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A tabletop RPG designer made a game about the way FromSoft NPCs say cryptic stuff and go ‘heh heh heh’ all the time, and the result is a love letter to the ‘grubby little weirdos’

Among many FromSoftware signatures, the Dark Souls developer’s NPCs always seem to talk, you know, like that. They’re cryptic and brittle, giving the minimum amount of information and surrendering zero context while they laugh, chuckle, or even chortle in the most unsettling way possible. Then you do a few quests, forget them for a while,…

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Microsoft is making its Series 2 pad like a mini Adaptive Controller with a new wave of PC gaming accessibility updates

Microsoft has revealed a plethora of new accessibility updates designed to make gaming more inclusive for disabled players as part of its October celebration of the disabled gaming community. Sony has been following Microsoft’s lead, announcing more options for disabled gamers in the form of new, accessibility focussed controllers, but now we’re seeing more of…

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HTC Vive VR Headset Delayed until April 2016

HTC first introduced its Valve Software-backed virtual reality headset Vive back in March 2015, promising that it would release a version by the end of the year. That has since changed, as the company said on Wednesday that the consumer edition won’t hit retail stores until April 2016. The company did not provide a reason…

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Mouthwashing’s follow-up is self-described ‘friendsweat’ where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: ‘We’re definitely not quite at Peak, but we’re not trying to make Arma either’

Ahead of Carcass Clad’s reveal at last month’s PC Gaming Show, I had the chance to speak to Wrong Organ devs Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom about the studio’s follow-up to its breakout hit, Mouthwashing. Carcass Clad is a very different sort of game, but with familiar themes and atmosphere. The bulk of our…

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US Dept of Justice used existing router malware to quietly purge a Russia-backed ‘vast spearphishing’ botnet from devices in peoples’ homes

There aren’t many stories in the world of technology that could easily make it as a plot for a tense spy-thriller movie, but this one sure has all the right hallmarks for one. Last month, the US Justice Department carried out an authorised operation in which it neutralised a botnet, comprising hundreds of routers in…

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