The voice of GTA 5's Lester wonders if GTA 6 'can't make the same splash as previous games' because the world is just so weird now

The voice of GTA 5’s Lester wonders if GTA 6 ‘can’t make the same splash as previous games’ because the world is just so weird now

The Grand Theft Auto series has taken us to many corners of the United States, giving us somewhat satirical glimpses into a ridiculously violent, weird, and exaggerated world. But it’s been 13 years since GTA 5 was released, and a lot has changed since then. So much has changed, in fact, that Lester’s voice actor…

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AtomMan G1 Pro review

The Minisforum Atomman G1 Pro has sat on my desk now for about two weeks. Happily bimbling away, running benchmarks, stress tests, and going through all manner of arduous rigamarole that we require these mini gaming PCs to endure in our pursuit of testing excellence, (write that down, it’ll be in the company call later)….

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These custom Linux lock screens styled after Minecraft, NieR Automata, and Genshin Impact are single-handedly eroding my loyalty to Windows

Part of my hardware fiend origin story involves watching the anime Serial Experiments Lain at far too young an age and being haunted by its prescience ever since. The total amelioration of digital and physical worlds aside, I still daydream about customising my login screen to look more like the fictitious OS from the show—though…

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Crimson Desert players have a new way to slay its powerful bosses—slowly unleashing a swarm of individually-caged bees at them

Crimson Desert is a game with an incredible amount of variety—in my preview before the game launched, I called it a combat sandbox, and have been comfortably vindicated ever since by the ingenuity and style of the game’s playerbase. I’ve already seen clips of master grapplers and archers clowning on Pywel’s ne’er-do-wells with its intricate…

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Todd Howard says Starfield’s NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda’s new U-turn on how it works: ‘You can tell us if we’re done our job right’

Starfield’s recent Free Lanes update has brought changes large and small to Bethesda’s somewhat-maligned space RPG, with one of the biggest being how the game’s NG+ mode works. To talk about that we’ll need to briefly cover the game’s ending, so: spoilers ahead. Obviously. The main story quest of Starfield involves collecting weird space artifacts…

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