With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I’ll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there’s yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn’t flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple’s latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC…

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The Simplicity of Aviator and Why It Works

The digital gaming sector has recently seen a sharp pivot away from high-fidelity graphics toward stark functionalism. Complex narratives and cinematic visuals often yield to raw mechanics in the current market.  Spribe’s Aviator represents this shift by stripping away the ornamental layers typical of modern software. It relies entirely on a single rising curve and…

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I’ve already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain

It’s tough out there for BioWare fans: Veilguard was better than it gets credit for, but the studio still looks like it’s on its last legs. Our only solace seems to be other developers picking up the torch of those big, cinematic, ensemble cast, wish fulfilling RPGs: Larian, CDProjekt, and now, maybe Owlcat with its…

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14 years on, the creator of DayZ is still searching for a solution to survival gaming’s biggest problem: ‘I think I am going to die without having solved it’

You might think making one of the most influential games of this century would be a source of unending happiness for its creator. But for Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of RocketWerkz, the relationship with his most famous creation isn’t that simple. “When DayZ happened, it was like dying,” says Hall of the mod which, alongside…

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