Connexion11 little Death Stranding 2 improvements that made me say 'hell yeah'
Death Stranding 2 is a sequel in the best way possible.
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© Kojima Productions
Vue lecture
It's been so long since I played a 30 fps console game, it took me a week to realize Death Stranding 2 was literally giving me headaches
Lessons learned after years of 60 fps or bust.
Security researchers warn that old or expired Discord invites are being used in phishing attacks
A vulnerability in Discord invites can be leveraged as part of a "multi-stage payload delivery" system.
© TheDigitalArtist - Pixabay & Discord
Palworld studio changes its mind about releasing its co-op Hollow Knight-like in early access, will go straight to 1.0
Pocketpair is making "final adjustments" to Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse before the full release.
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Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice
Dune: Awakening is now "Funcom's fastest selling game ever."
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Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting 'a much-needed update' focused on Mann vs. Machine: 'A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs'
The king of ancient Greece also turns up at one point.
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In Crimson Desert, the true boss battle is wrangling its controls to unlock the cool combat within
Crimson Desert continues to look strong, but unwieldy.
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Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering 'a lot of burnout' from making bigger games: 'The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction'
"We want to mostly make smaller projects moving forward, with clearer scopes and shorter development times."
© Aggro Crab, Landfall
War Thunder players have done it again: Yet another restricted document is leaked to win a forum argument
"We all know the Harriers are terribly incorrect."
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Here's our very first look at the Rogue Trooper movie Warcraft director Duncan Jones said he was doing 7 years ago
The film was announced not long after Rebellion's 2017 shooter Rogue Trooper Redux fizzled out, and work has continued ever since.
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Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support
If you build it, they will come.
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Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 2 TB review
Taking the fight to Phison, the drive that may or may not exist.
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Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a 'customizable 3D digital soulmate' reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes
Do androids dream of electric weebs?
© Dipal
Overwatch 2 Season 17 is 'all about giving you more customisation' as 3 new heroes are added to Stadium with some pretty busted abilities
Lord help us all, here comes Junkrat.
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British regulator takes aim at Google's dominance with 'targeted measures to address specific aspects of how Google operates'
These include measures for data transparency around AI and 'fair ranking principles'.
© Bloomberg via Getty Images
Security mitigations in Intel's GPUs rob up to 20% of their compute performance but it's unlikely to be a problem in games
If you're an OpenCL coder on Linux, though, you might want to consider disabling them.
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Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'
"While it was pretty intense, it was also the most fun I’ve ever had working on a game."
© Aggro Crab, Landfall
The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'
"Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."
© Ubisoft
New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking
Except, of course, it won't really be 0.2 nm or anything even close to that.
© Intel
This $1,199 Lenovo OLED gaming laptop is the cheapest RTX 50-series machine I've found to date
Downright reasonable, in every respect.
© Lenovo
16 of the best landing spots in Fortnite
Get a head start and glide your way to victory with some of the best drop spots on the map.
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Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret
Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.
© Elyzio
Nvidia surprise-launches the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, starting at $249 for what's basically a slower RTX 4060 with DLSS 4
The launch might have come out of nowhere, but there's nothing here that's really a surprise.
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2025) review
Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.
© Future
Razer Blade 14 (2025) review
The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.
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System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me
Call an ambulance. But not for me.
© Nightdive
'There are big-ass tanky guys': Cronos: The New Dawn devs discuss the gruelling combat and beg players to not let the enemies merge, 'You will suffer'
A fast tanky guy is just what I wanted to see.
© Bloober Team
You might be surprised to learn that while robots and other machines are vital for making a top-end CPU air cooler, there's still a lot of it that's handmade
In fact, a great deal of your gaming PC has been made by hundreds of people.
© DeepCool/SatisFactory Process
Where to find the Scoutmaster in Peak
Not an encounter you'd particularly like to have up a mountain.
© Landcrab
Just when you thought Intel's branding couldn't get any worse, a report says the company plans to outsource marketing to a consultancy using AI
Hard to see how you could better 'Intel Core Ultra 9 285K'...
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Someone at Valve got their unit prefixes a bit muddled but a quick update for the latest Steam beta has fixed your slower-than-normal CPU reading
Mega, mebi, giga, gibi. It's all giving me the heebie-jeebies.
© Valve/CD Projekt Red
After about a bazillion user requests, Windows finally lets you move the audio volume pop-up
...oh, and Microsoft is still plugging away at Recall.
© Microsoft
You will soon be able to open non-Xbox games from the Xbox app, which could be a great way to further avoid the Epic Games Store
Though you will still need EGS to install games.
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I've just wrapped up testing with the best new PC fan I've used in a long time: Noctua's NF-A12x25 G2
This fan shreds (in a good way).
© Future
How to revive your friends in Peak
An essential skill for any mountaineer.
© Aggro Crab, Landfall
Marvel Rivals Season 3 release date, potential characters, and more
The pace is picking up as NetEase steps on the gas.
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'Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game
Peak is one of the year's biggest surprise hits.
© Aggro Crab, Landfall
Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use
Mind you, the power cables at 1,300 W do get a tad on the glowy-glowy side
© Asus/Tony Yu/Bilibili
