Ball X Pit review

Need to Know What is it? A Breakout-inspired roguelike with city-building elements and no sense of restraint.Release date October 15, 2025Expect to pay $15 / £13Developer Kenny SunPublisher Devolver DigitalReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site There are certain games where you can tell immediately that…

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Bungie executes spectacular U-turn by removing new currency it just added to Destiny 2, desperately bestows 777,777 unstable cores on all players for the apology tour

Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate was released on July 15, 2025, and ever since then developer Bungie has been fire-fighting one of the expansion’s many unpopular additions: unstable cores. Forgive the Destiny jargon, because this thing loves an in-game currency, but unstable cores are how you infuse gear, increasing its power level beyond the…

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Cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook is delayed to 2026 ‘to ensure the world feels rich, immersive, and alive’

Witchbrook, the upcoming cozy life sim about going to witch college—think Stardew Valley meets Harry Potter except you’re a witch instead of a wizard, and no, I’m not clear on the distinction—has been delayed. After setting a release window of winter 2025 earlier this year, developer Chucklefish now says it needs more time to get…

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‘Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not’: Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg

Firmware security company Eclypsium has claimed that 200,000 Framework laptops and desktops that are running Linux have shipped with “what can only be described as signed backdoors.” This is because they’ve shipped with UEFIs that allow memory read/write access that can apparently be used to compromise Secure Boot. And apparently “this situation is not unique…

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A lawyer caught using AI citations and quotes in a Supreme Court legal case has been called out by a judge for defending themselves with, err, AI citations and quotes

For fans of real-life legal drama, I’ve got a doozy for you. An attorney in a New York Supreme Court legal case was accused by a plaintiff and their lawyers of providing “inaccurate citations and quotations” that appeared to be “hallucinated” by an AI tool. When said lawyer opposed the claims, they were then accused…

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‘It should be silly’: Overwatch 2’s newest Halloween event, Haunted Masquerade, connects characters’ lore while also not taking itself too seriously

Overwatch 2 Season 19 has brought a whole host of new cosmetics, challenges, and even events. Just in time for Halloween, old events like Junkenstein’s Revenge and Wrath of the Bride will be coming back, alongside a new event: Haunted Masquerade. Instead of having the usual PvE experience that holiday events often have, Haunted Masquerade…

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Now it’s in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it’s still got a lot of work to do to convince me it’s a) worth $1,000 or b) that it’s an Xbox

Now, I’ve only had the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally X in my hands for a few days now—thanks to delays in shipping and fun with NDAs—but I’m surprised by just how much I do like it. Maybe I shouldn’t be that surprised, given how much of a fan I was of the original Asus…

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I’ve never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can’t deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it’ll even charge your phone wirelessly

The whole external graphics card thing is one of those technologies that sounds super appealing, but tends to fall down on practicalities like price and performance. But I gotta admit, this new Kickstarter-funded eGPU dock based on Thunderbolt 5 is incredibly slick and has enough features that you could almost view the eGPU bit as…

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These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you’ll see unless you fork over for extended coverage

If the past few weeks of being battered around the ears by calls to upgrade Windows 10 wasn’t enough, the final cumulative update for the operating system might be a final reminder of why to do so. That’s because the latest Windows 10 update, version KB5066791, fixes several zero-day vulnerabilities. This might make you consider…

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