Yes, Stardew Valley’s newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, ‘but not as much as you might think’

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he’s “committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier,” announced last week that he’s working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take…

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Ex-Skyblivion dev says it ‘was never in the state that the videos would show off’ as they claim it’s crunching on a ‘pointless and unachievable’ 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic

Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and…

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Grovemade desk review

I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking about a physical sparkle, of course, I mean that ‘freshly impressed with new furniture’ feeling. I’ve been using the Grovemade standing desk system—AKA the Grovemade desk—for a few months now, and I’m still a little in…

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A last-ditch attempt to save the Perfect Dark reboot fell through because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn’t agree who’d own the IP

The industry is still feeling the aftershocks of Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands of staff in July, which came alongside multiple game cancellations. One of the most high-profile was the Perfect Dark reboot being co-developed by The Initiative, a studio that has now been closed, and Crystal Dynamics. It turns out that, per a…

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This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors

Once the hotbed of chip development and manufacturing, Japan has been surpassed by the likes of Taiwan, South Korea, and the US. In a move to bring it back to the forefront of semiconductors, a new consortium has been launched, comprising 27 different firms, that will focus entirely on developing a key component in the…

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This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work

Battery startup BMX (Better Mobile Xperience) claims that some airlines are now banning standard lithium-ion batteries due to safety concerns. Whether that’s true, more on which in a sec’, its new solid-state USB-C charging pack does look interesting, especially once you’ve seen BMX drive a nail through it and have it allegedly keep on working….

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The latest Lenovo leak reveals what looks to be a new long boi laptop concept—though this one is ever so slightly less ridiculous

Lenovo keeps trying to make long laptops happen. However, rather than some improbably unfurling mechanism or a bendy display, this time we’re looking at a concept machine with a topsy-turvy screen. A leak out of Lenovo has revealed a first look at a laptop with a screen that can pivot between horizontal and vertical orientations….

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After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow’s news will be quite boring, actually

Cyberpunk 2077 sure had our attention the other day, when it posted a vague tease on its myriad social media accounts indicating that something—frustratingly undefined—would be happening on September 4. Well, inevitably, that got everyone all worked up. What could it be? Another patch? New content? A whole new DLC? The release date for Hollow…

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