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Thrustmaster T598 direct drive racing wheel review

When it comes to ultimate sim racing immersion, the tippity-top of racing wheel tech is widely considered to be direct drive. Attaching a wheel directly to a powerful electric motor results in instantaneous and highly-detailed feedback, the sort you’d receive if you really were at the helm of a fearsome, fire-breathing speed machine. Trouble is,…

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Guide: Where To Pre-Order Street Fighter 6 amiibo

Luke, Jamie, Kimberly, and 22 amiibo cards. Following on from the Street Fighter amiibo in the Super Smash Bros. line, Capcom is releasing three new amiibo figures and a series of cards alongside Street Fighter 6 on Switch 2 – and they’re out on 5th June 2025, the same day as the console itself. Jamie,…

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision-Blizzard: ‘It was the biggest f**k you moment I’ve had in may career’

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan was the public face of Overwatch before he left Activision-Blizzard in 2021. If you were interested in videogames between 2014 and 2021, it’s likely you’ll recognise his face. In a new interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, Kaplan details for the first time how and why he left Activision-Blizzard, and it’s…

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Birds Watching turned my comforting hobby into a fight for survival at the end of the world, against a monster that will haunt me for the rest of my life

I didn’t think there was any way birdwatching could become fear-inducing, but Birds Watching proved me very wrong. Instead of the relaxing walking simulator you’d expect from a game primarily about watching the birds, it keeps you nervous: looking over your shoulder at all times in case some towering monster is lurking behind you. I…

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Team Ricochet is combating cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with ‘hourly sweeps’ and ‘AI systems’ but even with over 19,000 bans, players aren’t seeing the results

Giving up freedoms and privacy for a mirage of promised safety is very 1990s-coded. So, with this in mind, it seems like an apt moment to talk about Ricochet’s continued struggles with the 1991 period piece Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Players have a pretty rocky relationship with Activision’s anticheat software—mostly thanks to its…

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Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse

Nestled away amongst a pile of recently updated pages on Microsoft’s Learn site, which contains product documentation and technical resources, was a curiously titled article: “Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year.” I thought that can’t be right, surely everything would have fallen over long ago, but it turns out that…

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