Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam: ‘It’s not a Bloodlines game’

A decade after Bloodlines 2 was pitched to then-new Vampire: The Masquerade owner Paradox Interactive, we’re finally able to sink our fangs into the undead sequel. Unfortunately absence has not made the heart grow fonder, and it’s currently sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam. The consensus among the user reviews, even the positive ones, is…

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Cooler Master recommends physically tampering with its angled 12V-2×6 GPU power connector to make it fit better. Yes THAT GPU power connector. Even worse, the ‘fix’ doesn’t work

Will the drama ever end for the 12V-2×6 power connector? GPU meltgate still hasn’t really ended and companies are seemingly hellbent on fumbling the ball when it comes to the connector’s design. And then apparently recommending potentially dangerous ‘fixes’ that, er, don’t even work. At least, that seems to be the case with Cooler Master’s…

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Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies’ raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn’t convince you to give its demo a look I don’t know what will

You know what I worry about? I worry about the lost artforms of the early internet. Time was, every game guide out there would come prefaced with some lustrous bit of ASCII art—an unfathomably complex picture made up solely of characters on your keyboard. Now it’s gone the way of ancient basket-weaving and the spinning…

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Scuf Valor Pro review

The wireless version of the Scuf Valor Pro is finally here, offering everything we loved about the wired version, just minus the wire and all of its tangle potential. That means I’m gonna award this a high score, and we can all go home early, right? Unfortunately, even without a wire, the Scuf Valor Pro…

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Borderlands 4 Horrors of Kairos dates and rewards

Borderlands is no stranger to limited-time seasonal celebrations, and Borderlands 4‘s Halloween event, Horrors of Kairos, dials up the spookiness and gives you the opportunity to earn some terrifying treats. If you’ve experienced previous Halloween events in the series, then it’ll come as no surprise that you can get a haunting new head—this time a…

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FMV dating sims are booming in Asia, inspired in part by ‘micro-dramas’ popular on TikTok: ‘It’s not actually real life, but it feels like real life’

If you’re like me and you’re addicted to keeping track of the unfiltered new releases page on Steam, you would have noticed the FMV genre is experiencing a renaissance. I’m not talking about Her Story, or The Bunker, or Late Shift: the most recent wave is coming pretty much entirely from Asia, spanning China, Japan,…

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Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’

Palworld developer Pocketpair kicked off 2025 by launching a publishing division, and was immediately swamped with interest: It received more than 150 pitches for publishing deals in its first week alone. Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley said at the time that the new division “will respect the autonomy and vision of developers and work together…

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