Cities: Skylines 2 latest region pack heads to the Netherlands, ‘the land of windmills, clogs, and stroopwafel,’ and includes new hospitals, fire stations, and hyperrealistic cemeteries

Cities: Skylines 2 just got a free content update in the form of the Netherlands Region Pack. This will provide Netherland-loving players the opportunity to build up a Dutch-inspired city with a bunch of new service buildings and an eerily realistic cemetery. “The interest and size of the Dutch Cities community is not a secret;…

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The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response

Dear reader, I have a confession to make: I never really got into Minecraft. Sure, I dabbled—but then I’d turn around to see the literal cathedrals folks were building with their blocks and I simply decided to go play something else. We’re not all destined to be architects, and I’m more than okay with that….

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This Energizer-branded laptop has a massive 192 Wh battery with up to 7 days standby time, but you won’t technically be able to take it on your next flight

If you know the name ‘Energizer’, there’s a good chance an image of a pink bunny just shot into your brain the second you read the headline. Well, the famous battery brand is now being emblazoned on a productivity laptop, and unsurprisingly, the battery is absolutely massive. As reported by The Verge, three laptops are…

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Battlefield 6 season 1 roadmap finally tells us how big its Call of Duty-like seasons will be: two maps, five guns, modes, and attachments

It’s the nature of big-budget shooters these days that, as soon as they’re out, folks start immediately asking what’s next. Seasons are still how we experience multiplayer games at the moment, and Battlefield 6 is finally sharing its roadmap details as launch approaches. Battlefield 6 season 1 is coming October 28, just two weeks and…

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After months of complaining that Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, Omega Planetes is here to tip every hunter upside down and shake out all their lunch money

I was not expecting Monster Hunter Wilds’ most challenging fight to date to come from a Final Fantasy 14 collaboration of all places, but as someone who is an absolute sicko for both games it’s perhaps the most fun I’ve had repeatedly carting over and over again. At first I thought it was the fact…

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Pax Dei, the fantasy alternative to EVE Online, is leaving early access and introducing a subscription model that sounds a lot like paying a landlord

When Pax Dei launched in early access last year, I was pretty excited. Developer Mainframe Industries painted a vivid picture of clashing kingdoms, a player-run economy, and even the ability to become, essentially, the Pope. What we got initially was a pretty generic survival crafting game where simply making a pair of trousers took almost…

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Consume Me is a devastatingly accurate insight into diet culture and how all-consuming it is trying to attain the perfect lifestyle

This piece discusses themes around disordered eating, dieting, and diet culture throughout. I’ve spent far too much of my life deeply entrenched in diet culture and all of the bullshit that surrounds it, which made the early chapters of Consume Me feel like a terrifyingly accurate time capsule. The game serves as a semi-autobiographical take…

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SteelSeries unveils new high-end wireless gaming headset with a price tag that might be too dear for even my audiophile ears

We’ve seen gaming peripheral companies make a dent in the premium gaming keyboard market, so why not audiophile headphones? That’s what SteelSeries must’ve been thinking when it put together the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite—a headset with new drivers and heaps of connectivity. Oh, and a seriously large price tag. The Arctis Nova Elite launches today,…

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EA’s new owners are leaning heavily on AI to make some money and its huge debt go away, which seems like one helluva gamble to me

If corporate consolidation of one of the biggest entities in the video game industry by private equity, a Saudi Arabian investment fund, and a major investment firm doesn’t signal a worrying future for EA, leveraging AI to further cut costs will do the trick. The $55 billion required to buy out EA includes $20 billion…

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