Fallout’s Aaron Moten ‘forbid’ himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who’s actually rolled a character in the Wasteland

Walton Goggins, as is well-established, has not played and will not play Fallout. That’s absolutely fine—Goggins does a great job playing The Ghoul in the Fallout TV show without familiarity with the game series, and I doubt playing it would make him any better. Still, I hope people keep asking him about it, just because…

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How to vote in Helldivers 2

Working out how to vote in Helldivers 2 is surprisingly complicated if you’ve never really engaged with the DSS (Democracy Space Station) or the actions it can undertake to help Helldivers in their ongoing galactic war. Voting lets you decide where the DSS will travel to provide tactical bonuses to divers on the ground based…

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Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: ‘It’s kind of old school, it’s analogue, which we like’

Last week I not only got my grubby mitts on the most exciting mouse of the past few years, courtesy of Logitech, but I also got a peek behind the curtain of gaming mouse design and testing. There were tons of things that surprised me about what goes into making a good peripheral, from giant…

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G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over ‘deceptive’ RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

PC memory specialist G.Skill has agreed to pay out 2.4 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit. The suit claimed that G.Skill advertised the operating speeds of various DDR4 and DDR5 RAM kits “deceptively” over a period from January 2018 to January 2026. Rather than fight the case in court, G.Skill has settled with…

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Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

With so many different motherboards on the market, it’s hard for vendors to make something that makes you really pay attention to it. And in the case of the new Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial, that’s exactly what happened when I first saw it, because the only thing I really noticed was that it has…

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How to beat Dybbuk in Mewgenics

There are heaps of creative bosses in Mewgenics, and most of them aren’t too complicated. The Boneyard’s Dybbuk is the first real roadblock I ran into, a troublesome cat that rolls to avoid all of your attacks. As you’d imagine, it’s hard to kill a boss that you can’t hit, especially one with 85 health…

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How to kill cyborgs in Helldivers 2

Stepping foot on Cyberstan for the first time in Helldivers 2, you’re likely pondering how to kill cyborgs, besides also wondering how to deal with those annoying Vox Engines. There are two cyborg units in the new Machinery of Oppression update, but the way you defeat them is relatively similar. Below, I’ll go through your…

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