Dune: Awakening’s Chapter 3 update includes a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’ a new ‘specialization experience system,’ and eight new overland maps to visit

Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…

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All I want to see in Dune: Awakening is a third-stage Guild Navigator, and according to game director Joel Bylos: ‘You’ll be a very happy man during the next year’

I like the new Dune movies. They’re good. I also like that Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening is based, stylistically and aesthetically, on the new Dune movies. That’s great. But I do miss some of the sheer weirdness of the original Dune film. Lynch’s Dune film. And if I had to narrow it down to…

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Corsair One i600 review

I will admit, I was expecting more from the Corsair One. More heat, more noise, more annoyance. After all, the original Corsair One, while admittedly smol, was a noisy ol’ chimney of a PC. But the current design—a bit taller, a bit deeper—is far more suited to the task of keeping both high-end CPU and…

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CEO of Manor Lords and Against the Storm publisher says publishers should not be trying to ‘break even at the expense of developers’ and should be willing to take a loss because they can afford to ‘spread the risk’

Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender believes that, while there are a lot of issues facing PC developers, discoverability on Steam is not one of them. “I’ve seen a lot of people argue that right now lack of discoverability is a fundamental problem for PC games, but I disagree,” he writes on LinkedIn. The publisher has…

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Add it to the pile: G.Skill issues statement on surging DRAM memory prices and the company totally blames AI

G.Skill has issued a statement directly addressing the recent spike in its DRAM memory pricing. The company writes: “DRAM prices are experiencing significant industry-wide volatility, due to severe global supply constraints and shortages.” I’ll give you three guesses as to who G.Skill says is behind the memory shortage. If you guessed “unprecedented high demand from…

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Wikiflix offers up the classics for all to enjoy: 4,000 public domain movies from the last 100 years—and I want games to get the same treatment

If you’re anything like me, you’d probably rather not have to manage five or six different monthly subscriptions to continue enjoying all of the games, movies, and music you love. Or maybe you’re a real film nerd who can’t help but cringe at how woefully lit some modern movies are. Either way, I’ve just found…

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Analyst firm says the games market is expected to reach a record-breaking $197 billion by the end of 2025, ‘driven primarily by stronger-than-expected performance on PC and mobile’

I think we can all agree that 2025 has been a year of events and occurrences. Sure, many of those have contributed to a general sense that we’re trapped in a whirling vortex of societal dysfunction and existential horror. But at least some of our favorite lines are going up! According to the analysts at…

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Analyst firm says the games market is expected to reach a record-breaking $197 billion by the end of 2025, ‘driven primarily by stronger-than-expected performance on PC and mobile’

I think we can all agree that 2025 has been a year of events and occurrences. Sure, many of those have contributed to a general sense that we’re trapped in a whirling vortex of societal dysfunction and existential horror. But at least some of our favorite lines are going up! According to the analysts at…

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