Space Marine 2 adds a new free class, the Techmarine—an engineer with the unbeatable combo of an automated sentry turret and a gigantic axe

Almost a year and a half on from its hugely successful launch, Space Marine 2 is still going strong with impressive post-release updates. And if there’s one thing I love, it’s watching developers add more and more lovingly crafted Warhammer nonsense to their games. Case in point: today’s free update adds a whole new class…

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The Muri: Wildwoods demo blends cute critters and the same satisfaction of PowerWash Simulator to create what might be my favourite demo from Steam Next Fest

I absolutely adore the satisfaction of virtual cleaning. I love scrubbing grime and dirt from structures in PowerWash Simulator, and especially adored cleaning up the ocean in Loddlenaut. So naturally, it’s no surprise that Muri: Wildwoods, an adventure game set on a mysterious island where you embark on your first solo mission as a cleaner,…

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Phanteks XT V3 case review

I bloody love the Phanteks XT V3. There’s just something about it that resonates with me. Small form factor cases are massively underrated. They really are. The very concept of them channels this essence of what technological advancement should be about. They’re arguably some of the best PC cases out there, on a purely philosophical…

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Microsoft’s update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy

When it comes to games on PCs, there’s one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics API used to tell the GPU what to do. Specifically, I’m talking about Microsoft’s Direct3D and I’m telling you about this because D3D12, for short, has now been updated with a new shader model and a…

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ThunderX3 Solo 360 review

A reasonable price, something actually comfortable, a range of adjustability options, a small-ish box and an easy build. When it comes to a number of budget gaming chairs, it can feel like a case of ‘pick two—and be thankful you got two’. The ThunderX3 Solo 360 is different. Instead it asks, ‘why choose?’ But before…

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ConcernedApe finds out not everyone will be hot for the blacksmith in Stardew Valley’s upcoming 1.7 update: ‘You’ve all been dying to marry Clint… right? …guys?’

Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone celebrated the farming sim’s 10-year anniversary last night with a fantastic video that dives into the game’s past and looks ahead to its future. What shocked me most was how much the bones of Pelican Town have remained the same. What everyone else is talking about are the two…

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DeepSeek has reportedly denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its new V4 AI model, giving Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers a head start

Sources speaking to Reuters have claimed that DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that gave the US AI market a scare last year with its surprisingly-competitive AI models, has withheld both Nvidia and AMD from early access to its upcoming V4 update. However, early access is said to have been granted to domestic suppliers, including Huawei….

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OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

More money for the money god. OpenAI has announced a new $110 billion investment in its business, which breaks down to include $30 billion from Nvidia, $30 billion from Japanese investment titan SoftBank, and $50 billion from everything-else-giant, Amazon. “We’ve also signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference compute with Nvidia”, says…

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