Everything you need to know about Stranger Than Heaven, the half-century-spanning Yakuza series prequel

The next big crime drama game from RGG Studio is called Stranger Than Heaven. It’s a single-protagonist historical epic spanning the first half of the 1900s, following main characters Makoto and Yu as they rise in power as showmen and gangsters through mid-century Japan. That explains the codename from prior to its reveal: Project Century…

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Microsoft reiterates that it’s totally fine with Edge storing passwords in cleartext, despite security researchers’ concerns

Earlier this week, we reported that a researcher found Microsoft Edge saves passwords in cleartext in the memory of your machine. This means you can seemingly bypass even the likes of 2FA if you have access to someone’s rig. At the time, Microsoft said this was ‘by design’, and it has affirmed the same statement…

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SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni wasn’t necessarily the headset I expected the Danish brand to release as its next choice. From the outset, it’s a funny product that seems to straddle the line between gaming headset and lifestyle-oriented audiophile headphones in a similar fashion to the £600/$600 Arctis Nova Elite released earlier this year….

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Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

The Zowie XL2586X+ is by far the product I’ve most wanted to keep hold of and have been the most reluctant to hand back. It’s also one I’m certain I won’t be buying any time soon. And that just about sums up this monitor, because it’s fantastic for competitive shooters but it’s very much only…

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Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video ‘dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out’

The ongoing project to port The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind into Elden Ring—recognised by UNESCO as the eighth wonder of the world*—is one of the more Herculean projects currently bubbling away in the mod scene, and it just got a new update. Long story short: this thing is nuts (complimentary). In a new video, cheekily…

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Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren’t building new rigs as much anymore

A new report suggests motherboard manufacturers are in a bad state right now, with the memory crisis and the Iran war affecting all kinds of PC hardware. As PC builders are disincentivised from, well, building PCs, the motherboards needed for them also get left behind. The report, from Digitimes, notes a “collapse” for many motherboard…

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