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City of Heroes is one of my favourite games, and I’ve played enough MMOs to have very specific opinions on quest journals. I actually interviewed the hardworking fans behind its officially-sanctioned private server, Homecoming, and three of its original developers who were there for its shutdown. It’s still unmatched as an MMORPG, and I desperately…

Starbreeze rolled out a new subscription service for Payday 2 DLC yesterday, which struck me as a pretty good deal: $5 per month for every piece of DLC currently available, and you can subscribe and cancel as you see fit. But the launch turned a less-than-flattering spotlight on another recent Payday 2 development: A significant…

If you’re a fan of farming simulators and cosy games, then Puffpals: Island Skies has probably come up on your radar at some point over the last few years. This sweet, Animal Crossing-esque farming simulator being developed by plushie company Fluffnest was originally announced on April 6, 2022 with a Kickstarter project launched the following…

If you’ve bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen them labelled as AI PCs. Turns out the desire for AI is lower than we might have thought, if recent Intel reports prove true. According to Digitimes (machine translated),…

Gaming is an expensive hobby. I mean, don’t get me started on how much you’re expected to shell out for even middling rig upgrades these days, or how full-price game releases are now asking for $70 of your hard-earned cash. In such a landscape, with console prices going up instead of down over time, is…

An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…

Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…

I first got my hands on the Glorious Model O3 Wireless sitting on the floor in the halls of Gamescom as a slapdash 15-minute product demo. I was a little frustrated that I only got a few minutes with it because it’s not often you have a product that tries to genuinely innovate in a…

Qualcomm has announced its second-gen Snapdragon X2 SoC for PCs and with it come some big claims, especially for gaming performance. The new chip has 18 CPU cores, 50% more than the the OG Snapdragon X, and over double the GPU performance. But will this actually translate into usable gaming performance? First, some more details…

There’s a weird dearth of vampire videogames, which is a shame, because I often find myself craving them. This year, at least, we’re finally getting Bloodlines 2, but only a few months later we’ll be switching sides and hunting vamps down in Code Vein 2. During Sony’s latest State of Play, Bandai Namco gave us…