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Creative Achievement 2024: UFO 50

There’s so much going on in this absurdly ambitious compilation that we’ve given it an award designed to celebrate its sheer dedication to the craft. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Evan Lahti, Strategic Director: Imagine the jackpot feeling of stumbling upon, perhaps while excavating some beige office tomb…

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Nintendo’s lawsuit isn’t slowing Palworld down as it prepares for a summer collab with Terraria

A little legal jousting with Nintendo hasn’t stopped Palworld from making new stuff. This summer, the survival game with totally-not-Pokémon will have a collab with eternally popular indie crafting game Terraria in its Tides of Terraria update. Pocketpair’s announcement post is pretty thin on details, but says that you’ll be able to “catch, train, fight,…

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The dungeoncrawler where you really can roll to seduce the dragon has been delayed until next year

The game whose full name I forget and have to copy-paste every time—here goes, it’s called Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart—was scheduled to release on September 17. It’s been delayed until next year because developer Snoozy Kazoo’s previous games—hang on, let me warm up Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V again—Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion and…

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Varjo Aero review

The Varjo VR headsets have always skewed more towards enterprise than a traditional consumer-grade VR experience. You know, for those folks with intense Microsoft Flight Simulator or whole F1 cockpits in their garage. The Varjo Aero, however, is looking to bridge the gap between the casual VR gamer and someone who would refer to the…

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it’s been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming

In days of yore, before we had all this internet nonsense, leaks happened organically, concretely. They happened in printed books and in frantic conversations in the cloisters. In the time of the Roman Republic, unannounced videogames were leaked by loose-lipped sculptors in unguarded moments, out of their gourds on hippocras. A more civilised age, and…

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Xbox Insider Release Notes – Delta (2311.231102-1830)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Delta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…

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RTX 40-series graphics cards can now enable Frame Generation in unsupported games via the drivers: up to a 44% fps improvement in my initial tests

Heads up, RTX 40-series GPU owners, you can now enable Frame Generation on almost any modern game. The latest Nvidia GeForce drivers enable a setting called Smooth Motion, which allows Frame Gen to be enabled even on games that don’t natively support it. This setting was previously limited to RTX 50-series cards only, despite support…

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