Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking

For well over a decade, Steam has been the first port of call for anyone who wants to buy or sell a video game on PC. While there are alternatives like GOG, the Epic Store, and *snigger* The Xbox PC Games store, Steam’s enormous user-base, and, frankly, superior user experience make it the de facto…

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Japan’s biggest publishing house and one of the world’s largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of ‘trampling on the dignity of artists’

You may not know the name Shueisha off the top of your head, but you likely know the works it is responsible for. Under its Jump line of magazines, Shueisha published One Piece, Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, and recent mega hit Chainsaw Man. This is all to say that Japan’s biggest publishing house owes its…

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Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world’s first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill

Fans of absolutely asinine technological overkill rejoice. Your keyboard has arrived. May we present the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world’s first keyboard with a 16 kHz polling rate. What possible benefit could this have, you ask? Well, lower latency is the obvious answer. In other words, less lag between stabbing a key and having…

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If Microsoft can’t source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI

To keep the AI juggernaut rolling ever forward, you might think that the biggest companies in artificial intelligence desperately need ridiculous numbers of AI GPUs. According to Microsoft, though, the issue isn’t a compute or hardware limit, it’s that there’s not enough electrical power to run it all. And if that’s the case, it raises…

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Approximately 2,555 days after a ‘day one’ giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago

An elephant never forgets, and neither does Level-5 apparently. After originally being slated for release all the way back in 2018, football RPG Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is actually coming out (for realsies!) on November 13. Presumably under full confidence in its original release date, the developer held a giveaway around seven years ago for…

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British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski’s dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament

Remember LawBreakers? I have to be honest: I didn’t. Or rather, I didn’t until the game was suddenly resurrected in—of all places—the UK Parliament. If you suffer from the same defect of memory I do: LawBreakers was Cliff Bleszinski’s ill-fated competitive FPS from 2017—the first game the developer made at his studio Boss Key Productions…

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Civilization 7’s latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a ‘special thanks’ to players

Firaxis’ attempt to right the ailing vessel that is Civilization VII continues, with its latest update bringing a major balance pass for all civs, plus a bunch of new systems designed to enhance oceanic play. And if you’ve already picked up Firaxis’ latest and most divisive entry in the series, you have the opportunity to…

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‘The world became stupider’ when Internet Archive’s Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: ‘We survived, but it wiped out the library’

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in 1996. And one aimed at its library has reportedly had a major effect, according to what its founder told Ars Technica. Internet Archive might be…

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Where to find mushrooms in Arc Raiders

Mushrooms are oddly one of the trickiest foods to find in Arc Raiders, but what Scrappy wants, Scrappy gets. By this point, you’ll have already been sent to track down everything from lemons and apricots to prickly pears, olives, and a cat bed, yet somehow mushrooms—fungi you’d have thought would overrun old buildings in the…

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