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To be blunt, the success of Deep Rock Galactic was a surprise to me. A game about “space dwarves” mining for resources while fighting off hostile aliens in the deepest reaches of space sounds a little niche, doesn’t it? Especially without a Warhammer 40,000 license attached to it. And yet, it’s a hit: An “overwhelmingly…
You can’t have read these pages recently without spotting some mention of DLSS, Nvidia’s upscaling tech that at first created new pixels for higher resolutions in games and can now create whole new frames to improve frame rate too. Upscaling has been brought up in almost every review of the best graphics cards—Nvidia or not—but…
RPG fans have been eating good this year. Even setting aside monster releases like Baldur’s Gate 3, Starfield, and the second coming of Johnny Silverhand, there are tons of great games on Steam vying for our leftover attention. But only one of them lets you play as a treasure chest. Just a Chest, from a…
At the Canalys Forum EMEA event in Barcelona this week, AMD’s executive vice president for strategic partnerships was asked if Intel’s decision to build new foundries to make chips for other companies was going to be successful. The response was brutal: “Of course not.” As reported by The Register, the conference involves many of the…
Redfall, the underbaked and doomed FPS from Prey and Dishonored studio Arkane, once sat alongside your Starfields, your Halos, and your Microsoft Flight Sims in the Xbox events of yore (2021), but then, well, it came out earlier this year, and that put paid to that. Between the bugs and limp, lacklustre gameplay, the game…
The surprise sequel Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 was announced back in July, and it struck us as something of a do-over, but with a heavy emphasis on more: More stages and updates of existing stages, a new campaign mode, more modes in general, crossplay, a visual spit-shine to every existing character, new minigames, and of…
Transcripts of analyst-facing conferences, held by multi-billion dollar organisations, are usually terminally dull affairs. But a recent Intel chat contains a wee snippet we can add to the rumour fire about when the next version of Windows is due. And in this particular case, Intel is hinting that it’s definitely next year. Intel sat down…
For a long time, no matter how hard I tried, and no matter how much of a performance hit my framerate took in Cyberpunk 2077, I just couldn’t bring myself to play without real-time ray tracing toggled on. It got even worse when Overdrive Mode arrived. What’s that?! Even more pretty lighting effects with an…
Solafite is a new kind of ore that you can find in Sons of the Forest. It was introduced with the latest update, along with the pickaxe which you’ll need to mine it. This ore is used to upgrade weapons and can be found in various locations across the island, but with that said, it…
Telltale Games has laid off an unknown portion of its staff, in an unfortunate deja vu moment for a handful of its employees. Word of the layoffs first began circulating when Jonah Huang, a former cinematic artist for the developer, published a series of tweets that claimed Telltale had let go “most” of its staff…