QPAD Obsidian Glass mouse pad review

I’ve always stuck to cloth mouse pads, and given the few plastic hard pads I’ve tried have never gelled with me, I didn’t think I’d ever switch. But the QPAD Obsidian Glass has made me realise there’s a whole class of mouse pads out there that I was overlooking, and that’s glass ones. Of course,…

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Our best RPG of 2024 is half off in the Lunar New Year sale, as are the adventures of Charlie Tunoku and countless other Sega series

If videogames are about anything, it’s solving deep-rooted and overdetermined social problems by hitting them really hard and also sometimes magic. And few games have ever videogamed harder in that regard than Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ polychromatic RPG from 2024 that puts you in the shoes of a young man on a quest to defeat racism…

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Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3’s metro system should track to the surface world, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: ‘Being realistic sometimes isn’t fun’

We’ve recently had a bonanza of Bethesda interviews to mark… well, it feels like they were all done to mark the end of Fallout season two, which is a bit odd. But nevertheless, among them is Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout, in which the great and good from the studio reminisce about bringing…

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I’m sorry to break it to you, but don’t expect to be able to play an evil pest in Crimson Desert: ‘Would I recommend a full playthrough in that playstyle? Eh, I don’t know’

Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don’t worry, it miraculously avoids non-preorder microtransactions at launch), isn’t an RPG. Despite having oodles of systems, gear, and a large map to explore that might make you think otherwise, the developers are steadfast in avoiding the loaded term….

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‘We don’t have the capacity to support more than 2 colors right now’ is the bizarre excuse X is using to explain why its dimmed theme was just thrown in the bin

While change is inevitable in the world of tech and the Internet, there’s usually a good reason behind the moves. However, when X explained why it reduced the number of themes users could choose, the reactions appear to suggest that not only is it not a good idea, but one that doesn’t make any sense…

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‘This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around,’ says ex-Microsoft dev Dave Plummer about his synthwave-pounding AI dashboard

Dave Plummer, the man known for his work with Task Manager and Windows Pinball, has recently taken to Twitter to share what a modern version of his Task Manager would look like, and it’s… interesting. Well, more accurately, he shared the dashboard for his Tempest AI, saying, “This is probably what Task Manager would look…

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TeamSpeak claims an ‘incredible surge of new users’ has maxed out its hosting capacity in multiple regions as many would-be voice chatters seek a Discord alternative

On the one hand, I don’t want kids to see everything I did in the early oughts thanks to unfettered internet access. On the other, I really do not want to give Discord my personal data just to prove I’m old enough to be talking to my favourite weirdos. There’s gotta be a better way—and…

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MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt

Ashes of Creation, a kickstarter MMO that recently imploded after it was cancelled and its dev team was laid off, has been revealed to be a hotbed of corporate drama and potential embezzling. First, some context: Back in 2017, Ashes of Creation became one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever, accruing $3.2 million on…

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