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Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office

Techland has released its post-launch roadmap for its free-running, zombie-dropkicking spinoff Dying Light: The Beast. As gaming roadmaps go, it’s closer to what you’d scribble on the back of a packet of ciggies than the cartographical masterpieces produced by Ordnance Survey, with Techland’s plans stretching over just 11 weeks. But this pencil-scrawl to your local…

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Corsair Air 5400 review

I’ve waited for over a decade for a true successor to the Corsair Carbide Air 540. With plenty of room for storage, fans, and a disk drive in its dual-chamber design, the Air 540 was a great pick for my own PC back in 2014. Though I’ve since moved on, and that case has been…

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For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part of the fantasy—Palworld proves them wrong

Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You’ve got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But there are only so many…

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A History of Atari, Part 2 – by Leonard Herman

From late 1975 and throughout 1976, work proceeded on Atari’snew programmable home system.Bushnell and Atari’s president, Joe Keenan, hoped to release it in time for Christmas 1977, but realized they didn’t have the finances to do so. Bushnell wanted to take the company public but his underwriter believed that that wouldn’t raise as much as…

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