Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…

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Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had ‘no staying power,’ and that can’t be addressed with a quick fix: ‘These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch’

The First Descendant’s launch hype went over like a bag of candy smuggled into a movie theater—exciting at first, but regrettably short-lived. While last July it was celebrating a screaming high of 10 million players in its first week alone, SteamDB shows the game has simmered to around 5,000 concurrent players as I write this….

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Xenonauts 2 review

Need to know What is it? Old school X-COM refined and reimagined. Release date: January 5, 2026 Expect to pay: $40/£45 Developer: Goldhawk Interactive Publisher: Hooded Horse Reviewed on: Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck: Playable Link: Official site I’ll be honest with you right up front: I loved the…

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How to pickpocket in Crimson Desert

Working out how to pickpocket in Crimson Desert might have you a bit stumped. After all, the system in this game is very different to any I’ve seen before—you can’t simply sneak up behind someone and have a rummage about in their rear compartment. Nope, there’s a trick you need to pickpocket beyond simply crouching…

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‘It’s like having the secret to Coca-Cola’: Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the ‘inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists’

The Super Mario Galaxy movie released to some shaky reviews; most critics have slammed the sequel for “having no centre”, being only “a series of large, vaguely connected explosions”, and simply “a way of gouging cash out of families.” But all the awful reviews of the sequel aside, CEO of Illumination Chris Meledandri is still…

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Arc Raiders is a ‘Trojan Horse’ for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at ‘a fraction of the cost you’d expect’

In a new capital markets briefing from Nexon, Patrick Söderlund, the newly appointed Nexon executive chairman and CEO of Arc Raiders and The Finals developer Embark Studios, spoke extensively about everyone’s favourite subject in games right now: AI. More specifically, he talked about how Embark’s approach to game development and AI can be deployed across…

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Minecraft creator Notch says ‘DLSS fundamentally makes no sense’, but the X comments say ‘um, actually’

Minecraft creator and opinion-haver Notch has taken to X to complain about Nvidia’s upscaling and Frame Generation tech, DLSS. You might have heard of it, particularly its controversial new iteration. However, it’s the whole concept of DLSS that seems to be confusing Notch. “DLSS fundamentally makes no sense,” the creator of the best-selling video game…

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