The US government is ‘looking at’ the connection between videogames and gun violence, because what else could it possibly be

Like a dog gnawing on a particularly tasty bone, the US government is once again trying to link violent videogames to violence in the real world. In a press conference following the release of the Make Our Children Healthy Again report conducted by the Make America Healthy Again commission—MAHA, of course—US secretary of health and…

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9 metroidvanias to play if you’ve realized Hollow Knight: Silksong just isn’t for you

Everyone’s talking about Hollow Knight Silksong, and that’s understandable. It’s one of the most obsessively anticipated sequels in recent memory, and it’s a really fun metroidvania. It’s also a brilliant excuse to re-open the reliably polarising difficulty in games debate. I can’t remember there ever being this much buzz for an exploration platformer before, but…

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While we wait for Borderlands 4 to unlock, let’s make a definitive ranking of the series’ many musical cinematic intros

As synonymous with the Borderlands series as its trillions of guns, masked psychos, and dodgy vehicle controls are its iconic musical intro cinematics. Serving to acquaint us with four new Vault Hunters and the setting they’ll be gunning through, they’ve taken us everywhere from a bus driving across Pandora to a rocket hurtling through space….

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With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I’ll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there’s yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn’t flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple’s latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC…

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Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core ‘or equivalent’ CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser

Roughly two months ago we got our first look at the system requirements for Borderlands 4, a process that involved many of us on the hardware team scrunching up our noses. Listed on the Steam page was the insistence that the game would require eight CPU cores as a minimum, which seemed highly unlikely given…

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In tribute to a player’s departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in ‘hundreds’ to pay respects to his namesake: ‘It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke’s shop’

MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….

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