One of 2024’s best games and a new horror classic has been delisted on Itch.io amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games

Mouthwashing was one of the best games of 2024, “a horror game whose narrative and aesthetics are going to be remembered, celebrated, and emulated” for years to come, as PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield wrote in his glowing 87% review. And if you’d like to buy it on indie-focused digital marketplace Itch.io, you’re going to have…

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Grounded 2 launch times and release date

It’s quite the month for crafting and sim games as Grounded 2‘s early access release joins the launch of Abiotic Factor’s big 1.0 update and Tales of the Shire’s cozy decorating. The Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-inspired adventure was only recently announced at the Xbox Game Showcase back in June, and is the follow-up to…

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Roblox CEO horrifies every parent alive with his ambition that the platform become a dating hub, even if he promises age verification: ‘A virtual date to start, and then if they connect, move to the physical world’

The tech industry specialises in a tone-deaf executives. The people who run these billion dollar companies are often so removed from the real world, the daily reality of all us peons, that they can seem like a different species. To take one recent example, imagine you got laid off by Microsoft, and then one executive…

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‘Costume designer, take notes’: The Fantastic Four: First Steps cast plays their first Marvel Rivals game and gets stunlocked by the Malice skin

As part of the promotion for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the cast sat down and met their Marvel Rivals counterparts, since new movie-themed costumes have been added to the game. It went as well as you’d expect, considering the cast only had a limited amount of time to learn the game, but some parts…

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Samsung’s US chip fab gets a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $16.5 billion deal to supply Tesla’s next generation of car processors

Advanced chip manufacturing is a very costly but also very lucrative business, and for TSMC, business has been extremely good. However, that’s not been the case for Samsung, the world’s second-largest chip maker after TSMC, as it has been struggling to bring in new customers. There is some good news on that front, though, as…

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn’t about following your passion: ‘Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?’

Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). . It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“) and at one point Newell, by any metric one of the most phenomenally…

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Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? A cozy life sim set in a the small Hobbit town of BywaterExpect to pay: $34.99/£29.99Developer: Wētā WorkshopPublisher: Private DivisionReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official site Bilbo Baggins’ trip to Lonely Mountain (and back again) in The Hobbit was roughly 2,000 miles. In…

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Tryx Panorama SE ARGB 360 review

When it comes to design, the mark of any good company is its ability to take criticism well. It’s such a critical element that’s often overlooked when we evaluate overall brands, but being able to take critique from a flawed product and then feed that back to the design team is incredibly advantageous on so…

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Bob Odenkirk on Mario: ‘I’ll kill him’

You don’t reach the top of Hollywood without stepping on heads. It’s a rough game out in La-La Land, and only the most ruthless and bloodthirsty can survive long enough to get their star on the Walk of Fame. Like Bob Odenkirk, for instance, who gave us a taste of the killer instinct under that…

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