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The story teaser for Blind Descent seemed intriguing. It’s presented as a log from a scientist on Mars whose communications are being blocked by alien technology. He’s discovered a whole lost world under the surface of the planet, finding his way through the red vines that blocked his progress after being infected by a mutation-causing…
There’s a quiz on the Secrets of Strixhaven site to figure out which of the magical university’s colleges you belong to. Ignore that traumatic memory of the time every millennial was telling us they were Hufflepuff. It’s a heads-up that this set’s focus is on differentiating those colleges, making the factions even more important than…
Pragmata was meant to own this week. It was the highest profile new release by far and, from the vantage point of a couple of weeks ago, it looked like Capcom’s seventh-gen-evoking sci-fi shooter would have the week to itself. But it was not to be: pirate-survival timesink Windrose released into early access on April…
5th-generation QD-OLED panels solve one of the biggest critiques levied at OLED monitors: Font fringing. With burn-in becoming less and less of an issue and prices steadily going down, blurry text is one of the biggest hurdles giving IPS any sort of an edge anymore. AOC and its sister company Philips both have 5th-generation QD-OLED…
Thanks to user DamnInteresting on Hacker News, I’ve found my latest rabbit hole obsession on the Internet Archive: A significant portion of the English back catalogue of Byte Magazine, the granddaddy of personal computing periodicals, stretching all the way back to 1975. If you’re unfamiliar with Byte, the magazine basically grew up alongside personal computing….
I know what’s got you down. “Oh, it’s nothing,” I hear you lament. “I just want to play 2002 real-time tactics superhero RPG Freedom Force, but I don’t have access to the PC Gamer character skins exclusive to the June 2002 demo disc!” I think I speak for everyone when I say we have all…
When I spoke to Christoffer Bodegård, developer of the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb (which uses a modified form of D&D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? The ubiquitous fantasy holy healers never feel like protagonist material to me—I’d much rather be a sneaky little Dick-Ass Rogue. There was…
Windrose, the latest survival-crafter to take Steam by storm, started selling like hot cakes the moment it launched—or, to be era-appropriate, like salt pork and bug-infested hardtack. It’s continued to rake in the doubloons since launch, and in less than a week, has “plundered” the 1 million copies sold milestone. The team at Kraken Express…
Pro skatin’ with Tony Hawk wouldn’t have felt half as cool without tracks like Motorhead’s Ace of Spades, and I fear I wouldn’t have cried as much as I did at the end of Life is Strange if not for Foals’ Spanish Sahara. Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where…
Videogames love pitting players against the moon or otherwise convincing them it’s a big problem, and while I loved Pragmata, it only saddled me with more lunar trauma. David Menkin, the actor who played protagonist Hugh, has always loved the big grey rock, but as he mentioned in an interview with Polygon, he had to…