The run up to the US TikTok ban got as messy, emotional, and weird as the final days of an MMO—and now everyone's back and no one can look each other in the eye

The run up to the US TikTok ban got as messy, emotional, and weird as the final days of an MMO—and now everyone’s back and no one can look each other in the eye

In case you missed it: this past weekend saw social media platform TikTok banned completely in the US, then restored about 12 hours later thanks to the personal intervention of Donald Trump. Watching the whole series of events unfold on the app itself was chaotic, revelatory, and fascinating—and now it all feels like the morning…

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Crimson Desert’s release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that

Crimson Desert finally has a proper release date, as announced during PlayStation’s State of Play—and I could not be more excited to finally get my mitts on Kliff’s bag of action-hero tricks come March of next year, lemme tell you. I’ve played Crimson Desert twice now—once at GamesCom, and another in April of last year—and…

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“We Are A Community Geared Toward Authentic Creativity” – OC ReMix Makes Its Position On GenAI Music Clear

“If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed”. Overclocked ReMix, a video game community and website dedicated to “the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form,” has released a statement on social media making clear that it won’t accept “GenAI” music on the platform. The statement…

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Audio-Technica ATH R50X review

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first unboxed the Audio-Technica ATH-R50X. Audio-Technica’s reputation in the professional audio world is rock solid, but open-back reference headphones aren’t exactly a dime a dozen in the gaming space. These aren’t your typical bass-heavy, RGB-infused gaming cans. Instead, the ATH-R50X aims for pure, uncolored audio reproduction—an honest,…

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Ella Purnell shuts down theories that a romance between Lucy and the Ghoul is coming: ‘You guys need therapy’

I don’t know how, but maybe when you were watching the Fallout TV show you sensed the embers of romance stoking between Ella Purnell’s Lucy and Walton Goggins’s Ghoul—or perhaps you just like to dream up unlikely romantic pairings. Either way, I’m here to blow away your dreams with a V.A.T.S.-aimed guaranteed crit: Purnell confirmed…

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It’s opposite day in CS2: Accounts full of previously run-of-the-mill reds are now worth upwards of $90,000, while one of the most sought-after knives drops $10,000 in value

If you want to get ahead of the curve when trading stocks and shares, some of the best advice out there is to simply keep an eye out for what rich US senators are doing, but for Counter-Strike 2 players, the equivalent unfortunately isn’t so s1mple. In the wake of Valve’s most controversial update, which…

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