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Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 made a bombastic first impression late last year, winning over 40k fans with its uncompromisingly chunky super soldiers and a linear campaign that got straight down to business. Since release the game has seen a regular cadence of minor updates, most recently the addition of a datavault in early February…

Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and greatest that the videogame world has to offer, the game I’m probably most excited about this year is System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition. That’s Nightdive’s remaster (not remake, let’s be clear) of the original 1999 classic,…

MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld appears to perform around 20% better than our current favorite gaming handheld—the Asus ROG Ally X—at the same power consumption level. In some games, it might even reach 113%, but there are some odd games in the company’s benchmark ringer. The scores come from MSI’s own official, in-house…

Has SSD cooling gone too far? Are PCIe 5.0 speeds worth it? These are the questions to wrestle with as you stare down an SSD with its own dedicated liquid cooler. The drive in question is MSI’s Spatium M580 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2TB Frozr Liquid, which comes with its very own pint-sized water cooler,…

I’ve been playing Skyrim for a whopping 12 years thanks to its hard-working mod community, constantly downloading new quests, texture packs and ambitious features. But long before that I was spending my days playing through custom scenarios and fiddling around with the map editor in Age of Empires 2—the genesis of my love for modding….