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MacBook Neo review

Hello and welcome to another great installment of ‘why would you want to game on that?’ where I try to play PC games on something that’s not really designed for it. This time, it’s the MacBook Neo, Apple’s low-cost ($599/£599) laptop that runs on the processor from an iPhone 16 Pro. As such, it has…

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Masters of Albion is a ‘Best of Peter Molyneux’ greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it

First, the good news: Peter Molyneux has learnt (one of) his lesson(s). Masters of Albion will not try to flog you NFTs, no one said the words “play to earn” in the entirety of its hands-off demo, and I didn’t see a single unfathomable cube in the 40ish minutes I watched Molyneux walk me and…

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Marathon UI designer declares himself the ‘fontslop merchant’ and promises Bungie will never ‘remove the SAUCE from the UI’

Last week, one of the most circulated reactions to the Marathon server slam was a YouTuber who took one look at the menus and declared it the first ever “fontslop” game. He wasn’t the only one who felt their eyes were assaulted by Marathon’s unorthodox graphic design. UI feedback was one of Bungie’s major takeaways…

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How to beat Gladius in Elden Ring Nightreign

Discovering how to beat Gladius in Elden Ring Nightreign is your first major trial, and honestly, it’s one that might cause many players to bounce off the game entirely. The trickiest thing about Gladius, Beast of Night, despite his hefty health pool, is that he transforms from a three-headed dog into three one-headed dogs, and…

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RAM and storage is ridiculously expensive right now because of *drumroll* AI, of course, and there’s little reason to think prices will drop any time soon

We can’t seem to get a moment’s respite in the PC gaming industry, can we? We spent the better part of this year lamenting ridiculously high GPU prices, and as soon as said prices finally start dropping, memory and storage prices start climbing. You might have noticed this worrying trend if you’ve been looking for…

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