Ghost of Yōtei – tech deep dive

UK: GAME likely to close 40 stores

As many of you will know, UK centric video game retailer GAME has constantly been in financial trouble over the last few years. Today, things aren’t looking much better for the firm. The UK high-street is changing and the majority of people are shopping for their games online at places such as Amazon UK or…

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Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck ready when it leaves its Battle.net exclusivity next week, confirms community director

Diablo 4’s leap to Steam—alongside other games like Overwatch 2—is welcome news to gamers wanting to keep their rigs launcher-slim. Adam Fletcher, the game’s Global Community Development Director, has fully confirmed on Twitter that the game will be coming Steam Deck verified next Tuesday. (Image credit: @PezRadar on Twitter/X) Regrettably, it looks like there won’t…

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Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop

Intel has been talking numbers this week with the announcement of some reasonably positive financials for the final quarter of 2024 (you can read the full transcript here). With that comes the usual chat around product and official confirmation that the Panther Lake mobile CPU is still due in the second half of 2024 using…

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Herdling review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? An atmospheric adventure about guiding magical creatures to a new home. Expect to pay: $25/£20Developer: OkomotivePublisher: PanicReviewed on: Intel i5 6600K, RTX 3080, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official site I loved Far: Lone Sails and Far: Changing Tides, the lonely, meditative side-scrolling forays into the unknown from Swiss studio Okomotive,…

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At long last and ‘with gracious permission from Valve,’ Garry’s Mod now contains ‘most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content’ even if you don’t own those games

So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be! Those have been common sights for users of Garry’s Mod for, oh, let’s see… 20 years or so?…

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