Steelseries Alias Pro review

To some, audio quality matters little, beyond something that isn’t objectively awful to listen to. If all you want is something that sounds good enough to pass without comment in your next Discord chat or remote meeting, there are plenty of microphones that’ll do the job just fine. When you’re looking to take things to…

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EA reportedly invested $125 million making a new singleplayer IP with zero microtransactions, no grind, a shorter running time, and guess what: ‘No one bought it’

A new report by IGN into the wider topic of industry layoffs, which are worse than they’ve ever been, contains a fascinating insight about one of last year’s less-successful AAA titles. Immortals of Aveum was the debut title from Ascendant Studios, released on Steam and consoles in August 2022, came out to mixed reviews and…

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s forgettable enemies, empty missions, and incongruous gun obsession prove why superheroes and live service do not mix

This time last year, we got our first proper in-depth look at Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and I was pretty concerned. Now that I’ve gotten to play the final release for myself, my fears have unfortunately been confirmed. It’s a game that proves now what I said then: superheroes and live service is…

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How to get Medals in Helldivers 2

Grabbing as many Medals as you can in Helldivers 2 is a key aspect of progression, as you spend them in the Warbond store to unlock new weapons, armour sets, and Boosters to help tackle higher difficulties. If you also have the premium Warbond, you might have noticed that it requires an astronomical sum in…

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Logitech Wave Keys review

Hands up if you remember PCs from the late 1990s or early 2000s? They all had a very distinctive feel to them, as chassis design was generally derivative, and everything computer-related had to be curved in some way. Logitech, it would seems, has decided that the time is ripe to revisit this era and produced…

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The majority of non-LGBTQ+ gamers don’t care if a main character is trans, according to GLAAD Gaming’s debut report

To accompany the official launch of GLAAD Gaming, the organisation has released its first report on the state of LGBTQ+ gamers in the industry—and it could banish some common assumptions made by the public at-large. Founded in 1985 during the AIDS epidemic, GLAAD targeted defamatory coverage and was able to shift the editorial policy of…

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After years of anonymity, gaming’s most famous but least recognisable voice has broken cover to chat PEGI 18, AI acting, and his €200 paycheque

If you’ve ever watched a game trailer in Europe, you’ve almost certainly heard Richard Wells’ voice. He is, in his own words, “the guy who says ‘PEGI 18’ on all of your video games,” which is to say he’s the smooth baritone that lets you know a game’s age rating right before its trailer plays;…

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Helldivers 2 rolls back a patch intended to fix servers and progression after it causes ‘significant degradation’ in performance

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has quickly rolled back a small patch— intended to smooth out server issues—after it was causing a noticeable performance drop on PC. Patch 01.000.005 was pushed out on February 12, aiming to fix issues which were “mostly caused by having so many players in the game and server capacity…

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