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Looking for charms in Alan Wake 2? These little ornaments offer bonuses to help you survive your time in Bright Falls and the surrounding areas. You won’t find them just lying around though: you need to complete Nursery Rhyme puzzles which reward you with a charm if you manage to solve their riddle. The bonuses…
Critical Role—a mega-popular Dungeons & Dragons game that’s spawned its own official campaign settings and animated series—is doing another run of its “choose their adventure” charity one-shots. The Critical Role Foundation has partnered with Red Nose Day and Comic Relief US to run a one-shot with a twist: donate, and you’ll be able to vote…
In the words of PCG’s Tyler Colp, Diablo 4 took “a leap in the right direction” with the start of its second season this month, and now it would very much like you to come back and give it a go. That’s why the game is running a free trial until Monday, October 30, giving…
A new tool from researchers at the University of Chicago promises to protect art from being hoovered up by AI models and used for training without permission by “poisoning” image data. Known as Nightshade, the tool tweaks digital image data in ways that are claimed to be invisible to the human eye but cause all…
Need to Know What is it? A survival crafting game set in the Mines of Moria from The Lord of the Rings. Release date October 24, 2023 Expect to pay $40/£31.70 Developer Free Range Games Publisher North Beach Games Reviewed on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060 Steam Deck N/A Link Official site …
Speedrunning is a catch-all term that, as games themselves have grown in audience and scale, now applies to everything from fastest completion times on 2D platformers to slightly unhinged self-imposed challenges with any game going. This Fallout 4 speedrun certainly falls into the latter category, to the extent you may find yourself wondering how the…
Last month Unity, one of the biggest game engines, tried to push out a massively controversial change to the way it does business. Namely a retroactive fee taken from devs for every install of a game—no matter how that install happened. Putting your game up on Game Pass or Humble Bundle? Doesn’t matter, Unity wanted…
Ah, Microsoft Edge. When the topic of which browser to use rears its ugly head, the room tends to quickly devolve into two main camps: Chrome or Firefox, with an occasional incursion from a group of Safari enthusiasts in the corner. However, when the debate dies down and there’s a lull in the conversation, a…
Konami has fixed one of the more glaring issues with the Master Collection version of Metal Gear Solid 1. When the game hit Steam three days ago, players were supposed to be able to download different language packs—Japanese, US English and what-have-you—via the game’s launcher. Unfortunately, the relevant Steam pages were inexplicably AWOL, making international…
There’s good news for Intel, as it has beaten expectations with its latest financial forecasts. Perhaps that’s why CEO Pat Gelisinger is so bullish about the threat from a new generation of Arm chips. During an earnings call with investors, Gelsinger dismissed the threat to Intel’s traditional x86 CPUs from a new generation of Arm…