Fallout 76’s design director is still defending its original absence of NPCs: ‘At the beginning, we wanted it all to be player-driven’

Fallout 76 has enjoyed a massive turnaround since its launch in 2018. What initially seemed like a folly, stripping away so much of what made Fallout such a long-lasting, beloved series, has, over the years, transformed into a quality sandbox prequel. The big improvements really began with the Wastelanders update, which reintroduced an essential part…

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Fallout’s original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren’t quite what they would’ve done, but ‘sales say people love what they did’

It might be an unpopular thing to observe—please do not throw tomatoes at me—but whether you like it or not, Bethesda has spun a huge success out of the Fallout franchise, even while shuffling further and further away from its classic RPG roots. Ow, ouch! I asked you nicely to not throw tomatoes at me!…

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‘Probably the worst build of my entire life’: This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned

YouTuber Jakkuh (previously a member of Linus Tech Tips) has spent two months designing a high-spec gaming PC kitted with an RTX 5090 and $1,300 worth of RAM to test out titanium liquid cooling, and the idea came from their love of cars. In their latest video, Jakkuh talks about looking at car exhausts on…

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Disney Dreamlight Valley is dropping the Puppy Love update in a couple of days, and I haven’t been this excited for new characters in a hot minute

Disney Dreamlight Valley is gearing up to release its next update and I genuinely haven’t felt this excited to add two new villagers to my roster of friends for a while. It came awfully close when Peter Pan was added during the Skull Rock update last year, but it’s hard to find anything cuter than…

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Ayaneo’s new Strix Halo handheld PC will cost up to $4,299, but it’s the cheaper AI Max 385 model that has grabbed my attention anyways

Ayaneo Ayaneo Ayaneo Ayaneo Ayaneo The Next II, Ayaneo’s Strix Halo handheld gaming PC, has finally received a shipping date and an early bird price is available to those willing to go on a whim to buy one ahead of release. If you don’t get the worm, however, you’re looking at a hefty sum equivalent…

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‘Credible and reliable contacts’ claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year

French tech outfit, Overclocking (via Videocardz), claims to have “direct, credible, and reliable contacts” which have noted that a very high-end RTX 50-series graphics card is on the way for the third quarter of 2026. That would mean sometime around September we could expect to see either an RTX Blackwell Titan AI card or a…

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Deadlock players are modding the weirdest characters into the game, including Linguini and Remy, Hatsune Miku, and LeBron James: ‘Skin walker Linguini cannot be unseen’

I consider myself to have a pretty high bar for tolerating the unnerving and weird. But watching a long-armed Linguini slap players around in Deadlock triggers a fight or flight response in me that my ancestors probably felt when they saw a prehistoric cave bear for the first time. The Linguini and Remy over Mo…

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