‘What a disappointment’: Arc Raiders players aren’t happy with the latest Trophy Display project, namely because there’s no trophy at the end of it

The Trophy Display project is a small part of Arc Raiders‘ latest Headwinds update. It’s just another avenue for players to commit resources and get, well, better resources. It’s nothing revolutionary, but hey, it’s something to do. But some players feel rather misled by its naming. “So, there is no Trophy Display at the end…

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Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs

Custom computer provider Puget Systems has released its Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 report, and it makes for some interesting reading. While the most reliable consumer processor category seems to have been a tough one to call, the company says that the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K was the most reliable individual chip overall, with…

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Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me

Moltbook asks the question: what happens if you create Reddit for AI agents? The answer may not surprise you. It works like this: a human sets up an AI agent to run within the website, and then tasks the AI with doing stuff. Posting, upvoting, commenting, etc. The end result is a lot like Reddit,…

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‘TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a ‘trillion-dollar dinner’ for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan

Things might be tough for PC gamers this year, as prices continue to rise on everything from memory modules to graphics cards. One person who doesn’t appear to be feeling the pinch just yet, though, is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who hosted a so-called “trillion-dollar dinner” in Taiwan this weekend, supposedly named after the market…

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id Software’s second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn’t made a dev fall out of his chair: ‘That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I’d ever seen’

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of Doom developer id Software’s founding, co-founder John Romero has released a video retrospective on one of id’s most unsung games: Catacomb 3-D. The video featured Romero’s own recollections, as well as those of id vets Tom Hall, John Carmack, and Adrian Carmack⁠—no relation on those last two, by…

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2 days after promising it was still ‘worthy of your investment,’ the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: ‘The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better’

Early access MMO Ashes of Creation has reportedly ceased development, and the entire team behind it at Intrepid Studios has been laid off. With nearly $3.3 million raised in a 2017 campaign, Ashes of Creation was the crowdfunding platform’s most successful MMO fundraiser, and one of its most successful videogame campaigns overall. On Saturday, January…

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‘We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find’: Helldivers 2’s lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game’s beloved intro cinematic

Helldivers 2’s gleefully unsubtle satire of American jingoism begins mere moments after you launch the game, as the community-named John Helldiver’s squeaky-clean suburban life is torn apart in front of him by a giant insect. “You could be next,” he warns. “That is, unless you make the most important decision of your life.” Millions of…

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‘What the f**k’: Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier’s film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office

If you’re a fan of Iron Lung, the indie horror game from Dusk creator David Szymanski, you may want to get used to hearing the following five words: “You mean the Markiplier movie?” YouTube phenom Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach’s long-awaited film adaptation of the 2022 sub sim has finally hit theaters, and it’s already made an…

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‘What the f**k’: Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier’s film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office

If you’re a fan of Iron Lung, the indie horror game from Dusk creator David Szymanski, you may want to get used to hearing the following five words: “You mean the Markiplier movie?” YouTube phenom Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach’s long-awaited film adaptation of the 2022 sub sim has finally hit theaters, and it’s already made an…

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