Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'

Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is ‘definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren’t there’

A paradox: videogames? They’re pretty good. The videogame industry? It’s bad. Like, mondo bad. A brutal parade of layoffs and exploitation, where grinning execs make out like bandits and everyone else is grist for the mill. One day, of course, the revolution will come, sweep away bourgeois society like so much dust, and the era…

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In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia’s brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games

Earlier this year, Nvidia quietly dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications in its drivers for GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. While the move had been long planned and not unexpected, the change did have one disappointing outcome: every game that used 32-bit PhysX libraries for visual effects would be forced to either disable it or…

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Publisher who resurrected lost pirate game Captain Blood says it’s ‘a 3 or 4’ by today’s standards, but that’s half the fun: ‘All its charms, all its flaws, all the vibes are from that era’

Captain Blood‘s trailer looks like it should be buffering in 240p on Mediafire with a Ventrilo window next to it. Captain Blood itself looks like it should live in a generic Blockbuster case on a DVD so abused it makes my Xbox 360 disc drive howl in agony. Among the detritus of Steam’s New &…

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A Steam Deck owner with three thumbs asked for help modifying the handheld, and Reddit came through: ‘I’ve got 100 different people trying to print different attachments and mailing them to me. Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me’

“I love my steam deck but I’ve got one huge problem,” redditor Alpha-Quartz recently wrote (via GamesRadar). It might be closer to the truth, though, to say what he really has is, well, two small problems. “I have an abnormal hand, where I have two small thumbs instead of one big one, on my left…

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A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: ‘The cells play a lot like a beginner who’s never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven’t’

Doom is a cultural cornerstone, where every new piece of tech (gaming or otherwise) and every game is forced to somehow—no matter how impossible—run Doom. It’s a test, and we’ve seen the 1993 classic on everything from a motherboard’s BIOS, old potatoes, a Lego brick, to a home pregnancy test, and even Doom running inside…

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How to unlock parry in Nioh 3

Working out how to unlock parry in Nioh 3 will be a great addition to your offensive and defensive capabilities. Unlike Sekiro, the parry in Nioh 3 is purely defensive in that it doesn’t damage enemy Ki (stamina) so it never leads to a stagger and a Grapple attack. It does, however, give you Ki…

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Final Fantasy 14 communities panic as it turns out change to blacklisting, meant to help reduce stalking, also lets players use mods to track their alts

Final Fantasy 14 communities have been in a bit of a commotion lately—as a recent mod stepping into the limelight has exposed a vulnerability in the way Square Enix has handled its new-and-‘improved’ blacklist feature. In essence, this solution to the game’s stalker problem has inadvertently made it very easy for ToS-violating (but currently untraceable)…

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