Borderlands 4 dev clears up the difference between Skill Damage and Action Skill damage, and I feel like a combat log is in order so I didn’t have to find this out on a Reddit thread

Borderlands 4 has a ton of possible builds to choose from—it’s one of the strengths I highlighted in my Borderlands 4 review—but I do have one teensy-tiny complaint, and it’s that I would like some of the tooltips to be a smidge more straightforward about what is what. This feeling has returned full-force after seeing…

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Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple as the most powerful mobile chip on the market but price uncertainty still remains a sticking point

Just last week, we saw the announcement of Snapdragon’s next range of chips, and this came with lofty claims. Qualcomm called it “Snapdragon’s biggest advance in PC gaming”, promising significantly more power per watt than Strix Point and Arrow Lake, as well as better GPU efficiency than Lunar Lake. Tom’s Hardware was invited out to…

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EA Sports FC 26 review

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is true of many long-running franchises, but nowhere is it more obvious than in EA FC. EA Sports FC 26, though, feels like a game finally willing to back up its yearly price tag. It doesn’t rip everything up, but a series of smart…

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‘We don’t know if something’s scary’: Resident Evil Requiem director reveals the trials of creating the next scariest Resident Evil game, ‘We talked ourselves down a little bit’

We’ve been getting drip-fed Resident Evil Requiem information for a few months now, culminating in numerous Leon-centric fan theories, some absolutely terrifying hands-on sessions, and a better look into our new protagonist, Grace Ashcroft. The latest crumb being a new story trailer shown at TGS over the weekend. Like most of the content that’s come…

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Morrowind gets way easier to play on your Steam Deck or sofa thanks to a new OpenMW release candidate that’s all about gamepads, baby

Think fast, hotshot: after spending three years lovingly crafting July’s 0.49 update, which dramatically buffed up its capacity to handle all-powerful lua modding, the crew at OpenMW have already turned around and put out their first candidate for its 0.50 release. In mod project timelines, this is basically a nanosecond turnaround. If you’re not familiar,…

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Saved you a click: The latest Windows 11 24H2 Insider preview build offers internet speed check right from the taskbar

Bath is a beautiful city in the UK. Unfortunately, as a hardware writer renting creaky, drafty, listed buildings dating from the Georgian period, that beauty does not really translate into decent internet speeds. At the very least, the latest Windows 11 preview build offers one small feature that might make my life slightly easier. Rolling…

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Critical Role’s new DM wants you to know he’s absolutely fine running a D&D game for 13 people and 3 groups: ‘This is my favorite thing in the world’

Critical Role’s next campaign is almost here—and it’s a huge shake-up for the long-standing D&D actual-play titan. Brennan Lee Mulligan will be taking over the DM seat from Matthew Mercer, while also continuing to run Dimension 20 campaigns and recording sessions of Worlds Beyond Number. But that’s not all. Campaign 4 will also be a…

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