The last 5 years have all kicked off with a huge co-op hit on Steam, and this sci-fi survival game from the makers of Green Hell might be 2026’s ticket

Build a base with friends on an alien planet. Is it just me or do we ring in each new gaming year with a smash-hit co-op game, usually one that’s pretty reasonably priced? Maybe it’s that January arrives to see us flush with holiday cash and looking to link up with friends instead of spending…

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A mystery that went unnoticed for 7 years has Red Dead Redemption 2 players working furiously to make the connection between spiderwebs, telegraph poles, guitars, and maybe even Grand Theft Auto 5

Something very odd is happening in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, and I don’t know what’s going on but I do know this: It’s got a lot of players very excited about spiderwebs. The wheels started turning in December, when players discovered a weird spider symbol carved into a pole. Laying that symbol…

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MSI’s monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to ‘completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes’, apparently

There’s something to be said for throwing moderation out the window and going all in on excess. MSI seems to agree, as it’s just taken the wraps off the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z, a truly monstrous, water cooled, 8-inch screen emblazoned GPU that makes the regular RTX 5090 look downright pedestrian. It’s…

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In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot app,’ but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

About a decade ago, hardware company Corsair attempted to pivot from its classic logo—a subtle trio of ship sails—to a newer, edgier look, a pair of crossed swords that gave off regrettable ‘2000s tribal tattoo’ energy. The rebrand didn’t last long: after a fierce outcry from people who correctly thought the new logo sucked, Corsair…

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League of Legends players worldwide couldn’t login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client’s SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

The changing of the year can be a time of renewal and reinvigoration, but that renewal isn’t always frictionless. The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever you’re dating a document, or—in the case of Riot Games—forgetting to renew the encryption certificate for your software and…

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League of Legends players worldwide couldn’t login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client’s SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

The changing of the year can be a time of renewal and reinvigoration, but that renewal isn’t always frictionless. The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever you’re dating a document, or—in the case of Riot Games—forgetting to renew the encryption certificate for your software and…

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Cherry may be down but it isn’t out with two new ‘more than magnetic’ TMR gaming keyboards

During this year’s CES, Cherry announced two keyboards with tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) switches. Both TMR boards will be part of the company’s peripherals sub-brand Cherry XTRFY—better late to the party than never turning up. According to Cherry, the new MX 8.2 Pro TMR keyboard is “more than magnetic”—whatever that means. What I can tell you…

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Thermaltake’s collaboration PC case with a French artist is so lovely it makes me want to finally start that mini PC build

Mini PCs and cute aesthetics just go hand in hand. There are two reasons you might build a small form factor machine: you want a compact machine that doesn’t dominate your entire desktop, or you’re building something so small because you simply think it looks good. And for me, Thermaltake’s latest PC Case looks so…

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Thermaltake’s collaboration PC case with a French artist is so lovely it makes me want to finally start that mini PC build

Mini PCs and cute aesthetics just go hand in hand. There are two reasons you might build a small form factor machine: you want a compact machine that doesn’t dominate your entire desktop, or you’re building something so small because you simply think it looks good. And for me, Thermaltake’s latest PC Case looks so…

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