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Loot is almost always plentiful in Arc Raiders—except, it seems, when you need to find something specific. The first few missions will have you looking for a battery and some wires, two items that I’ve seen plenty of during my preview and the beta test. But somehow, as soon as I needed them, they decided…
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is probably one of the most Fraser games around—a cross between Crusader Kings’ dynastic intrigue and Total War’s eye-watteringly epic battles, with the cherry on top being that you’re commanding your armies within these battles, participating in the bloody scrum. And next month that bloody scrum is taking to the…
As peculiar Windows bugs go, this one is a doozy. It seems Task Manager in the latest October update for Windows 11 (update KB5067036, which is both currently and mercifully optional) is determined to stick around. Like, really determined. As spotted by Windows Latest on X, if you open Task Manager and then close it…
Despite being the most-hyped thing at Gamescom last year, topping Steam wishlists and raking in nearly 1.4 million concurrent players shortly after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds is struggling to pull in the sales even compared to its four-year-old predecessor. As reported by Eurogamer, Capcom published its most recent financial report earlier this week covering the…
Grokipedia, xAI’sAI-powered online encyclopaedia, is now live. Version 0.1 features an extremely basic white-text-on-a-black-background look and stripped back page layouts, plus more than 885,000 articles. But despite Elon Musk’s recent claim that Grokipedia “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” much of the content seems to have come directly from it (via The Verge). In…
You need scrap for just about everything in Arc Raiders, whether it’s building a new crafting bench in your workshop, upgrading your weapons, or cobbling together the odds and ends you need for each run up to the deadly, bot-infested surface. The number of different scrap items will be so overwhelming initially that you’re more…
How to improve Football Manager. It’s a question both Sports Interactive and players like me have asked on an (almost) yearly basis for the last 20 years. So the answers should, by rights, be forthcoming and straightforward. It’s a series that eats up vast, greedy swathes of your time, and in the hundreds of hours…
As you’d imagine in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, wires and batteries are valuable crafting materials in Arc Raiders. Not only that, but they’re also required for the Trash into Treasure quest for Shani, the second quest you can collect alongside Clearer Skies. You’ll need six wires and one battery, which sounds like more than it actually…
Scientists in Germany claim to have come up with the smallest light-emitting pixels yet devised by humankind (via SciTechDaily). Physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg have developed a new OLED panel technology with pixels measuring just 300 nm across. That’s a full order of magnitude smaller than the most diminutive existing light-emitting pixels, but the researchers claim…
As we’ve discovered time and time again, someone’s hatred for the classic videogame yellow paint rarely ever outweighs their need for it. The sunny signposting has become a universal language for guiding players through levels, but it’s also a regular point of contention in what some consider lazy game design. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director…