How to get Lamp Oil in Windrose

It’s awfully dark in some of those Windrose caves, and just when I thought I had a handle on surviving the pirate-infested archipelagos, I died one too many times while stocking up on copper. I almost resorted to cranking up my gamma, but remembered I’d unlocked the lantern earlier and just needed a bit of…

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Normal memory chips couldn’t withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can

Heat is no friend of any kind of memory chip. That will be no surprise for PC gamers with our wealth of cooling systems and heat sink options—unfortunately, those solutions aren’t suitable for every data retention situation. As such, a research team has developed a chip that will keep working throughout extreme temperature conditions. A…

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Brace yourselves, Jetpack Cat is coming to Overwatch Stadium this season and players are already prepping for it: ‘My sniper build is gonna demolish her’

Overwatch Stadium is a lawless place, an alternate reality to bog-standard Overwatch which the light of god does not touch. But brace yourself, because it’s about to get even more cursed with the two new additions of Ramattra and the dreaded Jetpack Cat. I actually enjoy playing Stadium. I appreciate its chaos and somewhat ridiculous…

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NZXT class action lawsuit settlement includes $3 million in damages, and some buyers will get to keep their rented PCs

Filed in the district court for the Northern District of California last week, a proposed settlement to the class action lawsuit against NZXT for its Flex program has been preliminarily approved. If all goes through, it would grant approximately $3,450,000 to those affected by the scheme. As pointed out by Ars Technica, part of this…

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Mouse: PI for Hire review

I’m surprised to tell you that Mouse: PI For Hire is the best shooter I’ve played in ages. Not because I’m especially down on rubberhose animation, or rodents, or monochrome Unity engine environments, but because I hugely underestimated how well those disparate elements could be combined. This is a luxurious, maximalist game that commits equally…

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Morbid Metal is a deeply satisfying hack ‘n’ slash with some subpar roguelike elements, but hey, that’s what early access is for

Morbid Metal released into early access last week, and I finally got the chance to sit down and play it—and while developer Screen Juice’s new roguelike needs some proper work on its secondary elements, the good news is that the bones are good. Really good, in fact. Given their repetitive nature, the most important thing…

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