Plants vs Brainrots codes and how to redeem them

The Roblox brainrot trend continues with more shoe-wearing sharks, strangely shaped cats, and bizarre cappuccino ballerinas in another tower defense experience based on Plants vs. Zombies. Just as its namesake implies, the brainrots replace zombies while keeping the plants to grow your defenses against an eccentric army of critters. A few Plants vs Brainrots codes…

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Silksong players are leaving condolences for the family of a late Hollow Knight fan who created a boss for the game before dying of cancer in 2020

As Silksong players unlock Act 3 and push deeper into the optional endgame of Hornet’s adventure, many of them are now discovering Seth, a boss with a deep backstory even by Team Cherry’s standards: he was conceived by 16-year-old Hollow Knight fan Seth Goldman, who died of a rare form of bone cancer called ewing…

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I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are

Look, I’m all for innovation. But I cannot stand idly by and watch hardware manufacturers slap screens on regular components like it’s the second coming of PC hardware without comment, and these V-Color XFinity+ DDR5 RAM modules are the perfect example of why. “Designed for overclocking enthusiasts and hardware lovers,” the XFinity+ modules have been…

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I fixed Borderlands 4’s stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn’t have to do in a well-optimised game

Well, it’s my own fault, really. Despite writing an article about the reaction to Nvidia’s brutal optimised settings charts for Borderlands 4, and being well aware of stuttering issues thanks to Nick’s performance testing piece, I jumped into the game this weekend anyway. And, lo and behold, the stuttering was very much there—until I discovered…

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says ‘less than 1% of 1%’ of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet’s overblowing it

To what I assume is the eternal dismay of the Gearbox PR department, studio CEO Randy Pitchford has once again been tweeting. What’s he up to now? Well, he’s applying the ol’ scientific method to people’s Borderlands 4 performance complaints, pointing out that—if this game is really as stutter-prone as you horrible lot have been…

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