If you've got a passion for baking, gardening, or giving broken things a new lease on life the reveal trailer for Piece by Piece is bound to spark joy

If you’ve got a passion for baking, gardening, or giving broken things a new lease on life the reveal trailer for Piece by Piece is bound to spark joy

If you love the satisfaction of renovating or repairing something broken, then Piece by Piece is worth keeping an eye on. I’m the sort of person who is quite clumsy with repairs. Usually, I’m satisfied with a slathering of superglue and an optimistic mindset, but there’s something about Piece by Piece that tempts me to…

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How a former NASA employee became the world’s foremost author of videogame cookbooks: ‘It can’t look like you’re eating a Pokémon’

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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The US squeezed Nvidia’s AI chip export deal with China into negotiations over important rare earth elements, bizarrely claiming ‘we put that in the trade deal with the magnets’

News broke earlier this week that Nvidia was filing applications to sell its H20 AI GPUs in China once more, and that the US government had assured it that a license to sell the high-powered hardware would be granted. Now we’re learning a little more about how this arrangement might work, and it turns out…

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Severed Launching April 26 on PS Vita

Hi everyone! This is Graham from Drinkbox Studios, creators of About a Blob, Mutant Blobs Attack, and Guacamelee! We’ve been hard at work on Severed for the past two years and we’re excited to announce that the game will launch for PS Vita on April 26 for $14.99. PlayStation Plus subscribers can also expect a…

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‘I’m a medieval otaku, after all’: Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says FF9’s soundtrack is some of his best work—even if it’s more popular overseas

To celebrate last year’s 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 9, Famitsu (via Automaton) spoke with its creators about the lasting impact of FF9’s return to more traditional fantasy. Looking back on its production, legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu said FF9 features some of his favorite compositions—even if he’s convinced it’s more popular outside of…

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This wildly ambitious Yakuza 5 co-op mod lets you play together as Kiryu and Ichiban, even folding Like a Dragon’s protagonist into the game’s cutscenes

Typical, isn’t it? You wait ages for a wildly ambitious cooperative mod to arrive, then two come along at once. This week already brought us a refurbished co-op campaign for the original Command & Conquer, and now some bright spark has reworked Yakuza 5 to make it playable with a pal. That modding whiz is…

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