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Many fantasy games deal in the prospect of sacrificing things to gods, but few dramatise the associated exciting logistical pressures. Say you want to chuck a bunch of virgins into a volcano at regular intervals, to stop the regional Vulcan…
Microsoft’s newly appointed gaming boss Asha Sharma has made more leadership changes at Xbox, this time hiring a handful of executives to help lead the company that include an industry analyst who said games were losing the attention war to…
Everybody remembers kicking chickens, growing devil horns when you did too many bad things, and lapping up the praise as villagers applauded your every move. But all these years later, the big moment that still sits with me is the…
A security researcher going by the GitHub handle Nightmare-Eclipse disclosed a potentially nasty BitLocker bypass in Windows 11 earlier this month. Dubbed YellowKey, the exploit allows an attacker to read the contents of a BitLocker-encrypted drive by abusing standard behavior…
Nvidia has just announced its financial results for the previous quarter, and as expected, things are going very well for the GPU behemoth. The company is almost entirely AI-focused these days—I know, tiny violins for us PC gamers—and in its…
World of Warcraft: Midnight seems inclined, like its past couple of expansions, to be less demanding of entry-level requirements for Mythic+ and high-end raiding—there’s more ways to gear up a character solo than ever via activities like Prey, and there’s…
Every Dungeons & Dragons campaign eventually becomes about a sword in some way, right? Maybe it’s a cursed blade nobody should have touched. Maybe it’s a holy relic capable of killing a god. Maybe it’s just a flaming longsword your…
Zohran Mamdani rose to political fame — and the New York mayor’s office — by wielding the power of social media. Now, Mamdani is embracing another form of technology that has the potential to bring him closer to his local…
The third thunder. One could be forgiven for thinking they missed an entry in this storied R-Type series of re-releases, but in fact the preceding R-Type Dimensions released in 2009 (and again as R-Type Dimensions EX in 2018) contained both…
Rewind the tape. Study the evidence. Zero Parades is the sophomore effort for ZA/UM, the developer behind Disco Elysium. The studio has been at the center of its own tangled mystery for years, after two of the key creatives behind…