ConnexionI've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
Big textures go tiny but there is a price to pay.
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Vue lecture
How to get the best ending in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
You'll have to make some key decisions to get Henry his happily ever after.
Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos
Let's see how it all shakes out.
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The definition of overkill: Cooling an RTX 4090 to a claimed 20°C with a household air conditioning unit
At least it's on wheels.
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Magic: The Gathering's interplanar Wacky Wheels set is good actually
Mad Max Magic is a wild ride worth strapping in for.
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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 10
Help with solving Monday's puzzle.
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Steam makes its ban on games that rely on in-game ads even more explicit, so no 'watch this to continue playing' stuff will be making its way to our PCs
New page, old policy.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 is so realistic it's been used in a driver fatigue experiment
This is going to make it harder for me to argue it's not a boring game.
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Stealth tactics game Commandos: Origins will be out in April
"Ein verletzter, alarm, alarm!"
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 10, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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Oh hell yeah, someone's making a game about customizing and off-roading RC cars in your backyard
Tweak, customize, and explore an open world at remote-controlled car scale.
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Civilization 7 is coming to VR on Meta Quest 3, in case you'd like a full-size Benjamin Franklin to lecture you about stuff
This old man's a real pain in my Dutch oven.
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The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement
You don't need my email.
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This third-party retro UI for Discord looks like—and even runs on—Windows 98
It's a bit surreal if you lived through the era.
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Blizzard co-founder and Diablo designer thinks new ARPGs have 'cheapened' the genre with fast leveling, throwaway loot and enemies
David Brevik argues the fun of these games "isn't getting to the end, it's the journey."
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The creator of the Elden Ring Seamless co-op mod is now infusing unlimited multiplayer into Dark Souls 3
Firelinked shrines.
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Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
They're waiting for you, legally distinct Gordon, in the test-chamber.
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The best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
Humanity 2.0 is a follow-up to Duskers.
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Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 9
Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.
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Forbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
"There's no reason for it to be this violent. It's f#%$ing solitaire."
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Here's a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth mod to make catching chocobos trivial
And one to silence Chadley for good measure.
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Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
It's very good and we highly recommend it.
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Marvel Rivals leak suggests a PvE mode involving a boss fight against a giant squid is on the way
That you, Monstro?
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Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
"That moment ... proved to us that we're on to something special with the galactic war".
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nXL2erGjnTBUV2TutL6Sgj.png "Still image from "found footage" of Helldivers 2 game master Joel.")
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The Roottrees are Dead review
Solving a genealogical mystery, one ancestor at a time.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 turns boring fast travel into a thing of beauty
It's hard to argue against fast travel when Kingdom Come does it this well.
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Update: The PlayStation Network appears to be coming back online after nearly a day's outage, but there's still no word from Sony on what happened
Feels good to be a PC gamer right about now.
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We're in a golden age of spy TV shows, but I have to play a 14-year-old MMO to get my videogame espionage kicks
Hurry up and finish your Bond game, IO.
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Heart of the Machine is Crusader Kings for speculative sci-fi nerds, flipping the script on the cult AI War series
Skynet, Ultron or Shodan—Heart of the Machine lets you roleplay your dream machine overlord.
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Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
Coming "when it's ready".
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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 8
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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Monster Hunter Wilds beta: How to defeat Arkveld
Wilds' new flagship white wyvern is also the beta's toughest battle.
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Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'
I wouldn't put that sort of thing in writing but I'm built different.
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