As a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways.

As a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways.

There was a time when a slight tweak to a forest path would send my Dota 2 clan’s heads into a collective spin. Valve’s venerable MOBA used to be much more conservative with map changes, and big ones are still rare—but they happen, now. In 2023 the map got 40% bigger, and Roshan relocated to…

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Soulsborne fans tackle the ultimate boss of private healthcare, paying off beloved community figure’s huge bill within hours while collectively urging: ‘Don’t you dare go hollow’

The longtime Soulsborne content creator Zullie the Witch has been datamining FromSoftware’s games for pretty much as long as I’ve been playing them, producing countless deep-dives, neat findings and lore tidbits for fans to chew on. They’ve covered every Soulsborne game including Elden Ring and Sekiro, but under their most recent video on Elden Ring…

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Reddit reports of 9800X3D CPUs dying in ASRock motherboards are racking up fast, but a new BIOS update seemingly only addresses boot problems

After endless bad news stories concerning buggy, borked and broken Intel CPUs, now it’s AMD turn. Yup, the Reddit threads are alive with the sound of expiring AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. Specifically, it seems the problem is concentrated on but not necessarily exclusive to ASRock motherboards. To that end, ASRock has released a BIOS…

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SNES Title ‘Shounen Ninja Sasuke’ Is Getting Its First Ever Western Release Later This Week

Under the title ‘Justice Ninja Casey’. Sunsoft’s 1994 action-adventure title Shounen Ninja Sasuke is set to get its first-ever Western release later this week, courtesy of Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden. The Japan-exclusive SNES title will be reissued on modern platforms (PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4) on February…

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Desktop pets are so back, baby!

In the early 2000s computers could do anything. They could bring you to webrings of increasingly niche fansites. They could calculate directions to Pizza Hut on MapQuest or deliver you answers to important questions from a guy named Jeeves. They could even house little virtual pets who would scamper across your monitor while you surfed…

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