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The surprise Assassin’s Creed Mirage DLC announced by Ubisoft in August will go live on November 18, adding a new main quest, sidequests, assassination targets, and other new content in the ancient valley of AlUla, a place Ubi calls “charged with history and home to stunning and diverse landscapes.” Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory…

Oh, a new city builder? I know exactly how to get started. I’ll drag a bunch of long roads across the map, slam in a ton of residential and commercial zones, slap down a fire house, a cop shop, and a few schools, then sit back and watch the virtual bucks roll in. That approach…

Ten years after it was founded, Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing. The news was delivered by studio founder and creative director David Goldfarb, who said in a message posted to Bluesky that the studio has fallen victim to the Funcom layoffs announced last week. “I have not had much time to process the…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is currently in an early access beta period, with the full release slated for 14 November. Activision’s annualised treadmill is such a feature of the landscape now you forget it ever had serious competition, though this year EA’s taking yet another crack at it with Battlefield 6. The game…

I know, I know, it’s a lot of cash. But the truth is, it’s difficult to find many RTX 50-series laptops for anything less than silly money right now, and this one’s got the big boi RTX 5080 for a just about reasonable sum. Our Dave has reviewed a very similar model and likes the…

Intel’s woes the last decade or so are well-enough documented. So, it’s not a huge surprise to find a former senior Intel manager describing morale as being “in the toilet.” But it hits hard, all the same. A new feature on Fortune.com outlines Intel’s current problems and provides a glimpse of the huge effort it’s…

If you’re in the western half of Canada or the USA, reportedly you’ve been treated to quite the evening light show of late. What has looked like shooting stars or meteorites entering the Earth’s atmosphere has in fact been Starlink satellites burning up in ever greater numbers. According to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell (via…

The best games ask big questions. Planescape: Torment asked what could change the nature of a man. Disco Elysium asked if, in dark times, the stars should also go out. Today, Mala Petaka asks: what if Doom was a gumdrop-sweet game they made in Japan in 1992? Created in actual GZDoom, the open-source Doom engine…

Monster Hunter Wilds recently added a new raid boss from Final Fantasy 14, but all this seems to have done is brought some long-running player grievances to the surface. The game’s Steam reviews have been absolutely tanking and the reason will surprise no-one who’s played it: performance. I’m a Monster Hunter megafan and, when it…

We are just days away from the floodgates opening and everyone finally getting to jump into Battlefield 6’s full release. But as the excitement builds, there’s also a fair amount of dread, though not about anything too sinister; instead, players can’t decide if they like the quickturn mechanic that sort of turns you into an…