Nacon's promising Revosim RS Pure direct drive racing wheel lets you use your phone as a dashboard and settings tool, but it feels like it could do with a little work

Nacon’s promising Revosim RS Pure direct drive racing wheel lets you use your phone as a dashboard and settings tool, but it feels like it could do with a little work

Nacon has some form when it comes to racing games. While it might not be the first company you think of when it comes to virtual rubber meeting virtual road, its KT Racing studio is behind games like TT Isle of Man, WRC Generations, and the long-running Test Drive Unlimited series. Nacon has never made…

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Timberborn’s latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing

Timberborn is yet another example of just how brilliant the city-building genre is right now. Mechanistry’s beaver-themed management sim lets you construct a water-powered metropolis for the world’s most engineeringly-minded rodent, constructing dams and aqueducts, powering your city with waterwheels. All that, and it’s still in early access, with subsequent updates adding mechanised beavers and…

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Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 review

Almost everything about the Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 is as I would expect it to be, and given its pretty budget price, that’s not a bad thing. Most of its individual parts are just fine, not landing in a place I’d call good but not dropping down to bad. This is kind of part…

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Death Stranding was all about connection, but after Covid-era metaverse hype, Kojima says that ‘maybe it’s not such a good thing to connect so much’

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is due for release in June, though the inevitable PC version is yet to be confirmed: let’s just hope it doesn’t take eight months this time. Creator and director Hideo Kojima has been on the interview circuit and, among other things like constantly making Metal Gear comparisons, gives some…

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Thimbleweed Park 2 is ‘not really a sequel, not really a prequel,’ but it is finally happening

Released in 2017, Thimbleweed Park is a LucasArts-style point-and-click adventure about murder in a small town, headed up by LucasArts veterans Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. All that LucasArts pedigree added up to an 84% score in our review, on the strength of “challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot”—and of course the…

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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 4/26/2016

What a week! The intense, multiplayer battles of Alienation begin on PS4 alongside the long-awaited dungeon-crawler Severed on PS Vita. Developed by the critically acclaimed studio Housemarque, Alienation pits you against a massive alien invasion of Earth. Unleash devastating weapons upon the alien hordes and earn upgrades to better influence the outcome of the fight….

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