Roadtrip RPG Keep Driving teaches you that a hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met, and that friend might have weed

Fallout 4’s lead designer reckons it is the ‘most replayable’ game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I’m sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos

I’ve thought about Fallout 4 in a lot of different ways since first playing it ten years ago. On its release, I thought it was the weakest Fallout game, lacking the roleplaying depth of its forebears. But a recent replay helped me see its strengths as a survivalist shooter. There’s a lot to love about…

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Danganronpa creator says his latest game ‘might truly become the last grand, 200-hour game story in human history written entirely without AI’

Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka reckons his latest game might be the last one with a 100% human-created story. Listen, I know you’re probably sick of reading about AI by now—I’m sick of reading about it, hearing about it, writing about it. Unfortunately it seems that it’s very much here to stay, at least for the…

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If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3’s director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it’s out next year

2025 finally brought us Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2, but whether you liked or loathed The Chinese Room’s follow-up to Troika’s wildly ambitious and deeply flawed RPG, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t the follow-up most fans expected. On a personal level, what I wanted from Bloodlines 2 was basically ‘Bloodlines 1, but fixed’, an…

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EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void

EVE Online developer CCP Games just released its end-of-year statistics for its ruthless space sandbox, in celebration of what has been a big year for the veteran Icelandic MMO. The game received two new expansions which introduced player-created freelance missions and an overhauled mining experience, as five new ships. CCP’s stats suggest these expansions went…

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This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it’s only officially available for enterprise users

Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k speeds. Windows treats most drives as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which has been used for decades now and largely intended for hard drives. As such, NVMe drives that offer higher parallel performance than a…

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