14 years in, modders have given me yet another reason to return to Fallout: New Vegas—an in-game multiplayer riddle contest with free games for the winner

Steam informs me that Fallout: New Vegas is my second-most-played game of all time (after Crusader Kings 2), and I will still take any excuse to boot it up again. Lucky for me, then, that some enterprising modders have launched an ongoing online contest taking place entirely within the borders of NV’s Mojave Desert. Called…

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You can make one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s hardest fights easier on yourself—all without sacrificing one of the game’s best cutscenes and an award-winning performance

I’m getting close to wrapping up my Baldur’s Gate 3 honour mode playthrough—all I’ve got to do is not beef it on the last couple of deadly fights and I’m there. In the interest of survival, I’ve been skipping a couple of key story beats.  I have a cosy setup that works, and I can’t…

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Minecraft is gonna let you live life as ‘the great white shark, the Arctic wolf, a leopardess, and more’ in a BBC team-up to teach you about life on planet Earth

The BBC and Minecraft are teaming up again, announcing a new collaboration between Mojang’s staggeringly popular sandbox and the Beeb’s snappily named BBC Studios Natural History Unit. This time, the partnership is based on Planet Earth 3, the latest in David Attenborough’s long, long line of increasingly elegiac nature documentaries that showcase the beauty and…

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Drop Shift V2 review

Finding a ‘conventional’ keyboard in the world of mechanical options can be a bit difficult, especially if you want to please both mainstream folks and us weirdos who find building their own options a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. However, one of Drop’s most recent additions to their burgeoning lineup of great keyboards,…

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