Space Marine 2’s huge Obelisk Update adds a long-awaited new mission, reworked melee combat, bonus XP, and goat-bird-wizards hurtling towards you on living flying saucers

Like Titus crashing through a swarm of gaunts, Space Marine 2 is showing no signs of slowing down. Patch 5.0, the “Obelisk Update”, is a doozy, adding new content, reworking core systems, and giving players even more incentive to murder the enemies of mankind by the thousands. The headliner is a new Operation, appropriately called…

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Official MSI benchmarks put the Claw 8 AI+ handheld at 20% higher performance than the current best gaming handheld

MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld appears to perform around 20% better than our current favorite gaming handheld—the Asus ROG Ally X—at the same power consumption level. In some games, it might even reach 113%, but there are some odd games in the company’s benchmark ringer. The scores come from MSI’s own official, in-house…

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HP Omen Transcend 32 OLED review

Pity poor old HP. It’s late to the 32-inch OLED gaming monitor market with the new Omen Transcend 32. Call us a little jaded, but it feels like we’ve seen it all before, what with our reviews of 4K OLEDs like the LG UltraGear 32GS95UE , Alienware 32 AW3225QF, Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM, Samsung…

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Among Us bizarrely namechecked as NBC claims suspected healthcare CEO shooter ‘belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins’—devs respond, ‘um’

If you’ve been online for more than a picosecond recently, you might be aware that a high-profile killing of a healthcare insurance company CEO has been in the news cycle. You might also be aware that the current suspect in the case, a man by the name of Luigi Mangione (who has now been charged…

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13-year-old that made a killing creating a crypto and then dumping it gets ‘revenge pumped’, family doxxed, and even dognapping rumours emerge

Ah yes, Web3 is going just great, in case you were wondering. For a rare few, investing in cryptocurrency has been a swift shot into extreme wealth, but many have been left by the wayside. For the Gen Z Quant Kid—a 13-year-old who pocketed $30,000 from selling a cryptocurrency he created—it’s been a straight up…

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Prisma, an upcoming Persona-like indie JRPG, goes all multiverse theory by filling out your party with alternate versions of its camera-wielding protagonist

I recently had the pleasure of an early look at Prisma, an upcoming Persona-style RPG from the creators of Crisis Tales, which was an ambitious indie project with a big emphasis on time travel. While it didn’t quite hit with our reviewer Alistair Jones at the time, I’m glad to see developer Dreams Uncorporated’s back…

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