Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have 'real oceans' that players will need 'large boats and crews' to cross

Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have ‘real oceans’ that players will need ‘large boats and crews’ to cross

Every few months the No Man’s Sky community gets a treat: a new update is announced that introduces new features and systems for the sci-fi sandbox. Something else that happens every few months: the Light No Fire community gets its hopes up that the announcement will actually be about Hello Games’ upcoming Earth-sized fantasy sandbox….

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows review

Before we even knew what it was called, Assassin’s Creed Shadows had a target on its back. Culture warriors have been frothing over the casting of historical Black samurai Yasuke as one of the protagonists ever since the first screenshot leaked, prompting several ill-advised attempts by Ubisoft to defang the haters concerned about “historical accuracy.”…

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Blue Prince is ‘the result of 8 years of development, fuelled my imagination and creativity’ not AI says publisher

2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was disqualified from the Indie Game Awards for making use of generative AI during development and Larian’s admission of using genAI “to explore ideas” at the studio has caused ripples…

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I’ve never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can’t deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it’ll even charge your phone wirelessly

The whole external graphics card thing is one of those technologies that sounds super appealing, but tends to fall down on practicalities like price and performance. But I gotta admit, this new Kickstarter-funded eGPU dock based on Thunderbolt 5 is incredibly slick and has enough features that you could almost view the eGPU bit as…

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Crimson Desert secures a March release date as the ambitious Frankenstein’s monster of open world fantasy games goes gold

Five and a half years after its 2020 Game Awards reveal, Crimson Desert has remained something of a mystery. Developer Pearl Abyss has promised a growing collection of mechanics and playstyles so bafflingly dense that it’s still hard to picture how exactly it’s all meant to fit together. Thanks to a freshly announced release date,…

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