The Thick as Thieves campaign will be ‘at least four hours’ in length, which is pretty short, but on the upside it’s a whole lot cheaper than I ever would’ve guessed

My heart sank a little lower than usual today as Otherside Entertainment announced that Thick as Thieves, the stealth-focused heist game set to arrive in May, will launch with a regular, undiscounted, all-day every-day price of $5/£5/€5. This bothers me, first of all, because despite the absolute embarrassment of Underworld Ascendant, I’ve been holding out…

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‘I am extremely disappointed’: Arc Raiders players are having trouble wrangling the new powered descender as some fall to a fiery death

Arc Raiders’ latest update, Riven Tides, brought a ton of new arcs, patches, and gadgets to the extraction shooter, and while most of the changes have gone over well with players there is one part that’s proving a little difficult to get a handle on: the powered descender. This is a new epic gadget which…

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Slay the Spire 2 devs weren’t going to make a sequel, but then the publisher handling the first game’s ports shut down and things got ‘very murky’

Slay the Spire 2 has been one of those roguelike time vampires in recent weeks, for me—in between my usual binges of larger games, I tend to vanish into this genre for a bleary-eyed 80 hours because I can simply rinse and repeat, rather than having to worry about long-term narratives or complicated RPG systems….

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China’s upcoming all-CPU supercomputer plans to add an extra 47,000 processors in its second phase, and aims to be one of the fastest in the world

I love a supercomputer reveal, and this one’s a little different than most. China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has announced its LineShine system, a machine that aims to deliver 2 exaflops of performance once it’s fully constructed. That’s an impressive figure, and would make LineShine one of the fastest exascale supercomputers in the world…

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Final Fantasy 14’s Unreal trials are such a brilliant way to reintroduce old fights for new players and I wish we saw more of this reinvigoration

While it’s unlikely we’ll ever be seeing a Final Fantasy 14 classic to relive those painful, polygon-plenty 1.0 days, there is one neat thing that Creative Studio 3 does to revitalise some of its older content: Unreal trials. It was introduced as part of the Faux Hollows minigame back in Shadowbringers, and essentially plucks old…

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This web tool now lets you compare gaming mouse shapes in full 3D and let this mouse nerd tell you why that’s important

Hearken, fellow gaming mouse nerds. Tighten your suspenders, strap in, and feast your eyes on the glory that is 3D mouse shape comparisons. We’ve been graced by the existence of EloShapes for some time, but previously it only let you visually compare 2D mouse outlines—now we get it in three dimensions. Apart from just being…

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