Creative SoundBlaster GS3 review

Those little speakers built into your monitor have a problem: they’re just too small. The laws of physics have a tight grip on audio reproduction, and the sad fact is that large, expensive speakers will always be better than smaller ones, as well as looking cooler and making you more attractive to the kind of…

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US senators express ‘profound concern’ over EA buyout: ‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks’

The $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts by a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm has resulted in no small amount of consternation among observers. Much of that arises from the perceived likelihood of a less-than-ideal long-term outcome for EA, its creative output, and its staff—but…

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Yep, I get why this co-op RPG sandbox that’s part Minecraft, part Skyrim, and also has airships, is one of the most played demos on Steam Next Fest

It didn’t take me long to get into the Everwind demo at Steam Next Fest. I was skeptical: I feel like I’ve had my fill of games that kinda sorta look like Minecraft but aren’t actually Minecraft, y’know? But my skepticism evaporated roughly 35 seconds into the demo. I spawned on top of a small…

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‘Scottish dark fantasy Dynasty Warriors’ sounds like a game pitch from a fever dream, but this roguelike demo proves it’s got juice

The 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart, a fictionalized retelling of the battles of Scottish knight William Wallace during the First War of Scottish Independence, was full of blatant historical inaccuracies: Its dates were wrong, its dress was anachronistic, and—worst of all—it didn’t even cover the period in Wallace’s life when a demonic meteor fell into…

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