Now you can play Resident Evil Requiem in VR if that's a thing you want for some reason

‘We don’t have shareholders, but we also don’t think about them,’ Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate

Baldur’s Gate 3 walked away from the DICE Awards with another handful of trophies: Outstanding Achievement in Story, RPG of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Game of the Year—adding to an already massive list of well-deserved accolades. Its developers, however, devoted much of their speech time to…

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Rust doubles down on its ‘controversial’ meta changes by wiping everyone’s crafting blueprints to ‘bring back that sense of discovery’, and it might become a regular thing

Last month, Facepunch Studios began overhauling player progression in its nihilistic survival sim Rust to coax players out of their bases and encourage more PvP combat, introducing a “controversial” blueprint fragment system that requires players to locate and piece together blueprints to upgrade their workbenches above level one. Despite the apparently mixed reception of blueprint…

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How to Keep Your Hard Drives Off Life Support

Defragmentation, SMART monitoring, and more tips to keep your hard drives chugging along In an age of increasingly affordable flash storage, hard drives are slowly disappearing from enthusiast rigs and mass-market laptops alike. Although SSDs are markedly faster than their platter-based counterparts, hard drives are still useful for long-term storage, archival, and massive media libraries…

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Space Marine 2’s huge Obelisk Update adds a long-awaited new mission, reworked melee combat, bonus XP, and goat-bird-wizards hurtling towards you on living flying saucers

Like Titus crashing through a swarm of gaunts, Space Marine 2 is showing no signs of slowing down. Patch 5.0, the “Obelisk Update”, is a doozy, adding new content, reworking core systems, and giving players even more incentive to murder the enemies of mankind by the thousands. The headliner is a new Operation, appropriately called…

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Modern Day Retro Part 2 – By Ben Magnet

When it’s announced that a beloved Hollywood classic or television show is getting remade, most of the population groans. You see discourse online about how the previous incarnation of said media was “perfect” or “they’ve finally run out of ideas.” Some fans may be excited to see what a new set of creators DO with…

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Inundated with slop, TikTok tests feature that will let users request to ‘see less’ AI generated content in their feeds

TikTok is currently testing a new feature that will let users request to “see less” AI generated content in their feeds, in an expansion to its AI control features which have thus far identified 1.3 billion AI generated videos posted to the platform. The social media giant announced the new tools at its annual European…

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