…

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BOE’s new $9 billion OLED monitor plant, capable of churning out 10 million panels this year alone, is now up and running—with some big names already on board

Display manufacturer BOE has started mass production at its new OLED plant, an 8.6-generation-panel-producing behemoth said to be the first of its kind in China. The plant will produce 10 million OLED panels this year alone, according to FlatpanelsHD, and significantly more in the second year of its operation. The plant took just over two…

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How to get Ancient Bone in Palworld

Finding Ancient Bone in Palworld is rather tricky if you haven’t clocked that each of the three ancient materials come from the wildlife sanctuaries dotted around the islands. These areas are easy to recognise because of the big shield domes protecting them, but that does mean you have to sneak about and avoid their protectors…

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I reckon Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the series’ best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it’s ‘One of the most underestimated games in the series’

Assassin’s Creed Unity, it hardly needs to be said, had its share of problems. At launch, the game which was intended to be Ubisoft’s big technical showcase on the then-new PS4 and Xbox One was rife with sometimes-hilarious bugs, filled with map barf, crammed with microtransactions, had a rather odd emphasis on co-op gameplay in…

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Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations review

NEED TO KNOW What is it?: More demon-stomping goodness for Doom: The Dark Ages.Expect to pay: £17.99 / $19.99Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda SoftworksReviewed on: Lenovo Legion 9i (RTX 4090, Intel Core i9-13980HX, 32GB RAM)Multiplayer?: NoSteam Deck?: Verified Don’t scoff at it being a DLC: Revelations is the best Doom has ever been. Hell, it would…

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The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: ‘There’s really nothing else quite like it’

In 1999, designer David Dunham and his studio A Sharp released King of Dragon Pass. Part mythic fantasy RPG, part cattle management sim, King of Dragon Pass was initially a commercial failure—but it gradually amassed a cult following, and is remembered today by those with excellent taste as one of the finest narrative experiences in…

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‘Worse than our expectations’: IBM’s shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn’t adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes

IBM’s share price just dropped by a whopping 25%. That’s thanks to IBM’s CEO, Arvind Krishna, saying the company didn’t adapt quickly enough to the industry moving towards spending less on software and more on data centre infrastructure (via CNN). As noted by CNN, this puts the company in the vicinity of its worst day…

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WoW devs are ‘looking into’ an annoying grappling hook that takes a spot on your action bar, despite only being used in one zone

I’m pretty neutral on World of Warcraft’s current in-between patch content—this sort of thing isn’t necessarily Blizzard’s strong suit, and you get losers and winners. I’m already deeply ambivalent to the Omnium Folio, but I’ve been having an acceptable time in its void invasion zones. Sometimes it’s nice to just turn your brain off for…

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New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we’ll be able to disable web results

Say what you want about Windows—I’ve certainly said my fair share—but recent months have shown at least that Microsoft is willing to make some positive changes. Now, at least some of these are coming to fruition, as the company is releasing an improved Windows start menu search box for Insiders. The changes are ones that…

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