At long last Intel gives Arc owners some Starfield loving, delivering up to 149% higher frame rates and fixing texture corruption

It’s been over a month since Starfield was launched around the globe but Intel has finally addressed performance issues and a handful of bugs with a new set of drivers for its Arc graphics card range. New GPU driver releases aren’t typically hold-the-front-page news items, but Intel Arc owners have been facing some pretty annoying…

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Diablo 4’s poor Sorcerers spot a glimmer of hope for the Hydra to the tune of a 400% damage bump—turns out it’s likely just to compensate for a bug fix

Diablo 4’s sorcerers have had, uh… a bit of a hard time, the poor guys. While they were super promising in the game’s beta—with a ton of sorcerous excitement when the game opened its gates—things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing since. For starters, the pre-season one patch crushed them disproportionately—alongside other nerfs, it unilaterally ramped…

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Trackmania changes its subs model after belatedly realising it was too generous, dev says it has ‘to be realistic’

Developer Nadeo has announced changes to the Trackmania business model, following the 2020 game’s recent re-release on consoles. This iteration of Trackmania was something of a soft reboot for the series (heavily based on Trackmania Nations) and arrived with a free-to-play business model, under which players could access a bunch of the game’s features for…

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Star Trek: Infinite review

Need to Know What is it?  Paradox style grand strategy, but Star Trek. Release date October 12, 2023 Expect to pay $30/£27 Developer Nimble Giant Publisher Paradox Interactive Reviewed on  Intel i5, 16GB RAM, GTX 1660 Link Official site I am opening this review with a warning: I am going to spend a lot of…

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Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya peels out of Platinum in a Lamborghini after 17 years to start a YouTube channel: ‘I’m out of a job. Please subscribe’

Two weeks after announcing his surprise exit from Platinum Games—the studio he co-founded back in the mid-2000s—Hideki Kamiya has departed in the most Hideki Kamiya way ever. The Bayonetta creator peeled out of Platinum’s parking lot in a Lamborghini, announcing that he’s “off to the unemployment centre” and starting a brand new YouTube channel. In…

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One of the biggest twists in Baldur’s Gate 3 is blatantly foreshadowed by a humble bit of cutlery and some song lyrics

Before I dive into this little Baldur’s Gate 3 revelation—this article contains big, stonking spoilers for the game’s third act. I’m talking about twists that are of major importance to a key figure in the game’s plot—you have been warned, adventurer. The third act of Baldur’s Gate 3 sees a handful of shocking reveals concerning…

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