‘It took about 5 years’ for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that ‘players actually liked the design choices we had made’

Sometimes, a game needs time to age before we come to appreciate it—as is the case, Josh Sawyer, studio design director at Obsidian, claims of Fallout: New Vegas. Considered a cult classic, and potentially the best “modern” Fallout game (I put “modern” in air quotes there because it did come out 16 years ago. Sorry),…

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I’ve never felt smarter than playing this nostalgic horror puzzler that has me changing file types on a ’90s computer to solve mysteries

I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I’ve popped my clogs. Not that there’s anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of accumulated files, but there’s something that feels weirdly private about this hulking setup that takes up half of my tiny apartment, you…

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can’t keep up with Intel’s mighty Panther Lake APU

Hardware Canucks has posted a performance preview of Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 PC chip. And with the very heavy proviso that it’s a video sponsored by none other than Qualcomm, we can say that, well, it looks decent but not hugely exciting. The comparison here is a bit tricky given all the different possible…

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AMD has a new marketing chief, Salesforce’s former president and marketing boss, and he’s all in on data centers and AI

Ask any long-term PC tech enthusiast or hardware journalist what they think about AMD, and you’ll probably be met with endless praise for its products and engineering know-how. Prod them for the negative aspects, and they’ll probably grumble about its marketing decisions, but perhaps that’s all set to change, as there’s a new bod in…

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AI-assisted hacking group hits targets with a complicated ‘social engineering’ scam that involves deepfaked CEOs, spoofed Zoom calls and a malicious troubleshooting program

A hacking group reportedly based out of North Korea has come up with a “new tooling and AI-enabled social engineering” scam, according to Google, and it’s pretty complicated. Effectively, it uses a hacked account to send a Zoom link via a calendar invite to an uncompromised account. That version of Zoom is, in fact, a…

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‘We knew we had a golden nugget in our hands… so we took all the shortcuts we could’: Logitech’s new wonder-mouse looks very similar to the Superlight 2 for good reason

I’ve been spending a ton of time with Logitech’s new gaming mouse, the G Pro X2 Superstrike, and if I hadn’t pressed those new rapid trigger buttons, I’d likely have assumed it was just a G Pro X Superlight 2 with a new and very appealing colour scheme. In fact, Logitech expressed as much to…

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Cult of the Lamb’s Woolhaven is inspired by the likes of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: ‘We wanted to make it a real chunky experience’

I’m a huge fan of Cult of the Lamb, and even still, Woolhaven managed to exceed my expectations. Providing two new dungeons, a massive cult expansion, and a gripping story. There’s a lot on offer here, more than most players expected to have. But it’s something that Massive Monster has planned to do for quite…

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